The song influenced the 1975 [[disco]] classictrack "[[Love to Love You Baby (song)|Love to Love You Baby]]" by singer [[Donna Summer]] and producer [[Giorgio Moroder]].<ref name="vanityfair/2007/11/gainsbourg">{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Lisa |title=The Secret World of Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/11/gainsbourg200711 |access-date=21 November 2022 |work=[[VanityFair.com]] |date=15 October 2007}}</ref><ref name=film>{{cite book|last=Spencer|first=Kristopher|title=Film and television scores, 1950–1979: a critical survey by genre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz2dxDNaEDgC&pg=PA122|year=2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3682-8|page=122}}</ref> In a note to [[Neil Bogart]], producer A. J. Cervantes (son of politician [[Alfonso J. Cervantes]]), who previously worked for [[Casablanca Records]], suggested an idea of [[Donna Summer]] recording the song. Bogart initially rejected the idea.<ref name="Cervantes interview">{{cite interview |subject=A. J. Cervantes |date=15 May 2003 |title=A. J. Cervantes |url=https://www.discomusic.com/26-j-cervantes |interviewer=Bernard F. Lopez |website=DiscoMusic.com }}</ref><ref name="AJ Jr Disco King">{{cite news |first=John M. |last=McGuire |date=21 May 1978 |title=A. J. Jr.: Disco King |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1978-pt11/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1978-pt11-6-3.pdf |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch }} Read by Representative [[Jonathan Brewster Bingham|Jonathan B. Bingham]] on 23 May 1978. pp. 15152–3.</ref>
Cervantes' record label Butterfly Records released the disco rendition as "Je t'aime" by an all-female disco group Saint Tropez in August 1977,<ref name="Cervantes interview"/><ref name="AJ Jr Disco King"/> the first disco rendition of the song,<ref>{{cite book |author1=Alan Jones |author2=Jussi Kantonen |year=2000 |chapter=Hot Shots |title=Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/saturdaynightfor0000jone/page/93 |lccn=00-038065 |page=[https://archive.org/details/saturdaynightfor0000jone/page/93 93] |isbn=1-55652-411-0 |publisher=Chicago Review Press }}</ref> as part of the album of the same name, ''Je T'aime'' (1977). Prompted by the minor success of Saint Tropez, a year later in 1978, Casablanca Records released<ref name="Cervantes interview"/><ref name="AJ Jr Disco King"/> the Summer and Moroder duet rendition of "Je t'aime" in a 15-minute version for the film ''[[Thank God It's Friday (film)|Thank God It's Friday]]''.<ref name=film/> The Summer–Moroder rendition was produced by Moroder and [[Pete Bellotte]].
