Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies
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Warner Bros. Records – BS 2685 |
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Country: |
US |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Horror Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | Hello Hooray | 4:14 | |
| A2 | Raped And Freezin' | 3:15 | |
| A3 | Elected | 4:05 | |
| A4 | Billion Dollar Babies | 3:39 | |
| A5 | Unfinished Sweet | 6:17 | |
| B1 | No More Mr. Nice Guy | 3:05 | |
| B2 | Generation Landslide | 4:31 | |
| B3 | Sick Things | 4:18 | |
| B4 | Mary Ann | 2:19 | |
| B5 | I Love The Dead | 5:08 |
Companies, etc.
- Produced For – Nimbus 9 Productions Limited
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Record Company – Warner Bros. Inc.
- Published By – Ezra Music
- Published By – WB Music Corp.
- Recorded At – Alice Cooper Mansion
- Recorded At – Morgan Studios
- Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
- Mastered At – Master Cutting Room
Credits
- Design Concept [Album] – Pacific Eye & Ear
- Engineer – Shelly Yakus
- Management – Alive Enterprises, Inc.
- Mastered By – George Marino
- Photography By – Neal Preston
- Producer – Bob Ezrin
Notes
First press on green WB label.
Embossed gatefold cover. Has set of cards perforated on inside of gatefold. Comes with a billion dollar banknote foldout and a printed inner sleeve with lyrics.
Produced by Bob Ezrin for Nimbus Nine Productions, Ltd.
An Alive Enterprises, Inc., Production
Recorded At:
The Cooper Mansion, Greenwich, Conn. August and October 1972
Morgan Studios, London, England December 1972
Record Plant, New York, N.Y. December 1972, January 1973
Mastering At:
The Cutting Room, New York, N.Y.
Track A4: Donovan appears through the courtesy of Epic Records.
Embossed gatefold cover. Has set of cards perforated on inside of gatefold. Comes with a billion dollar banknote foldout and a printed inner sleeve with lyrics.
Produced by Bob Ezrin for Nimbus Nine Productions, Ltd.
An Alive Enterprises, Inc., Production
Recorded At:
The Cooper Mansion, Greenwich, Conn. August and October 1972
Morgan Studios, London, England December 1972
Record Plant, New York, N.Y. December 1972, January 1973
Mastering At:
The Cutting Room, New York, N.Y.
Track A4: Donovan appears through the courtesy of Epic Records.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Rights Society: ASCAP
- Matrix / Runout (Matrix Side A): S40,396
- Matrix / Runout (Matrix Side B): S40,397
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): BS-2685 A 40396 -4B
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): BS-2685 B 40397-4C
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): BS-2685 A 40396 -4E
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): BS-2685 A 40396 -4E
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 3): BS-2685 40396-4F
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): BS-2685 40397-4D
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 4): BS-2685 40396-4E
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 4): BS-2685 40397-4D
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 5): BS-2685 A 40396 -4B
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 5): BS-2685 B 40397 - 4A
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 6): BS-2685 A 40396 - 4E
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 6): BS-2685 B 40397 - 4D
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 8): BS-2685 A 40396 -4B 8 (faint, at 12 o'clock )
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 8): 52 BS-2685 B 40396 -4B AZ (faint, at 12 o'clock )
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 10): BS-2685 A 40396 -4B
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 10): BS-2685 B 40397 -4B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 12): BS-2685 40396-4F
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 12): BS-2685 40397-4E
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 13): BS-2685 A 40396-4A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 13): BS-2685 B 40397-4C
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 14): BS-2685 40396-4G
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 14): BS-2685 40397-4D
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Billion Dollar Babies (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Warner Bros. Records | WB 56 013 | 1973 | |||
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Billion Dollar Babies (LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold) | Warner Bros. Records | K56013, K 56013 | UK | 1973 | ||
| Billion Dollar Babies (LP, Album, Gatefold) | Warner Bros. Records | BS 2685 | Canada | 1973 | |||
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Billion Dollar Babies (Cassette, Album) | Warner Bros. Records | WB 456 013 | 1973 | |||
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Billion Dollar Babies (LP, Album) | Warner Bros. Records | WEA 10505 | Colombia | 1973 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Five stars for the music, three for the mastering. A rather lackluster EQ that lacks imaging and separation. A bit shrill on the highs though has some decent though modest low end. Midrange tepid. I much prefer the Chris Bellman 2024 cut lacquer. [Tech specs in my profile]. -
Great album with some amazing songs. Mine has quite a bit of surface noise but it’s in ok condition. Even with that it’s still an awesome album. What a unique cover as well.
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Edited 3 years agoWow, what a superb early Alice Cooper album, '73 pressing. Side A has some terrific songs, but side B is even better. Great consistency in writing and you can hear input by Dick Wagner and others. Mellow rock, theatrical sound.
Recording is super clean with great natural sounding instruments. Drums are pretty mellow throughout, low energy, but still sounds very natural.
Great pressing. Includes $1B bill poster, no trading cards, though.
Recommended. -
One of my all time favorite Alice Cooper albums. I found this original pressing with the gate fold and giant billion dollar bill at a antique store for $10. Great condition too -
According to the documentary "Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon " - The baby used in the main gatefold photoshoot, died a crib death, a few months later after the photo was produced. -
My version seems to be a variant of this. Olive labels (exactly the same as shown on this version) with a variant of the matrix that says SIDE I: BS-2685 40396-4E SIDE II: BS-2685 40397-4E
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Can't find my version... Olive labels, with etchings similar to first press.
Side I: BS-2685 T 40396-1F
Side II: BS-2685 T 40397-1F
Help would be appreciated.
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