Alicia Bridges (album)

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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)

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

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]

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.