"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" is a song by American singer
Donna Summer from her third studio
album
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''
A Love Trilogy'' (1976).
Background
Summer's breakthrough had come in the form of the
disco song "
Love to Love You Baby" which in its entirety lasted almost seventeen minutes and took up the entire first side of the
1975 album of the same name. Due to its success (and also its success as a
12-inch single
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) the format was repeated with the next album and with this song which was longer than "Love to Love You Baby", clocking in at eighteen minutes. Edited versions were also released on the
7-inch single format.
Track listing
# "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:14)
# "Wasted" (3:58)
Charts
"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" peaked at number 80 on the US
''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 35 on the
R&B singles chart
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. It was more popular in nightclubs, however, becoming Summer's second number-one single on the
Dance Club Songs chart in May 1976 and remaining atop that chart for three weeks.
It also peaked at number six in Spain
singles charts
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and number 22 in Spain
Radio chart.
Weekly charts
See also
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List of number-one dance hits (United States)
This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by ''Billboard'' magazine's Dance Club Songs chart – a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs. It began on October 26, 1974, under the title ''Disco Action'' chart. It is ...
References
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Donna Summer songs
1976 songs
1976 singles
Songs written by Pete Bellotte
Songs written by Giorgio Moroder
Songs written by Donna Summer
Song recordings produced by Giorgio Moroder
Song recordings produced by Pete Bellotte