"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" is a song by Donna Summer

Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

 from her Love Trilogy

Love Trilogy

A Love Trilogy is the third album by Donna Summer. It was released on March 5th, 1976, just eight months after her international breakthrough with the single and album of the same name - "Love To Love You Baby". The boldly sexual nature of that particular song had earned Summer the title "The first...

album released in 1976. Summer's breakthrough had come in the form of the disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 song "Love to Love You Baby

Love to Love You Baby (song)

"Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer released in 1975 . It became one of the first ever disco hits to also be released in an extended form.-Song information and original release:...

" which in its entirety lasted almost seventeen minutes and took up the entire first side of the album of the same name. Due to its success (and also its success as a 12" maxi single) the format was repeated with the next album and with this song. In fact, "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" actually lasted even longer than "Love To Love You Baby", clocking in at eighteen minutes. Edited versions were also released on the 7" single format.

The song peaked at number eighty on the American pop chart

Billboard Hot 100

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 and number thirty-five on the soul chart . It was more popular with disco audiences, however, becoming Summer's second number one single on the dance chart

Hot Dance Club Play

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 in May 1976 and remaining atop that chart for three weeks.

Track Listing

U.S. 7" single (Oasis OC 406)

1. "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:14)
2. "Wasted" (3:57)

Germany/France 7" single (Atlantic ATL 10 794)

1. "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:14)
2. "Wasted" (3:58)

Netherlands 7" single (Groovy GR 1221)

1. "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:14)
2. "Wasted" (3:58)

Italy 7" single (Durium DE 2879)

1. "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:15)
2. "Wasted" (3:57)

Spain 7" single (Ariola 16917 A)

1. "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:14)
2. "Wasted" (3:58)

Song in Pop Culture

• The song can be heard in the 1977 film Looking For Mr. Goodbar
  Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)
  Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1977 film written for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, and also features Tom Berenger...