Live and More

Artist: Donna Summer
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 042281112348
EAN: 0042281112348
ASIN: B000001F3B

Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

Once upon a Time
Fairy Tale High
Faster and Faster to Nowhere
Spring Affair
Rumour Has It
I Love You
Only One Man
I Remember Yesterday
Love's Unkind
My Man Medley
Way We Were
Mimi's Song
Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
Love to Love You Baby
I Feel Love
Last Dance
Theme From the Deep (Down, Deep Inside)

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Donna Summer: LIVE AND MORE (1978).......2006-11-15

In 1978, Donna Summer released her seventh album entitled, LIVE AND MORE, an album that features a live concert recorded during her ONCE UPON A TIME Tour. This is an amazing live album. Read on to find out why.

ONCE UPON A TIME
Original version from the album ONCE UPON A TIME... (1977). An awesome performance.

FAIRY TALE HIGH
Original version from the album ONCE UPON A TIME... (1977). Another great performance.

FASTER AND FASTER TO NOWHERE
Original version from the album ONCE UPON A TIME... (1977). Great.

SPRING AFFAIR
Original version from the album FOUR SEASONS OF LIVE (1976). Great performance.

RUMOUR HAS IT
Original version from the album ONCE UPON A TIME... (1977). Great.

ONLY ONE MAN
Previously unreleased. A great song for Donna to perform live in concert.

I REMEMBER YESTERDAY
Original version from the album I REMEMBER YESTERDAY (1977). Great performance.

My Man Medley: THE MAN I LOVE/I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN'T GOOD/SOME OF THESE DAYS
Previously unreleased. A great medley.

THE WAY WE WERE
Previously unreleased. This song was originally recorded by Barbra Streisand, back in 1974. This is a great song, and it's amazing how Donna Summer decided to perform this song live, when in a year from this album, both Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer would actually team up to record their 1979 #1 hit duet, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". Great performance.

MIMI'S SONG
Previously unreleased. I thought that this is was a very cute performance because she had written this one for her daughter, Mimi. She gives an explanation to it before she begins singing.

TRY ME, I KNOW WE CAN MAKE IT
Original version from the album A LOVE TRILOGY (1976). Great performance.

LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY
Original version from the album LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY (1975). Great performance.

I FEEL LOVE
Original version from the album I REMEMBER YESTERDAY (1977). Great song.

LAST DANCE
Original version from the original motion picture & motion picture soundtrack THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY (1978). This is a great track.

THEME FROM THE DEEP (DEEP, DOWN INSIDE) (Studio recorded track)
This is a great track. When this whole album was released in 1978, the studio recorded track that was in this spot on the vinyl edition of this album was not "Theme From The Deep (Deep, Down Inside)". The studio recorded track that was in this spot was a track entitled, "MacArthur Park Suite", which is a studio recorded medley, consisting of the following four songs: "MacArthur Park", "One Of A Kind", "Heaven Knows", & "MacArthur Park" (Reprise). The track was left off the CD version of the album, due to time limitations, since CDs can only carry up to 80 minutes worth of music, and it was decided to keep the CD version of this album all on one disc, not two.

This is a great live album, and Donna's voice sounds amazing when she performs for a live audience. This is a great album.

Live And More....Exactly What It Means!.......2006-02-12

"Live And More" (1978) is one of the best albums I have ever heard from Ms. Donna Summer. Let me take you on the journey she led me on:

Tracks 1-6 borrow from her concept album "Once Upon A Time" (1977). Tracks such as "I Love You", "Once Upon A Time", "Faster And Faster To Nowhere", "Fairy Tale High", and "Rumour Has It". The positive part is that all songs were great songs to be heard with out Donna's pure, hard to find in music today, nervous falsetto. They still sound like on the album, anyway. The negative part is that they omitted some of my favorite lyrics from some of the songs and the tempo is rushed a little bit faster as one reviewer previously stated. I noticed this when I was listening to the album versions of the songs above then listening to the live version.

Tracks 8 and 9 and 15 borrow from "I Remember Yesterday" (1977). Also one of Donna's best. Starting with "I Remember Yesterday" a song I and my parents enjoy dancing to because they feel the big band jazz beat along with the lyrics. "Love's Unkind" is my favorite. It tells the story of a girl who is in love with a guy from her school and wants to date him, but he loves her best friend and her dream to dance with him during the high school dance gets crushed. Then, "I Feel Love". The grandmother of all dance/techno/disco/rave just any type of dance music. Wrapped in a 4/4 beat in the style of Silver Convention, it's one of the best disco songs that you could actually base your song on (if you have one to write).

Tracks 10 and 11 show Donna's blues feel and vibe. These are the standout tracks because you can not, I mean can not, find these tracks on any other LP or CD but this one. Starting with the famous "My Man Medley", Donna tells about her man, how she loves the man she loves, then he treats her wrong, then she breaks up with him. I love how she tells the story with her voice. My favorite part of the medley is "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good". Now, "The Way We Were", is another standout track. She performs Barbra Streisand's hit in her sultry voice. It's so nice I sometimes think about the way we were.

Track 12 is the same as tracks 10 and 11. You can not find these anywhere else. "Mimi's Song" is dedicated to her, then 9 year old, Mimi. Sometimes I think if parents who aren't at home at lot change Mimi to their child's name, they could see the difference in themselves. It's sort of funny though, the night before, she wrote the song after Mimi went to bed, and then Mimi comes out to tell her Mummy good night. Now that's a parent who's not to busy to do that.

Tracks 13 and 14 take from Donna's early disco age. Track 13, or "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" is one of my personal favorites. I especially love the 17 minute version. That's the best part. I love how she speaks to the people during the songs. To the audience. That's really special. I think the tempo's a little bit rushed, just a bit, don't you agree? Track 14, or "Love To Love You Baby" is Donna's mainstream U.S. hit. After 3 years of the song being released, people love it and still love it today. I still do. It's not one of my favorites but it's O.K. for a "special" situation.

The live part closes out with track 16, "Last Dance". It is so better to hear over live vocals than that on the album version. I love to hear the crowd cheering her on and her ad-libs. "C'mon, everybody!" The best version of it to hear though is the promotional version which would be the one found on the "Thank God It's Friday" (1978) soundtrack. It's divided up into it's little parts. Also it's 8:17. Longer play of one of disco's greatest hits wrote by the late Paul Jabara.

Track 17 is the theme from the Deep (1977). It's a good song in it's way but it sounds like she's talking through a megaphone or one of those old Victrola's. It's catchy though.

One laughed at the concept of a live disco album but she did it. Donna is the true "Queen of Disco". Nobody can take her place. She will carry that title to heaven. I love you Donna and hope you love your fans because we all love you.

Proof and More, that Donna's a Superstar.......2005-09-15

OK OK, first things first, the CD of Live and More DOES NOT contain the MacArthur Park Suite, AND the cover shot is not the famous picture of Donna with the moon in the background.

HOWEVER, the full MacArthur Park Suite is featured on a number of other CD's (The Dance Collection, The Casablanca Records Story), and the famous cover shot is used on the newer compilation The Journey.

That said................................

Live and More as released just as Donna was coming off the spin of her mega hit Last Dance, and she was finally starting to be taken as they multi talented artist that she is. For whatever reason the music community still seemed to feel that Disco was a producers genre, and the singers were only puppets.

With Live and More, Donna showed the world she can deliver the goods. Her early hits are here (Try Me.., Love To Love You, I Feel Love and Spring Affair), a 5 songs run from her then new album Once Upon A Time is also featured. However it was her depature from Disco that really made this release shine.
The My Man Medley, combining, The Man I Love, I Got It Bad, and Some of These Days, showed her diversity, and remains a concert favorite to this day. Her cover of The Way We Were, showed how she could custom any song to her unique vocal range, and as you can tell from the crowds reaction she was well on her way to Pop Superstardom with Last Dance.

The crown of this excellent live set to me is Mimi's Song. To many Donna was the Queen of Disco, but to her her most important role was Mommy, and while you can easily get the impression from some stars that their children are almost window dressing, Donna made it clear where her priorities were, and gave us a great ballad in the process.

On this CD release the "& More" side is the Theme from the Movie The Deep, (Down Deep Inside), this track was produced by John Barry, and was one of the few Casablanca era works not produced by Giorgio or Pete.

A magical, mystical journey..........2005-09-07

The opening piano chords of `Once upon a time' and the crowd's rapturous welcome open up this masterpiece `Live and more', arguably one of the best live albums ever.

The energy captured on this album is infectious, and the quality of the recording very good, much like a studio recording. It put paid to critics who claimed Donna Summer was a producer's creation and a studio-only singer who could not reproduce her music convincingly live.

Boy, were they wrong! This was Summer's first #1 album in the US (certified double platinum), and (from the original vinyl LP) her first US #1 single in `McArthur Park' (certified gold for sales of a million, and a Grammy nomination for best pop song) and a #4 hit in `Heaven knows' (gold disc for sales of a million).

The concert featured lots of songs from her classic `Once upon a time' album; `Once upon a time', `Fairy tale high', `Faster and faster', `Rumour has it', and `I love you'.

Also featured were songs from `I remember yesterday'; `I remember yesterday', `Love's unkind' and a very energetic performance of `I feel love' during which the band is introduced, after which it takes a sort of gospel chant of `Feel it'.

`Spring affair', `Try me', and `Love to love you baby' were also performed, as was her recent smash the dramatic `Last dance' which was a #3 gold certified million seller, Grammy winner (best R&B female) and Oscar winner. This song would become her signature tune in years to come.

There was a segment dedicated to jazz standards, `My man medley' comprising `The man I love', `I got it bad and that aint good', and `Some of these days', showing how easily and well she could adapt to different styles.

There were a few ballads; Barbra Streisand's `The way we were', and the new songs she co-penned; the retro sounding jazz tinged `Only one man', and the tender yet emotional and powerful `Mimi's song' written for her daughter Mimi who was on stage for her mother to sing it to her. It was an attempt to explain to Mimi why mommy wasn't always there, with lyrics like `I made a spectacle of myself/and it seems that the whole world needs me', and we sure did need her!

This CD replaces the fantastic `McArthur Park suite' with the extended version of her UK top 5 hit `Down deep inside' which was the theme from the movie `The Deep'. Penned by Summer and John Barry, this was a mid tempo atmospheric sounding number interspersed with moans, piano, and sweeping strings.

`McArthur Park Suite' comprised the psychedelic disco hit `McArthur Park', arguably one of Summer's best and widest ranging vocal performances, featuring darting horns and great electric guitar, the funky horn laden `One of a kind' with great electric guitar and hand claps, and the bouncy `Heaven knows' (a duet with Joe Esposito of Brooklyn Dreams), the latter two co penned by Summer. Presently, McArthur Park Suite' is available on `The dance collection' and `Bad Girls Deluxe edition'.

The original album sleeve photos were stunning, taken by the legendary Francesco Scavullo and perfectly captured the energy, fire, colours and beauty of Summer's music. Unfortunately, only two were reproduced here, and not even the original cover shot was used.

This CD should be re-mastered and re-released, probably as a deluxe set a-la `Bad girls' with ALL the original album photos and liner notes included. A DVD of the concert wouldn't be out of place too, would it?

MacArthurs Park Suite.......2005-08-28

It is disappointing this CD is missing the main song..I remember
seeing the show that this album was cut from...Donna was at her
hight point..I always loved the slight disco instrumental that was included in the Andy Williams version..but when Donna came out with a full fledged disco version I was delighted..This album debuted very high on Billboard also..it was quite a hit..With the exception of On the Radio and Enough is Enough
Donna moved on to Rock sounding (Hot Stuff) and Punk The Wanderer then dance music..it was one of her last greats and
trendsetters..

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