Love to Love You Baby (song)

"Love to Love You Baby"
"Love to Love You Baby"
	A-side label of US vinyl single
Single by Donna Summer
from the album Love to Love You Baby
B-side	"Need-a-Man Blues"
Released	June 1975 (Netherlands, as "Love to Love You"); November 26, 1975 (worldwide, as "Love to Love You Baby")
Recorded	1974 (as "Love to Love You"); May–June 1975 (as "Love to Love You Baby")
Studio	Musicland, Munich, West Germany
Genre	Euro disco; psychedelia;
Length	3:20 (original NL version); 16:49 (album version); 4:57 (single version)
Label	Oasis
Songwriter(s)	Giorgio Moroder; Pete Bellotte; Donna Summer;
Producer(s)	Pete Bellotte
Donna Summer singles chronology
Music video
	"Love to Love You Baby" on YouTube

"Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her second studio album, Love to Love You Baby (1975). Produced by Pete Bellotte, and written by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, Summer, and Bellotte, the song was first released as a single in the Netherlands in June 1975 as "Love to Love You" and then released worldwide in November 1975 as "Love to Love You Baby". It became one of the first disco hits to be released in an extended form.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Summer's only selection on this list.^[5]

^ Krettenauer, Thomas (2017). "Hit Men: Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s". In Ahlers, Michael; Jacke, Christoph (eds.). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-7962-4.
^ "Donna Summer". The Daily Telegraph. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
^ Allen, Jeremy (14 August 2015). "Giorgio Moroder – 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
^ Breihan, Tom (23 August 2019). "The Number Ones: Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"". Stereogum. Retrieved 28 June 2023. Donna Summer's endless psychedelic fuck-disco odyssey "Love To Love You Baby" peaked at #2...
^ Henke, James. "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

[eurodisco-1] Krettenauer, Thomas (2017). "Hit Men: Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s". In Ahlers, Michael; Jacke, Christoph (eds.). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-7962-4.

[telegraph-2] "Donna Summer". The Daily Telegraph. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

[guardian_20150814-3] Allen, Jeremy (14 August 2015). "Giorgio Moroder – 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

[Breihan_2019-4] Breihan, Tom (23 August 2019). "The Number Ones: Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"". Stereogum. Retrieved 28 June 2023. Donna Summer's endless psychedelic fuck-disco odyssey "Love To Love You Baby" peaked at #2...

[5] Henke, James. "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

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