Donna Summer article errors

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Old October 19th, 2003, 10:04 AM
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Default Donna Summer article errors

On October 16 the San Francisco Chronicle printed a Donna Summer article with what I believe to be errors. The following is part of my letter to the newspaper about it.

"It says that her hit 'Love To Love You Baby', 'followed by a slew of other hits', had made her a 'fixture atop the music charts' as of November 1976. But she'd had no other hits that even made the Top 40 by then. Her 2nd Top 40 hit did not chart until August 1977, and she did not reach the top of the chart until 'MacArthur Park' in November 1978.
Also, the article refers to her 'pillow-talk whisper she used on her biggest hit', referring to 'Love To Love You Baby.' But it was not her biggest hit. The article also says the song reached No. 2. The AP writer Oscar Wells Gabriel II knows she had number one hits, since the article refers to 'No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)' as her final number one hit. So the writer contradicted himself. The writer twice mentioned Billboard music 'charts' while only referring to one chart, its pop chart where 'Love To Love You Baby' made #2.
The article also says people think of 'She Works Hard For The Money' as an ode to those who sell sex on the streets. it should not have referred to mistaken people, because the lyrics of that song are obviously about a woman working a difficult standard job, who gets tips. it is revealed to be as a waitress in the video that starred a regular looking 40ish woman not dressed like a prostitute, which is also implied by the album cover showing Donna as a waitress."

By the way, of course the 1977 song I referred to was "I Feel Love", and the writer rementioned "Bad Girls" as well as "She Works hard For The Money" as supposedly about sex (we know the former refers to prostitutes). Taking into account that the writer is only referring to the American pop (not disco) chart, and Billboard since he indicated so and never indicated otherwise, does anyone disagree with me about the errors I pointed out to the newspaper above?
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