Donna Summer - "She Works Hard for the Money"

  • Spent eight weeks in the Top 10 during the summer of 1983.
  • Summer wrote the song with producer Michael Omartian.
  • She performed it on the 1984 Grammy Awards.
  • Based on an incident at a party at the famed Chasen's restaurant in Hollywood.
  • The subject of the song, Onetta Johnson, appears with Donna on the back of her She Works Hard for the Money album.
  • The first video by a Black female artist to receive frequent play on MTV.
  • Lori Blaisch redid the song for the 1984 movie Splash.
  • Part of the 2018 Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.

[Source: Classic Hits Today]


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