Donna Summer — Bad Girls
Bad Girls · 1979
Label: Casablanca · Genre: Disco / Disco / Hi-NRG · Country: USA · From: Los Angeles, North America
Donna Summer recorded Bad Girls in 1979 as a double album across four sides of vinyl — fifteen tracks produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte in Los Angeles. Hot Stuff, the lead single, was unlike anything she had recorded before: a rock guitar riff from ex-Doobie Brother Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter slammed into a four-on-the-floor disco pulse, and it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The title track followed it straight to the top. Bad Girls was the fourth best-selling album of 1979 in the United States, and it remains the most complete document of what peak-era disco sounded like when its most commanding voice was given a double album and a budget to match her ambition.
Did you know: Hot Stuff featured a guitar solo from Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, who had previously played for Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers — making it one of the few disco records built around a rock studio guitarist rather than a session player.
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