'Lush Life' -- Linda, Donna versions

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We all know on this board that Linda recorded Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" for her second album with Nelson Riddle released in 1984. Of course, the video below was taken from a 1998 tribute to her friend Rosemary Clooney --



Donna Summer recorded a version of the song for her 1982 album "Donna Summer" produced by Quincy Jones --



Both artists are singled out in the Wikipedia entry on the song --

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lush_Life_(song)

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Saw this mention of Linda and Donna on Yahoo --

ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/awards/she-really-hot-stuff-201738360.html

You can bet that Donna Summer will be remembered at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday. Summer took the award for Disco Artist of the Year in 1977 when Billboard first had a prime-time TV show on which to honor the year's chart champs. The TV show didn't start up again until the early 1990s, but Billboard's year-end issues document Summer's strength through the years.

Summer was the #1 female artist in combined activity on the Hot 100 and The Billboard 200 album chart for two years running, 1979 and 1980. The two years before that, 1977 and 1978, she was #2 among female artists (behind Linda Ronstadt) in combined singles and albums activity.

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