Bad Girls
Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" is perhaps the ultimate CD of it's genre. Summer worked on the CD with Giorgio Moroder, who had produced her earlier disco hits, "Love to Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", and "MacArthur Park". This time around, however,the pair incorporated more musical genres into the mix, fusing Disco with Rock, R&B, and Soul.
The public was introduced to the new CD through the guitar prominant, Disco/Rock track "Hot Stuff". That lead single written by Summer mainstays Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, and Keith Forsey quickly hit #1 in 1979.
"Bad Girls" was released with "Hot Stuff" as a double A side single and also hit #1. This track was written by Summer two years earlier and shelved. Summer revealed in her autobiography that her label wanted her to give the song to Cher. When she passed, they refused to release her version. The track was rediscovered during recording sessions for the album and a new version was produced by Giorgio Moroder.
The third single from the CD was "Dim All the Lights". Summer wrote the song for Rod Stewart but never offered it to him. She recorded her own dance mix and it peaked at #2 on the U.S. Chart.
"Dim All the Lights" was the only single that Donna wrote completely on her own. In an ironic twist, she was deprived of a #1 hit with it because her label prematurely released her next single with Barbra Streisand, "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)", and that song was firmly entrenched in the #1 position.
After the release of "On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Volumes I and II", Donna left her longtime label Casablanca and issued her next CD "The Wanderer" through Geffen. The move prompted Casablanca to mine further singles from "Bad Girls" and "Sunset People" became the fourth release from that earlier album.
The track is prominant in that it is one of the first ever "trance" singles. Many clubs played the entire album B-side with "Our Love", "Lucky" and "Sunset People" in a continuous mix.
"Our Love" was released as a single in some international territories. This twelve inch sold over a million copies.
Later in 1980, Casablanca released "Walk Away" as a fifth single (sixth in some countries). The track was issued to promote the compilation CD of the same name. "Walk Away" peaked at #36 on the Hot 100 and was the final single release from the now classic "Bad Girls" CD.
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