Donna Summer - Could It Be Magic (Casablanca Records 1976)

"Could It Be Magic" is a song with lyrics by Adrienne Anderson and music by Barry Manilow, based on Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in C Minor, Opus 28, Number 20. Initially released in 1971 by Featherbed (a group of session musicians featuring Barry Manilow), produced and co-written by Tony Orlando, it was later re-recorded as a Barry Manilow solo track, given a first album and single release in 1973 on Bell Records and - after remixing - an album and single rerelease in 1975 on Arista Records. The 1975 re-release became one of Manilow's first hits. The song has been recorded by a number of other artists over the years, most successfully by Donna Summer in 1976 and by Take That in 1992.

Just seven months after Manilow's original version was released as a single, American singer Donna Summer recorded a disco version of the track and included it on her third studio album, A Love Trilogy, and took it to number three on the US Dance chart in 1976.[12] The song also entered the UK singles chart where it stayed for seven weeks (peak point #40).

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.

While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.

Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.

Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Oh baby it's been so long
I've waited so long
And now that I have you
I want you to come
Come, come, come into my arms
Oh baby I need you, I need you
Come, come, come into my arms again

Spirits move me every time I'm near you
Whirling like a cyclone in my mind
Oh sweet Peter, angel of my lifetime
Answer to all answers I can find

Baby, I love you, come
Come, come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby, I want you now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last

Oh, hold on to me
Don't let go
Oh, oh, come into my life
Ooh, oh, I need you so, baby
Don't let go
Oh, baby, hold on, hold on
Oh

Baby, take me high up on your hillside
High up where the stallion meets the sun
I could love you, build my world around you
Never leave you till my life is done

Baby, I love you, come
Come, come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby, I want you now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last

Baby, I love you, come
Come, come into my arms
Could this be the magic of all of you
Baby, I want you now, now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last

Baby, I want you, come
Come, come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby, I want you now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last

Could it be magic, yeah
Hold on, come into my arms
Could this be the magic of all of you
Baby, I want you now, now, oh now
Oh now and hold on fast
Oh could this be your magic at last

Could it be magic now, now oh now
Oh now and hold on fast
Oh could this be your magic at last

Could it be magic
Come on now, come on, hey, come into my arms
Oh, let me know the wonder of all of you, all of you
Baby, I want you now, now, oh now
Oh now and hold on fast
Oh could this be your magic at last

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