The late Donna Summer can be seen singing her first recording "Black Power" in this video clip circa 1969 from the German television series 11 Uhr 20. The track was written by German composer/arranger Peter Thomas, notes Dangerous Minds.
This is Summer’s first recording [but] it wasn’t released commercially until it appeared on a 1998 compilation of Thomas’ compositions called Moonflowers And Mini-Skirts. Although Thomas scored countless internationally released films and German television series, it wasn’t until bands like Pulp, Stereolab and Air started sampling his work that he became a hip commodity.
Donna Summer was only 21-years-old when she made this video. She died last Thursday at age 66 of cancer.
Via Northwestern's John Keene—whose tribute to the disco queen is worth reading—watch AFTER THE JUMP ...
Love it!
Posted by: Fred | 21 May 2012 at 09:34
Alright Donna, a budding diva. Lovin' the Black Power. RIP.
Posted by: Otis | 21 May 2012 at 09:35
Its crazy to me how much Kelly Rowland looks like her. RIP Donna Summer
Posted by: july | 21 May 2012 at 19:29
Meant to comment on this a couple of days ago but I had to run...
I think a lot of things about this clip and Donna Summer generally, but I did get into an interesting discussion of folks around my age who grew up with their parents playing Donna Summer then, once we got of age, we went back and listened to her songs and wondered how could our folks play some of these songs in the house...I mean, the early Donna Summer sounded sexy as all he-double hockey sticks.
Farewell, Diva.
Posted by: Chitown Kev | 24 May 2012 at 11:29