thesexofit said:

LaAmi said:

Her video for Boom Boom is so hot!!! Ohh, she got it

Never seen the video, but the song is quite good though.

U must see it! It's fantastic!

Jill Jones @ Paisley – A brief history

Jill Jones was born in Ohio in July 1962. Her father was a jazz musician and her mother was a fashion model who worked all over the world. Jill was raised mostly by her grandparents, until she moved to Los Angeles when her mother remarried. She began her singing career at the age of 17 when she sang backing vocals for Teena Marie, whom her mother managed. It was while touring with Teena Marie that she met Prince for the first time.

4^th December 1980.

Prince begins a tour in support of his album Dirty Mind. The opening act on the tour is Teena Marie. One of the backing singers in Tenna Marie's band is a girl called Jill Jones. Prince really liked her voice and he encouraged her to pursue a solo career. After the tour ended Prince and Jill Jones stayed in touch.

1982.

In the years running up to the release of her debut album, Jill Jones worked on many Prince related projects, among which were backing vocals for Prince, Vanity6, Apollonia6, Sheila E and Mazarati.

She also had a small part as a waitress in the Purple Rain movie. Prince actually wrote the song Wednesday for Jill to sing in the Purple Rain movie, but it was not included and remains unreleased..

[img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/ghj.jpg[/img:$uid] Jill in the Purple Rain movie.

1^st May 1985.

During the month of May Prince was recording various songs for different projects at Sunset Sound Studio in L.A.

During this time Jill Jones joined Prince in the studio to record a song called My Man which was planned for her debut album which had been in the planning stages for quite some time. The song My Man was actually a long jam which was performed by various members of The Family and was then edited down to album length.

Late May 1985.

Prince and Jill Jones continue with work on her debut album for Paisley Park Records at Sunset Sound Studio in L.A. Several songs were recorded for possible use including Come Electra Tuesday, Married Man, Killin' At The Soda Shop, Living Doll and For Love. The only song from these sessions that made the final album was For Love.

July/Summer 1985.

Prince continues work on Jill Jones' album over the Summer months (among other projects and recordings). Songs recorded include My Sex, Mia Bocca, G-Spot and Baby, Your A Trip. My Sex did not make the final album.

February/March 1986.

Work continues on the debut album for Jill Jones at Sunset Sound Studio in L.A. Prince was not present every day in the studio and David Rivkin produced the sessions that Prince did not involve Prince. A song called Euphoria Highway was recorded for the album.

An early version of the album was compiled in late February, this version included Euphoria Highway, and another track called Too Rough. David Rivkin and Jill Jones continued work on the album at Electric Ladyland Studio in New York to where Jill had moved.

After some additional work, the album was finally ready for release in early 1987. Prince's engineer Susan Rogers said “That poor album took such a long time to do, Jill was really patient with Prince through those years, she's infinitely patient. It is one of her greatest qualities.”

[Edited 10/8/10 2:04am]

^^ Cute picture.

MikeyB71 said: In the years running up to the release of her debut album, Jill Jones worked on many

Prince related projects,among which were backing vocals for Prince, Vanity6, Apollonia6, Sheila E and Mazarati.

... interesting. I wonder on which tracks because as far as i've seen, is that her name doesn't appear in the credits of their debut album.

But maybe she performed on their second album, or the unreleased sessions ... great to read, thanks again !

Shango said:

MikeyB71 said: In the years running up to the release of her debut album, Jill Jones worked on many

Prince related projects,among which were backing vocals for Prince, Vanity6, Apollonia6, Sheila E and Mazarati.

... interesting. I wonder on which tracks because as far as i've seen, is that her name doesn't appear in the credits of their debut album.

But maybe she performed on their second album, or the unreleased sessions ... great to read, thanks again !

Apparently the tracks were Strawberry Lover and I Guess It's All Over.

Remember that she was not credited for a lot of tracks she did for people. This seems to be a common thing with Prince and Prince releated projects, people sang or played instruments on certain albums and not all of those people got a credit.

MikeyB71 said:

Shango said:

... interesting. I wonder on which tracks because as far as i've seen, is that her name doesn't appear in the credits of their debut album.

But maybe she performed on their second album, or the unreleased sessions ... great to read, thanks again !

Apparently the tracks were Strawberry Lover and I Guess It's All Over.

Remember that she was not credited for a lot of tracks she did for people. This seems to be a common thing with Prince and Prince releated projects, people sang or played instruments on certain albums and not all of those people got a credit.

This was posted by QuasarOfRock...

From Jill's myspace page:

DISCOGRAPHY

1980 Lady T - Teena Marie(Gordy/Motown.)

Backing vocals Produced by Richard Rudolph

Co-produced by Teena Marie

1980 Irons in the Fire Teena Marie (Gordy/Motown.)

Backing vocals

Produced by Teena Marie

1981 It Must Be Magic - Teena Marie (Gordy/Motown)

Backing vocals

Co-wrote The Ballad of Cradle Rob and Me

Produced by Teena Marie

1982 1999 Prince (Warner Bros.)

Featured vocals on 1999 & Lady Cab Driver

Backing vocals

Produced by Prince

1984 Purple Rain Prince & The Revolution (Warner Bros.)

Backing Vocals

Produced by Prince & The Revolution

1984 Apollonia 6 Apollonia 6 (Warner Bros.)

backing vocals

Produced by Apollonia 6 & The Star Company

1984 The Glamorous Life Shella E (Warner Bros.)

Backing vocals on The Belle of St. Mark

1984 Starchild Teena Marie (Gordy/Motown)

Backing vocals

1985 Manic Monday The Bangles (Columbia)

Featured backing vocals (Uncredited)

Produced by David Kahne

1985 Hello (B- Side) Prince (Paisley Park / Warner Bros.,)

Backing vocals

1986 Mazarati Mazarati (Paisley Park/ Warner Bros.)

Backing vocals on Strawberry Lover & I Guess its All Over

1987 JILL JONES - Jill Jones (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.)

Produced by Jill Jones & David Z. (* Co-produced by Prince)(.. Video available)

Mia Bocca* .. b/w 77 Bleeker St

Extended & Dub version Mia Bocca Remixed by Arthur Baker G-Spot b/w Baby

Cries (Ay- Yah) For Love * b/w Baby Youre a Trip

1987 Its Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Prince (Paisley Park/ Warner Bros.)

Co- lead vocals

Produced by Prince

1988 Bright Lights, Big City (Warner Bros.)

Backing Vocals (Uncredited) for Good Love by Prince

Good Love Song included on independently released Crystal Ball by Prince

1988 Kristen Vigard: Kristen Vigard

Backing vocals

1989 The Ground You Walk On Jill Jones (Warner Bros.)

For the Earth Girls Are Easy Soundtrack

Produced by Nile Rodgers

1989 You Do Me Ryuichi Sakamoto (Virgin)

Lead Vocals [video clip available]

1990 Pandemonium The Time (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.)

Backing Vocals

1990 UNRELEASED DEMOS W/ ANGIE STONE (Paisley Park/; Warner Bros.)

1990 Cest Si Bon (From Yves St. Laurent television spot)

Produced by Trevor Horn

91-95 UNREALEASED DEMOS W/ TIM SIMENON & JOHN REYNOLDS

1993 Mystic Man Paolo Rusticelli (Island)

Lead vocals on Rock Man & In Deep

1993 Bald Paolo Rusticelli (Island)

Featured vocalist w/ Miles Davis, Carlos Santana

Produced by Paolo Rusticelli

1994 The Great Pretender Lisa Lisa (EMI)

Written & produced by Jill Jones & Giovanni Salah

1995 BABY MOTHER - Baby Mother (London Records) unreleased

Lead Vocalist

Produced by David Steele, Andy Cox, Carmen Rizzo, Jamie Mahobaritz

1995 THELISTENING POOL - Oil for The Lamps Of China (Telegraph/ Island)

Backing vocals

97-98 WRITING/PRODUCING SOLO PROJECTS W/ CHRIS BRUCE

1999 CHIC - Live At The Budokan (Sumthing)

Background vocals

2000 - JILL JONES & CHRIS BRUCE - Two (DAV Music)

TODD TERRY featuring JILL JONES - "Call Me" (BMG Germany)

RONNY JORDAN featuring JILL JONES - "Why" (Blue Note)

2004 - THE GRAND ROYALS - Wasted (Peace Bisquit)

2007 JILL JONES vs. FUNKY JUNCTION - 'Someone To Jump Up' [european release] (Stoney Boy)

2009 JILL JONES - 'Living For the Weekend' (Peace Bisquit)

2009 JILL JONES - album (Peace Bisquit)

MikeyB71 said:

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Jill Jones' role in the Graffiti Bridge movie was originally much larger than what she ended up playing. Kim Basinger was intended as the original lead in the movie, but when she and Prince parted company shortly before filming began, Prince simply combined Kim's and Jill's parts together and gave them to Ingred Chavez. Jill was then given a much smaller role as Prince's girlfriend.

While flying to Minneapolis to film the movie, Jill read the revamped script and began to tear it up and started to throw pages all around the cabin. Jill retired to the bathroom while her PA had to walk around the plane asking fellow passengers for pages of the script back.

Jill later said that if she had not been on the plane already she would have turned right round and returned home.

Jill did turn up in Minneapolis but she refused to talk to Prince on the set of Graffiti Bridge. In fact she refused to communicate with anyone except in French. Prince got upset and told Jill "If you don't smile and act better round here, then this is your replacement," and then showed Jill a photograph. Jill replied "Oh, an old girlfriend?" She stayed to complete the film but her relationship with Prince was never the same.

Jill never seemed to be a priority in Prince's life.She had a tiny role in 'Purple Rain' and in the sequel,she plays The Kid's girlfriend but it's such an insignificant role.In neither film,she doesn't even get to sing one of her own songs! 'GB' finds her lipsyncing to Elisa Fiorilla's vocals on "Love Machine".

SoulAlive said:

MikeyB71 said:

[img:$uid]http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx218/MMikeyBee/d2354e0189.jpg[/img:$uid]

Jill Jones' role in the Graffiti Bridge movie was originally much larger than what she ended up playing. Kim Basinger was intended as the original lead in the movie, but when she and Prince parted company shortly before filming began, Prince simply combined Kim's and Jill's parts together and gave them to Ingred Chavez. Jill was then given a much smaller role as Prince's girlfriend.

While flying to Minneapolis to film the movie, Jill read the revamped script and began to tear it up and started to throw pages all around the cabin. Jill retired to the bathroom while her PA had to walk around the plane asking fellow passengers for pages of the script back.

Jill later said that if she had not been on the plane already she would have turned right round and returned home.

Jill did turn up in Minneapolis but she refused to talk to Prince on the set of Graffiti Bridge. In fact she refused to communicate with anyone except in French. Prince got upset and told Jill "If you don't smile and act better round here, then this is your replacement," and then showed Jill a photograph. Jill replied "Oh, an old girlfriend?" She stayed to complete the film but her relationship with Prince was never the same.

Jill never seemed to be a priority in Prince's life.She had a tiny role in 'Purple Rain' and in the sequel,she plays The Kid's girlfriend but it's such an insignificant role.In neither film,she doesn't even get to sing one of her own songs! 'GB' finds her lipsyncing to Elisa Fiorilla's vocals on "Love Machine".

It does seem a shame that she was not given bigger roles in these movies, also her album taking as long as it did, she deserved more success.

MikeyB71 said:

SoulAlive said:

Jill never seemed to be a priority in Prince's life.She had a tiny role in 'Purple Rain' and in the sequel,she plays The Kid's girlfriend but it's such an insignificant role.In neither film,she doesn't even get to sing one of her own songs! 'GB' finds her lipsyncing to Elisa Fiorilla's vocals on "Love Machine".

It does seem a shame that she was not given bigger roles in these movies, also her album taking as long as it did, she deserved more success.

Yep,it appears that her album was placed on the backburner for many years while Prince was more focused on Sheila E,Apollonia 6 and others.Jill's album should have been released in 1984 or '85,so that she could taken advantage of the Purple Rain hype.By the time it was finally released in 1987,songs like "Mia Bocca","All Day/All Night" and "G-Spot" were sorta outdated and didn't stand a chance on the pop music charts in '87.

MikeyB71 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince & the Revolution

Kiss the long version vocals and the talking part at the end: Saul Saul don't you touch that channel

Nice, she also sang backing vocals with Vanity 6 on the Triple Threat 1999 tour, not that that is a recording of course but i thought i would mention it.

I thought I read that Jill would sing back stage behind the curtain on V6 sets to bolster the girls vocals...like she would sing Vanity's parts with Jill's mike turned down, and Vanity would sing over her... so that Jill's voice would "fill out" Vanity's weaker voice.

MikeyB71 said:

StonedImmaculate said:

That pic was on my wall all thru junior high and high school!

She deserved MUCH better treatment than she got from Prince.

As for background vocals, she also sang on "Rock Hard in a Funky Place."

And wasnt she the inspiration for "She's Always in my Hair"?

Thanks, i did not know about Rock Hard.........

Yes, it is well known that She's Always In My Hair was written about Jill, great song.

I always felt like Jill was his "bottom beoytch" He said "maybe I'll marry her".... he should have. She always had his back.

OldFriends4Sale said:

who is the girl to the left of Jill? Is this Kim Upjohn or whatever her name Prince's girlfriend from school? I've always wanted to see picture of Kim.

prodigalfan said:

MikeyB71 said:

Nice, she also sang backing vocals with Vanity 6 on the Triple Threat 1999 tour, not that that is a recording of course but i thought i would mention it.

I thought I read that Jill would sing back stage behind the curtain on V6 sets to bolster the girls vocals...like she would sing Vanity's parts with Jill's mike turned down, and Vanity would sing over her... so that Jill's voice would "fill out" Vanity's weaker voice.

Yes, i don't think Jill was "seen" on stage with Vanity 6, I assume she stayed behind the curtain, along with the The Time who provided their music.

MikeyB71 said:

Shango said:

... interesting. I wonder on which tracks because as far as i've seen, is that her name doesn't appear in the credits of their debut album.

But maybe she performed on their second album, or the unreleased sessions ... great to read, thanks again !

Apparently the tracks were Strawberry Lover and I Guess It's All Over.

Remember that she was not credited for a lot of tracks she did for people. This seems to be a common thing with Prince and Prince releated projects, people sang or played instruments on certain albums and not all of those people got a credit.

yep, good one & thanks for posting her credits list !

Jill Jones has remained one of my FAV from Prince's Protege's........Xcellent history on JJ........AWESOME

prodigalfan said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

who is the girl to the left of Jill? Is this Kim Upjohn or whatever her name Prince's girlfriend from school? I've always wanted to see picture of Kim.

Yep that's Kim Ups.... something

1 thing I love about the movie, just about everyone in Prince's real life was in that movie

Even Tony Christian from Mazarati(guitar) who was an engineer I believe for Prince was in the Taste:Sex Shooter scene

OldFriends4Sale said: Even Tony Christian from Mazarati(guitar) who was an engineer I believe for Prince was in the Taste:Sex Shooter scene

Hey cool, i'll recheck that scene ... thanx !

prodigalfan said:

MikeyB71 said:

Nice, she also sang backing vocals with Vanity 6 on the Triple Threat 1999 tour, not that that is a recording of course but i thought i would mention it.

I thought I read that Jill would sing back stage behind the curtain on V6 sets to bolster the girls vocals...like she would sing Vanity's parts with Jill's mike turned down, and Vanity would sing over her... so that Jill's voice would "fill out" Vanity's weaker voice.

Kinda makes you wonder why Prince didn't just make Jill a member of Vanity 6.They could have been a quartet like the Mary Jane Girls.Jill would have made them sound so much better.

SoulAlive said:

Great thread and wonderful pix.

OldFriends4Sale said:

MikeyB71 said:

Prince and related artist recordings with guest appearances by Jill Jones.

Prince

Backing vocals on 1999, Automatic, Free, Lady Cab Driver and Hello (b-side). Jill also sang on Sign O The Times' It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night.

Sheila E

Backing vocals on The Belle Of St Mark.

Apollonia 6

Backing vocals on Oo She She Wa Wa.

The Bangles

Backing vocals on Manic Monday.

Mazarati

Backing vocals on Strawberry Lover and I Guess It's All Over.

The Time

Backing vocals on unspecified tracks.

^This is not a complete list.

[Edited 10/1/10 8:30am]

Prince & the Revolution

Kiss the long version vocals and the talking part at the end: Saul Saul don't you touch that channel

I always wondered who that was!

OldFriends4Sale said:

prodigalfan said:

Yep that's Kim Ups.... something

1 thing I love about the movie, just about everyone in Prince's real life was in that movie

Even Tony Christian from Mazarati(guitar) who was an engineer I believe for Prince was in the Taste:Sex Shooter scene

Is that Andre Cymone waiting in line at the first Ave. at 2:49 into the movie dressed in a tan jump suit with black boots and sunglasses on (during lets go crazy)????

I really like her song ' The ground you walk on' from the Earth Girls Are Easy soundtrack. In the film the song is sung by Geena Davis. I think it should have been released as a single, it could have been a hit.

Wait, Jill released a new album last year?

Here is a list of promo appearances performed by Jill around the time of the release of her debut album.

This may be incomplete.

sosgemini said:

Wait, Jill released a new album last year?

So far it seems more like 2 singles, from which one with a number of remixes

Jill Jones - Living For T...at Discogs

Living for the Weekend by... on iTunes

Jill Jones - Living For T...at Discogs

MikeyB71 said:

Here is a list of promo appearances performed by Jill around the time of the release of her debut album.

12 AUG, 1987 ::::: New York, NY, USA – The Ritz (opening for Level 42) 0? SEP, 1987 ::::: London, England – Sky TV studios [TV] Sky TV: “G-spot” (TV air date: ???) 05 SEP, 1987 ::::: Verona, Italy – Arena di Verona [TV] Festivalbar 1987: “Mia Bocca” (TV air date: ???) 08 SEP, 1987 ::::: Bussum, The Netherlands – Concordia Studios [TV] Countdown: “G-spot” (TV air date: Sep ?? '87) 0? SEP, 1987 ::::: Paris, France – Bains Douches [TV] ? Bains de Minuit “Mia Bocca” (TV air date: 2 Oct 1987) 17 OCT, 1987 ::::: Rome, Italty – Teatro delle Vittorie Rai Uno [TV] Fantastico: “Baby You're A Trip” & "Violet Blue" (live tv) 00 000, 1988 ::::: Antwerp, Belgium – Gala

This may be incomplete.

Interesting, now why were all these dates overseas and not in US? Just seems to me even Jill's publicity was screwed up. I don't know, I wouldn't think an attempt to debut an UNKNOWN
American singer overseas would be successful.

prodigalfan said:

MikeyB71 said:

Here is a list of promo appearances performed by Jill around the time of the release of her debut album.

12 AUG, 1987 ::::: New York, NY, USA – The Ritz (opening for Level 42) 0? SEP, 1987 ::::: London, England – Sky TV studios [TV] Sky TV: “G-spot” (TV air date: ???) 05 SEP, 1987 ::::: Verona, Italy – Arena di Verona [TV] Festivalbar 1987: “Mia Bocca” (TV air date: ???) 08 SEP, 1987 ::::: Bussum, The Netherlands – Concordia Studios [TV] Countdown: “G-spot” (TV air date: Sep ?? '87) 0? SEP, 1987 ::::: Paris, France – Bains Douches [TV] ? Bains de Minuit “Mia Bocca” (TV air date: 2 Oct 1987) 17 OCT, 1987 ::::: Rome, Italty – Teatro delle Vittorie Rai Uno [TV] Fantastico: “Baby You're A Trip” & "Violet Blue" (live tv) 00 000, 1988 ::::: Antwerp, Belgium – Gala

This may be incomplete.

Interesting, now why were all these dates overseas and not in US? Just seems to me even Jill's publicity was screwed up. I don't know, I wouldn't think an attempt to debut an UNKNOWN
American singer overseas would be successful.

I remember in the summer of 1987,there were rumors that Jill would be the opening act on Prince's US 'SOT'T tour but of course,the tour never made its way to America.That would have some great exposure for Jill.