Donna Summer's Tribute To The Working Girls Hits #1

1979

Donna Summer's "Bad Girls," a song about prostitutes, hits #1 in America.

Summer writes this sympathetic ode to the working girls after sending her secretary on an errand that takes her down Sunset Boulevard, a hotbed of illicit activity. Police mistake the secretary for a hooker and give her a hard time. When she returns to the office, she tells Summer the story, and she writes a song about it, adding in the famous "toot-toot," "beep-beep"s to simulate the johns trying to get the girls' attention. The song spends a remarkable five weeks at #1, second only to "My Sharona," which stays for six.