All Systems Go (Donna Summer album)
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| Studio album by Donna Summer | ||||
| Released | September 15, 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1985–1987 | |||
| Genre | Pop, dance, rock, soul, smooth jazz | |||
| Length | 43:04 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Producer | Harold Faltermeyer, Peter Bunetta, Rick Chudacoff, Richard Perry, Donna Summer, Keith Nelson, Jeffrey Lams | |||
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All Systems Go is the thirteenth studio album by Donna Summer, released in 1987; it would be her final release on Geffen Records, which had been Summer’s label since 1980. The album was not a commercial success.
After establishing herself as the top-ranked American female recording artist of the 1970s, Summer had broken out of her contract with Casablanca Records in 1980 to sign with the newly established Geffen Records, the label founded by David Geffen. But her album The Wanderer - Geffen's inaugural release - had disappointed David Geffen by falling somewhat short of the success level of Summer's previous Casablanca releases.
Geffen executives had elected to shelve a double album project (later released as I'm a Rainbow) she was working on with her longtime collaborators Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, an album Summer had expected to be her next release in 1981. Summer instead was assigned to work with Quincy Jones and the resultant Donna Summer album was released in 1982; also to fall short of Summer's '70s success level. Although it featured the Top 10, Grammy-nominated "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" single.
Geffen was displeased to learn that Summer legally owed her previous label Casablanca another album. Polygram Records had already owned 50% of Casablanca and it had previously purchased the other 50%, owning the company outright. Polygram notified Geffen Records and Summer that she still owed them another album per her contract with Casablanca. The Michael Omartian produced She Works Hard for the Money album was given to Polygram to satisfy the agreement and Polygram released it on its Mercury Records label in 1983. Ironically, Summer's return to the Polygram fold netted what would become her biggest album of the entire 1980s. The title song garnered her a Grammy nomination.
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