A Love Trilogy

For the 2004 film, see Love Trilogy (film).

A Love Trilogy
Studio album by Donna Summer
Released	March 5, 1976
Recorded	1975
Genre	Disco
Length	33:49
Label	Oasis/Casablanca
Producer	Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Donna Summer chronology
Love to Love You Baby (1975)Love to Love You Baby1975 Love Trilogy (1976) Four Seasons of Love (1976)Four Seasons of Love1976
Singles from A Love Trilogy
"Could It Be Magic" Released: January 11, 1976 "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" Released: March 30, 1976

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Robert Christgau	B

A Love Trilogy is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer. It was released on March 5, 1976, just eight months after her international breakthrough with the single and album of the same name - "Love To Love You Baby". The bold, sexual nature of that particular song had earned Summer the title "The first lady of love." By now Summer's work was being distributed in the U.S. by Casablanca Records, and the label encouraged Summer, Moroder and team to continue in this vein. The Love Trilogy album uses the first side for one long disco track in three distinct movements ('Try Me', 'I Know', 'We Can Make It', and coalescing into the "love trilogy" of the title - "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It". Side Two contained three additional erotic disco songs, including a cover of Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic". The album's artwork showed Summer floating light-heartedly through the clouds, again adding to the image of her as a fantasy figure.

The album sold well across the world, (it was her second, consecutive album to be certified Gold in the United States) and again topped the national US Disco charts. Edited versions of "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" and "Could It Be Magic" did not reach the top forty on the Billboard Hot 100, but the latter was a sizable R&B hit (#21) and disco hit (#3). Casablanca released a 12 inch version of "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" with "Love to Love You Baby" on the reverse side. The single "Could It Be Magic" was a Top 5 hit in the Netherlands.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It"	Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer	17:57

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
2.	"Prelude to Love"	Bellotte, Moroder, Summer	1:06
3.	"Could It Be Magic"	Adrienne Anderson, Barry Manilow	5:19
4.	"Wasted"	Bellotte, Moroder	5:09
5.	"Come With Me"	Bellotte, Moroder	4:22

Personnel

• Donna Summer – vocals, composer
• Giorgio Moroder – bass guitar, composer, producer and synthesizer
• Pete Bellotte – composer, producer
• Backing vocals: Madeline Bell, Sunny Leslie, Sue Glover (the Midnite Ladies)
• Other musicians on this album were known collectively as "Munich Machine" and worked on a variety of Moroder/Bellotte productions from this period.
• Munich Machine are: Thor Baldursson – string arrangement, Frank Diez – guitar, Keith Forsey – drums, Martin Harrison – drums, Molly Moll – guitar, Gary Unwin – bass, Les Hurdle  - bass

Production

• Producers: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
• Engineer: Juergen Koppers, Mack & Hans
• Musical arrangements: Giorgio Moroder and Thor Baldurson

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1976	The Billboard 200	21
	Billboard Top R&B Albums	16
	U.K. Albums Chart	41
	Spain	1
	Germany	24
	Norway	14
	Sweden	18
	Austria	8
	Italy	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1976	"Could It Be Magic"	Billboard Hot 100	52
		Billboard Hot R&B Tracks	21
		Billboard Hot Disco Action	3
	U.K. Singles Chart	40
	"Try Me I Know We Can Make It"	Hot Dance Music	1
		Hot R&B Tracks	35
		The Billboard Hot 100	80
"Wasted"	Hot Dance Music	1

External links

• A Love Trilogy at Discogs