Billion Dollar Babies (song)

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"Billion Dollar Babies"
7" single
Single by Alice Cooper featuring Donovan
from the album Billion Dollar Babies
B-side"Mary Ann"
ReleasedJuly 11, 1973[1]
Recorded1972
Genre
Length3:43
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Reggie Vinson
Producer(s)Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper featuring Donovan singles chronology
"No More Mr. Nice Guy"
(1973) 		"Billion Dollar Babies"
(1973) 		"Halo of Flies"
(1973)

"Billion Dollar Babies" is a song by American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1973 as the fourth single off their sixth album Billion Dollar Babies. The track is a duet between Alice Cooper and Scottish musician Donovan, who provides the falsetto and high harmony vocals.[3]

BMI lists[4] the composers of "Billion Dollar Babies" as Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce and Reggie Vinson (a session guitarist who worked with the band previously).[5] 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".[6]

Reception

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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."[7]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Billion Dollar Babies"Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Reggie Vinson3:43
2."Mary Ann"Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce2:21

Charts

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Chart (1973) Peak
position
German Singles Chart[8] 30
US Hot 100[9] 57

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ "Alice cooper singles".
  2. ^ Pinfold, Will (March 19, 2024). "Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (50th Anniversary "Trillion Dollar" Deluxe Edition)". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
  3. ^ "CREEM ONLINE: Donovan - Molten Truths". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  4. ^ "BMI REPERTOIRE : Billion Dollar Babies". Repertoire.bmi.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-18. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  5. ^ "Rockin Reggie Vinson - Biography". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  6. ^ Greg Prato. "Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper | Song Info". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  7. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. July 28, 1973. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  8. ^ ""German Singles Charts Search for Alice Cooper"" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Musicline.de. Retrieved on August 11, 2009."
  9. ^ "Alice Cooper - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles" AllMusic. Retrieved on August 10, 2009."