"Bad Girls" | ||||
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Single by Donna Summer | ||||
from the album Bad Girls | ||||
B-side | "On My Honor" | |||
Released | June 23, 1979 | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Studio | Rusk Sound Studios (Los Angeles, California) | |||
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Length | 4:55 | |||
Label | Casablanca | |||
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"Bad Girls" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer from her 1979 seventh studio album of the same name. Casablanca Records released it as the album's second single on June 23, 1979. The song was produced by Summer's regular collaborators Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and co-written by Summer and the members of Brooklyn Dreams, Bruce Sudano, Joe "Bean" Esposito and Edward "Eddie" Hokenson.
"Bad Girls" was a massive success, peaking within the Top 10 of the charts in seven countries, including New Zealand and Spain. In the United States, it spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, from the weeks of July 14 to August 11, 1979, and sold over two million copies, simultaneously becoming, alongside "Hot Stuff", her most successful single. It helped the Bad Girls album to reach multi-platinum status in the United States.
Bad Girls added rock to Summer's dance-oriented palette via the title track...
...it's a big, funky stomper with riotous horn blasts and whistle-blasts and squelchy guitars.