Billion Dollar Babies

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Billion Dollar Babies
Studio album by Alice Cooper
Released	March, 1973
Recorded	August 1972-January 1973
Genre	Hard rock Heavy metal Shock rock Glam rock Detroit rock
Length	40:51
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link PopMatters (Favorable) link Rolling Stone RS 135
Alice Cooper chronology
School's Out (1972)	Billion Dollar Babies (1973)	Muscle of Love (1973)

Billion Dollar Babies is an album by American Hard rock band Alice Cooper, (released in 1973). Widely praised as one of the best Alice Cooper albums, and the peak of their period as a group.

Billion Dollar Babies peaked at #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. The single "Elected" peaked at #26 on the Pop Singles chart.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Remastered Cd Bonus Tracks 3 Personnel 4 Trivia 5 Charting Singles

[edit] Track listing

1. "Hello, Hooray" (Rolf Kempf) – 4:15
2. "Raped and Freezin'" (Alice Cooper/Michael Bruce) – 3:19
3. "Elected" (Cooper/Bruce/Glen Buxton/Dennis Dunaway/Neal Smith) – 4:05
4. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper/Bruce/Reggie Vincent) – 3:43
5. "Unfinished Sweet" (Cooper/Bruce/Smith) – 6:18
6. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Bruce/Cooper) – 3:06
7. "Generation Landslide" (Cooper/Bruce/Dunaway/Smith/Buxton) – 4:31
8. "Sick Things" (Bruce/Cooper/Bob Ezrin) – 4:18
9. "Mary Ann" (Bruce/Cooper) – 2:21
10. "I Love the Dead" (Ezrin/Cooper) – 5:09

[edit] Remastered Cd Bonus Tracks

1. Hello Hooray
2. Billion Dollar Babies
3. Elected
4. Raped And Freezin'
5. No More Mr. Nice Guy
6. My Stars
7. Unfinished Sweet
8. Sick Things
9. Dead Babies
10. I Love The Dead
11. Coal Black Model T
12. Son Of A Billion Dollar Babies
13. Slick Black Limousine

• Track 1 to 10 are recorded live in Houston `73
• Track 11 is an early version of Slick Black Limousine
• Track 12 is and Generation Landslide outtake

[edit] Personnel

• Alice Cooper - vocals
• Glen Buxton - guitar
• Michael Bruce - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Dennis Dunaway - bass, backing vocals
• Neal Smith - drums
• Donovan - vocals on the song "Billion Dollar Babies"
• Marc Bolan - guitar on tracks 1,3,4
• Steve "Deacon" Hunter - guitar
• Mick Mashbir - guitar
• Dick Wagner - guitar
• Bob Dolin - keyboards
• David Libert - vocals
• Bob Ezrin - producer
• Jack Douglas - engineer
• Robin Black - engineer
• Frank Hubach - engineer
• Ed Sprigg - engineer
• Shelly Yakus - engineer
• Peter Flanagan - engineer
• Brian Kehew - editing, remixing
• Pacific Eye & Ear - design concept
• Greg Allen - art direction, design
• Hugh Brown - art direction
• David P. Bailey - photography, cover photo
• Lynn Goldsmith - photography
• Neal Preston - photography
• Lynn Godsmith - photography
• Jo Motta - project coordinator
• Steve Woolard - project coordinator
• Randy Perry - project assistant
• Vanessa Atkins - editorial supervision
• Norma Edwards - editorial research
• Shawn Amos - editorial coordinator

[edit] Trivia

• Alice and the group considered themselves Billion Dollar Babies as the line in Generation Landslide contests: "And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies/ Who never conceived of us Billion Dollar Babies!" They were at the peak of their career, where middle America considered them a threat to their children.
• The name Billion Dollar Babies refers to horror movies where the main evil character is a baby or child. (See: Devil-child movies).
• The name was used by the original members (sans vocalist Alice Cooper) as a band name after leaving (or being fired, depending on who's story you believe) in 1974.
• The Quadraphonic LP release varies not only in the mix, but in song versions used throughout the album. Some of these alternate vesrions also appear on the DVD-A release.
• The title track will be a playable track in the Xbox 360 version of the game Guitar Hero II.

[edit] Charting Singles

• "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (#25)
• "Elected" (#26)
• "Hello Hooray" (#35)
• "Billion Dollar Babies" (#57)