this is a verrrrry hard question for me, I really don't know

I Wanna Be Your Lover was the first Prince song i can remember hearing. I use to hear it on the radio. I also saw him on a tv show called The Midnight Special singing it.

motherfunka said:

same here... i think
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Raspberry Beret on a TV show

Controversy on the Ferry Maat Soulshow.

"I Wanna Be Your Lover",back in late 1979.

i heard purple rain when i was 10, my sister had the album on vinyl, which she passed down to me! nice to have!

'Gett Off' Was the first music i bought, viynl.

Good first choice.

Ssm 8)

Delirious. I was just a lil kid, but I remember loving that song!

Kiss, in 1998. I was riding home with my mom and it came on the radio and I remember my mom commenting,
"Prince's voice doesn't go with that music at all!"

Be My Lover on the radio!

Sexy Dancer but I didn't know who the artist was.

Zinzi said:

I wanna be your lover, I had to be about 3 or 4 yrs old

1999

Little Red Corvette

1981, touring with the Stones, I was in High School and could care less about the Stones or Prince and had to go to take pictures but leave after 4 songs by the stones to make it from the Astrodome to my school where the photos were delveloped and the article was written for the Friday student Newspaper.

I was pissed I had to go because Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was going to be on Carson that night. Oddly, I would be screaming this man's name at the reunion arena a few years later during the triple threat tour.

I would have laughed in your face if you told me he would be an item one day.

Let's see... I am sure I heard other songs but as a NON fan of any of the bands that night - I think there were maybe one or two others - the one about Jacking Off was the one that stuck my mind as I commented to the girl in the car ride back, women don't "jack off" and call it that. There were a lot of boos and a little trash but nothing that made it on stage that night.

Let's see, years later going to a Stones concert they were playing Sexy MF.

Soft and Wet.

I remember watching parts of Purple Rain when my parents got it on laserdisk. However, I was only 5 at the time so I don't specifically remember the songs. A couple years later I heard When Doves Cry and I recognized it, so it must have been my first.

I Wanna be Your Lover...playing on a boombox at a basketball game in 1979

SUPRMAN said:

Same here. I remember where I was when I heard it. Thought it was a girl, then I fell in love.

Soft and Wet

Still Waiting

When doves cry. I was sat on a hotel bed in Florida on my holidays with my folks just before my 11th birthday. I rememeber hearing that guitar intro and thinking 'I have never heard anything like this before in my life', and that was it.....I was transfixed by all things Prince from then on.

Little Red Corvette and 1999

katara said:

same here.. then When Doves Cry hit me like a sledge hammer and im still hooked...

Joyinrepatition said:

ditto

katara said:

Joyinrepatition said:

When Doves Cry, in 1984, at age 10.