Sunset People

{{Infobox song | name = Sunset People | cover = Sunset_People_(Germany).jpg | alt = | caption = Front sleeve of the German 7-inch vinyl release | type = single | artist = Donna Summer | album = Bad Girls | B-side = Our Love | released = July 11, 1980 | recorded = 1978–1979 | studio = | venue = | genre = * Disco<ref name= "Echols 2010">{{cite book|first=Alice|last=Echols|title=Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture|chapter= Ladies' Night: Women and Disco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzrvOAA2tvAC|date=March 29, 2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-06675-3|page=116}}</ref> * hi-NRG<ref name= "Echols 2010"/> | length = * 6:27 (album version) * 3:55 (7" edit) | label = Casablanca | writer = * Pete Bellotte * Harold Faltermeyer * Keith Forsey | producer = * Giorgio Moroder * Pete Bellotte | prev_title = On the Radio | prev_year = 1979 | next_title = Our Love | next_year = 1980 }}

"'''Sunset People'''" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her seventh studio album ''Bad Girls'' (1979). It was released as a single in some countries in 1980.

==Overview== ''Bad Girls'', released on Casablanca Records in the US, had already produced several chart-topping singles for the disco star, but Summer had resigned from the label and taken a lawsuit against them. She had since signed to Geffen Records and was getting ready to release her first album with them (which had moved away from the disco sound). The single was not released in the North American market because of ongoing litigation.<ref>{{cite web|first=Craig|last=McLean|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3554408/Donna-Summer-too-hot-to-handle.html|title=Donna Summer: too hot to handle|website=The Telegraph|date=13 June 2008|access-date=March 8, 2023}}</ref>

The song was also used for the unsold 1985 game show pilot called ''Split Decision'' hosted by Jim McKrell.

==Critical reception== Stephen Holden, in his review of the album ''Bad Girls'' for Rolling Stone, noted a large social subtext in the song, which describes the whole truth about the nightmarish underside of the glamorous world of Hollywood, about the inhabitants of the Sunset Strip at night.<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Holden|title=Donna Summer: Bad Girls : Music Reviews|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=March 8, 2023|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/donnasummer/albums/album/233978/review/5946581/bad_girls|date=July 12, 1979|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013205421/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/donnasummer/albums/album/233978/review/5946581/bad_girls|archive-date=October 13, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Chart positions== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+ Chart performance for "Sunset People" ! scope="col"| Chart (1980) ! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position |- {{single chart|Dutch100|42|artist=Donna Summer|song=Sunset People|rowheader=true|access-date=March 8, 2023}} |- ! scope="row"| Netherlands (Tipparade)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.top40.nl/tipparade/1980/week-29|title=Tipparade-lijst van week 29, 1980|publisher=Dutch Top 40|language=nl|access-date=March 8, 2023}}</ref> | 14 |- {{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|46|artist=Donna Summer|artistid=16574|rowheader=true|access-date=March 8, 2023}} |- {{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|1|artist=Donna Summer|rowheader=true|access-date=July 17, 22}} |- |}

==Cover versions== The song was covered by E. G. Daily in 1985 for her debut album ''Wild Child''.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000746923|title=Wild Child Review|last=Henderson|first=Alex|access-date=March 8, 2023}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Discogs master|86784|Sunset People|type=single}}

Category:1979 songs Category:1980 singles Category:Donna Summer songs Category:E. G. Daily songs Category:Songs written by Harold Faltermeyer Category:Songs written by Pete Bellotte Category:Casablanca Records singles Category:Songs written by Keith Forsey Category:Hi-NRG songs Category:Song recordings produced by Giorgio Moroder