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"Hot Stuff" is a hit single released by American disco singer Donna Summer in 1979 as the first single release from her Bad Girlsalbum through Casablanca Records. Up to that point, Summer had mainly been associated with disco songs but this song also showed significant rock influences including the guitar, which had never been used in a Donna Summer single before. In fact the very intricate solo was played by Ex Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.

"Hot Stuff" would also win Summer the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, making not only the first African-American artist to achieve that feat, but also the first woman to ever win a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance. It is ranked #103 on the Rolling Stonemagazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The songs also lists at #67 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.[1]

The track was covered in 1995 by DJ Miko, giving the tune a contemporary dance music twist, and later partially covered by The Pussycat Dolls in their 2005 debut album PCD. The verses (which were slightly altered) and the overall sound of the song are from Siobhan Fahey's "Bitter Pill", but with the chorus of Summer's "Hot Stuff" and it was renamed it "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)". For the build up of the 1998 FA Cup final, Arsenal covered the song, using samples from the original, and replacing some lyrics, with descriptions of the squad, who were to play in the final. Still in 1998 Mietta recorded an Italian language "Hot Stuff (Musica che scoppia)" for her album La mia anima.

The most recent artist to cover the song is EliZe, a Dutch popstar. Her version was released in September 2008 and is currently charting on various charts in Europe.

Allison Iraheta sang this song on American Idol Season 8 on Disco Week.

The song was memorably featured in the popular 1997 film The Full Monty. During a press event on his 50th birthday, Charles, Prince of Wales helped recreate the scene in which the four main characters overhear the song while waiting in line at the unemployment office.

The song is also featured prominently in an episode of the British mystery television series Jonathan Creekin the episode Angel Hair where it is sung by Caroline Carver who plays popstar Sally Ellen Oakley. It also forms a part of the soundtrack of the movie Eurotrip.

Steve Allen did a "poetic" reading of "Hot Stuff" on one of his 1980 television shows, along the lines of his "poetic" readings of rock and roll songs he had done in the 1950s. At one point, Allen solemnly intoned, "Hot, hot, hot . . . stuff, stuff, stuff."

In 1981, it was adapted to a TV commercial in Australia advertising the Four'N Twenty Pie.

Professional Wrestler Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert used it as his theme song throughout the years til his passing in 1995.

The song appears on the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2.

"Hot Stuff" is the background song in Episode 31 of Sex and the Cityin which Carrie Bradshaw is a guest celebrity judge on Staten Island for the New York City Fire Department's "Calendar Contest". "Bad Girls" is then played as the female characters dance afterwards.

The song was performed by Roselyn Sánchez for the 2003 TV special The Disco Ball.

Hot stuff was certified Platinum by the RIAA and remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three non-consecutive weeks. The songs also lists at #67 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.[2] The song also topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, with Summer's follow-up "Bad Girls" as a double A-side. The popular 12" single edition of the song plays the full 6:47 version of the song and then segues into "Bad Girls" 4:55 version.

Lady of the Night(1974) · Love to Love You Baby(1975) · A Love Trilogy(1976) · Four Seasons of Love(1976) · I Remember Yesterday(1977) · Once Upon A Time(1977) · Bad Girls(1979) · The Wanderer(1980) · I'm a Rainbow(1981) · Donna Summer(1982) · She Works Hard for the Money(1983) · Cats Without Claws(1984) · All Systems Go(1987) · Another Place and Time(1989) · Mistaken Identity(1991) · Christmas Spirit(1994) · Crayons(2008)

Live and More(1978) · Live & More Encore(1999)

On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2(1979) · The Summer Collection: Greatest Hits(1985) · The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles(1987) · The Donna Summer Anthology(1993) · Endless Summer(1994) · The Ultimate Collection(2003) · The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer(2003) · Gold(2005)

"Love to Love You Baby"  · "I Feel Love"  · "I Love You"  · "Last Dance"  · "MacArthur Park"  · "Heaven Knows"  · " Hot Stuff "  · "Bad Girls"  · "Dim All the Lights"  · "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"  · "On the Radio"  · "Walk Away"  · "The Wanderer"  · "Cold Love"  · "Who Do You Think You're Foolin'"  · "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)"  · "The Woman in Me"  · "She Works Hard for the Money"  · "There Goes My Baby"  · "This Time I Know It's for Real"