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{{Infobox song
| name       = Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
| cover      = Donna Summers Try Me I Know We Can Make It US vinyl.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = U.S. 7-inch vinyl single
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Donna Summer]]
| album      = [[A Love Trilogy]]
| B-side     = Wasted
| released   = March 30, 1976
| recorded   = 1975
| studio     = [[Musicland Studios]]<br />([[Munich]], Germany)
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Disco]]
| length     = 4:14 (single version)<br/>17:57 (Full-length version)
| label      = [[Oasis Records|Oasis]] (United States)<br />[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] (France/Germany)<br />Groovy (The Netherlands)<br />[[Durium Records|Durium]] (Italy)<br />[[Ariola Records|Ariola]] (Spain)
| writer     = {{flatlist|
* [[Giorgio Moroder]]
* [[Pete Bellotte]]
* Donna Summer
}}
| producer   = {{flatlist|
* Giorgio Moroder
* Pete Bellotte
}}
| prev_title = [[Could It Be Magic#Donna Summer cover version|Could It Be Magic]]
| prev_year  = 1976
| next_title = [[Spring Affair]]
| next_year  = 1976
}}

"'''Try Me, I Know We Can Make It'''" is a song by American singer [[Donna Summer]] from her third studio [[album]] ''[[A Love Trilogy]]'' (1976).

==Background==
Donna Summer's breakthrough had come in the form of the [[disco]] song "[[Love to Love You Baby (song)|Love to Love You Baby]]" which in its entirety lasted almost seventeen minutes and took up the entire first side of the [[Love to Love You Baby (album)|1975 album of the same name]]. Due to its success (and also its success as a [[Twelve-inch single|12-inch single]]) the format was repeated with the next album and with this song which was longer than "Love to Love You Baby", clocking in at eighteen minutes. Edited versions were also released on the [[Phonograph record|7-inch single format]].

==Track listing==
# "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (4:14)
# "Wasted" (3:58)

==Charts==
"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" peaked at number 80 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 35 on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B singles chart]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=556}}</ref> It was more popular in nightclubs, however, becoming Summer's second number-one single on the [[Dance Club Songs]] chart in May 1976 and remaining atop that chart for three weeks.<ref>{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=249}}</ref> It also peaked at number six in Spain [[Promusicae|singles charts]] and number 22 in Spain [[Los 40|Radio chart]].<ref name="SSs">{{cite book|author=Fernando Salaverri|title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002|edition=1st|date=September 2005|publisher=Fundación Autor-SGAE|location=Spain|isbn=84-8048-639-2}}</ref>

===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Chart (1976)
!Peak<br />position
|-
{{singlechart|Canadatopsingles|68|artist=Donna Summer|song=Try Me, I Know We Can Make It|accessdate=July 28, 2013|chartid=4289|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{singlechart|Germany|42|artist=Donna Summer|song=Try Me, I Know We Can Make It|accessdate=March 6, 2016|rowheader=true|songid=357451}}
|-
! scope=row | Italy (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite book|last=Racca|first=Guido|title=M&D Borsa Singoli 1960–2019|language=it|date=2019|isbn=9781093264906}}</ref>
| 12
|-
! scope="row"|Mexico (Radio Mil)<ref>{{cite web |title=Billboard Magazine - 19 February 1977 issue |date = 19 February 1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkUEAAAAMBAJ&q=try+me+i+know+we+can+make+it+billboard+mexico&pg=PA58 |access-date=25 April 2021}}</ref>
|align="center"|12
|-
!scope="row"|Portugal (Musica & Som)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WDtz-zIxJ4I/XBlP4b9NgaI/AAAAAAAAMFs/JICvcwSntVMaNJptw4wLmtk44FAXApPsACLcBGAs/s1600/108.jpg|format=JPG|title=Photographic image|website=4.bp.blogspot.com|access-date=May 30, 2023}}</ref>
|align="center"|12
|-
! scope="row"|Spain ([[Productores de Música de España|Promusicae]])<ref name="SSs"/>
|align="center"|6
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|80|artist=Donna Summer|rowheader=true|accessdate=March 6, 2016}}
|-
{{singlechart|Billboarddanceclubplay|1|artist=Donna Summer|rowheader=true|accessdate=March 6, 2016}}
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardrandbhiphop|35|artist=Donna Summer|rowheader=true|accessdate=March 6, 2016}}
|}
===Certifications===
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{{certification Table Entry|region=Philippines&NoBreak;|type=single|title=Could It Be Magic|artist=Donna Summer|award=Gold|relyear=1976|certyear=1977|certref=<ref name=CashBox>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Cash Box]]|volume=39|number=18|date=September 24, 1977|page=57|title=Donna Summer A Hit In Philippines|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1977/CB-1977-09-24.pdf|via=American Radio History}}</ref>|salesamount=60,000|salesref=<ref name=CashBox/>}}
{{Table end}}

==See also==
*[[List of number-one dance hits (United States)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Donna Summer}}
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[[Category:Donna Summer songs]]
[[Category:1976 songs]]
[[Category:1976 singles]]
[[Category:Songs written by Pete Bellotte]]
[[Category:Songs written by Giorgio Moroder]]
[[Category:Songs written by Donna Summer]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Giorgio Moroder]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Pete Bellotte]]