Bad for Me (Dee Dee Bridgewater album)

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.

The title track was released as the only single and peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart.{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dee-dee-bridgewater/chart-history/bsi/|title=Dee Dee Bridgewater: Bad for Me (Hot Soul Songs)|publisher=Billboard|website=billboard.com}}

Bridgewater covered Carole Bayer Sager's "It's the Falling in Love" on the album.

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| title1 = Bad for Me

| writer1 = {{hlist|Deborah Thomas|Charles Veal Jr.}}

| length1 = 5:36

| title2 = Back of Your Mind

| writer2 = {{hlist|Eugene McDaniels|Raye Styles}}

| length2 = 3:18

| title3 = For the Girls

| writer3 = {{hlist|George Duke|Denise Eileen Garrett}}

| length3 = 4:47

| title4 = Love Won't Let Me Go

| writer4 = Denise Eileen Garrett

| length4 = 4:01

| title5 = Streetsinger

| writer5 = Don Kerr

| length5 = 3:35

| title6 = It's the Falling in Love

| writer6 = {{hlist|Carole Bayer Sager|David Foster}}

| length6 = 3:36

| title7 = Tequila Mockingbird

| writer7 = {{hlist|Larry Dunn|Roxanne Joy Seeman}}

| length7 = 4:03

| title8 = Don't Say It (If You Don't Mean It)

| writer8 = Bobby Lyle

| length8 = 4:13

| title9 = Is This What Feelings Gets?

| writer9 = {{hlist|Nickolas Ashford|Valerie Simpson|Quincy Jones}}

| length9 = 3:56

| total_length = 37:05

}}

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• 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)

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• 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

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Category:1979 albums

Category:Dee Dee Bridgewater albums

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Category:Elektra Records albums