Donna Summer - Bad Girls (Casablanca Records 1979)

"Bad Girls" is a song by American singer Donna Summer, co-written by Summer and the Brooklyn Dreams. The song hit the spot on the Billboard pop, R&B and disco singles charts simultaneously becoming, alongside "Hot Stuff", her most successful single. Bad Girls the single, spent 5 weeks on the top of the "Hot 100 chart" and sold over 2 millions copies in the US. The song helped the album of the same name to reach the multi-platinum status in the United States. A 12" single of the song was released as a medley with "Hot Stuff". Although "Hot Stuff" was extended for the 12" single, "Bad Girls" remained in the 4:55 album version. A "Bad Girls" 12" single with a time of 6:55 was produced but never released commercially. A demo version of the song was released on the "Deluxe Edition" of the "Bad Girls" CD. Bad Girls is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer, released in April 25, 1979 on Casablanca Records. Originally issued as a double album, it incorporates such musical styles as pop, disco, soul, rock, funk and country . Bad Girls became the best-selling album of Summer's career, achieving double platinum sales certification in the United States. LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following. Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bad girls Talking about the sad girls Sad girls Talking about bad girls, yeah See them out on the street at night, walkin' Picking up on all kinds of strangers If the price is right You can't score if you're pocket's tight But you want a good time You ask yourself Who they are Like everybody else They come from near and far Bad girls Talking about the sad girls, yea Sad girls Talking about bad girls, yeah Friday night and the strip is hot Sun's gone down and they're out to trot Spirit's high and legs look hot Do you want to get down Now don't you ask yourself Who they are Like everybody else They want to be a star Bad girls Sad girls You're such a dirty bad girl (repeat) Beep beep uh uh Now you and me we're both the same But you call yourself by different names Now your mama won't like it when she finds out Her girl is out at night Bad girls Sad girls You're such a dirty bad girl Beep beep uh uh You Bad girls You Sad girls You're such a dirty bad girl Beep beep uh uh Hey, Mister, have you got a dime Mister, do you want to spent some time, oh, yeah I got what you want, you got what I need I'll be your baby, come and spend it on me Bad girls Bad girls Talking aboud bad girls Sad girls