"Lady of the Night" is a song recorded by American singer

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for her self-titled debut

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. The song was written by

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and

Pete Bellotte Peter John Bellotte (born 28 August 1943)Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Index ...

and produced by the latter. The song was released as the second single from the album in November 1974. The song "Wounded" was used as the B-side. In the Netherlands, "Lady of the Night" reached the fourth place. In 1975, the song was released in West Germany, Austria and Belgium, in the latter countries the song also managed to get into the top ten.

Critical reception

Christian John Wikane from ''

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'' noted that the song featured Summer's bell-clear belt ringing high above the

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-styled wall of sound. '' GQs David Levesley, when compiling a list of Donna Summer's "songs that changed the way we dance", placed the song in second place and described it as "stone-cold objective bop" and added that "it's so Frankie Valli and yet has a sensibility completely different from anything you'd have found on

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