Donna Summer: She Works Hard For The Money CD Track Listing
Donna Summer
She Works Hard For The Money (1983)
Originally Released June 1983\nCD Edition Released 1989 ??\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Donna Summer's brassy, matter-of-fact mezzo does not play the sexy sanctified diva, and her musicians' crisp, loud beats don't evoke rapture or delirium. Instead, she and her rhythm men live up to the title of "She Works Hard for the Money." Here's praise for a waitress' 12-hour workday that sums up Summer's own post-dance queen job status, as well as disco fans' own spotlighted lives and maintains the pressure, from the steel-and-synth riffs of "Stop, Look & Listen" to the impatient tenderness of "People, People." No one writes about love with as mesmeric a sense of wonder as Summer confesses in "Love Has a Mind of Its Own," "Unconditional Love," and "I Do Believe (I Fell in Love)." -- Michael Freedberg\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nSummer tries to escape her disco connection, July 8, 2003 \nReviewer: Reginald D. Garrard (Camilla, GA USA) \nStill trying to distance herself from her disco days, Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money" has more in common with 1981's "I'm a Rainbow" than it does the singer's classic '70's albums, as well as the Quincy Jones-produced album from 1982. Like "Rainbow", "...Money" is more pop-oriented and achieves a margin of success.\n\nSummer is good on the title cut, "Woman", "Unconditional Love", "Tokyo", "People People", and the touching ballad "Love Has a Mind of its Own" (sharing lead vocals with Matthew Ward).\n\nUnfortunately, the record-buying public still had such strong memories of Summer in her heyday. Though successful, "She Works Hard for the Money" paled in sales comparison to the likes of "Bad Girls" or "Live and More".\n\nIt's too bad that Madonna - who was going to take the world by storm in a couple - would be the one that patterned "reinvention". \n\nSummer did her best to do just the same. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nMore of Why We Love Donna!, August 26, 2005 \nReviewer: KRA (East End of LI) \nAfter the debacle of the prior years Quincy Jones produced "Donna Summer" album, she was close to ending her legal battle with the former Casablanca Record Label (then taken over by Polygram (USA) and Phonogram (rest of the world). \nA condition of the settlement was that Donna owed her former label one more original studio album, and thus, She Works Hard For The Money was born. \n\nReleased on Polygram's Mercury Label (strange since Polygram was still using the Casablanca brand at that time), the tag line for the albums marketing push was "made to order, with more of what you love summer for". This tag line was quite on the mark for as the prior's years Donna Summer album was anything BUT Donna's creation, she had a lot of input in the She Works Hard...album. \n\nProduced by Michael Omartian (best known for his work with early 80's superstar Christopher Cross), most of the songs here were either written or co-written by Summer, and some are true gems. \n\nShe Workd Hard For The Money was the albums mega-hit, and although it was called by many a throwback to her 70's glory days, it was a very 80's track, and showed that she was not going away. Some of the tracks here are very message orientated, and as Rolling Stone reported, Donna is at her best when she keeps us guessing. As RS put it, He's A Rebel (her 3rd Grammy Winner) could be about Jesus, or James Dean. Stop, Look, and Listen (to your heart), and Women also fit this description. \n\nRounding out this collection are the ballads, Love Has a Mind Of It's Own (a song that became a huge AC radio hit), I Do Believe I Feel In Love (compare either of these to the Women In Me on the Donna Summer album), and the regae influence of Unconditional Love. \n\nTo me the standout track is People, People, this awesome song, that again could have many meanings is Donna at her best, and her vocals shine to new heights. \n\nShe Works Hard, indeed! \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nShe should work harder, though ..., September 16, 2000\nReviewer: S
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- Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money (05:20)
- Donna Summer - Stop, Look And Listen (05:53)
- Donna Summer - He's A Rebel (04:24)
- Donna Summer - Woman (04:21)
- Donna Summer - Unconditional Love (04:44)
- Donna Summer - Love Has A Mind Of Its Own (04:18)
- Donna Summer - Tokyo (04:20)
- Donna Summer - People, People (04:08)
- Donna Summer - I Do Believe I Fell In Love (04:34)
