Product: Hot Summer Night [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 5.0
I Was There...Look for my bright red jacket in the audience!
Those that have criticized this concert recording on this page obviously don't really know Donna's performing history.She is without doubt one of the greatest voices of all time. If you don't think so, listen carefully to the first several bars of an original recording of "Dim All the Lights" and tell me who else comes close! For that matter, her entire "Bad Girls" 2 disc album was the absolute zenith of the Disco Era, and won unprecedented accolades from even those music critics who had always dripped nothing but disdain for everything disco.That said, however, her live on-stage performance presence always did leave something to be desired (can you say rather wooden) UNTIL her "Live and More Encore" (1999) era.In addition to finally leaving other personal issues behind, her work performing on the theatrical stage just before that 1999 "comeback" combined to truly make an amazingly astonishing difference and improved her concert stage work to true brilliance.Regardless, her voice has ALWAYS been beyond phenomenal.I was actually in the audience at the taping of this Hot Summer Night concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre back in 1983... if you watch it, look for the extremely tall guy (I'm 6'6") in the audience wearing a very bright red jacket...you can't miss me... lol