Bad Girls (Donna Summer album)

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Bad Girls
R&B
  • rock[1]
    • Length71:28
    LabelCasablanca
    Producer
    Donna Summer chronology
    Live and More
    (1978)     		Bad Girls
    (1979)     		On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II
    (1979)
    Singles from Bad Girls
    1. "Hot Stuff"
      Released: April 13, 1979
    2. "Bad Girls"
      Released: June 23, 1979
    3. "Dim All the Lights"
      Released: October 5, 1979
    4. "Sunset People"
      Released: July 11, 1980
    5. "Our Love"
      Released: August 22, 1980
    6. "Walk Away"
      Released: September 1, 1980

    Bad Girls is the seventh

    Universal Music
    re-issued Bad Girls as a digitally remastered and expanded deluxe edition.

    Bad Girls reached the top of the US

    Disco Top 80 for seven weeks from May 26 to July 7, 1979.[2] It contained the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls", and the number-two hit "Dim All the Lights
    ".

    Summer became the first female artist to have two songs in the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 when during the week of June 30, 1979, "Hot Stuff" fell to number two and "Bad Girls" rose to number three.

    Bad Girls was certified

    Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and "Bad Girls" was nominated for Best Disco Recording
    .

    Bad Girls is considered one of the greatest

    Queen of Disco pulls out all the stops for an album that sums up Seventies radio, from ladies-choice smooch jams to filthy funk."[4] In a BBC Music review of the album, Daryl Easla wrote, "Bad Girls is a fantastic reminder of when [Summer] was the Britney, Christina, Mary J and Missy of her day all rolled into one."[5] Part of the song "Our Love", also available as a B-side, was copied by New Order on Blue Monday.[6]

    "I have a fantasy about rerecording that whole album," said singer Maria McKee. "It's fabulous."[7]

    Background

    Having made her name in the preceding years as "the queen of disco," Summer set to work on her new album with long-time partners

    Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and became popular again in the 1990s when it was featured in The Full Monty and again in the film The Martian. "Dim All the Lights
    " was the third single and also became a huge hit, peaking at number two in the U.S.

    Release and reception

    Professional ratings
    Review scores
    SourceRating
    Yahoo! Music
    		favorable[16]

    Bad Girls was universally acclaimed by music reviews. As well as the winner of the aforementioned

    Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The album was also nominated for "Favourite Pop/Rock Album" at the American Music Awards of 1980. The single took an American Music Award for "Favorite Pop/Rock Single", while Summer took awards for "Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist" & "Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist". In 2020, the album was ranked at 283 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.[17]

    Bad Girls would be Summer's final studio album for

    Universal Music
    , owners of the Casablanca/PolyGram back catalogue since 1998, re-issued Bad Girls as a digitally remastered and expanded deluxe edition.

    Commercial performance

    The album was certified double platinum for sales in excess of 2 million copies in the U.S. on December 1, 1993 (double albums are certified per disc by the

    RIAA rather than per complete unit). It also became her second consecutive number-one album in the U.S., also spending three weeks at number one in Canada on the RPM 100 national albums chart.[18] It has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.[19]

    Track listing

    All tracks produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte except "My Baby Understands" by Donna Summer and Juergen Koppers.

    Side one
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    1."
    Joe "Bean" Esposito
  • Edward "Eddie" Hokenson
    		• 4:55
    3."Love Will Always Find You"
    • Bellotte
    • Moroder
    		3:59
    4."Walk Away"
    • Bellotte
    • Faltermeyer
    		4:27
    Total length:18:35
    Side two
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    5."Dim All the Lights"Summer4:40
    6."Journey to the Center of Your Heart"
    • Bellotte
    • Moroder
    		4:36
    7."One Night in a Lifetime"
    • Bellotte
    • Faltermeyer
    		4:12
    8."Can't Get to Sleep At Night"
    		4:45
    Total length:18:13
    Side three
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    9."On My Honor"
    • Summer
    • Faltermeyer
    • Bruce Sudano
    		3:34
    10."There Will Always Be a You"Summer5:07
    11."All Through the Night"
    		6:01
    12."My Baby Understands"Summer4:03
    Total length:18:45
    Side four
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    13."Our Love"
    • Summer
    • Moroder
    		4:51
    14."Lucky"
    • Summer
    • Moroder
    • Esposito
    • Hokenson
    • Sudano
    		4:37
    15."Sunset People"
    • Bellotte
    • Faltermeyer
    • Forsey
    		6:27
    Total length:15:55
    Deluxe edition — Disc 1 (bonus track)
    No.TitleProducer(s)Length
    16."Bad Girls" (demo version)Summer4:00
    Total length:75:28
    Deluxe edition — Disc 2: 12" Singles & More
    No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
    1."
    Thank God It's Friday)
    		Paul Jabara 8:11
    3."MacArthur Park Suite" ("MacArthur Park"/"One of a Kind"/"Heaven Knows"/"MacArthur Park (Reprise)")
    		 17:35
    4."Hot Stuff" (Alternate Version)
    • Bellotte
    • Faltermeyer
    • Forsey
    		 6:47
    5."Bad Girls" (Alternate Version)
    • Summer
    • Esposito
    • Hokenson
    • Sudano
    		 4:57
    6."Walk Away" (Alternate Version)
    • Bellotte
    • Faltermeyer
    		 7:16
    7."Dim All the Lights (Alternate Version)"Summer 7:14
    8."No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand)
    • Roberts
    • Jabara
    		Gary Klein11:44
    9."On the Radio" (long version; from the original soundtrack Foxes)
    • Moroder
    • Summer
    		Moroder7:35
    Total length:79:31

    Personnel

    Musicians

    • Donna Summer – lead and background vocals, composition, production
    • Giorgio Moroder – bass guitar, synthesizer, guitar, composition, production
    • Pete Bellotte – bass guitar, composition, production
    • Harold Faltermeyer – bass guitar, composition, drums, keyboards, synclavier
    • Bruce Sudano – synthesizer, composition
    • Joe Esposito – background vocals, composition
    • Keith Forsey – background vocals, drums, percussion, composition
    • Jeff Baxter – guitar (solo on "Hot Stuff")
    • Bob Conti – percussion, composition
    • Edward "Eddie" Hokenson – composition
    • Pamela Quinlan – background vocals
    • Jai Winding – piano
    • Keb' Mo
      – guitar
    • Al Perkins – steel guitar
    • Sid Sharp – strings
    • Scott Edwards, Scott Lipsker, Bob Glaub – bass guitar
    • Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Steve Madaio – trumpet
    • Gary Herbig – saxophone
    • Dick Hyde, Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
    • Stephanie Straill, Julia, Maxine Willard – backing vocals

    Production

    • Producers: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
    • Arranged by: Harold Faltermeyer
    • Recording Engineer: Jürgen Koppers, Steven D. Smith
    • Assistant Engineer: Carolyn Tapp
    • Mixing Engineer: Jürgen Koppers
    • Original Mastering Engineer: Brian Gardner at Allen Zentz Mastering, Hollywood
      • recorded and mixed at Rusk Sound studios, Hollywood; January – March 1979
    • Production manager: Budd Tunick
    • Art direction: Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
    • Design: Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff, Jeri McManus
    • Photography: Harry Langdon Jr.

    Charts

    Certifications and sales

    Region Certification Certified units/sales
    Canada (Music Canada)[43] 2× Platinum 200,000^
    France — 200,000[44]
    Germany — 250,000[45]
    Greece (IFPI Greece)[46] Gold 50,000^
    New Zealand (RMNZ)[47] Gold 7,500^
    United Kingdom (BPI)[48] Silver 60,000^
    United States (RIAA)[49] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^
    Summaries
    Worldwide — 4,000,000[19]

    ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

    See also

    • List of number-one albums of 1979 (U.S.)
    • List of number-one R&B albums of 1979 (U.S.)

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