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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Polygram Records
Salesrank: 33103
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $13.29 |
| Used Price: $4.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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On the Radio Track Listing:
1. On the Radio
2. Love to Love You Baby
3. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
4. I Feel Love
5. Our Love
6. I Remember Yesterday
7. I Love You
8. Heaven Knows
9. Last Dance
10. MacArthur Park
11. Hot Stuff
12. Bad Girls
13. Dim All the Lights
14. Sunset People
15. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer
16. On the Radio [Long Version]
Editorial Review:
The queen of disco--known now for her fundamental conservatism but then known for her extended sex romps that pulsated as minutes turned to hours--Donna Summer recorded a series of hits that playfully courted decadence and consistent chart success. The versions here are the shorter 7" versions. So if looking for the full 16-minute version of "Love to Love You Baby," look elsewhere. But what is here is '70s disco at its peak: "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Last Dance," "On the Radio," "I Feel Love." The kind of stuff that makes weddings and frat parties what they are. --Rob O'Connor
On the Radio Reviews:
Robert Haua 
2009-09-17 - Donna Summer's, queen of disco, this is an awsome colletion of some of her top hits.
Incomplete and edited badly 
2009-06-25 - I had bought this as a greatest hits album and, while it is that, many of the songs have been edited down quite a bit. The reason? A 12 minute version of her hit with Barbara Streisand. I was bummed out as I happen to like a lot of the others almost better than this one. Do not get this one if you want the COMPLETE versions of all the songs as they were played on the radio. I'm still searching for that.
Essential compilation
2008-07-05 - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RQGH7839Q98Z1
More Classic Rock than Disco - A true musical kaleidoscope for the ears
2008-06-15 - Just ana amazing collection of amazing songs. Though inappropriately critized as being the "queen of disco" this collection of great songs has very few of the tried and true Disco tracks. This album would be better described as Classic Rock, with artistic dance tracks included. The only criticism would be that with the exception of 3 selections, the versions for this 1979 released double LP are the shorter radio versions. My wish would be that this classic release would soon be re-released as a remastered (and hopefully extended) version, replete with extensive liner notes and photographs. But the sound quality is quite good as is. This is a must have release for anyone who enjoyed the late 1970's music.
On the radio, Oooh oh oh oh oh!!
2008-04-15 - Oddly, I never got round to reviewing this Donna Summer collection. Better late than never! "On the radio" came out when I was a kid and all I could afford to buy were sweets and Marvel comics, so I had to listen to it on the radio (pun intended), and lustfully eye my aunt's vinyl copy until I was big and "rich" enough to get mine. Much later on, it was the first CD I ever bought.
There have been hundreds of compilations of Donna Summer's music (she deserves an entry in the Guinness book of world records for that, lol!), but this was the first official hits collection from Summer's then record label Casablanca, with creative input from Summer (in the form of two new studio tracks). It comprised her (then) 10 US top ten million selling singles edited and segued into one another, much the way her seventies albums were. "Love to love you baby" (#2), "I feel love" (#6, though this electronic classic was mercilessly truncated here), "Last dance" (#3, winner of a Grammy and winner of the Academy award for best song), "McArthur Park" (#1), "Heaven knows" (#4), "Hot Stuff" (#1, first ever winner of the Grammy for best rock song by a female), "Bad girls" (#1), "Dim all the lights" (#2), and the pair of newcomers, "On the radio" (#5, and theme song from the Jodie Foster movie "Foxes" available here in long and short versions), and the superstar duet with Barbra Streisand "No more tears (Enough is enough)" (#1, available here in the 11 minute extended version).
Also included were songs like "Try me", "I remember yesterday" (a UK top 20 hit), "I love you" (UK #10), and two album cuts from her landmark "Bad girls" album, "Our love" and "Sunset people" (in a very nice edit). Every song is a gem and the feel one gets playing this album is of being at a non-stop disco party.
The cover photography (by Harry Langdon) is simply stunning, and was meant to make Donna look like some glamorous fifties movie star. This album became Summer's third #1 double disc in a row (a feat nobody else has managed) and was certified double platinum. There have been other, more extensive catalogues of her work (I especially recommend The Donna Summer Anthology from 1993, or Gold from 2006, both are double CDs, each with over thirty songs in their unedited original form and excellent booklets) but this one holds a magical place in my heart, and is the only hits collection of Summer's I have in its entirety on my iPod.
Summer releases her first studio album in 17 years, Crayons, on May 20th.
