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“Billion Dollar Babies” by Alice Cooper
From the album Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
“Billion Dollar Babies” by Alice Cooper appears on 14 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2021. It was first released in 1973 on the album Billion Dollar Babies. Its best result is #271 on the WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,855 classic rock song of all time.
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"Billion Dollar Babies" is the title track of Alice Cooper's sixth album, and in 1973 the band sent it out as the record's fourth single. The kicker is the second voice: Donovan, of all people, trading lines with Alice as a duet partner and floating the falsetto and high harmonies over the top, a Scottish troubadour crashing the freak show.
Bob Ezrin produced it, and the whole gang is in the trenches: Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton on guitars, Bruce on keyboards too, Dennis Dunaway on bass, Neal Smith on drums, and Steve Hunter sitting in on guitar, with Bruce, Dunaway and Smith hollering backup. Cooper and Bruce wrote it with a session guitarist who'd worked with the band before. Record World, for one, predicted the kids would be lining up at the stores to grab it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 508 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 640 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 518 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 441 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 493 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 467 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2011 | 986 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2011 | 496 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) | 500 |
| 2012 | 1039 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 853 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 836 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 863 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2016 | 634 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2021 | 271 | WCSX | WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) | 499 |
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