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Alicia Bridges is the eponymous debut album from disco singer-songwriter Alicia Bridges, released in 1978 on Polydor Records. The album featured the smash hit single, "I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round)", which, when released as a 12" single (as remixed by producer Jim Burgess), reached a peak of number 5 on the Billboard, Cash Box & Record World charts in 1978 (quickly becoming an RIAA-certified gold record for sales of over one million copies; it would now be seen as a platinum record).[3] Alicia Bridges peaked a number 52 on the Australian chart.[4]

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Alicia Bridges
Studio album by Alicia Bridges
Released	July 1978
Recorded	1977–1978
Studio	Studio One, Doraville, Georgia; The Sound Pit, Atlanta, Georgia
Genre	Disco
Label	Polydor
Producer	Steve Buckingham (for The Lowery Group)
Alicia Bridges chronology
Alicia Bridges (1978) Play It as It Lays (1979)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Smash Hits	5/10[2]

Bridges released a second single shortly thereafter; the rock-inflected "Body Heat", which had the same strong backbeat as her big hit, but also featured more prominent rhythm guitar. The song became a minor hit, but it was the success of the first single that drove the album, which climbed the charts quickly and remained there for a total of 35 weeks. Bridges would be nominated for a Grammy and performed the hit single as an opening act.

Track listing

All songs written by Alicia Bridges and Susan Hutcheson, except where noted.

1. "Body Heat" – 3:02
2. "Break Away" – 3:27
3. "High Altitudes" – 5:01
4. "We Are One" – 4:20
5. "City Rhythm" – 3:38
6. "I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" – 5:37
7. "In the Name of Love" (Alicia Bridges) – 4:07
8. "Self Applause" – 3:22
9. "Diamond in the Rough" – 3:28
10. "Broken Woman" (Alicia Bridges) – 4:20

Personnel

• Alicia Bridges - lead and backing vocal
• Bernardine Mitchell, Keith "Doc" Samuels, Vinni O'Neal - backing vocals
• Steve Buckingham, Ken Bell - guitars
• John Fristoe - guitars, backing vocals
• Randy McCormick - organ, piano, synthesizers, clavinet, melodica, string arrangements
• Alan Feingold, Steve McRay - organ
• Tom Robb - bass
• Roy Yeager - drums
• Mickey Buckins - percussion
• Jay Scott - saxophone

Production

• Produced by Steve Buckingham for The Lowery Group
• Engineered by Pete Turbiville
• Mix & re-mixed Milan Bogdan, Pete Turbiville, Rodney Mills & Tad Bush
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig
• Rick Diamond - sleeve photography

References

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