The album concept was to have each track evoke a different musical decade; for "I Feel Love", the team aimed to create a futuristic mood, employing a Moog synthesizer.

"I Feel Love" was released as the B-side to the single "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", which reached number 20 on the US Billboard R&B chart.

"I Feel Love" reached number one in countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and on the UK Singles Chart.

[4] "I Feel Love" became popular during the disco era,[7] influencing acts such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Kylie Minogue, the Human League and Blondie.

[12] For Summer's fifth album, I Remember Yesterday (1977), the production team wanted each track to evoke a different musical decade, such as '40s swing, '60s girl groups, and '70s funk and disco.

[16] "I Feel Love" was the first song to combine repetitive synthesizer loops with a continuous four-on-the-floor bass drum and an off-beat hi-hat, which became a main feature of techno and house music ten years later.

The song was edited to 3:45 on the 7-inch format, the fade-in opening sound reaching maximum volume sooner and fades out before the third verse and final choruses.

According to the singer David Bowie, during the recording of his Berlin Trilogy, his collaborator Brian Eno "came running in" and told him he had heard "the sound of the future".

In the United Kingdom, "I Feel Love" peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart in July 1977, a position it maintained for four weeks.

[23] According to the Official Charts Company, together with digital sales, "I Feel Love" has sold 1.07 million copies in the United Kingdom as of June 2013, making it Britain's 103rd best-selling single of all time.

[25] In a 2017 feature on the song's 40th anniversary for Pitchfork, the journalist Simon Reynolds reflected that "I Feel Love" had a significant impact on music across all genres for the next decade, including rock-leaning genres such as post-punk and new wave, and subsequent sub-genres of the electronic dance music style the song had pioneered, including Hi-NRG, Italo disco, house, techno, and trance.

"[26] In 1996, Mixmag named "I Feel Love" the 12th-greatest dance single, writing: "Whenever, however you hear this tune, it's guaranteed to make you smile, shut your eyes and trance out.

[29]In 2011, The Guardian's Richard Vine ranked the release of "I Feel Love" as one of 50 key events in the history of dance music, writing that it was "one of the first [songs] to fully utilise the potential of electronics, replacing lush disco orchestration with the hypnotic precision of machines".

This timeless, Giorgio Moroder–produced disco anthem from 1977 did exactly that, becoming the first purely electronic jam to make it big and pretty much inventing dance music in the process.

The Patrick Cowley mix was out of print until it was released on the bonus disc of the 2003 UK edition of The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer and the Ben Liebrand compilation album Grand 12-Inches.

The single became a UK number 8 hit,[51] the second time the song had entered the Top 10,[51] and the '95 Radio Edit was later included as a bonus track on PolyGram France's version of the Endless Summer compilation.

[77] James Masterton for Dotmusic complimented the 1995 remix for "not to tinker too much with the near-perfect realisation of the original", stating that it "still sounds as fresh as the day it was made".

[78] Alan Jones from Music Week felt the Masters At Work mixes of the track are "a trifle disappointing", while praising the Rollo & Sister Bliss remix.

"[79] Rupert Howe from NME wrote, "La Summer needs no introduction, 'I Feel Love' being one of the greatest moments in the long and cocaine-riddled history of D-I-S-C-O — a sequins-and-spangles surge of Moroder-produced dancefloor dynamite with a chorus offering more uplift than a wardrobe full of wonderbras.

"[80] The Record Mirror Dance Update stated, "The big guns are brought out to remix the classic disco anthem – Rollo and MAW".

you can't help but love it, and it comes with the added bonus of watching your assorted relatives making a right fool of themselves in the living room.

English electronic duo Messiah released its version of "I Feel Love" in 1992, featuring singer Precious Wilson on vocals.