"
Denver Dream" is a single by
Donna Summer, released in
1974. This was her first collaboration with
Giorgio Moroder and
Pete Bellotte, a songwriting team that would stay together until 1981 and produce all of Summer's biggest
disco hits. At this time Summer was living in
Munich,
Germany and singing backup for groups such as
Three Dog Night.
Through her job as a backup singer she met Moroder and before long he
started using her as a lead vocalist. This single also marked the first
usage of Summer's stage name (she had previously been credited as Donna
Gaines, but had anglicised her married name to Austrian actor Helmut
Sommer). It was released in
The Netherlands
in 1974, but did not make any particular impact on the chart. The
B-side, "Something's in the Wind", would, in 1977, be re-worked into the
single, "
Back in Love Again", which would become a top-40 UK hit.
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