Donna Summer – Love to Love You Baby

By 1975, Summer had been living in Germany for eight years and had participated in several musical theatre shows. She had also released an album in Europe entitled Lady of the Night, written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced by Bellotte, which had given her a couple of hit singles. She was still a complete unknown in her home country when she suggested the lyric „Love to Love You Baby” to Moroder in 1975. He turned the lyric into a full disco song and asked Summer to record it. The full lyrics were somewhat explicit and at first Summer said she would only record it as a demo to give to someone else. However her erotic moans and groans impressed Moroder so much that he persuaded her to release it as her own song, and „Love to Love You” became a moderate hit in the Netherlands.

This song by American singer Donna Summer was one of the first ever disco hits. It climbed to number two on the U.S. singles chart and also made the UK Top 5 (despite the BBC’s refusal to promote it). Summer would be named “the first lady of love,” which labelled her with a sexual-oriented, fantasy image that she would struggle to rid herself of.

Definitely on the lusty side of the love song genre, but it’s clear she truly, deeply and passionately loves her man with every fiber of her being. Fantastic expression of her love.

Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby lyrics

I love to love you baby…

When you’re laying so close to me
there’s no place I’d rather you be
than with me here

I love to love you baby…

Do it to me again and again
you put me in such an awful spin
in a spin

I love to love you baby…

Lay your head down real close to me
soothe my mind and set me free
set me free

I love to love you baby…

When you’re laying so close to me
there’s no place I’d rather you be
than with me here

I love to love you baby…

Do it to me again and again
you put me in such an awful spin
in a spin

I love to love you baby…

I love to love you baby…

I love to love you baby…

Love to love you baby baby…

I love to love you baby…

When you’re laying so close to me
there’s no place I’d rather you be
than with me here

I love to love you baby…

Do it to me again and again
you put me in such an awful spin
in a spin

I love to love you baby

Lay your head down so close to
soothe my mind and set me free
set me free

I love to love you baby

When you’re laying so close to me
there’s no place I’d rather you be
than with me here

I love to love you baby