DONNA SUMMER'S NEW RELEASES: BAD GIRLS - DELUXE EDITION

Date of Release: July 29, 2003  - Catalog Number: B0000683-02 - Label: Mercury / Universal

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DONNA SUMMER: BAD GIRLS (DELUXE EDITION - 2003)

Universal Records, through its subsidiary Mercury, re-released, on July 29, 2003, Donna Summer's most acclaimed record: BAD GIRLS, her 1979's 3 million copies sold double album, which was first edited on CD format in 1990 as a single disk. Anyway, the new edition of the album has much more to offer: it's now a 2 CD Deluxe box-set, featuring all the original tracks on CD 1 plus an unreleased demo version of the title track and a bunch of 12" versions of Donna Summer songs from that era on CD 2. All tracks on the box set have received an up-to-date remastering presentation. Without a doubt, this release is a true big deal to every Donna Summer fan. Besides, if it sells well, it can become the first step to a lot of other Deluxe editions of the Diva's classic albums (which would probably include many rare and unreleased tracks). Check out below the full official press release that Mercury/Universal have distributed, plus the 5-star review from Rolling Stone Magazine and the track listing with links to all lyrics on the album: PRESS RELEASE FROM MERCURY / UNIVERSAL Lookin' for Some Hot Stuff Baby? Donna Summer's Disco Classic BAD GIRLS Expanded, Remastered and Reissued in DELUXE EDITION Wednesday July 2, 10:00 am ET LOS ANGELES, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The greatest album of disco, from its greatest diva, has been expanded with 12-inch singles and rarities as well as digitally remastered for a special reissue. Originally one of the great double LPs of all time, even more has now been added for the two-CD DELUXE EDITION of Donna Summer's BAD GIRLS (Mercury/UME), released July 22, 2003. Disc One features the entire remastered 1979 album, which reached double platinum and #1 pop/R&B, including the classic hits "Hot Stuff" (#1 pop/dance, platinum and Grammy winner for Best Rock Female Vocal Performance), "Bad Girls" (#1 pop/dance/R&B, platinum) and "Dim All The Lights" (#2 pop, gold). The added bonus track is the demo of "Bad Girls." Disc Two boasts nine extended versions of not only BAD GIRLS tracks but of Summer's other hits during the period. Released prior to BAD GIRLS were the 12-inch versions of the 1977 techno breakthrough "I Feel Love" (#6 pop/#1 dance, gold); the Grammy- and Oscar-winning "Last Dance," a Top 5 pop/R&B gold hit written for Summer's role in the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday, and "MacArthur Park Suite," the medley which included her first #1 pop single, her gold 1978 cover of Jimmy Webb's epic "MacArthur Park" which drove Live And More to her first #1 album charting, and the gold Top 10 pop/R&B "Heaven Knows." Spun off from BAD GIRLS were the 12-inchers "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Dim All The Lights" and "Walk Away" (Top 40 pop/R&B). With "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and "MacArthur Park," Summer became the first woman to chart three solo #1s during one year. The post-BAD GIRLS tracks are "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," a duet with Barbra Streisand which went gold and #1 pop/dance, and, opening the '80s, the long version of the gold Top 10 pop/dance/R&B "On The Radio," cut for the Foxes soundtrack, which titled her greatest hits package, her third consecutive #1 double album, marking her as the only artist in history with that distinction. But BAD GIRLS was a landmark in more than mere popularity and commercial success. The album was more soulfully sung, with more R&B horns and fewer strings, than previous disco discs. Its definitive production style (from the celebrated Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte), vision of a truly global pop music, and expression of a woman's outspoken, emotional and observant sides (the busiest co-writer is Summer, who wrote three songs solo and co-wrote five others) signaled a new era in music. Though disco's days would end, the inevitable and eventual resurgence of dance music as a cornerstone of global pop would return Summer to dance floor triumphs over and over. Every young diva who has followed, whether from R&B, pop or country, has been influenced by the BAD GIRLS of Summer. BAD GIRLS - DELUXE EDITION - REVIEW FROM ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: In 1977, Donna Summer -- the first no-bullshit soul singer to have an icy, businesslike edge to her voice -- delivered "I Feel Love," one of the greatest, unalloyed disco songs ever. Two years later, Summer transcended her disco origins and stormed the old rock-pop traditions with Bad Girls. The album was more concise and scorching than Summer's earlier work -- particularly the title jam and the Rolling Stones-worthy "Hot Stuff." The general impression at the time was that Summer was assuming a place within the line of red-hot rock-soul belters, but the truth was much more important: Along with her brilliant producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, she was creating a new idea of international pop. Madonna's career without Summer and "Bad Girls"? Unthinkable.  Bad Girls is the first major album to use synthesizer-based disco studio techniques in the service of pop-rock songs. Much of it is played on live instruments; the guitar solo in "Hot Stuff" is as universal as, say, the Lindsey Buckingham riff on Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way." But on uncannily biting and hook-y tunes such as "Can't Get to Sleep at Night," Summer and Moroder showed how dance music could kick like the meanest real-time rock & roll. For years after, an entire commercial strain of rock and pop would obsess about technology in ways that would revolutionize the sound of music, for both good (Duran Duran) and ill (Kajagoogoo).  This reissue contains a companion disc that collects Summer's previous and subsequent hits: the minimalist masterwork "I Feel Love" and the sweet, soaring "On the Radio." Like Bad Girls itself, it's just about unimproveable.  JAMES HUNTER (RS 929, August 21, 2003)   TRACKS & LYRICS (Click on the titles) ALBUM: BAD GIRLS (Casablanca, Original Release:1979)  Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, producers. DISC ONE Hot Stuff (P.Bellotte/H.Faltermeyer/K.Forsey)  Bad Girls (D.Summer/E.Hokenson/B.Sudano/J.Esposito)  Love Will Always Find You (G.Moroder/P.Bellotte)  Walk Away (P.Bellotte/H.Faltermeyer)  Dim All The Lights (D.Summer)  Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart (G.Moroder/P.Bellotte)  One Night In A Lifetime (P.Bellotte/H.Faltermeyer)  Can't Get To Sleep At Night (B.Conti/B.Sudano)  On My Honour (D.Summer/H.Faltermeyer/B.Sudano)  There Will Always Be A You (D.Summer)  All Through The Night (D.Summer/B.Roberts)  My Baby Understands (D.Summer)  Our Love (G.Moroder/D.Summer)  Lucky (G.Moroder/D.Summer/B.Sudano/ J.Esposito/E.Hokenson)  Sunset People (P.Bellotte/H.Faltermeyer/K.Forsey)  Bad Girls (Demo Version) (3:56) DISC TWO (12" versions): 1. I Feel Love 2. Last Dance 3. Mac Arthur Park Suite 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 (Extended "Foxes" version). Important notice regarding the lyrics: The lyrics provided to the songs listed above on DISC TWO are the ones that appear on the original albums by Donna Summer. So, since DISC TWO is sort of a compilation of 12" versions,  there may be some differences between the lyrics and the actual version on the record. BACK TO NEW RELEASES' MAIN PAGE