Another Place and Time

Another Place And Time
Studio album by Donna Summer
Released	March 20, 1989
Recorded	1988–1989
Genre	Dance eurodance europop[1]
Length	37:36
Label	Atlantic/PWL
Producer	Stock Aitken Waterman, Donna Summer
Donna Summer chronology
All Systems Go (1987) Another Place and Time (1989) Mistaken Identity (1991)
Singles from Another Place and Time
"This Time I Know It's for Real" Released: January 1989 "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" Released: May 1989 "Love's About to Change My Heart" Released: August 1989 "Breakaway" Released: 1989 "When Love Takes Over You" Released: November 1989

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	B+ [3]

Another Place and Time is the fourteenth album by American singer Donna Summer, released in 1989. The album was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and featured Summer's Top 10 hit "This Time I Know It's for Real".

Production

After enjoying immense stardom during the disco era in the 1970s, Summer had experimented with different styles of music during the 1980s and had released several albums with Geffen Records with varied results; Geffen had refused to release much of her material including her biggest post-1970s success, the 1983 album She Works Hard for the Money, which had only been released by virtue of being given to another label - Mercury Records - to satisfy a legal dispute between Summer and her 1970s label Casablanca Records. Summer's final Geffen release was her 1987 album All Systems Go.

Summer actually recorded Another Place and Time, for Geffen, the pairing of the singer with the Stock Aitken Waterman team being the idea of label owner David Geffen. Since 1984, Stock Aiken Watermen had dominated the UK charts with acts like Bananarama, Dead or Alive, Hazell Dean, Kylie Minogue and Rick Astley scoring countless hits worldwide. "S/A/W" were famous for their unique "hit factory" sound, which was basically their own brand of 1980s synthpop/dance. S/A/W described the album as a labour of love, and went on to say it was their favorite album. The S/A/W team wrote all ten of the tracks for their collaboration with Summer, with the singer having co-writing credit on three tracks.

Single releases and commercial success

Upon hearing the completed album in early 1989, David Geffen and his executive board opted to drop Summer from the label roster without issuing the album. However Warner Bros. Records, Summer's label of release in the UK and Europe since 1980, elected to issue the Another Place and Time album in those territories with the track "This Time I Know It's for Real" becoming a hit in the UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden; "This Time I Know It's for Real" had an especially strong impact in the UK with a spring 1989 peak of #3 affording Summer her best UK chart showing since 1977 when "Love's Unkind" peaked at #3 (Summer's only higher UK charting single is "I Feel Love" also from 1977). The album also went on to reach #17 in the UK Albums Chart. In the US, with the single losing chart momentum and sales because of imports; it was expeditious, that a label be found for the North American market. In April 1989 Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. affiliate in the WEA conglomerate, acquired the Another Place and Time album for release in the US where boosted by the Top Ten showing of "This Time I Know I Know It's for Real", which reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Conversely, the parent album peaked at #53 on the Billboard 200 album chart, eventually selling approximately 255,000 copies in the United States.

Planned follow up album and re-release

A second album was planned with Stock Aitken Waterman, however Summer never found the time to get back to the UK, and the tracks were later recorded by singer Lonnie Gordon.^[4]

In 2014, the album was re-released in the UK in a 3-CD set as well as digital downloads, containing a remastered original album, plus extended versions, original versions and remixes.

Track listing

Standard edition

All tracks written by Stock, Aitken, Waterman, except where indicated.. 

3xCD Deluxe edition (2014)

Disc one

• Same as original LP.

Personnel

• Stock, Aitken, Waterman - producer, arrangements
• Karen Hewitt and Yoyo - engineering
• Mixmaster Pete Hammond - mixing
• Donna Summer - vocals
• Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and George De Angelis - keyboards
• Matt Aitken - guitar
• A. Linn - drums
• Dee Lewis, Matt Aitken and Mae McKenna - backing vocals
• Recorded at PWL, London
• Donna's vocals were recorded using the The Calrec Soundfield Microphone.
• Lawrence Lawry - photography
• David Howells - design
• Lawrence Lawry and Donna Summer - front cover concept
• Andrene (at Vidal Sasson) - hair
• Richard Sharpes - makeup
• Kelly Cooper - styling

Weekly charts

Single

Certifications

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