All Systems Go is an album by Donna Summer released in 1987. Best remembered for her disco hits during the 1970s, Summer had been signed to Geffen Records since 1980 and this would be her final album with the label.
During her time with Geffen, Summer's work had often been turned down for release by them. In 1981 she had recorded an entire double album entitled I'm a Rainbow which had been completely shelved. Her hit 1983 album She Works Hard for the Money had also been turned down by Geffen an...
All Systems Go is an album by Donna Summer released in 1987. Best remembered for her disco hits during the 1970s, Summer had been signed to Geffen Records since 1980 and this would be her final album with the label.
During her time with Geffen, Summer's work had often been turned down for release by them. In 1981 she had recorded an entire double album entitled I'm a Rainbow which had been completely shelved. Her hit 1983 album She Works Hard for the Money had also been turned down by Geffen and was instead released by Polygram. By 1987, amid longstanding rumours among fans that additional material had been recorded and gone unreleased, and three years since Summer's last Geffen release, Cats Without Claws, the album Geffen finally chose to release was All Systems Go.
This album was a fusion of typical 1980s synth-style pop/dance with soul and R&B elements, including both upbeat songs and ballads. Four tracks were produced by Giorgio Moroder associate Harold Faltermeyer, although Peter Bunetta, Rick Chudacoff, Richard Perry, Keith D. Nelson, Jeffrey Lams and Summer herself were also given production credits on certain songs. Summer was credited as co-writer on seven of the nine tracks. The album also included a version of Brenda Russell's "Dinner with Gershwin" and a duet with Starship lead singer Mickey Thomas on the ballad "Only the Fool Survives".
Although the album itself did not perform very well, Summer's version of "Dinner with Gershwin" gave her her highest UK chart placing (#13) since the end of the 1970s. The title track was a minor UK hit. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
