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Donna Summer A Love Trilogy (1976)
1992 Casablanca Records, inc.\n\nOriginally Released March 1976\nCD Edition Released June 9, 1992\n''Chronicles'' Collection Released September 27, 2005\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Summer's quizzical "Try Me," "I Know," and "We Can Make It" wings her nervous little falsetto from risk to dare and from dare to mad hope, and her rhythm section gropes from testy touch beats to tightrope-walkers' guitar figures and safety-net harmonies. The second side substitutes dance with imaginary lovers for the debut album's love starvation blues. Don't dismiss its subtle mood poems the way fans of "Love to Love You" sped right past the B-side of Summer's debut; the flightier Summer plays a rhythm, the dicier her resolution. -- Michael Freedberg\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nYes it is magic!, September 5, 2005\nReviewer: Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) \nHow do you follow up a monumental genre defining hit like `Love to love you baby'? \n\nThe answer is with the gold certified `A love trilogy'. Full of everything that made disco; strings, horns, bass, rich percussion, and a sexy voice. Everything but the glittery disco ball. \n\nOpening cut `Try me' was loosely split into four sections; the breathy `Try me' with Donna's cooing hitting stratospheric notes and that distinctive guitar riff, `I know' sung in a slightly lower, sexier register, a wonderful musical bridge links to `We can make it' with a lovely simple keyboard bit and sung in her real voice before returning to falsetto on `Try me I know we can make it'. A charming multi style suite! \n\nSide 2 (on the original vinyl LP) opened with the 1 minute `Prelude to love', a breathy spoken piece with lush, dramatic strings. \n\nNext was the albums biggest hit, her cover of the Barry Manilow song `Could it be magic. This starts off with Donna singing in a lazy yearning version of her real voice. The strings are awesome, and there are lots of sensual moans and gasps. The final 1 and a half minutes is climatic with dreamy sounding backing vocals, magical keyboards and Donna's voice floating above it all. This song, along with `Try me' are still major crowd pleasers at her concerts. \n\n`Wasted' has a funky R&B feel, with Donna cooing in her falsetto to a melancholic musical backdrop replete with harps and sweeping cutting strings. The percussion on this song is really rich, tiny details that set the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team apart from the others. The final 1 minute musical outro of the song is simply outstanding. Great keyboards. \n\nClosing is my favourite track. `Come with me'. Again, sung in her lazy, yearning voice. Very dreamy sounding and again, richly textured; guitars, horns, strings and excellent percussion. Great OO-OO-OO backing vocals. Very catchy upbeat song about desire. \n\nA magical, musical journey into disco from the queen which like the album photo will take you for a ride above the clouds. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe Ordinary Girl Gets Extraordinary, December 10, 2003\nReviewer: "bigdonnafn" (CA USA) \nEnough of how this album became my initiation into a lifetime of Donna Summer fandom. This album is the bridge from sexual overdrive enrapturing Love To Love You Baby (and the Pillow Talk, Midnight At The Oasis, and other breathy swoons of the day) to the land of the mainstream disco. While still breathing and moaning in trademark fashion throughout the album, Donna has the guts to take on a cover of Manilow's Could It Be Magic, something lesser artists wouldn't dare do with material of such iconic status. And by doing it, Donna surpasses Barry and lets us hear her cut loose with all of her voice at the end of the song. Try Me...Suite on Side 1 was so good that it, along with Could...was chosen for the soundtrack of the infamous "Looking For Mr. Goodbar." In fact, I think Could... is playing when Diane Keaton's character meets her demise. The long first side suite set the tone for many to follow including Carol Douglas, Marlena Shaw, and countless others who learned that this tactic ensured their play time and exposure at the disco. This album is so good that it was hard for me to wrench it out of my mother's hands as a teenager...she was hell bent on playing it to motivate her doing housework. The cover art was revisited in her 1996 tour, and the expression is one that Donna still gets on her face today. True artistry. All cuts romantic, sensual and A+++. A logical foundation to build her next concept albums from in its mini-concept seduction theme.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nEven I liked this record..., January 23, 2003\nReviewer: Jazysol79 (Germantown, MD USA) \nI am in no way a dance music fan. Never have been, probably never will be. Most of it grates on my nerves in ways I cannot describe. However, I am a Donna Summer fan. Like a lot of my favorite singers past and present (Natalie Cole, Peabo Bryson, Mary J. Blige, Kenny Lattimore) she has a powerful, veratile instrument. You buy a Donna Summer record for the beat and the voice. The first side of the album (or first half on CD) is a wonderful, sexually charged dancefloor opus. "Try Me," "I Know" and "We Can Make It" blend to make "Try Me I Know We Can Make It," a real disco stomper. I'm surprised this wasn't a bigger hit single than it was. The arrangement is catchy, with dips and loops that hold your attention but don't go to far out in left field. Donna starts in her hushed falsetto and is in full voice by the end, building to a climax. Good Stuff. The other side kind of loses steam. "Could Be Magic" is just average (a Barry Manilow work) and some ho-hum ballads make for a somewhat weak ending. Nontheless, this overall is a good album, and hints at the great things to come from Donna Summer.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nA sexy disco party, May 20, 2000\nReviewer: Vincent M. Mastronardi (Michigan) \nThis album sounds like her most A-typical disco set, with nothing showing of the future Summer at all. Yet it is a fun set and very enjoyable. The song "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" is divided into their fun pieces. While it is hardly the epic that is the "McArthur Park Suite" or the long "Love To Love You, Baby", it is unbridled sexual dance music and brings you thorough quite a pleasurable trip. The song does tend to annoy and then hook you in again. "Could It Be Magic" starts off with the "Prelude To Love". This original version is longer and includes moans of pleasure. "Wasted" hits an emotional chord as does "Come With Me". Both also follow a disco beat complete with all the sounds of guitars and even what could be mistaken for flutes in some places. The set is not her brightest but a real fun and hot one.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nA More Consistant Donna Album, January 17, 2000\nReviewer: Vince A. Martinez (Northern California, USA) \nAlthought this is probably her least popular album, it ia, in my opinion, one of her best. With the success of "Love To Love You Baby" Donna and Producer Georgio Moroder decided to stay with the disco formula which catapulted her to Superstardom. This, her 3rd album, maintained more of a consistancy than it's two predecessors, and is, by far, a better showcase of Donna's broad vocal style.\nThe album features the two singles "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" and a disco remake of Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic", which would later be a big hit for Brit boyband Take That. The other two tracks "Wasted" and "Come With Me" could have been club favorites in their own right as well. Actually, it's really a suprise that nobody ever covered the dance-floor ready "Come With Me", it was destined to be a sure-fire hit.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nEmergence of the disco goddess., August 23, 1998\nReviewer: Luis P. Fernandez "Bookiewookie" (Cambridge, MA) \nWhether judged from the cover concept (always one of my favorites of Donna Summer's) or listened with an ear for the richness of the Munich sound complementing her sultry vocals, this album established her as the disco goddess and has always been one that is so good to listen to (and dance along with). The 17-minute "Try me, I know we can make it" showed how much one could make a few lines, a few words, and a basic tune into a delightful multi-style, multi-movement anthem of escapist Eurodisco. Everyone who really likes Donna Summer and appreciates her broad-range music should have this album.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nFast Follow up Album is a smash: Disco Dynamite, June 21, 1998\nReviewer: A music fan\nAfter her first Casablanca album, Love To Love You Baby sold gold, Donna Summer followed up that success quickly with another album; "A Love Trilogy". This album contains the surprise hit "Could It Be Magic". This revved up Barry Manilow song unmasked the Diva behind the novelty singer. of course there's some Love To Love You-ish songs on the album for the fans who came back for more; the long playing "Try me I Know We Can Make It" and the techno tune, "Wasted". Both songs are forerunners of "I Feel Love". Moroder & Bellote's symphonic arrangements make for a lush backdrop to this trilogy. Donna belts it out on the final siren song "Come With me". The album is a delight.\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Donna Summer (vocals); Madeline Bell, Sue Glover, Sunny Glover (background vocals); The Munich Machine.\nRecorded at MusicLand Studios, Munich, Germany.\n\nIn 1975, Donna Sunmer's "Love to Love You Baby," a lengthy, loosely hypnotic Euro-dance track complete with orgasmic vocalizations courtesy of Ms. Summer, conquered the American airwaves. It's safe to say that popular music has never been the same since. Detroit expatriate Summer, fresh from a road tour of the musical HAIR, had a striking combination of cool anonymity and soul. Still, the album LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY, though produced by Munich disco-meister Georgio Moroder, mainly consisted of filler apart from the monster title track.\nMoroder and Summer's second collaboration, A LOVE TRILOGY, suffers from no such deficiencies. The 18-minute opener, "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It," a tightly constructed and performed disco "suite," provides driving machine-like dance rhythms--techno begins here with the Munich Machine--as well as freshly conceived instrumental surprises along the way. The standout here however is a highly sexualized, lush take on Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic," introduced by a deliciously portentous Chopin-derived "Prelude to Love."
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