story time: Donna's Summer 'Friday'

one reason why I — at 13 — got serious about writing

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In addition to the legendary Donna Summer, 1978’s Thank God It's Friday featured the Commodores, Jeff Goldblum, and Ray Vitte. The film functioned as a West Coast, racially integrated response to 1977’s all-white, Brooklyn-set Saturday Night Fever. Summer won her first Grammy in 1979 for "Last Dance," the most perfect song of her career. There were also the whit…