Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)

"Hot Stuff"
Italian picture sleeve
Single by Donna Summer
from the album Bad Girls
B-side
  • "Journey to the Centre of Your Heart"
  • "Heaven Knows" (Brazil)
  • "Bad Girls" (Japan)
ReleasedApril 13, 1979
StudioRusk Sound Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Length
  • 3:47 (radio edit)
  • 5:14 (album version)
  • 6:46 (extended mix)
LabelCasablanca
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Donna Summer singles chronology
"Heaven Knows"
(1978)
"Hot Stuff"
(1979)
"Bad Girls"
(1979)
Audio sample
"Donna Summer – Hot Stuff"
Audio
"Hot Stuff" on YouTube

"Hot Stuff" is a song by Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, and Keith Forsey released as the lead single by American singer Donna Summer on her seventh studio album Bad Girls, produced by English producer Pete Bellotte and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder in 1979 through Casablanca Records. Up to that point, Summer had mainly been associated with disco songs but this song also showed a significant rock direction, including a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. It is the second of four songs by Summer to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[3]

In 2018, a remix by Ralphi Rosario and Erick Ibiza entitled "Hot Stuff 2018" went to number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart.[4]

  1. ^ "Best Summer Songs of All Time: 31 – "Hot Stuff," Donna Summer". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs (70–61)". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008.
  3. ^ Caulfield, Keith (May 17, 2012). "Donna Summer's Top 20 Billboard Chart Hits". Billboard. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  4. ^ "Dance Club Songs". Billboard. June 30, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.