VH1 Presents: Live & More Encore!

Starring:Donna Summer
Studio: Sony
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Excellant DVD Just like being there!
Great performance
Live and Much , Much more. . .
Nostolgia
If you are expecting the "Queen of Disco" backed with Giorgio Moroder, it's not on this performance

VH1 Presents: Live & More Encore!
Starring: Donna Summer
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305603898
Release Date: 1999-12-21

Customer Reviews:

Excellant DVD Just like being there!.......2007-04-03

Surround sound was great and Donna Summer rocks! Well worth the money.

Great performance.......2006-10-29

This concert contained everything I wanted and was so nostalgic. I highly recommend it to the Donna Summer fans.

Live and Much , Much more. . . .......2006-08-04

Donna Summer was a radiant 48 years old at the time of this great live 1997 or 1998 VH1 concert. While Summer had long shed her voracious "Bad Girl" image of the seventies, quite a bit of her ponyish beauty has remained intact. This concert does full justice to her still-beautiful chameleon-like voice as she moves easily from full-throated disco ("MacArthur Park") to pop standards (an exquisite version of Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me")and broadway ("If There is Music There,"), to pop-rock ("She Works Hard for the Money,"), country ("I Don't Wanna Work"), sultry gospel-blues ("Riding Through the Storm") and back again. Summer's rapport, ease and generosity with the audience is equally gratifying. Not unlike many other great artists of yesteryear, old concert footage of Summer is hard to come by, so this DVD is the definitely the next best thing. The sound quality is absolutely amazing--especially given that it came out in 1998, around the time that DVDs first took off! At its best, this concert effectively showcases all the qualities--part glamour girl, comedienne, tough renegade, devoted wife and mother--that set Donna Summer apart from the rest of the pack.

Nostolgia.......2006-07-03

For those that remember MacAurthurs Park and some of the other hit of Donna Summer it is a great DVD. I could have lived without the preachy parts and would have liked to see more of her popular songs.

If you are expecting the "Queen of Disco" backed with Giorgio Moroder, it's not on this performance.......2006-04-07

This show is just another typical Las Vegas type show offering work and exposure for fading pop star "has-beens".

This live show is so much less than the true Donna Summer fan would want to have. This concert performance does not reflect the "Queen of Disco", that you would probably hope to see and hear. The Donna Summer here compared to the Donna Summer of "one's expectation" is like comparing a small pocket AM radio to a huge 70-piece orchestra in an acoustically sound concert hall. I know that's an extreme exaggerated comparison, but, I'm sure you know what I mean.

I know many of you may not agree with me, but it is obvious to me that you don't really know the core of Donna Summer's success. This show had a great deal of absence of something very important about Donna Summer. Her founder and creator, Giorgio Moroder.

In the 1980's, I took to liking Donna Summer's 70's hits a bit more, only because I discovered something more about Donna Summer's music. Donna Summer herself, is nothing really extraordinary. She's a vocalist really no better than Whitney Houston or even Mariah Carey. She can only wish she was as talented as Shirley Bassey, Madonna, Celine Dion, or even Chaya Pitcher (Christian vocalist). Cyndi Lauper, Nancy Sinatra, and Brenda Lee are my personal favorites.

What made Donna Summer great was the music behind her, the work of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. This really came to light when I finally heard the album version of "Love To Love You Baby", and then I heard a nearly 16 minute, 12" version of "I Feel Love". Giorgio Moroder's music is what really matters here. Donna was only a voice over the music. Any female could have been chosen to sing over Giorgio Moroder's music, and the impact would have been the same.

This live show of Donna Summer was okay. I mean, Donna is still beautiful although I loved her wilder shows she did in her youth, and then she discovered God, and changed her ways as if she feels that she should apologize for her past performances. When Donna talks on stage today, she seems to have all the charm of any know-it-all Detroit Postal mail carrier. She sounds like she still has that "living in the streets" persona. She doesn't sound as classy as she looked. In fact, she almost sounds like Oprah.

In this show, she was introducing all the musicians that she was performing with. That was rather unnecessary. It only made it more obvious to everyone that Giorgio Moroder wasn't there. She never even mentioned Giorgio Moroder as being any kind of impact on her success, which is almost disrespectful. Donna Summer would have been nothing without him.

Check out some of the works of Giorgio Moroder. He was creating some intense trance dance music even in the 1970's. "Love To Love You Baby" on Donna's first album, is almost 17 minutes long. It should have stopped at 13:03 because it really did end quite nicely right there. The remaining nearly 4 minutes really is only a repeat of the beginning of the song that eventually fades out. It's actually annoying that the song does that, but I believe that was done only to make Side Two of her album equal in length to her Side One. It was just extended as filler. But anyway, listen to the main 13 minutes of that song. Giorgio Moroder was quite the innovator of a new sound that is still considered "cutting edge", even today.

In 1982, I found a 12" single of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love". This is a Giorgio Moroder "tour de force" on electronics and trance music. I don't know of any CD that has this 16-minute version but it is one of the greatest examples of Giorgio Moroder giving his all. I've had this 12" single for nearly 25 years now. It's in my attic, somewhere. I've recorded it onto Reel-to-Reel tape back in the 1980's when I had a record player. I hope it'll be on CD someday.

Plus, I believe Giorgio Moroder did all the remixing of Donna's Summer's 1979 album "On The Radio - Greatest Hits - Volumes I & II." The way he made everything gel together was great. Giorgio Moroder continued to prove his predominate role in Donna Summer's career.

And also, Giorgio Moroder does have a dark side, away from disco and trance. He's done some movie soundtracks. His best dark albums are "Midnight Express", and "Cat People". He's also done the music for "Flashdance", "American Gigolo", "Scarface", "Electric Dreams", "The Never Ending Story", "Top Gun", and probably others. Giorgio Moroder also launched the career of Irene Cara, but she didn't go the distance that Donna Summer did.

Donna Summer continued to release hit singles throughout the 1980's without Giorgio Moroder. Would she really have gone anywhere if her name weren't already known? I mean, in the 1970's they called her the "Queen of Disco". But, she was only a voice to the Disco. Any female vocalist would have been called the "Queen of Disco", if Giorgio Moroder was the music behind her. Now Donna Summer has become, more or less, a small venue coffee house performer. I guess that was bound to happen considering 25 years ago were her prime success years.

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