The Legends Of Music on Instagram: "Donna Summer performing “Last Dance” Live on the 24th of February, 1978 on the Midnight Special Written by Paul Jabara, “Last Dance” was composed for the 1978 movie Thank God It’s Friday. Donna Summer had a role in the movie as Nicole Sims, an aspiring singer who brings an instrumental track of “Last Dance” to a disco in hopes the disc jockey Bobby Speed (Ray Vitte) will play the track and allow her to sing the song. The plot later revealed that after efusing