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Billion Dollar Babies peaked at #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. The single "Elected" peaked at #26 on the Pop Singles chart. Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

Track listing

1. "Hello, Hooray" (Rolf Kempf) – 4:15
2. "Raped and Freezin'" (Alice Cooper/Michael Bruce) – 3:19
3. "Elected" (Cooper/Bruce/Glen Buxton/Dennis Dunaway/Neal Smith) – 4:05
4. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper/Bruce/Reggie Vincent) – 3:43
5. "Unfinished Sweet" (Cooper/Bruce/Smith) – 6:18
6. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Bruce/Cooper) – 3:06
7. "Generation Landslide" (Cooper/Bruce/Dunaway/Smith/Buxton) – 4:31
8. "Sick Things" (Bruce/Cooper/Bob Ezrin) – 4:18
9. "Mary Ann" (Bruce/Cooper) – 2:21
10. "I Love the Dead" (Ezrin/Cooper) – 5:09

Remastered CD Bonus Tracks

The remastered CD includes a disk with the original songs in the original order, and a Bonus CD with the following tracks:

1. Hello Hooray
2. Billion Dollar Babies
3. Elected
4. I'm Eighteen
5. Raped And Freezin'
6. No More Mr. Nice Guy
7. My Stars
8. Unfinished Sweet
9. Sick Things
10. Dead Babies
11. I Love The Dead
12. Coal Black Model T
13. Son Of A Billion Dollar Babies
14. Slick Black Limousine

• Track 1 to 11 are recorded live in Houston `73
• Track 12 is an early version of Slick Black Limousine
• Track 13 is a Generation Landslide outtake

Personnel

• Alice Cooper - vocals
• Glen Buxton - guitar
• Michael Bruce - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Dennis Dunaway - bass, backing vocals
• Neal Smith - drums
• Donovan - vocals on the song "Billion Dollar Babies"
• Marc Bolan - guitar on tracks 1,3,4
• Steve "Deacon" Hunter - guitar
• Mick Mashbir - guitar
• Dick Wagner - guitar
• Bob Dolin - keyboards
• David Libert - vocals
• Bob Ezrin - producer
• Jack Douglas - engineer
• Robin Black - engineer
• Frank Hubach - engineer
• Ed Sprigg - engineer
• Shelly Yakus - engineer
• Peter Flanagan - engineer
• Brian Kehew - editing, remixing
• Pacific Eye & Ear - design concept
• Greg Allen - art direction, design
• Hugh Brown - art direction
• David P. Bailey - photography, cover photo
• Lynn Goldsmith - photography
• Neal Preston - photography
• Lynn Godsmith - photography
• Jo Motta - project coordinator
• Steve Woolard - project coordinator
• Randy Perry - project assistant
• Vanessa Atkins - editorial supervision
• Norma Edwards - editorial research
• Shawn Amos - editorial coordinator

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Trivia

• 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. (See: Devil-child movies).
• The name was used by the original members (sans vocalist Alice Cooper) as a band name after leaving (or being fired, depending on whose story you believe) in 1974.
• The Quadraphonic LP release varies not only in the mix, but in song versions used throughout the album. Some of these alternate versions also appear on the DVD-A release.
• The title track is a playable track in the Xbox 360 version of the game Guitar Hero II.
• In the Xbox 360 Guitar Hero II instruction manual Billion Dollar Babies is incorrectly labeled as Million Dollar Babies.
• The song Elected was covered in 1997 by Iron Maiden lead singer and Heavy Metal icon Bruce Dickinson for the Mr. Bean movie, Bean
• A swedish glam band have, as an act of respect and paying tribute to this album, named them selves Billion Dollar Babies

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Charting Singles

• "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (#25)
• "Elected" (#26)
• "Hello Hooray" (#35)
• "Billion Dollar Babies" (#57)