All the Girls in the World Beware!!!

Studio album by

Released

December 1974^[1]

Recorded

1974 at the Swamp,^[2]Parshallville, Michigan

Genre

Hard rock

Length

39:17

Label

Capitol Records

Producer

Jimmy Ienner^[2]

Grand Funk Railroad chronology

Shinin' On
(1974)

All the Girls in the World Beware!!!
(1974)

Caught in the Act
(1975)

Singles from All the Girls in the World Beware!!!

'Some Kind of Wonderful'/'Wild'
Released: December 9, 1974^[3]
'Bad Time'/'Good and Evil'
Released: March 24, 1975^[3]

Prairie Band Casino & Resort: Grand Funk Railroad Played at the Casino! - See 201 traveler reviews, 55 candid photos, and great deals for Prairie Band Casino & Resort at TripAdvisor. Grand Funk Railroad, sometimes shortened as Grand Funk, is an American hard rock band popular during the 1970s, which toured extensively and played to packed arenas worldwide. David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine once said, 'You cannot talk about rock in the 1970s without talking about Grand Funk Railroad!' COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (October 15, 2018) – Legendary rock band Grand Funk Railroad will take the stage in The Pavilion at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Friday, December 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets (priced at $30/$50/$70) are on sale now via Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 800-653-8000.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]

All the Girls in the World Beware!!! is the ninth studio album by American hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad. The album was released by Capitol Records in December 1974^[1] and was the group's second album released that year. The first single from the album, 'Some Kind of Wonderful', was released on December 16, 1974, and its follow-up, 'Bad Time', was released on March 24, 1975.^[3] A Quadraphonic mix of the album was available on the Quadraphonic 8-Track cartridge format.

Recording, production, and songs[edit]

All the Girls in the World Beware!!! was recorded at the Swamp, a studio owned by Mark Farner and situated on his farm in Parshallville, MI.^[5] The recording engineer on the sessions was Shelly Yakus with assistance by Kevin Ayers and Rod O'Brien. The album's producer was Jimmy Ienner.^[2] Ienner worked with many pop and rock musicians including Three Dog Night, the Raspberries, and the Bay City Rollers, among others. Ienner would later work on the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, as well as the film's soundtrack.

All but two of the songs on the album were written by members of the band, most of which were either written or co-written by Mark Farner. The album also saw an increase in the number of songs co-written by Craig Frost, who co-wrote three songs on the album—which was more than he had written on the three previous albums that he recorded with the group. During this time, Mark Farner was getting divorced from his first wife, which inspired the lyrics to 'Bad Time' and other Farner written songs on the album.^[3]

Artwork and design[edit]

The album's artwork originated from a concept by Lynn Goldsmith and Andrew Cavaliere, which included taking the faces of the band members and manipulating them onto the bodies of famous body buildersArnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu. The body builder photos were used on the front and back of the vinyl sleeve cover, and were printed on the disc labels. The inside sleeve included an illustrated poster of the body builders surrounded by a crowd of females, which was illustrated by Neal Adams.^[2]

1975 world tour[edit]

During the finalizing of the album, the group was preparing to undergo a world tour at the beginning of 1975. The tour started on January 2 in Mobile, Alabama, and ended on May 28 in Hawaii. The tour also included several stops around Europe in April and concerts in Canada and Japan in May.^[2]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written and composed by Mark Farner, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	'Responsibility'	3:50
2.	'Runnin'	Don Brewer, Craig Frost	4:19
3.	'Life'	4:58
4.	'Look at Granny Run Run'	Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman	2:29
5.	'Memories'	3:31

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	'All the Girls in the World Beware'	Farner, Frost	3:29
7.	'Wild'	2:53
8.	'Good & Evil'	Brewer, Frost	7:32
9.	'Bad Time'	2:54
10.	'Some Kind of Wonderful'	John Ellison	3:22

Personnel[edit]

The following people contributed to All the Girls in the World Beware!!!:^[2]

Mark Farner – vocals, guitars, percussion
Craig Frost – organ, keyboards, percussion, background vocals
Mel Schacher – bass
Don Brewer – vocals, drums, percussion
Jimmy Ienner – producer
Shelly Yakus – recording engineer
Kevin Ayers – assistant engineer
Rod O'Brien – assistant engineer
Tony Camillo – string and horn arrangements

Charts[edit]

Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1974	Billboard 200	10^[6]
1974	Canada	20^[7]

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1974	'Some Kind of Wonderful'	Billboard Hot 100	3
		US R&B	85^[8]
		Canada	6
		Australia	39
1975	'Bad Time'	Billboard Hot 100	4^[9]
1975	'Bad Time'	Canada	3

References[edit]

Grand Funk Railroad Songs

^ ^a^b'Billboard's Top Album Picks: Spotlight'. Billboard. Vol. 86 no. 50. December 14, 1974. p. 64. ISSN0006-2510. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^fAll the Girls in the World Beware!!! (Vinyl sleeve). Grand Funk. Capitol Records. 1974. SO-11356.CS1 maint: others (link)
<

Grand Funk Railroad Hollywood Casino