Published by Casablanca Records, Hollywood, 1979
Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Manuscript / Paper Collectible First Edition
Softcover. First Edition. 20" x 16." Production proof of Summer's seventh [7th] studio album, released on April 25, 1979, by Casablanca Records. Bad Girls is widely considered one of the greatest disco albums and became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Summer's career. It reached the top of the U.S. Billboard 200, where it stayed for six weeks and contained the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls", and the number-two hit "Dim All the Lights."Bad Girls was universally acclaimed and was certified platinum?now double platinum?by the Recording Industry Association of America [RIAA] within just a week of its release. At the 1980 Grammy Awards, Bad Girls was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and "Hot Stuff" won Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Additionally, "Dim All the Lights" was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and "Bad Girls" was nominated for Best Disco Recording. Very Good with a few short closed tears at the edges.