On the Radio (Donna Summer song)

"On the Radio"

One of European cover arts
Single by Donna Summer
from the album On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II
B-side "There Will Always Be a You"
Released November 23, 1979
Format 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1979
Genre Disco
Length 4:05
Label Casablanca
Writer(s) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder
Producer(s) Giorgio Moroder
Donna Summer singles chronology
"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
(1979)		 "On the Radio"
(1979)		 "Sunset People"
(1980)

"On the Radio" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer, released in late-1979 on the Casablanca record label. It was written for the soundtrack to the film Foxes and included on Summer's first international compilation album On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II. It was released as a single and became, in January 1980, her tenth top-ten hit in the U.S. as well as her eighth and final consecutive top 5 single. "On the Radio" peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on the soul chart.[1] The song was also Summer's fourteenth entry on the Billboard Disco chart, where it peaked at number eight.[2] In Canada, it peaked at number two.[3]

The song was released in three formats: the radio 45rpm single; the 5+ minute version included on Summer's Greatest Hits double album package, and a DJ Promo 7+ minute version released on 12" single (and included on the Foxes film soundtrack album). This last version was later released on the Bad Girls CD digipack double CD release. The Foxes soundtrack also includes an instrumental version of the song in a ballad tempo and crediting Moroder as a solo artist. In the film, the ballad tempo is heard with Donna Summer's vocals. The disco version is never heard. Donna Summer performed "On the Radio" on many television shows such as American Bandstand. The instrumental parts of this song were occasionally heard on the US version of The Price Is Right in the early 1980s when they displayed jukeboxes and stereos as prizes. While the first two versions included all written lyrics, the DJ Promo omitted the final verse, opting instead to repeat the third. Only the first "short" version ended with the famous "on the radio - adio - adio" echo vocal effect.

Official versions

Personnel

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1979/80) Peak
position
Australia [4] 26
Canadian RPM[5] 2
Dutch GfK chart[6] 27
Dutch Top 40 20
Norwegian Singles Chart 6
Spain Radio (Los 40)[7] 9
UK 32
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 5
U.S. Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles 8
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 9
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [8] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Position
Australia [4] 180
Canada 23
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [9] 53
U.S. Cash Box [10] 46

Cover versions

Live cover performances

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 556.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 249.
  3. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  4. 1 2 Steffen Hung. "Forum - Oasis - part of the queue ()". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  5. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  6. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl - Discografie Donna Summer". © 2006-2011 Hung Medien. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
  7. ↑ Fernando Salaverri (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1980/Top 100 Songs of 1980". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ Seacrest, Ryan (2010-04-29). "Jennifer Lopez teams up with david guetta for a cover of donna summer's on the radio". Ryanseacrest.com. Archived from the original on May 2, 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
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