One of Bad Girls’ Best Disco Journeys Never Became a Single
Get that vinyl point ready! Today’s Song Choice of the Day belongs to thee Queen of Disco and one of the gems hiding just beyond her biggest radio smashes: Donna Summer’s “Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart.”
The track arrived as part of Summer’s blockbuster 1979 double album Bad Girls, released April 25 of that year. While “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights” and “Walk Away” were pushed as singles, “Journey” remained an album cut — the kind of track that rewards anyone who actually let the whole record spin.
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Written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, who also produced it, “Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart” sits at track six on Bad Girls. Harold Faltermeyer handled the recording arrangement, helping shape the polished, propulsive sound surrounding Summer’s unmistakable vocal.
And that title tells you exactly where Donna is headed. This is disco as romantic transport: not merely across a dance floor, but straight through the borders of somebody’s mind and down into the emotional center of the whole thing.
That is part of what makes Bad Girls such a monster of an album. The obvious hits are enormous, but the record does not run out of ideas when the singles stop. “Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart” is proof — sleek, dramatic and built for a late-night spin without ever needing its own standalone release to earn a place in the Donna Summer canon.
So today, skip past the playlist algorithm’s usual suspects. Let the album cut have thee floor.
Listen to Donna Summer’s “Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart”
Donna Summer’s Official Artist Channel presents the 1979 Bad Girls track, written and produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.
Sources: Donna Summer Official Artist Channel / Universal Music Group; Giorgio Moroder; AllMusic.
