'Billion Dollar Babies', released in 1973, was the most successful album recorded by The Alice Cooper Group. It reached #1 in both the UK and US charts
It is an absolute classic from start to finish, and contains many songs which are still part of the live set
It was also the first album by the band I got!
Alice Cooper - Vocals and Harmonica
Neal Smith - Drums and Vocals
Dennis Dunaway - Bass and Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar ('possibly only on Generation Landslide' but he did the orgasmic vocals on 'I Love The Dead')
Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano and Organ
Bob Ezrin - Keyboards
Mick Mashbir - Guitar
Producer - Bob Ezrin
The opening song is 'Hello, Horray', which is a cover, originally recorded as a folk song by Judy Collins
01/10 - Hello Horray (Kempf)) "Hello! Hooray!
Let the show begin, I've been ready.
Hello! Hooray!
Let the lights grow dim, I've been ready.
Ready as this audience that's coming here to dream.
Loving every second, every moment, every scream,
I've been waiting so long to sing my song
And I've been waiting so long for this thing to come.
Yeah. I've been thinking so long I was the only one.
Roll out, Roll out
With your American dream and its recruits, I've been ready.
Roll out, Roll out
With your circus freaks and hula hoops, I've been ready.
Ready as this audience that's coming here to dream.
Loving every second, every moment, every scream,
I've been waiting so long to sing my song
And I've been waiting so long for this thing to come.
Yeah - I've been thinking so long I was the only one.
I can stand here strong and thin.
I can laugh when this thing begins.
God, I feel so strong.
I feel so strong.
I'm so strong.
I feel so strong.
So strong.
God, I feel so strong,
I am so strong.
(repeat adlib to fade)"
This is followed by Raped and Freezin' (Bruce, Cooper), which is more traditional Alice Cooper
02/10 - Raped And Freezin (Bruce, Cooper) "Finally got a ride, this old broad down from Santa Fe.
She was a real go-getter.
She drawled so sweetly, "I think, child, that things'll get better."
We pulled off the highway, night black as a widow.
"Yeah, I read the Bible," she said, "I wanna know of you."
Hey, I think I got a live one
Hey, I think I found a live one
Hey, Hey, I think I got a live one
Yeah, Yeah, I think I got a live one.
Oh,
Ok boys,
Felt like I was hit by a diesel or a greyhound bus.
She was no baby-sitter.
"Eee, now sugar, never thought you'd be a quitter."
I opened the back door, she was greedy.
I ran through the desert, she was chasin'.
No time to get dressed so I was naked, stranded in Chihuahua.
Hey, I think I got a live one
Hey, yeah I got a live one
Hey, hey, hey, I think I got a live one
Hey, oh, I got a live one
Hey, I think I got a live one
Hey, yeah I got a live one
Hey, hey, hey, I think I got a live one
Hey, oh, I got a live one
Alone, raped and freezin'
Alone cold and sneezin'
Alone down in Mexico
Alone.
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