Donna Summer ~ Bad Girls 1979 Disco Purrfection Version

Donna’s career was on the upswing when she scored her first #1 pop hit with a disco version of the 60’s “MacArthur Park“ spent three weeks at the top. She was acutely aware of the trends in music and felt that her next album should be more rock influenced to separate herself from the plague of unimaginative soundalike productions that used the same formula as “MacArthur Park“. The first song she wrote was “Bad Girls“ which Casablanca President Neil Bogart suggested she hand off to Cher which Donna adamantly refused to do and held her ground. She had written “Bad Girls“ after her secretary told her that on her way to her lunches she was approached by men looking for sex on Sunset Blvd where Casablanca Records was located. “I guess because my secretary was black, they accosted her and harassed her, it really upset me.“ she said and turned it into disco gold! She went into the studio jamming with the band ad libbing and they completed &q