A new EP featuring four remixes of Donna Summer’s 1983 smash “She Works Hard For The Money” by DJ John Michael Peloton is now available digitally via Mercury Records. The EP features Peloton’s dancefloor-friendly remix of the track, plus an extended mix, an instrumental mix and an additional club version of the song.
In its original form, “She Works Hard for the Money” was the title track legendary disco diva Summer’s eleventh studio album of the same name. It was co-written by Summer and Michael Omartian, who also produced the song. One of Summer’s biggest successes, “She Works Hard For A Living” went to No. 1 for a three-week stay atop the Billboard R&B singles chart (her first since 1979), number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and number three on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart. The single ended up as Billboard’s 15th-best performing song of 1983.
First issued on June 13, 1983, by Mercury Records, the song’s parent album also went on become Summer’s most successful studio album of the decade, peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard 200. Generally more pop and dance oriented than the two precedent Donna Summer studio albums, the record also contained some soulful ballads, including “Love Has a Mind of Its Own”, a duet with gospel singer Matthew Ward. It also contained a reggae-styled song called “Unconditional Love” which featured vocals by young black British group Musical Youth.
She Works Hard for the Money was universally acclaimed by music reviews and the album had helped establish her place as a 1980s pop and dance diva. Several more singles were released from the album. “Unconditional Love” gave Summer her fourteenth UK Top 20 hit and peaked at No. 9 on the U.S. R&B chart. “Stop, Look and Listen” peaked at No. 57 on the UK Singles Chart. The soulful duet “Love Has a Mind of Its Own” with Matthew Ward peaked was also a minor hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and a Top 40 success on the Billboard R&B Hits chart.
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