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  Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper - Pandora Internet Radio
With Billion Dollar Babies, Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound (courtesy of super-producer Bob Ezrin), resulting in a mega-hit album that reached the top of the U.S. album charts.
Song for song, Billion Dollar Babies is probably the original Alice Cooper group's finest and strongest.
Not only is Billion Dollar Babies one of Cooper's very best; it remains one of rock's all-time, quintessential classics.
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  Billion Dollar Babies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Billion Dollar Babies is an album by American rock band Alice Cooper, (released 1973).
Alice and the group considered themselves Billion Dollar Babies as the line in Generation Landslide contests: "And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies/ Who never conceived of us Billion Dollar Babies!" They were at the peak of their career, where middle America considered them a threat to their children.
The name Billion Dollar Babies refers to horror movies where the main evil character is a baby or child.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billion_Dollar_Babies   (262 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Billion Dollar Babies is an album by American hard rock and glam rock band Alice Cooper, released in March 1973.
Alice and the group considered themselves Billion Dollar Babies as the line in Generation Landslide contests: "And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies/ Who never conceived of us Billion Dollar Babies!" They were at the peak of their career, where middle America considered them a threat to their children.
Billion Dollar Babies was the name of the band formed by the remaining members of the original Alice Cooper Group.
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 Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies - Rhino Archives/WarnerBros Records - DVD-Audio
Regardless, Billion Dollar Babies, as a concept album, yielded 5 singles, 3 of them Top 40, and has proven itself to be one of the more enduring classics of 70s output.
Listen to it and YOU tell me); the 'coulda been a single' "Generation Landslide"; "Sick Things", and the surprising "Mary Ann", Billion Dollar Babies has positioned to be remembered fondly by many.
This edition was a test tube baby to form a pun.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/AliceCooperBillionDollarBabiesDVDA.html   (826 words)

  
 Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies - PopMatters Music Review
Billion Dollar Babies, released in 1973, would be Cooper's bid to expand the band's appeal to a wider audience.
It carried along with it a concept of politics and fame that sneered in the faces of all who desired to be president.
Billion Dollar Babies was everything outrageous and wonderful that the band had been working up to, and in such a short span of time.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/cooperalice-billion.shtml   (1402 words)

  
 Mott_the_Dog_Reviews
By the time of the release of this, their sixth album ‘Billion Dollar Babies’, the Alice Cooper Band was one of the biggest bands in the world and had 25 Gold Records, album sales of over 50 Million, plus sold-out stadium tours to prove it.
‘Billion Dollar Babies’ has wonderful guitar riffs from Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton, although Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner, two of rock 'n' roll's top session guitarists, were brought in to give some experience to the studio guitar sound.
Unfortunately though you cannot remove the Billion Dollar note tucked inside as you could in the original vinyl release.
www.mott-the-dog.com /reviews/04/041225_alice.htm   (763 words)

  
 Alice Cooper : Billion Dollar Babies - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
With Billion Dollar Babies, Alice Cooper refined the raw grit of their earlier work in favor of a slightly more polished sound (courtesy of super-producer Bob Ezrin), resulting in a mega-hit album that reached the top of the U.S. album charts.
Song for song, Billion Dollar Babies is probably the original Alice Cooper group's finest and strongest.
Not only is Billion Dollar Babies one of Cooper's very best; it remains one of rock's all-time, quintessential classics.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,68972,00.html   (180 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper at Epinions.com
Yes, their live performances had already been surrounded by controversy for using baby doll decapitations, a snake, and fake executions, but their 1973 release, BILLION DOLLAR BABIES saw the band take it all to unprecedented heights/lows.
The tour was, at that time, the most expansive and expensive rock and roll circus the world had seen, and they had to have a totally organized system in place to make any of it possible.
All of the music on BILLION DOLLAR BABIES was merely a part of the master plan, designed specifically for the stage show, and polished to a squeaky clean (dirty) finish.
www.epinions.com /content_70940921476   (1220 words)

  
 Rock Ahead: Alice Cooper CD: Billion Dollar Babies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For this reissue it has been lovingly and accurately re-created, although sadly minus the billion dollar note.
The real find, though, is a live concert from the Billion Dollar Babies tour, recorded in Texas in April 1973.
"Billion Dollar Babies" was a landmark album when it was released in 1973 and updated and remastered for 2001 it is damn near perfect.
www.themusicindex.com /rockahead/reviews/acooper2.htm   (316 words)

  
 Billion Dollar Babies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Alice Cooper's most successful album of the 70s, 'Billion Dollar Babies' is classic Alice from start to finish and features many songs that went on to be stage favourites.
The second voice on 'Billion Dollar Babies' is Donovan.
The Billion Dollar Babies show featured a lavish stage set including it`s own stage which was 25ft high, weighed 8 tons and cost around $200,000 to build.
www.sickthingsuk.co.uk /albums/a-bdb.php   (2796 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Billion Dollar Babies: Music: Alice Cooper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The original Alice Cooper band was one of the finest hard-rock units of the early '70s, which is why the second disc of this remastered version of Billion Dollar Babies is such a treat.
As for Billion Dollar Babies itself, it may not be the Cooper band's best album, but it was the final release of a quartet of extraordinary Bob Ezrin-produced hard-rock records (rounded out by Love It to Death, Killer, and School's Out), and it captures the moment when the band was at their peak.
The other outtake is "Son of Billion Dollar Babies," which is essentially an alternate take of "Generation Landslide" minus the lyrics from the second half of verse two.
www.amazon.com /Billion-Dollar-Babies-Alice-Cooper/dp/B000056W0F   (852 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Billion Dollar Babies: Music: Alice Cooper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
While their theatrical stage show (which featured the singer getting his head chopped off by a guillotine) may have made Alice Cooper a household name, the material on BILLION DOLLAR BABIES is so exceptional there is no danger of the musicbeing overshadowed by gimmicks.
Billion Dollar Babies is less of a recording more of a monument to rock decadence.
Billion Dollar Babies in its original form was one of the greatest rock albums of all time.
www.amazon.co.uk /Billion-Dollar-Babies-Alice-Cooper/dp/B000002KEN   (1607 words)

  
 Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (Deluxe Edition) - at Rhino
Rock star opulence came to an explosive head in 1973 when the Alice Cooper Group hit #1 on the U.S. and worldwide charts with Billion Dollar Babies, their sixth and most successful album.
Now, a few decades later, we have given Billion Dollar Babies the deluxe Rhino treatment—the complete remastered album in its entirety remixed by Ezrin himself, plus an entire second disc of 14 rare and previously tracks.
The latter includes 11 live cuts from the infamous Billion Dollar Babies tour, two outtakes from the album sessions, and “Slick Black Limousine,” a rare U.K. single.
www.rhino.com /store/productdetail.lasso?number=79791&P=upPage   (447 words)

  
 Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper Songfacts
As lead singer Vincent Furnier became the known as Alice Cooper and sucked up all the notoriety the band received, the guitarist, bass player, and drummer from The Alice Cooper Band left and formed a group called The Billion Dollar Babies.
The baby left a stain after the photo shoot.
Billion Dollar Babies were a dismal failure without Alice, even though those individuals wrote as much of the material for the ACB as did Alice.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=1594   (607 words)

  
 CMT.com : The Billion Dollar Babies : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
That year, ex-Cooper employees Mike Bruce (guitar, vocals), Dennis Dunaway (bass) and Neal Smith (drums) teamed up with keyboardist Bob Dolin and guitarist/ singer Mike Marconi and named themselves after Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies album of 1973, which was among his biggest sellers.
Offering competent but unremarkable hard rock and arena rock that wasn't nearly as distinctive or as interesting as Cooper's own music, the Billion Dollar Babies recorded Battle Axe for Polydor in 1977.
The LP bombed commercially, and the Billion Dollar Babies never recorded a second album.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/billion_dollar_babies/bio.jhtml   (211 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: Billion-Dollar Babies
The Packard Foundation, with assets of $10 billion, recently overtook the Ford Foundation as the nation's third-largest private foundation (behind the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at $17 billion, and the Lilly Endowment, at $15 billion).
The IPO economy that is centered on the Internet has flattened somewhat this year, but it is still driven by two primal forces: the lottery-like knowledge that some of these bets will pay disproportionate returns, and the momentum of the wealth that's already been amassed, and that must be invested somewhere.
In telling the story of Clark's involvement with these firms (mainly Netscape, which he had recently left when Lewis met him, and Healtheon, which he was in the middle of forming when he allowed Lewis to observe what he was doing, day by day), Lewis covers many cultural aspects of the modern boom.
www.nybooks.com /articles/256   (5261 words)

  
 Billion Dollar Babies Lyrics - by ALICE COOPER from album Billion Dollar Babies : Lyrics And Songs
You are viewing lyrics of Billion Dollar Babies by ALICE COOPER from the album Billion Dollar Babies at LyricsAndSongs.COM
The Lyrics above are to Billion Dollar Babies and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Billion Dollar Babies But they are (Wrong)
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 Billion-Dollar Babies | Benton Foundation
Each of the Baby Einstein videos and DVDs is set to soft classical music, designed to “expose little ones” up to 2 years old to music, art and language through puppetry and film of real kids.
With titles including Baby Mozart Musical Festival and Baby Van Gogh World of Colors, Einstein gained popularity with parents enchanted that their infants were mesmerized by symphonies.
Disney has tripled the number of Baby Einstein video and DVD titles to 21 and sold more than 20 million units.
www.benton.org /index.php?q=node/1383   (249 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: Will the Billion-Dollar Babies Have to Be Put Down?
Over the next few months a consensus will build around the notion that these stocks, vestiges of the old Red Hots, will have to be taken out and shot before we can get a bottom.
I would describe these stocks as the billion-dollar babies, new companies just breaking into the fl with market caps that used to be reserved for the Duponts (DD:NYSE - news) and the Dows (DOW:NYSE - news).
While he cannot provide investment advice or recommendations, he invites you to send comments on his column to James J. Cramer.
www.thestreet.com /comment/wrongrear/1121362.html   (498 words)

  
 APP.COM - BILLION-DOLLAR BABIES | Asbury Park Press Online
According to a recent NPD survey of 3,500 consumers, 57 percent of the 13-to-18 age group polled said their purchases are influenced by celebrities or endorsements by celebrities, compared to just 21 percent of overall consumers.
It's a lucrative market: According to NPD, for the year ended May 2006, apparel sales rose 7.4 percent to $12 billion among the 7-to-12 age group and 13.9 percent to $25 billion for ages 13-to-17.
Still, stars who have established their celebrity status at a young age have their own big challenges: attracting new generations to their products while legitimizing themselves to older customers as they grow older.
www.app.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060723/ENT/607230318/1031   (1080 words)

  
 Ruminations in Korea » Billion Dollar Babies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
That’s a billion dollars.  What would you give for a single billion dollar bill?  Would you part with five or ten thousand dollars for one?  Maybe a little more?  Well, you wouldn’t be alone.  According to the Smoking Gun:
MARCH 15–We’re not sure what he planned to do with them, but an admitted smuggler recently led Secret Service agents to 250 counterfeit $1 billion notes that had been stained to make it appear they were issued in 1934.
The phony bills were seized last week by federal investigators who learned of the bad paper from Tekle Zigetta, who pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal charge of failing to declare $37,000 in currency upon his return to Los Angeles in January from South Korea.
www.jsharrison.com /korea/?p=291   (719 words)

  
 Billion-Dollar Babies
The Baby Einstein brand was born in a basement in Atlanta in 1997.
She filmed a crude puppet and cartoon show to fill the hole with a little help from her husband, who had just sold his own kid-targeted science company to Cox Communications.
Now general manager of The Baby Einstein Co., he oversees all of Disney’s baby products worldwide, often packing Baby Einstein products in his carry-on bag on business trips to entertain potential consumers.
www.commercialfreechildhood.org /news/billiondollarbabies.htm   (1949 words)

  
 Billion Dollar Babies - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
BILLION DOLLAR BABIES was started in Sweden in early summer 2005.
Four guys were inspired both musically and visually by bands such as Kiss, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper and W.A.S.P. They've managed to put together their own recepie for a bombastic hard rocking show that has fast become the hottest act around.
"Ladies First" is the name of BILLION DOLLAR BABIES promotion cd wich has been welcomned with open arms and legs of critics around the world.
music.download.com /billiondollarbabies/3615-8735_32-100845708.html   (268 words)

  
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It's estimated that more than 300,000 so-called "anchor" babies are born to illegal alien mothers each year in the U.S. -- babies who automatically attain U.S. citizenship.
Besides billions of dollars in medical costs, a Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons report says that these anchor babies have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under supplemental security and disability income.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The rest of this amendment does not pertain to the anchor baby issue.
www.corruptionchronicles.com /2006/07/billion_dollar_anchor_babies.html   (804 words)

  
 Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper : Vincent's Masterpiece
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper : Worth a Billion
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper : "He's sick, he's obscene"
www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/billion-dollar-babies-alice-cooper   (317 words)

  
 CIOL : News : India's billion dollar babies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
10,000 per month it adds up to over a billion dollars, TCP said in a press release.
It reached the projected figures for FY 2007-08 by going by the NASSCOM estimation that the number of employees will go up to a million by FY 2007-08.
Eight percent is invested in LIC and other savings instruments, with almost negligible interest shown in stocks and mutual funds.
www.ciol.com /content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=73686   (302 words)

  
 Billion Dollar Babies Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On the morning of the show, Alice is invited to give a lecture at The Eastman School of Music on the art of writing 'popular music'(although it seems he didn`t do it).
Almost immediately, the door of the truck was yanked open, and a tall lean Texan with a ten gallon hat and smoking six-gun poked his bronze face into the dark truck.
Not to be outdone, Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association eagerly climbed aboard the Abse bandwagon - completely overlooking the fact that Cooper has no plans for a British tour in the immediate future and has not even applied for an entry permit.
www.sickthingsuk.co.uk /timelines/t-bdb.php   (2466 words)

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