DONNA SUMMER – LIVE AND MORE 2LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ A1 UK  DISCO DANCE SOUL

Donna Summer – Live And More
(Casablanca Records  1978  CALD5006)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1/C1/D1 – UK Pressing

Vinyls in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles – Vinyl 1 NM / Vinyl 2 EX+)

Triplefold Sleeve in Good condition
– bottom part of the sleeve has tearing on front, back & inside

VINYL IS TRANSLUCENT RED
IF YOU HOLD THE VINYL UP TO A BRIGHT LIGHT YOU CAN SEE THE RED COLOUR
 

Live and More was the seventh vinyl long-playing (LP) album recorded by Donna Summer, and it was her second double album. The live concert featured on the first three sides of this double LP album was recorded in the Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California in 1978. This album was released on August 28, 1978 by Casablanca Records.

During the concert, Summer performs a large number of her disco songs – both her hit singles, and a selection of songs from her previous album, Once Upon a Time. However, in this album, Donna also experimented with other musical styles such as jazz, in “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” and the George Gershwin song, “The Man I Love”. She also performed a version of the ballad “The Way We Were”, originally recorded by Barbra Streisand for the film of the same name, and a self-written ballad called “Mimi’s Song”, dedicated to her young daughter, Mimi. She was present at this concert for Summer to sing the song to her, and she is heard on the recording saying goodnight to the audience. The concert ends with one of Summer’s best-known songs in the United States – “Last Dance”. This hit song was included on the soundtrack of the film Thank God It’s Friday, in which Summer had also acted. The composer, Paul Jabara, won an Academy Award for Best Song from a motion picture, and Summer herself won her first Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance with this song. A personal favorite of Summer’s, it was one of the first disco songs to feature a slow ballad-tempo both at the beginning and in the middle of the song. This would become a format that Summer would use on several other songs. Some versions of “Last Dance” have the slow part removed from the middle but keeps it at the beginning. The full version, however, was sung at this concert.

The fourth and final side of this double LP album contained a new studio recording entitled “MacArthur Park Suite”, which is a medley of four songs including the main song “MacArthur Park”, originally recorded as a ballad by the Irish actor Richard Harris. Summer’s disco version was edited and issued as a single, and it became one of her biggest hits – her first number one song on the American Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and a Top five song in the United Kingdom. This song also earned Summer a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Another song in the medley, “Heaven Knows” was an American Top five hit, and it featured vocals by Joe Esposito of the Brooklyn Dreams musical group. That group included the musician Bruce Sudano, whom Summer would later marry.

Live and More would become Summer’s first number one double album in the United States, and later achieved double platinum status in the U.S.

Track listing

All songs were written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, except where noted.

Side one

1. “Once Upon a Time” – 3:03
2. “Fairy Tale High” – 2:20
3. “Faster and Faster to Nowhere” – 2:09
4. “Spring Affair” – 2:34
5. “Rumour Has It” – 2:34
6. “I Love You” – 3:38

Side two

1. “Only One Man” (Summer, Bob Conti, Virgil Weber) – 2:06
2. “I Remember Yesterday” – 3:52
3. “Love’s Unkind” – 2:37
4. “My Man Medley” – 6:25
   1. “The Man I Love” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
   2. “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)
   3. “Some of These Days” (Shelton Brooks)
5. “The Way We Were” (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch) – 3:23
6. “Mimi’s Song” (Summer, Weber) – 4:28

Side three

1. “Try Me, I Know We Can Make It” – 4:14
2. “Love to Love You, Baby” – 3:23
3. “I Feel Love” – 6:54
4. “Last Dance” (Paul Jabara) – 5:50

Side four

1. “Mac Arthur Park Suite” – 17:34
   1. “Mac Arthur Park” (Jimmy L. Webb) – 8:27
   2. “One of a Kind” – 4:57
   3. “Heaven Knows” – 2:38
   4. “Mac Arthur Park (Reprise)” (Webb) – 1:32

Personnel

• Donna Summer – vocals
• Keith Forsey – drums
• Richard Adelman – drums
• Sal Guglielmi – bass
• Ken Park – percussion
• Bob Conti – percussion
• Peter Woodford – rhythm guitar
• Mike Warren – lead guitar
• Doug Livingston – keyboards
• Virgil Weber – synthesizer
• Greg Mathieson – moog & clavinet
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• Rich Cooper – trumpet
• Dalton Smith – trumpet
• Bruce Paulson – trombone
• Bob Payne – trombone
• Dick “Slide” Hyde – bass trombone
• Dick Spencer – alto sax
• Don Menza – tenor sax
• Joe Romano – baritone sax
• John Santulis – concert master, violins
• Pauel Farkas – violins
• Mari Tsumura – violins
• Teri Schoebrua – violins
• Jay Rosen – violins
• Lya Stern – violins
• Leonard Selic – viola
• Alfred Barr – viola
• Victor Sazer – cello
• Robert Adcock – cello
• John Fresco – contractor
• Sheri Wish – production manager
• Keith Robertson – stage manager
• Bryan Rooney – assistant stage manager
• Background vocals: Sunshine (Carlena Williams, Dara Bernard, Mary Ellen Bernard)*Mike North – equipment

• Marc Figueroa – equipment
• Stanal Sound (Bob Ludwig, Jim Fox, John Taylor) – sound
• Lighting designed by Patrick Woodroffe for TFA Electrosound
• Graphics: Stephen Lumel, Henry Vizcarra
• Photographs by Francesco Scavullo
• Photography assistant: Sean Byrnes
• Donna Summer logotype: Tom Nikosey
• Costumes: David Picon
• Management: Susan Munao Management & Joyce Bogart Management Co.

Production

• Produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte
• Recorded live at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA. except “MacArthur Park Suite,” a studio recording
• Engineered by: Juergen Koppers, Gary Ladinsky, Steve Smith
• Mixdown engineer: Juergen Koppers
• Mixed at Westlake Studios and Rust Studios
• Conducted by: Michael Warren