Songs Produced by Giorgio Moroder (Music Guide): Back in Love Again, Bad Girls (Song), Beat the Clock (Sparks Song), Be My Lover Now, Call Me (Blondie

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 39. Chapters: Back in Love Again, Bad Girls (song), Beat the Clock (Sparks song), Be My Lover Now, Call Me (Blondie song), Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over), Cat People (Putting Out Fire), Cold Love, Could It Be Magic, Dim All the Lights, Flashdance... What a Feeling, Good-Bye Bad Times, Heaven Knows (Donna Summer song), Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song), Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen, I Feel Love, I Love You (Donna Summer song), I Remember Yesterday (song), Last Dance (song), Love's Unkind, MacArthur Park (song), No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), On the Radio (Donna Summer song), Rumour Has It (Donna Summer song), Rush Rush (Debbie Harry song), Spring Affair, Take My Breath Away, The NeverEnding Story (song), The Number One Song in Heaven, The Wanderer (Donna Summer song), Together in Electric Dreams, Try Me, I Know We Can Make It, Two to the Power of Love, Walk Away (Donna Summer song), Who Do You Think You're Foolin', Winter Melody. Excerpt: "MacArthur Park" is a song by Jimmy Webb, originally composed as part of an intended cantata. The song was initially rejected by The Association. Richard Harris was the first to record it, in 1968; the song was subsequently covered by numerous artists. Among the best-known covers are Donna Summer's disco arrangement from 1978 and Waylon Jennings's version recorded in 1969 and his recording of the song from 1976. Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman all performed big-band jazz arrangements, and "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied it in his 1993 "Jurassic Park." While it was a commercially successful song multiple times after it was released, "MacArthur Park" used flowery lyrics and metaphors (most famously, love being likened to a cake left out in the rain) that were considered by media such as the Los Angeles Times to be "polarizing" and "loopy." The inspiration for "MacArthur Park" was the relationship and breakup between Webb and Susan Ronstadt, a cousin of singer Linda Ronstadt. MacArthur Park was where the two occasionally met for lunch and spent their most enjoyable times together. At that time (mid-1965), Ronstadt worked for a life insurance company whose offices were located just across the street from the park. Webb and Ronstadt remained friends, even after her marriage to another man. The breakup was also the primary influence for "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," another Webb composition. After his relationship breakup Webb stayed for a while at the residence of Buddy Greco upon whose piano the piece was composed and originally dedicated. Buddy Greco has closed every show with this number for the past forty years. The song begins as a poem about love, then moves into a lover's lament. When asked by interviewer Terry Gross what was going through his mind when he wrote the lyrics, Webb replied that the lyrics were meant to be symbolic and referred to the end of a love affair. The song was first recorded by Richard Harris, after Harris first met Webb at a fu