| Alicia Bridges | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Alicia Bridges |
| Cover: | Alicia Bridges (album).jpeg |
| Released: | July 1978 |
| Recorded: | 1977–1978 |
| Genre: | Disco |
| Label: | Polydor |
| Producer: | Steve Buckingham (for The Lowery Group) |
| Next Title: | Play It as It Lays |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
Alicia Bridges is the eponymous debut album from disco singer-songwriter Alicia Bridges, released in 1978 on Polydor Records. The album featured the smash hit single, "I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round)", which, when released as a 12" single (as remixed by producer Jim Burgess), reached a peak of number 5 on the Billboard, Cash Box & Record World charts in 1978 (quickly becoming an RIAA-certified gold record for sales of over one million copies; it would now be seen as a platinum record).[1] Alicia Bridges peaked a number 52 on the Australian chart.[2]
Bridges released a second single shortly thereafter; the rock-inflected "Body Heat", which had the same strong backbeat as her big hit, but also featured more prominent rhythm guitar. The song became a minor hit, but it was the success of the first single that drove the album, which climbed the charts quickly and remained there for a total of 35 weeks. Bridges would be nominated for a Grammy and performed the hit single as an opening act.
All songs written by Alicia Bridges and Susan Hutcheson, except where noted.