While working as a model part-time and backing singer in Munich, Summer met Italian-born producer Giorgio Moroder and English-born Pete Bellotte (both based in Germany then) during a recording session for Three Dog Night at Musicland Studios. The trio forged a working partnership, and Donna was signed to their Oasis label in 1974. A demo tape of Summer's work with Moroder and Bellotte led to a deal with the European-distributed label Groovy Records. Due to an error on the record cover, Donna Sommer became Donna Summer; the name stuck. Summer's first album was "Lady of the Night". It became a hit in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Belgium on the strength of two songs, "The Hostage" and the title track "Lady of the Night". "The Hostage" reached the top of the charts in France, but was removed from radio playlists in Germany because of the song's subject matter; a high ranking politician that had recently been kidnapped and held for ransom. One of her first TV appearances was in the television show, "Van Oekel's Discohoek", which started the breakthrough of "The Hostage", and in which she gracefully went along with the scripted absurdity and chaos in the show.