How do you follow up a monumental genre defining hit like `Love to love you baby'?

The answer is with the gold certified `A love trilogy'. Full of everything that made disco; strings, horns, bass, rich percussion, and a sexy voice. Everything but the glittery disco ball.

Opening cut `Try me' was loosely split into four sections; the breathy `Try me' with Donna's cooing hitting stratospheric notes and that distinctive guitar riff, `I know' sung in a slightly lower, sexier register, a wonderful musical bridge links to `We can make it' with a lovely simple keyboard bit and sung in her real voice before returning to falsetto on `Try me I know we can make it'. A charming multi style suite!

Side 2 (on the original vinyl LP) opened with the 1 minute `Prelude to love', a breathy spoken piece with lush, dramatic strings.

Next was the albums biggest hit, her cover of the Barry Manilow song `Could it be magic. This starts off with Donna singing in a lazy yearning version of her real voice. The strings are awesome, and there are lots of sensual moans and gasps. The final 1 and a half minutes is climatic with dreamy sounding backing vocals, magical keyboards and Donna's voice floating above it all. This song, along with `Try me' are still major crowd pleasers at her concerts.

`Wasted' has a funky R&B feel, with Donna cooing in her falsetto to a melancholic musical backdrop replete with harps and sweeping cutting strings. The percussion on this song is really rich, tiny details that set the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team apart from the others. The final 1 minute musical outro of the song is simply outstanding. Great keyboards.

Closing is my favourite track. `Come with me'. Again, sung in her lazy, yearning voice. Very dreamy sounding and again, richly textured; guitars, horns, strings and excellent percussion. Great OO-OO-OO backing vocals. Very catchy upbeat song about desire.

A magical, musical journey into disco from the queen which like the album photo will take you for a ride above the clouds.

After her first Casablanca album, Love To Love You Baby sold gold, Donna Summer followed up that success quickly with another album; "A Love Trilogy". This album contains the surprise hit "Could It Be Magic". This revved up Barry Manilow song unmasked the Diva behind the novelty singer. of course there's some Love To Love You-ish songs on the album for the fans who came back for more; the long playing "Try me I Know We Can Make It" and the techno tune, "Wasted". Both songs are forerunners of "I Feel Love". Moroder & Bellote's symphonic arrangements make for a lush backdrop to this trilogy. Donna belts it out on the final siren song "Come With me". The album is a delight.

Enough of how this album became my initiation into a lifetime of Donna Summer fandom. This album is the bridge from sexual overdrive enrapturing Love To Love You Baby (and the Pillow Talk, Midnight At The Oasis, and other breathy swoons of the day) to the land of the mainstream disco. While still breathing and moaning in trademark fashion throughout the album, Donna has the guts to take on a cover of Manilow's Could It Be Magic, something lesser artists wouldn't dare do with material of such iconic status. And by doing it, Donna surpasses Barry and lets us hear her cut loose with all of her voice at the end of the song. Try Me...Suite on Side 1 was so good that it, along with Could...was chosen for the soundtrack of the infamous "Looking For Mr. Goodbar." In fact, I think Could... is playing when Diane Keaton's character meets her demise. The long first side suite set the tone for many to follow including Carol Douglas, Marlena Shaw, and countless others who learned that this tactic ensured their play time and exposure at the disco. This album is so good that it was hard for me to wrench it out of my mother's hands as a teenager...she was hell bent on playing it to motivate her doing housework. The cover art was revisited in her 1996 tour, and the expression is one that Donna still gets on her face today. True artistry. All cuts romantic, sensual and A+++. A logical foundation to build her next concept albums from in its mini-concept seduction theme.

This album contains the full uncut version of Barry Manilows' "Could it Be Magic." This album is one of the

few that sets the tone for the Disco Age..This was cutting

edge when new..the new sound we hoped would last forever..Donnas'voice does'nt really get a work out here

but it is very good disco music..

I have to say each and every one of these songs are fantastic. I can listen to Try Me, I Know We Can Make It over and over, thus in my opinion is the best track on the album. I have to warn you though, buy this album if 1. You love Donna Summer 2. You love disco. 3. You love Giorgio Moroder. Otherwise don't buy it.