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She Works Hard for the Money is a Disco act. Their sound grew out of Julio Iglesias. Those roots explain a lot about how She Works Hard for the Money arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Girls Just Want to Have Fun, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Frank Sinatra, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around She Works Hard for the Money, reaching back through Julio Iglesias and forward to Frank Sinatra. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"She Works Hard for the Money" is a song by American singer Donna Summer and the title track from her eleventh studio album of the same name (1983). The song was written by Michael Omartian and Summer, and produced by the former. It was released as the lead single on May 10, 1983 from the album by Mercury Records. It became a hit for Summer, reaching number one for a three-week stay atop the Billboard R&B singles chart, 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. In addition, Summer earned a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 1984 Grammy Awards, where she performed the song live as the opening for the ceremony. It became one of the biggest hits of her career and her biggest hit of the decade.
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She Works Hard for the Money grew out of Julio Iglesias, shares an orbit with Girls Just Want to Have Fun, went on to shape Frank Sinatra. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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