I'm A Rainbow

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I'm a Rainbow is a double album recorded by Donna Summer in 1981 that remained unreleased until 1996. After making her name as the biggest selling and most important female artist of the disco era in the 1970, Summer had signed to Geffen Records in 1980 and released the new wave-influenced album The Wanderer and I'm a Rainbow, a dance-orientated double album, was set to be its follow-up (Summer had gained much success during the 1970s with double albums). However Geffen were unhappy with the resultant effort and insisted that Summer part company with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte who had produced and co-written, and with whom Summer had been working since the early 1970. She was instead paired up with producer Quincy Jones and begun work on the 1982 self-titled album. Over the year, certain songs from I'm A Rainbow sneaked out. "Highway Runner" appeared on the soundtrack to Fast Times at Ridgemont High the following year, and "Romeo" appeared on the Flashdance soundtrack (1983). Remixes of two further tracks appeared ten years later on the 1993 compilation album The Donna Summer Anthology - the title track (written by Summer's husband Bruce Sudano), and a version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita Bootleg copies of the album circulated among fans for years before the full album was finally released by Mercury Record, a division of Polygram, in 1996. The original album artwork, however, couldn't be located although it's been speculated whether the rainbow themed artwork of her 1982 LP may have been it. While dance-oriented music was a theme throughout the album, this was combined with several different musical style, making it one of Summer's more diverse album. Styles explored included 80's Brit synth-pop like Human League and Duran Duran, pop/rock, and ballad. It included a duet with Joe "Bean" Esposito, writing credits from Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey, Sylvester Levay, Summer's husband Bruce Sudano as well as the usual Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team. .

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