Thanks for the Memories Donna Summer

We baby boomers are fortunate for so many things in our growing-up years, but disco definitely takes the cake!!!  It was so much fun!  The 1970's and early 80's music and disco dancing is a time I'm glad I got to experience firsthand.  Just thinking about it puts a smile on my face.  My favorite disco songs are from Donna Summer.  Donna Summer, "The Queen of Disco" with her great techno music and beautiful voice defined the disco era.  I loved dancing to all of her songs, it's hard to pick just one favorite.  "Hot Stuff" and "On The Radio" are great songs to dance to, but who can forget "Bad Girls"?  Boy, if those three songs didn't get you up and dancing, I don't know what could.  "She Works Hard For the Money", definitely ranks at the top of my list along with "I Feel Love."  Just thinking about these songs will transplant me back to the disco dance floor where I begin to visualize the lights, the music, the disco ball, and the great disco dances.  Who can forget the disco dance called  'The Bump'?   It was 1979, I was out one night with my girlfriends, all four of us were up and dancing our feet off at the disco in the big city.   We started doing "The Bump" on the dance floor when an unknown big girl beside me (about 270 lbs.) gave me the bump and sent me(skinny Kim at 128 lbs.) flying across the dance floor!   Apparently, she did not realize how much power was in her bump!   I pulled myself together and continued dancing, but stayed far away from her.

Photo: Donna Summer in 1979. Credit: Larry Bessell / Los Angeles Times

Donna Summer died Thursday, May 17th at the age of 63.  Too young to have cancer take you.  Donna Summer meant more than disco to my generation, she will be missed and those fabulous songs will never be forgotten.