Alice Cooper - Mary-Ann Lyrics

The production on this recording was brilliant. Bob Ezrin killed it when he produced the album. Great job. He took the Alice Cooper Group who were good musicians and made them even better by making such a pop/theater record that it lasted decades. The Alice Cooper Group owes a lot to Bob Ezrin.

Only recently heard billion dollar babies in full and love that this song is on there even though it doesn't really seem to fit - what a fantastic album it is 😎

My favorite...

Not Bruce or Ezrin.
'I wrote a lot on piano. Although I didn't play [the keyboards segue] into "Dwight Fry," on the Love It To Death album and I didn't play "Mary Ann" [from Billion Dollar Babies],
I did write both those pieces. Al McMillan, a friend of Bob Ezrin who lived in Toronto, played the piano on "Mary Ann" because I'm not that
accomplished as a pianist. But I grew up playing. As a matter of fact, when I was in eighth grade and getting ready to go into high school, I
wrote the song "Crazy Little Child," which we later did on Muscle Of Love. I still do a lot of writing on piano.'
M.B.


Great website on all things Alice Cooper.



https://www.alicecooperechive.com/articles/feature/gold/000519

I don't blame you Alice. *Blush blush*

Is there, any type of billfold that look's like this ? Serious question.

Michael Bruce was the musical backbone of the Coop. Vincent Furnier the lyricist and showman.

So this was written by Ray Charles

This song always reminded me of something a count hosting a ball in the Carpathian mountains would be playing after most of his guest had gone home for the night .

I never knew that

One of my faves. Allot of other kids I knew would say "Oh this song" and skip it when playing this album, but I always dug it as much as any other song on the album. With the 1930's cabaret-style piano ( it's a good respite from all the hard rock and gives the album some real dimension ) and little twist at the end ( "I thought you were-her, .. . my man!" ).

Alice at his best.

why do i love this

Sounds like an old western piano or a prohibition bar song.

I remeber my 8-track of this album always skipped this song for some reason.

Who else just *LOVES* he the music gets faster and faster and faster???

What is the meleody called

I love this song!

Loved this album by the god that is Alice Cooper when is first heard the song Mary Ann i thought Alice had gone soft then i turned out Mary Ann is a bloke

Alice Cooper - Dennis Dunaway - Neal Smith - Michael Bruce - Glen Buxton at their best............ very atmospheric

🎵🎹🎹🎹🎶😥

Greatest tongue-in-cheek song about a drag queen ever written. Yep, even better than Lola.

Dawn Wells

Bob Denver wrote the song and gave it directly to Alice during a Hollywood party long ago after bouts of Coke, Bourbon and Heroine, Bob being sexually frustrated as a non-Alpha type male never made it with a woman unless his money got involved.

Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island?

Or...

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My mom's name is Mary Ann... I got this album in '73 when I was 14.
Played this for her... "Oh, that's nice. Wait ? What did he say ?"
Then of course "I Love The Dead" followed it.
Mom was pretty cool. She laughed and shook her head. ;-)

The dead BC or The dead AD...lol

I was 19. I didn't show my mom this album.
She did buy me Alice's Restaurant LP as a Welcome Home present from the Navy same year.
That's a good story Tacoma. Good times in my life back then.

One of my faves. Allot of other kids I knew would say "Oh this song" and skip it when playing this album, but I always dug it as much as any other song on the album. With the 1930's cabaret-style piano ( it's a good respite from all the hard rock and gives the album some real dimension ) and little twist at the end ( "I thought you were-her, .. . my man!" ).

Always wondered who Mary Ann is/was.

me too... or why this was written... Maryann is my name, and an old boyfriend used to sing this to me all the time... that's how i got into Alice, eons ago... i guess it's safe to say by the last line that it was about a transvestite :D

Great ragtime style piano by Michael Bruce.

Most likely Bob Ezrin.

I think this was before Ezrin

No, he is on the album. He first played on Love it to Death.

Alice Cooper band
Alice Cooper – vocals, harmonica
Glen Buxton – guitar
Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Dennis Dunaway – bass, backing vocals
Neal Smith – drums, backing vocals
with
Donovan – vocals on the song "Billion Dollar Babies"[3]
Steve "The Deacon" Hunter – guitar solos on "Generation Landslide", "Billion Dollar Babies", "Sick Things", "Raped and Freezing", "Unfinished Sweet" and pedal steel on "Hello Hurray"
Mick Mashbir – guitar
Dick Wagner – guitar
Bob Dolin – keyboards
Bob Ezrin – keyboards, producer
David Libert – backing vocals
Technical
Jack Douglas – engineer
Robin Black – engineer
Frank Hubach – engineer
Ed Sprigg – engineer
Logan Jervis – engineer

😍😍😍

SWTB 😃

How come the vocal track is so damn muted. This is so fucked up. Every recording here is the same. I have the original vinyl of this, which I got when it came out. This is not how this damn song sounds. This is a disgrace.

I assume that you were listening to it with only one headphone. The vocals go to the left side, the echoes in the right, and the instrumental in both.

Exactly.

operator error.

glen922 I come for the piano