Hot stuff
| Hot stuff | |
|---|---|
| Donna Summer | |
| publication | April 1979 |
| length | 5:14 |
| Genre (s) | Disco , funk |
| Author (s) | Pete Bellotte , Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey |
| album | Bad girls |
Hot Stuff is a disco song by Donna Summer that was released in 1979. It made it to the album Bad Girls , which was released by Casablanca Records . It peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 .
history
The song was written by Pete Bellotte , Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey and co-produced by Giorgio Moroder with Bellotte. After Bad Girls moved from number 5 to number 3 on June 30, 1979 and Hot Stuff fell from 1 to 2 at the same time, she became the first woman to have two singles in the top 3 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. For the piece, Summer received the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance . It achieved platinum status in the US. The song was ranked number 67 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time .
Cover versions
The piece was often covered, for example by the Pussycat Dolls on the album PCD or in 1988 by the German group Boys From Brazil . It was also played in the 1997 film The Full Monty .
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date
- ↑ a b http://www.billboard.com/#/news/donna-summer-s-top-20-billboard-chart-hits-1007086152.story
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-70.shtml ( Memento from September 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) billboard.com
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/213847.stm