Bad Girls

"Bad Girls" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer from her 1979 seventh studio album of the same name. Casablanca Records released it as the album's second single on June 23, 1979. The song was produced by Summer's regular collaborators Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and co-written by Summer and the members of Brooklyn Dreams, Bruce Sudano, Joe "Bean" Esposito and Edward "Eddie" Hokenson. "Bad Girls" was a massive success, peaking within the Top 10 of the charts in seven countries, including New Zealand and Spain. In the United States, it spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, from the weeks of July 14 to August 11, 1979, and sold over two million copies, simultaneously becoming, alongside "Hot Stuff", her most successful single. It helped the Bad Girls album to reach multi-platinum status in the United States. Background and recording The inspiration for Summer to write "Bad Girls" came after one of her assistants was offended by a police officer who thought she was a prostitute. A rough version of the song had originally been written a couple of years before its release. Casablanca Records' founder Neil Bogart, upon hearing it, wanted Summer to give it to Cher. Summer refused and put it away for a couple of years. Composition "Toot toot, hey, beep beep", the chanted vocal hook in "Bad Girls" originates from the 1966 Latin boogaloo song "Bang Bang" by the Joe Cuba Sextet. The chant in "Bang Bang" was incorporated into "Bad Girls" after a gig Joe Cuba's sextet played for a black audience that wasn't particularly receptive to mambo or cha-cha-chá; the audience started chanting as the pianist in the group played a riff.