New Box Set Collecting Seven Solo Donna Summer Albums
The set spotlights Summer's era on Neil Bogart’s Casablanca Records.
A new box set is collecting all of Donna Summer's solo albums that were released on Casablanca Records from 1975 to 1979. Donna Summer: The Casablanca Studio Albums will be available on 7CD or 10LP Colored Vinyl on October 2, 2026. Pre-orders are available here.
The set spotlights Summer's era on Neil Bogart’s Casablanca Records. Her smash single "Love To Love You Baby” arrived in November 1975. Reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Dance Club chart (where it stayed for one month), it was followed by Love To Love You Baby, her first album for the label. She capitalized on her success with four albums released in three years: A Love Trilogy, Four Seasons Of Love, I Remember Yesterday and Once Upon A Time...
The set also includes the Live And More double album, recorded at Los Angeles’ Universal Amphitheatre in 1978, and featuring “Last Dance,” one of Summer's biggest hits, earning her an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a GRAMMY. Side 4 was reserved for the only studio track, the 17-minute opus “MacArthur Park Suite,” which enjoyed a viral resurgence during the Winter Olympics thanks to Alysa Liu.
Bad Girls rounds out the Casablanca years with the hits “Bad Girls” (#1 on the Billboard Hot 100), “Hot Stuff” (#1 on the Billboard Hot 100), and “Dim All the Lights” (#2 on the Billboard Hot 100). This made Summer the first female artist ever to have two songs simultaneously in the Top 3: “Hot Stuff” at #2 and “Bad Girls” at #3. All of the albums were produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, save Love To Love You Baby, which was produced by Pete Bellotte.
Both the 7CD box set and the multi-colored - light blue, hot pink, green, yellow, orange, indigo and violet - 10LP vinyl set is accompanied by a new 3,500-word essay penned by Christian John Wikane (“A Night at the Disco”) culled from interviews with Donna, Bruce Sudano, Pete Bellotte, Pattie Brooks, Alec R. Costandinos, Leroy Gómez, Steve Greenberg, David Hodo, Cecil Holmes, and Bernie Worrell. The limited-edition vinyl set also includes a reproduction of the 1977 “Four Seasons Of Love” calendar poster.
With an estimated 150 million records sold worldwide, Summer was ranked No. 24 on Billboard’s 50th Anniversary list of the “Hot 100 Artists of All Time.” A five-time GRAMMY winner, she was the first artist to win Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, and the first-ever recipient of Best Dance Recording. Summer was the first female artist to receive GRAMMY Awards in four distinct genres: R&B, Dance, Rock, and Gospel.
Summer earned six American Music Awards, three consecutive No.1 platinum double albums, 11 gold albums, four No.1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, three platinum singles, and 12 gold singles. Over 38 years, she charted 33 Top Ten hits on Billboard’s disco/dance/dance club charts. She holds the record for the most consecutive double albums to reach No.1 on the Billboard charts (three in a row) and was the first female artist to score four No.1 singles in a 12-month period: three solo and one duet with Barbra Streisand.
A Broadway musical based on her life, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, played on Broadway in 2018 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The three actresses who play the role of musical icon Donna Summer in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical were Tony Award winner LaChanze (The Color Purple, Once on This Island) as "Diva Donna," Ariana DeBose (Hamilton, West Side Story) as "Disco Donna" and Storm Lever (Freaky Friday) as "Duckling Donna."
LaChanze received a Tony Award nomination for Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Diva Donna and Ariana DeBose received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Disco Donna.
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