| Billion Dollar Babies | |
| Cover: | Alicecooperbilliondollarbabies.jpg |
| Caption: | 7" single |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Alice Cooper featuring Donovan |
| Album: | Billion Dollar Babies |
| B-Side: | Mary Ann |
| Released: | 11 July 1973 (US) [1] |
| Recorded: | 1972 |
| Genre: | Hard rock, glam rock |
| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | Bob Ezrin |
| Prev Title: | No More Mr. Nice Guy |
| Prev Year: | 1973 |
| Next Title: | Halo of Flies |
| Next Year: | 1973 |
"Billion Dollar Babies" is a popular 1973 single by the rock group Alice Cooper, the title track taken from the album Billion Dollar Babies. It was released in July 1973, months after the album had been released. The track is a duet between Alice Cooper and Scottish musician Donovan, who provides the falsetto and high harmony vocals.[2] BMI lists[3] the composers of "Billion Dollar Babies" as Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce and Reggie Vinson (a session guitarist who had worked with the Alice Cooper band previously).[4] Some sources list the composers as Cooper, Bruce, drummer Neal Smith, and "R. Reggie", the latter being an allusion to Vinson's nickname "Rockin' Reggie Vinson".[5]
Record World said that "produced by the incomparable Bob Ezrin, [the single] should see billions of Cooper babies flocking to the stores and gobbling it up."[6]
The Billion Dollar Babies album was the second to last recorded by the original Alice Cooper band, before singer Alice Cooper went solo. Legal complications ensued; all five Alice Cooper band members had shared ownership of the band's name. Alice Cooper Band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith, along with additions Bob Dolin, Stu Daye and Mike Marconi, recorded as Billion Dollar Babies.[7] The band Billion Dollar Babies released only one album, 1977's Battle Axe, before disbanding.[8]
| Chart (1973) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| German Singles Chart[9] | 30 | |
| US Hot 100[10] | 57 |