''You've Got It Bad Girl'' is a 1973 album by the American

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musician/producer

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. The title track is a song written by

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and Stevie Wonder and was originally released on Wonder's 1972 album ''

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''. Here Jones himself is performing the lead vocals. The album features another Stevie Wonder song: " Superstition", featuring vocals from

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, Billy Preston and Wonder himself, billed as 'Three Beautiful Brothers'. Also included are an instrumental interpretation of

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's " Summer in the City"; and " Sanford and Son Theme (The Streetbeater)", which was used for the opening and closing credits themes for the

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situation comedy '' Sanford and Son''. Jones's performance of "Summer In The City" on this album was notably

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in their 1992 song, "

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". The final track on the album, "Chump Change", was first used as the main theme to 1972's ''

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'' on

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, where Jones's orchestra provided music. The

game show '' Now You See It'' used "Chump Change" as its main theme as well, both in 1974 and on its revival in 1989. It is also used as the main theme to the Dutch radio programme ''Langs de lijn'', as well as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's programme ''Ukeslutt''.

Track listing

# " Summer in the City" (

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) – 4:05 # "Eyes of Love" (

, Bob Russell) – 3:28 # Tribute to A.F.- Ro': "Daydreaming"/" First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" ( Aretha Franklin)/( Ewan MacColl) – 7:11 # "Love Theme from ''The Getaway''" (Jones) – 2:35 # "You've Got It Bad Girl" ( Stevie Wonder,

) – 5:45 # " Superstition" (Wonder) – 4:32 # " Manteca" (

Gil Fuller Walter Gilbert "Gil" Fuller (April 14, 1920, Los Angeles, California – May 26, 1994, San Diego, California) was an American jazz arranger. He is no relation to the jazz trumpeter and vocalist Walter "Rosetta" Fuller. In the 1930s and 1940s, Fu ...

, Dizzy Gillespie,

Chano Pozo Luciano Pozo González (January 7, 1915 – December 3, 1948), known professionally as Chano Pozo, was a Cuban jazz percussionist, singer, dancer, and composer. Despite only living to age 33, he played a major role in the founding of Latin jazz. ...

) – 8:42 # " Sanford and Son Theme (The Streetbeater)" (Jones) – 3:05 # "Chump Change" (

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, Jones) – 3:19

Personnel

Dave Grusin Robert David "Dave" Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record w ...

– electric piano *

Valerie Simpson Ashford & Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946). Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, ...

–

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

Phil Woods Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer. Biography Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. After inheriting a saxophone at age 12, he began ...

– alto saxophone *Tom Junior Morgan – harmonica soloist *

Toots Thielemans Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for his chromatic harmonica playing, as well as his guitar and whistl ...

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, whistle, harmonica * Ernie Watts –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

* Bobbye Porter –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

*Quincy Duke –

* Bob James & Creations – keyboards * Ray Brown – producer, mixing, bass * Carol Kaye -

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

* Chuck Rainey -

* Eddie Louis – soloist * George Duke –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

–

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

, Arranger, Conductor,

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, Producer, Mixing, Soloist *

Phil Ramone Philip Ramone (né Rabinowitz, January 5, 1934March 30, 2013) was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, who in 1958 co-founded A & R Recording, Inc., a recording studio with business pa ...

–

Engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

*Kevin Reeves – mastering *Phil (Boogie) Schier – mixing * Cat Anderson - soloist *

Grady Tate Grady Tate (January 14, 1932 – October 8, 2017) was an American jazz and soul-jazz drummer and baritone vocalist. In addition to his work as sideman, Tate released many albums as leader and lent his voice to songs in the animated ''Schoolhou ...

- drums

Charts

*Jazz Albums: #1 *R&B Albums: #14 *Billboard 200: #94

References

1973 albums Quincy Jones albums Albums produced by Quincy Jones Albums arranged by Quincy Jones A&M Records albums {{1970s-jazz-album-stub