Bad for Me (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)

Bad for Me
Bad for Me
Studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater
Released	1979
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:05
Label	Elektra
Producer	George Duke
Dee Dee Bridgewater chronology
Singles from Bad for Me
	"Bad for Me"; Released: 1979;

Bad for Me is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, released in 1979 by Elektra Records.^[4] The album reached at No. 29 on the Cashbox Top Jazz Albums chart and No. 30 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.^[5]^[6]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Cashbox	(favourable)^[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]

Overview

Bad for Me was produced by George Duke. Artists such as Sheila E., Roland Bautista, Ricky Lawson, Alphonso Johnson and Larry Dunn appeared on the album.^[4]

The title track was released as the only single and peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.^[7]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Bad for Me"	Deborah Thomas Charles Veal Jr.	5:36
2.	"Back of Your Mind"	Eugene McDaniels Raye Styles	3:18
3.	"For the Girls"	George Duke Denise Eileen Garrett	4:47
4.	"Love Won't Let Me Go"	Denise Eileen Garrett	4:01
5.	"Streetsinger"	Don Kerr	3:35
6.	"It's the Falling in Love"	Carole Bayer Sager David Foster	3:36
7.	"Tequila Mockingbird"	Larry Dunn Roxanne Joy Seeman	4:03
8.	"Don't Say It (If You Don't Mean It)"	Bobby Lyle	4:13
9.	"Is This What Feelings Gets?"	Nickolas Ashford Valerie Simpson Quincy Jones	3:56
Total length:			37:05

Dee Dee Bridgewater – lead vocals, backing vocals (on tracks 3, 6, 8)
George Duke – Yamaha electric grand piano (1, 3), backing vocals (2), Fender Rhodes piano and synthesizer (9)
Bobby Lyle – Fender Rhodes piano (2), Yamaha electric grand piano (5, 8), Minimoog and clavinet (8)
Larry Dunn – Fender Rhodes piano (4, 7), Minimoog (7)
Greg Phillinganes – Fender Rhodes piano (6)
Roland Bautista – guitar (exc. 5, 9)
Byron Miller – bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 7)
Robert Matthew Powell – bass (3, 8)
Alphonso Johnson – bass (6, 9)
Ricky Lawson – drums
Sheila Escovedo – percussion (1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Paulinho da Costa – percussion (7)
Lawrence Williams – tenor saxophone (exc. 4, 7)
Don Menza – tenor saxophone (1)
Fred Jackson – baritone saxophone (4, 7)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (exc. 2, 9), flugelhorn (2, 9)
Bobby Bryant – trumpet (4, 7)
Rahmlee Michael Davis – trumpet (4)
Sidney Muldrow, Richard Perissi – French horn (4, 7)
Napoleon Murphy Brock – trombone (2, 3), backing vocals (1, 2)
Lew McCreary – trombone (1)
George Bohanon, Louis Satterfield – trombone (4, 7)
William Frank Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (5, 6, 8, 9)
Maurice Spears – bass trombone (4, 7)
Lynn Davis – backing vocals (1-4, 7, 8)
Josie James – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals (4, 7)
Carolyn Dennis, Becky Lopez, Petsye Powell – backing vocals (5)

George Duke - producer, arrangements and orchestrations (1-3, 5), conductor (9)
Horn arrangements (8) - George Duke, Bobby Lyle
For tracks 4 and 7
- Vocal arrangements - George Duke, Larry Dunn
- Horn arrangements - Eduardo Del Barrio, Larry Dunn (4 only)
- Conductor of horn section - Eduardo Del Barrio
- String arrangements and conductor of string section - George Del Barrio
Gene McDaniels - Producer
Songwriters "Back of Your Mind" Gene McDaniels, Raye Stiles

^ "Bad for Me – Dee Dee Bridgewater". AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
^ "Dee Dee Bridgewater: Bad for Me" (PDF). americanradiohistory.com. Cashbox. May 26, 1979. p. 13.
^ Larkin, Colin (1998). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 734. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b Dee Dee Bridgewater: Bad for Me. Elektra Records. 1979.
^ ^a ^b "Top Jazz Albums". Cashbox. June 16, 1979. p. 49.
^ ^a ^b Billboard's Best Selling Jazz Albums. Vol. 91. Billboard. June 2, 1979. p. 66.
^ "Dee Dee Bridgewater: Bad for Me (Hot Soul Songs)". billboard.com. Billboard.
^ "Dee Dee Bridgewater: Bad for Me (Top Soul Albums)". billboard.com. Billboard.