Paul Jabara wrote this for the 1978 movie Thank God It's Friday. The movie takes place at a dance club, and Jabara played the role of Carl, a clueless club patron. The film didn't do nearly as well as Saturday Night Fever, which was released a year earlier and was also centered around a disco. "Last Dance," however, was a huge hit and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Jabara also wrote "It's Raining Men" for The Weathergirls, as well as Barbra Streisand's theme to her 1979 movie The Main Event. Jabara died of AIDS-related causes in 1992 at age 44.
Summer performed this in the movie, which also featured a performance by the Commodores singing "Too Hot Ta Trot." It was Summer's first role in a major motion picture; she played an aspiring young singer named Nicole. In the film, she tries to convince the DJ at a hot nightclub to let her sing. At the end of the night, she gets her chance and performs "Last Dance," knowing it might be her last chance.
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