Donna Summer ~ Last Dance 1978 Disco Purrfection Version

Happy New Year Everyone! This will be my last dance of 2022...are you loving the use of this one in "Magic Mike's Last Dance" promos? I have been working on this one since August and it finally came together. It will play at 11:40PM finish three minutes before midnight and I will be switching over to Times Square to see the ball drop to welcome in 2023.
Out of all the epic songs that Donna performed in her career, "Last Dance" is my absolute favorite as like her role depicted a hardworking superstar on her way up which accurately described her career. Because of her earnest performance, it has since become a sentimental favorite as well at the official last dance that closed and closes many clubs an parties for the night back then and even now.
Casablanca executive Neil Bogart wanted to release a disco movie and found that Motown was going to do the same thing so he approached them and made it a cooperative between the two greatest dance labels ever. With stars on both sides making hit songs for the movie "Thank God It's Friday" with Diana Ross, Donna, the Commodores and Paul Jabara, who wrote this for the movie and gave Donna her star making turn.
"I started off slow and then jumped into overdrive to create a disco anthem for the ages, a trick that was added to the intro of "MacArthur Park" her first #1 pop and disco hit that followed "Last Dance".
"The movie is about one night at a disco with a host of characters at the hottest club in town, The Zoo. Donna played Nicole and her rags to riches story unfolds as she begins to perform it over another song and then the DJ puts her music on and she instantly became a disco icon."
"Thank God It's Friday" is a comedy and a guilty pleasure. Bogart himself has always said that this was not going to be a "critics movie" and did not screen it for them. However critics did view the movie along with audiences and gave it low ratings, but it proved to be a time capsule. The non stop hit music soundtrack looked like it would hit #1 on the Album Chart knocking "Saturday Night Fever" off the top, but it failed when Billboard executive Bill Wardlow instead chose Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You". The news that is was #1 kept the Fever soundtrack at #1 ending TGIF dream of topping that chart.
Stick around to the end to hear Donna leave a little bit of love for ya.