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from the album I Remember Yesterday | ||||||||||||||
B-side | "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" | |||||||||||||
Released | July 2, 1977 | |||||||||||||
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Length | 5:53 | |||||||||||||
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"I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix)" | ||||
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Single by Donna Summer | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Format | 7" single, 12" single | |||
Length | 15:43 (Megamix) 8:50 (Megaedit) |
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Writer(s) | Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte | |||
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"I Feel Love (The 1995 Remixes)" | ||||
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Single by Donna Summer | ||||
Released | 1995 | |||
Format | 12" single, CD single | |||
Label | PolyGram | |||
Writer(s) | Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte | |||
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"I Feel Love" is a song by American singer-songwriter Donna Summer from her fifth album I Remember Yesterday (1977). It peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Outside the United States, "I Feel Love" topped the charts in Australia and the United Kingdom and peaked within the top-ten of the charts in Canada and New Zealand.
The track was produced by Giorgio Moroder, an early adopter of electronic sequencers and four-four beats. The song became popular in High Energy discos.
While earlier disco hits were based on soft string and assuring female vocals, "I Feel Love" is formed on a hard kick drum and progressive bass lines seminal in the development of electronic dance music. In 2006 Slant Magazine ranked the song 1st in its list of '100 Greatest Dance Songs'.
Before "I Feel Love", most disco recordings had been backed by acoustic orchestras although all-electronic music had been produced for decades.Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte's innovative production of this disco-style song, recorded with an entirely synthesized backing track, utilizing a Moog synthesizer, spawned imitators in the disco genre, and was influential in the development of new wave synthpop and later techno. Moroder went to work on the song with Bellotte in his Musicland studio in Munich. "We wanted to conclude with a futuristic song," he said, "and I decided that it had to be done with a synthesizer."
Unusually for a disco track of that era, Moroder composed the backing track and bass line before the melody. He introduced a degree of variety by altering the song's key at regular intervals and layering in Summer's repetitive and synthesized vocals.
The song is in the key of E flat major and C major, with electronic dance flavor, and choruses and interludes.
The song would garner Summer her first American Music Award nomination for Favourite Female Soul/R&B Artist. According to David Bowie, then in the middle of recording of his Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno, its impact on the genre's direction was recognized early on: