#ALICE COOPER Billion Dollar Babies 1973

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"MORE TEXTURES AND BOMBAST THAN ACTUAL HARD ROCK, "BDB" IN RETROSPECT IS A STRANGE COLLECTION OF HIGHLY POLISHED PERFORMANCES."

PIC(S) INFO: Relaeased 50 years ago earlier this year -- Spotlight on the "Billion Dollar Babies" LP, the sixth studio album by American rock band ALICE COOPER, and released in March 1973 under the Warner Bros. label. The album became the best selling ALICE COOPER record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the US and the UK, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. 

RECORD OVERVIEW: "If first impressions are key, then the look alone of the "Billion Dollar Babies" LP made it an instant classic. A prime artifact from the days when the music business spent lavishly on complicated and expensive album art, the package was designed like a wallet. Outside was a large gold coin with a baby's head encircled by embossed diamonds against a bright-green snakeskin-patterned background. Inside were pop-out trading cards and an oversized billion-dollar bill picturing the band. The inner sleeve has lyrics on one side and the band, dressed in white, looking hilariously perplexed by their surroundings, petting white rabbits among stacks of paper money while Cooper holds an infant whose eyes are ringed by the same black makeup design he wore onstage.

After the long, wearying struggle to succeed followed by endless touring and boundless adulation, Alice Cooper the band was both peaking and coming apart in 1973. Having recently released "Killer" (1971) with its singles "Be My Lover" and "Under My Wheels," and a follow-up, "School's Out" (1972), whose LP came packaged in a pair of women's panties, conditions were ripe for these early progenitors of shock, schlock, and glam rock to fashion one lasting achievement yet to be.

Guitarists Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce (who also plays keyboards), drummer Neal Smith, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and Vince Furnier (a.k.a. Alice Cooper) recorded BDB from August 1972 through January 1973 at the Cooper Mansion in Connecticut with a mobile recording unit, as well as in Morgan Studios, London, and The Record Plant in New York City. The engineers were Shelly Yakus, Frank Hubach, Robin Black, Peter Flanagan, Jack Douglas, and Ed Sprigg. Guitarists Mick Mashbir, Dick Wagner, and Steve Hunter (the latter two would be prominent in Alice Cooper's solo career) and keyboardist Bob Dolin provided extra support.

More textures and bombast than actual hard rock, BDB in retrospect is a strange collection of highly polished performances. Upon closer listen, piano parts are a subtle but surprisingly essential part of the arrangements. Never loud or overdriven guitars, sometimes keening, aid in the album's high-camp zeitgeist."

-- STEREOPHILE, "ReDiscoveries #5: Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies," by Robert Baird, published May 30, 2023

Sources: www.stereophile.com/content/rediscoveries-5-alice-coopers-billion-dollar-babies, Pinterest, Classic Bands, Wikipedia, various, etc...

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May 2, 2024

Song #84

No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper

It was released in 1973 in their album Billion Dollar Babies

Fun fact: Cooper wrote the song lyrics about the reactions of his mother's church group to his stage performances, saying that there were worse things that he could do with his life, and that the "gloves were off now."

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Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies (Hard Rock, Glam Rock) Released: March 1973 [Warner Bros. Records] Producer(s): Bob Ezrin

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973 - feat. Donovan) Donovan?? Today I learned that the second vocalist in this duet was DONOVAN???? I thought the Oak Ridge Boys singing backup on Jimmy Buffett's "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don't Love Jesus" was weird enough. Donovan though. Soft and mellow Donovan with the soft and mellow voice who wrote soft and mellow songs about soft and mellow subjects? Donovan tearing it up with Alice Cooper?? Not-soft and far-from-mellow ALICE COOPER??? Donovan sounds ten times more unhinged than Alice.

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Alice Cooper: Slick Black Limousine 7” U.K. Flexi-Disc (1973)

Double-sided Flexidisc Given Away With The February 1973 issue of New Musical Express Magazine.

Side Two Comprises Extracts From The Then-Forthcoming LP "Billion Dollar Babies".

Made In England

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies. 25/02/1973.

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«On this date in 1973: On bassist Dennis Dunaway's 25th birthday, the landmark 'Billion Dollar Babies' tour brought the Alice Cooper band and special guests ZZ Top to the Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.»

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Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973) (Full Album)

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April 21st 1973 Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies went to number one on the US album charts.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 6pm ET: Feature LP: Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

Billion Dollar Babies is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in February 23, 1973 by Warner Bros. Records. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on the album charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and went on to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The…

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Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] 2024 Warner ————————————————— Tracks LP One: 01. Hello Hooray 02. Raped and Freezin’ 03. Elected 04. Billion Dollar Babies 05. Unfinished Sweet 06. No More Mr. Nice Guy 07. Generation Landslide 08. Sick Things 09. Mary Ann 10. I Love the Dead

Tracks LP Two: Live 1973 01. Hello Hooray 02. Billion Dollar Babies 03. Elected 04. I’m Eighteen 05. Raped and Freezin’ 06. No More Mr. Nice Guy 07. My Stars 08. Unfinished Sweet 09. Sick Things 10. Dead Babies 11. I Love the Dead

Tracks LP Three: Live 1973 [continued] 01. School’s Out 02. Under My Wheels 03. Coal Black Model T 04. Son of Billion Dollar Babies (Generation Landslide) [outtake] 05. Hello Hooray [single version] 06. Billion Dollar Babies [single version] 07. Elected [single version] 08. Mary Ann [single version] 09. Slick Black Limousine —————————————————

Michael Bruce

Glen Buxton

Alice Cooper

Dennis Dunaway

Neal Smith

* Long Live Rock Archive

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February 26, 1973: The Alice Cooper band released Billion Dollar Babies.

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Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy

This song is from the album “Billion Dollar Babies”

The year is 1973