Denver Dream (song)

{{Infobox song

| name = Denver Dream

| cover = Denver_Dream_(Holland).jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Donna Summer

| album =

| B-side = Something's In the Wind

| released = January 3, 1974

| recorded = 1973

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop

| length = 3:24

| label = Lark Records

| writer = Pete Bellotte

| producer = Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte

| prev_title = Sally Go 'Round the Roses

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = The Hostage

| next_year = 1974

}}

"Denver Dream" is a song by American singer Donna Summer, released in 1974. This was her first collaboration with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, a songwriting team that would stay together until 1981 and produce all of Summer's biggest disco hits.{{cite news |last=Herrera |first=Dave |url= https://www.westword.com/music/listen-to-donna-summers-denver-dream-5676546 |title=Listen to Donna Summer's "Denver Dream" |work=Westword |date=May 17, 2012 |accessdate=October 6, 2019}} At this time Summer was living in Munich, Germany and singing backup for groups such as Three Dog Night.{{cite news |last=Stevens |first=Jenny |url= https://www.nme.com/news/music/donna-summer-9-1267631 |title=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 'We regret not recognising Donna Summer' |work=NME |date=May 18, 2012 |accessdate=October 6, 2019}} Through her job as a backup singer she met Moroder and before long he started using her as a lead vocalist. This single also marked the first usage of Summer's stage name (she had previously been credited as Donna Gaines, but had anglicised her married name to Austrian actor Helmut Sommer).{{cite news |last=Weinraub |first=Bernard |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/books/for-disco-s-first-diva-it-s-still-not-last-dance.html |title=For Disco's First Diva, It's Still Not Last Dance |work=The New York Times |date=November 11, 2003 |accessdate=October 6, 2019}} It was released in The Netherlands, Belgium, and France in 1974, but did not make any particular impact on the chart. The B-side, "Something's in the Wind", would, in 1977, be re-worked into the single, "Back in Love Again", which would become a top-40 UK hit. Both sides of this single now appear on the CD compilation "Giorgio Moroder - Vol. 2-On The Groove Train 1974-85"