Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC – Songfacts

Lesley Gore, known for ’60s hits like ” It’s My Party ,” recorded this for the 2002 compilation album When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You’d Hear . Her version was produced by Mauro DeSantis, who worked with Cevin Soling on the track. Soling, who was executive producer of the album, told Songfacts why he chose this song for Gore: “Her stuff was fairly empowering as far as female artists and things that she was doing. So it’s not like it was the complete stretch, but you still think kind of the lighter girl-group kind of music from the ’60s, and here’s something that’s pretty hard-core aggressive. But at the same time, I certainly concede that she was doing edgy stuff in her own way, at the time.”