Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Donna Summer (vocals); Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar); Al Perkins (pedal steel guitar); Gary Herbig (saxophone); Steve Madaio, Jerry Hey (trumpet); Slide Hyde (trombone); Jai Winding (piano); Harold Faltermeyer (keyboards, synthesizer, bass); Bob Gaudio (bass); Keith Forsey (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Rusk Sound Studio, Los Angeles, California.
BAD GIRLS: DELUXE EDITION contains a remastered BAD GIRLS plus a bonus disc of 12" singles.
Personnel includes: Donna Summer (vocals); Brooklyn Dreams (vocals); Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Jay Graydon, Paul Jackson, Jr., Ben Benay (guitar); Al Perkins (pedal steel guitar); Gary Herbig (saxophone); Steve Madaio, Jerry Hey, Gary Grant (trumpet); Dick Hyde, Bill Reichenbach (trombone); Harold Faltermeyer, Bruce Roberts (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass); Jai Winding (piano); Greg Mathieson, Don Gregorio (keyboards);Scott Edwards, Bob Glaub, Mike Porcaro (bass); Keith Forsey (drums, percussion); Stephanie Spruill, Maxine L. Willard, Julia Tillman (background vocals).
Producers: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellote, Gary Klein, Bill Levenson.
Recorded at Rusk Sound Studio and Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, California; Musicland Studios and Arco Studios, Munich, Germany; Record Plant Studios, New York, New York between 1977 & 1979.
Personnel: Donna Summer (vocals); Maxine Willard Waters (vocals, background vocals); Barbra Streisand, Brooklyn Dreams (vocals); Jay Graydon, Jeff Baxter (guitar, electric guitar); James Gadson (guitar, drums); Mats Bjrklund, Trevor Veitch, Geoff Bastow, Al Perkins , Paul Jackson, Jr. , Ben Benay (guitar); The Sid Sharp Strings, Sid Sharp (strings); Gary Herbig (flute, saxophone, horns); David Luell, Jon Kip (flute, saxophone); Jerry Hey, Steve Madaio (trumpet, horns); Gary Grant (trumpet); Dick Hyde (trombone, bass trombone); William Frank "Bill" Reichenbach Jr. (trombone, horns); Jack Redmond (trombone); George Bohannon, Denny Christianson (horns); Greg Mathieson (piano, electric piano, keyboards); Harold Faltermeyer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Bruce Roberts (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Jai Winding, Bill Payne (piano); Thor Baldursson (keyboards, Moog synthesizer); Don Gregorio (keyboards); Robert Wedel, Giorgio Moroder (Moog synthesizer); Keith Forsey (drums, percussion); Alan Estes (percussion); Chris Bennett, Luther Waters, Lisa Roberts, Donna Fein, Julia Tillman, Carolyn Dennis, Julia Waters, Alex Brown, Stephanie Spruill (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Jrgen Koppers.
Audio Remixers: Marc Paul Simon; Bobby Guttadaro.
Liner Note Author: Brian Chin .
Recording information: Arco Studios, Munich, Germany (06/1977-03/1979); Music Grinder Studios (06/1977-03/1979); Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany (06/1977-03/1979); Record Plant Studios, New York, NY (06/1977-03/1979); Rusk Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA (06/1977-03/1979); Village Recorders, Los Angeles, CA (06/1977-03/1979); Westlake studios (06/1977-03/1979).
Photographer: Harry Langdon.
Unknown Contributor Role: Bruce Roberts.
Arrangers: Harold Faltermeyer; Thor Baldursson; Greg Mathieson.
Largely regarded as Donna Summer's rock & roll album, thanks to some hot guitars mixed in with the synthesizers, 1979's BAD GIRLS mostly sounds like an indication of the way mainstream pop music would sound in the 1980s. It's hard to imagine Michael Jackson's THRILLER, David Bowie's LET'S DANCE or Madonna's LIKE A VIRGIN without this punchy and enormously successful blend of dancefloor heat, rock & roll cool, and smart pop songwriting.
Starting off with the killer one-two punch of "Hot Stuff" and the title track--possibly Summer's two best songs ever--the rest of the 70-minute-plus CD (originally a double album) features a handful of exceptional, dramatic ballads and some pure dance music in the mode of earlier hits like "I Feel Love." Though the songs are still lengthy, the arrangements are tighter and poppier than before. BAD GIRLS is a disco-rock classic.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 3 Stars - Good

Rolling Stone (8/21/03, p.78) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...[She] was creating a new idea of international pop....Summer and [producer Giorgio] Moroder showed how dance music could kick like the meanest real-time rock & roll....it's just about unimproveable."

Q (11/03, p.138) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[The album] possessed enough strutting pop suss to take it far beyond the dancefloor..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.67) - "[P]ure electronic dance muisc....Disco at its zenith."

Album: Bad Girls [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Hot Stuff
2)	Bad Girls
3)	Love Will Always Find You
4)	Walk Away
5)	Dim All the Lights
6)	Journey to the Center of Your Heart
7)	One Night in a Lifetime
8)	Can't Get to Sleep at Night
9)	On My Honor
10)	There Will Always Be a You
11)	All Through the Night
12)	My Baby Understands
13)	Our Love
14)	Lucky
15)	Sunset People
16)	Bad Girls - (demo version, bonus track)
1)	I Feel Love
2)	Last Dance
3)	Mac Arthur Park Suite: Mac Arthur Park/One of a Kind/Heaven ...
4)	Hot Stuff
5)	Bad Girls
6)	Walk Away
7)	Dim All the Lights
8)	No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
9)	On the Radio

Album: Bad Girls [Deluxe Edition] [Digipak]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Hot Stuff
2)	Bad Girls
3)	Love Will Always Find You
4)	Walk Away
5)	Dim All the Lights
6)	Journey to the Center of Your Heart
7)	One Night in a Lifetime
8)	Can't Get to Sleep at Night
9)	On My Honor
10)	There Will Always Be a You
11)	All Through the Night
12)	My Baby Understands
13)	Our Love
14)	Lucky
15)	Sunset People
16)	Bad Girls - (demo version, bonus track)
1)	I Feel Love
2)	Last Dance
3)	Mac Arthur Park Suite: Mac Arthur Park/One of a Kind/Heaven ...
4)	Hot Stuff
5)	Bad Girls
6)	Walk Away
7)	Dim All the Lights
8)	No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
9)	On the Radio