Endless Summer: Greatest Hits
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- This article is about the Donna Summer album. For other uses, including the Beach Boys' compilation, see Endless Summer.
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| Studio album by Donna Summer | ||
| Released | 1994 | |
| Genre | Disco, Pop, Dance, Soul, R&B, Rock | |
| Length | 76:09 (European version) | |
| Label | Mercury | |
| Producer(s) | Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Gary Klein, Quincy Jones, Michael Omartian, Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, Pete Waterman, Donna Summer | |
| Donna Summer chronology | ||
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| Christmas Spirit (1994) |
Endless Summer: Greatest Hits (1994) |
Live & More Encore (1999) |
Endless Summer: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Donna Summer, released in 1994. It contains many of her best known songs from her 1970s breakthrough to the present day. Summer is best known for her work during the 1970s disco era, though released a substantial amount of material in the 1980s and 1990s, covering a variety of genres. Endless Summer occasionally contained the versions of the songs that were used upon their release as a single and, somewhat irritatingly, some new edits (unlike the previous compilation - The Donna Summer Anthology, which had generally used songs in their original, longer forms).
Endless Summer also featured two new tracks, the first of which, "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)", became a moderate hit when issued as a single. Summer was given production credits on the track, which she had written with Robert Clivilles and David Cole of C&C Music Factory. The other new track was the soulful ballad "Any Way At All", which Summer was credited as writing with her husband Bruce Sudano. This song was produced by Michael Omartian, who had produced some of Summer's work in the 1980s.
For many years this was regarded as the "definitive" Donna Summer hits CD, as it was the last international non-budget compilation to be released right up until 2003.
[edit] Different versions
The track listing of Endless Summer varied from nation to nation as some of Summer's hits were more popular in certain places than others. For example, "Heaven Knows" and "Dim All The Lights", which were big hits in the U.S. were not featured on the European edition of the album and were instead replaced with a couple of her 1980s hits that were less successful in the U.S. In France however, the compilation was not released until 1995 and as a bonus track contained a new remix of her 1977 hit "I Feel Love" as well as a new title and packaging.
