I've seen a many bridges in my time and crossed every one of 'em
With no trouble at all (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I had trials and tribulations, heartaches and pains (well that's alright)
Survived 'em all baby (uh huh, say it, say it!)
Hmph, I'm still Melody, and I'm still Cool
Melody Cool

They call me Melody Cool (Melody, Melody)
I was here long before you (Melody, Melody)
If you're good I will love ya, (Melody) but I'm nobody's fool (Melody)
I'm Melody Cool

When I was born there were tidal waves (Melody, Melody)
Whole town went under nobody saved (Melody, Melody)
At every funeral it rained every time I sang
Melody Cool

I have been here much longer, (Melody) longer than you (Melody)
I'm Melody Cool

Well now, everybody runnin' 'round talkin' 'bout saving souls
When they know good and plenty well they got enough trouble
Trying to save their own
(alright, say it, say it girl)

(Melody, Melody, Melody)

Go on, go on.
Every woman and every man (Melody)
One day they just got to understand (Melody)
That if we play in the same key everything will be
Melody Cool

(Melody, Melody, Melody, Melody)
What's your name? (Melody, Melody)
New power wave your hand, everybody sing out across the land
Say hey hey hey (hey hey hey)
Say hey hey hey (hey hey hey)
Everybody say hey hey hey (hey hey hey)

They call me Melody Cool (Melody, Melody, Melody)

Looka here youngin'
Let me give you a piece of good advice, (Melody)
And I do get paid for counseling
It ain't no big I's and little you's in my life
So that's why you see they call me Melody Cool (Melody, Melody Cool, Melody)
I was here long before you (Melody, long before u)
If you're good (Melody) I will love you but I'm nobody's fool (Melody)
I'm Melody Cool
(Melody, Melody Cool, Melody, long before you)

I took a few pictures about a month ago when I last watched GB for a picture I was working on (that still isn't finished haha) so I thought I should dump a few here. I had to take them on my phone though because the DVD player wont let me take screenshots. There is a way around it but I'm too lazy.

He looks so cute in the last one

what a Sexy MF

Ironically, in the movie that "isn't violent. No one gets laid", Prince gets both violent and laid (Ingrid has sex with him sometime in it right? I haven't watched in a while and don't remember.. I just remember her moaning when he lifted her against the wall or something)

CharismaDove said:

what a Sexy MF

Ironically, in the movie that "isn't violent. No one gets laid", Prince gets both violent and laid (Ingrid has sex with him sometime in it right? I haven't watched in a while and don't remember.. I just remember her moaning when he lifted her against the wall or something)

Ah well to be fair we don't see anything explicit happen between Aura and The Kid (just them kissing and stuff) compared to the full on raunchy scene we got in PR. What happens in GB is nothing to todays standards And in regards to the violence, Kid just gets annoyed and hits (or attempts to) Morris in his club when he challenges him to the battle.

What i'm still puzzled with is how GB was supposed to integrate The Time before Corporate World turned into Pandemonium and several of its track were integrated in the GB album. Obviously by 1989 the script already involed The Time but CW was planned for release in November 1989 with no known tie in to the movie, and I think a release exactly a year before the film was waaaay too early for them to plan to tie both projects in any manner. This may mean that they planned to recoird new songs for GB and release them somehow a year later, or maybe they expected GB to be released much ealier and contain some CW songs but the chaotic production pushed it back to a year later, IDK. Does someone have the early scripts of GB that I know are circulating? Do they mention any Time song in them?

Similarly, I wonder what the line-up of The Time would have been for the promotion of CW and the movie since the album was recorded solely by Prince, Jerome and Morris. I guess creating a backing band for the live shows and movie wouldn't have been a problem but they must have thought about it and I wonder if they knew who they'd hire, and if they were planning to include Monte and Jellybean in it or if they only came aboard when Jesse, Jimmy and Terry did.

Also how in the fucking world did Prince isolate the harmonica sample from the Chamber Brothers' song on Theives In The Temple? He'd have needed the original multitrack!

databank said:

What i'm still puzzled with is how GB was supposed to integrate The Time before Corporate World turned into Pandemonium and several of its track were integrated in the GB album. Obviously by 1989 the script already involed The Time but CW was planned for release in November 1989 with no known tie in to the movie, and I think a release exactly a year before the film was waaaay too early for them to plan to tie both projects in any manner. This may mean that they planned to recoird new songs for GB and release them somehow a year later, or maybe they expected GB to be released much ealier and contain some CW songs but the chaotic production pushed it back to a year later, IDK. Does someone have the early scripts of GB that I know are circulating? Do they mention any Time song in them?

Similarly, I wonder what the line-up of The Time would have been for the promotion of CW and the movie since the album was recorded solely by Prince, Jerome and Morris. I guess creating a backing band for the live shows and movie wouldn't have been a problem but they must have thought about it and I wonder if they knew who they'd hire, and if they were planning to include Monte and Jellybean in it or if they only came aboard when Jesse, Jimmy and Terry did.

Check out reply #7 I think Jimmy explains it best

1.) a Time movie

2.) a pre GB movie before Sheila E. Cat & Boni Boyer left the band

3.) a Prince/Kim Bassinger rough 30 page draft

4.) the Time / Prince GB version

Let’s look back to 1990 and the Graffiti Bridge movie. How did the original seven members of The Time come to be involved with that project?

Let me try to clarify a little bit. There might be a misconception that we got back together to do the Graffiti Bridge movie. That’s absolutely not the case. What happened, Morris [Day] was working on a project with Prince. It was basically going to be more of a solo project. Prince was going to do the bulk of the writing and playing. I think it was going to be calledCorporate World, but there were a few different names floating around at that point. Around that same time period, we had also been working with Morris on different projects and things. We thought, let’s get The Time back together and just make a record. So we got back together and started making an album. This was with Prince’s blessing, by the way. And we had our own idea for a film.

What kind of film did you guys have in mind?

It was basically based on our own true story, rather than a fictional story. Purple Rain was a fictional story based in some truth, the whole backdrop of Minneapolis and the competition of the bands. The way that worked was very true and very well done in that movie. But we really wanted to make a film about our exploits on the road and some of the things that went on, because we had a great time on the road.

How far did you guys get with this project?

We actually brought in someone to write a screenplay. We sat and talked with a couple of screenwriters, telling them the stories we thought were funny, letting them weave a storyline around it. We were in talks with Warner Bros. to do it. The next thing you know, literally out of the blue, Prince called us for a meeting at Paisley Park. And I remember we walked in thinking it was going to be about the movie — the movie we thought we were going to do. All of sudden it turned into Graffiti Bridge, and we were like,“What’s Graffiti Bridge?” Prince was like, “This is my movie.” And it was, you know, this girl and a feather. [laughs] It was like, “No, no, no — we’ve got our own ideas for a movie.”

CharismaDove said:

what a Sexy MF

Ironically, in the movie that "isn't violent. No one gets laid", Prince gets both violent and laid (Ingrid has sex with him sometime in it right? I haven't watched in a while and don't remember.. I just remember her moaning when he lifted her against the wall or something)

OldFriends4Sale said:

databank said:

What i'm still puzzled with is how GB was supposed to integrate The Time before Corporate World turned into Pandemonium and several of its track were integrated in the GB album. Obviously by 1989 the script already involed The Time but CW was planned for release in November 1989 with no known tie in to the movie, and I think a release exactly a year before the film was waaaay too early for them to plan to tie both projects in any manner. This may mean that they planned to recoird new songs for GB and release them somehow a year later, or maybe they expected GB to be released much ealier and contain some CW songs but the chaotic production pushed it back to a year later, IDK. Does someone have the early scripts of GB that I know are circulating? Do they mention any Time song in them?

Similarly, I wonder what the line-up of The Time would have been for the promotion of CW and the movie since the album was recorded solely by Prince, Jerome and Morris. I guess creating a backing band for the live shows and movie wouldn't have been a problem but they must have thought about it and I wonder if they knew who they'd hire, and if they were planning to include Monte and Jellybean in it or if they only came aboard when Jesse, Jimmy and Terry did.

Check out reply #7 I think Jimmy explains it best

1.) a Time movie

2.) a pre GB movie before Sheila E. Cat & Boni Boyer left the band

3.) a Prince/Kim Bassinger rough 30 page draft

4.) the Time / Prince GB version

Let’s look back to 1990 and the Graffiti Bridge movie. How did the original seven members of The Time come to be involved with that project?

Let me try to clarify a little bit. There might be a misconception that we got back together to do the Graffiti Bridge movie. That’s absolutely not the case. What happened, Morris [Day] was working on a project with Prince. It was basically going to be more of a solo project. Prince was going to do the bulk of the writing and playing. I think it was going to be calledCorporate World, but there were a few different names floating around at that point. Around that same time period, we had also been working with Morris on different projects and things. We thought, let’s get The Time back together and just make a record. So we got back together and started making an album. This was with Prince’s blessing, by the way. And we had our own idea for a film.

What kind of film did you guys have in mind?

It was basically based on our own true story, rather than a fictional story. Purple Rain was a fictional story based in some truth, the whole backdrop of Minneapolis and the competition of the bands. The way that worked was very true and very well done in that movie. But we really wanted to make a film about our exploits on the road and some of the things that went on, because we had a great time on the road.

How far did you guys get with this project?

We actually brought in someone to write a screenplay. We sat and talked with a couple of screenwriters, telling them the stories we thought were funny, letting them weave a storyline around it. We were in talks with Warner Bros. to do it. The next thing you know, literally out of the blue, Prince called us for a meeting at Paisley Park. And I remember we walked in thinking it was going to be about the movie — the movie we thought we were going to do. All of sudden it turned into Graffiti Bridge, and we were like,“What’s Graffiti Bridge?” Prince was like, “This is my movie.” And it was, you know, this girl and a feather. [laughs] It was like, “No, no, no — we’ve got our own ideas for a movie.”

Thx This indeed shows that CW/Pandemonium wasn't related to GB at first, however it doesn't tell us how GB was supposed to feature The Time at this point, given, that it was already in the works by the time CW was recorded.

5. Corporate World

In June 1989, back from video shootings to "Batdance", [Prince] starts to work on a new THE TIME album, entitled [Corporate World]. The project started as a collaboration of [Prince] and [Morris Day] with some small input by [Jerome Benton] without worth mentioning. The other members of the original line-up weren't involved in the project at this time. The sessions were held at Paisley Park and lasted most of the summer. Work on the album was completed in early September 1989 and contains the following tracks: Murph drag, Nine lives, Donald Trump (black version), Love machine, Data bank, Shake!, Corporate world, The latest fashion, Release it and a reworked version of My summertime thang.

Most of the tracks were newly written and tailored for the project, except Data bank was based on a jam that was recorded with the Revolution on 17th June 1986, My summertime thang was originally recorded with [Morris Day] and [Jesse Johnson] in March 1983 for possible inclusion on [Ice Cream Castle] and Nine lives was originally recorded with Cathy "Cat" Glover (lead vocals) and Margie Cox (background vocals) in December 1988 / January 1989 for a planned but finally aborted album by Cat.

[Corporate World] was set for release on 14th November 1989 with Nine lives planned as the first single release. However, the project was put on hold when Warner Bros. Records wanted to involve all the original members of THE TIME. The company were adamant that "Graffiti Bridge", the planned third motion picture by [Prince], should feature the complete original line-up of the band, like the successful influence in the "Purple Rain" motion picture 5 years ago.

After a meeting with [Prince], it was decided that [Jesse Johnson], [Monte Moir], [Jimmy Jam] and [Terry Lewis] should participate and take an active part by writing and recording new tracks for the revised album, which later was renamed to [Pandemonium]. The additional recording sessions took place late 1989 - this time without much input by [Prince].

Murph drag, Nine lives and Corporate world are previously unreleased, but all tracks circulating on bootlegs amongst collectors.

Murph drag is a minimalist funk number sporting a chattering "Controversy"-style rhythm guitar part and a synth providing lead lines like the Minneapolis sound. The song is about a dance only people with money can do. The title is slang for a thick roll of money, so it means that the money roll is so heavy, that it drags a man along the ground. A sample of [Morris Day]'s "What time is it?" phrase is used frequently during the song. Candy Dulfer supplies some saxophone lines, but her contribution is not very prominent. Nine lives is a melodic pop-number with a haunting chorus sung by Margie Cox in a soulful voice and rapped verses by [Morris Day]. He's dreaming about a mega fine lover with a heck-a-pump body sayin' good time. [Morris Day] will die from the heat generated from the moment, that their eyes meet. At the end of the song he says: "This is the '90s and everybody wants a lover, a life-long lover with nine lives". Corporate world sounds like an update of [Prince]'s electro-pop of the 1981-83 era, boasting a slightly robotic drum machine pattern and horn-like synth decorations. Some female voices, including Jana Anderson, add a multi-layered vocal to the soulful chorus. The message of this song is, that big companies should spend money to make a better world, a new-soul nation, where kids can grow up in safe. The song includes a sample of "Don't call me nigger, whitey" (1969, from Sly & the Family Stone's album "Stand!").

6. Pandemonium

THE TIME members decided to keep Data bank, My summertime thang and Donald Trump (black version) from the previous [Corporate World] album sessions. In addition they choose two tracks, Jerk out (recorded in December 1981 during the [What Time Is It?] album sessions) and Chocolate (recorded in April 1983 during the [Ice Cream Castle] album sessions), from [Prince]'s Paisley Park vault. The lyrics of Jerk out were drastically reworked while Chocolate was very close to the original recording, even [Prince]'s appearance as a waiter in the song remains.

[Pandemonium] was released by Paisley Park Records / Reprise Records on 10th July 1990. It was the first album that actually features major contributions by all members of THE TIME - some of them had never played any note on previous records of the band. Although he isn't mentioned in any credits, [Prince] wrote or co-wrote at least six songs on this album: Donald Trump (black version), Chocolate, Data bank and My summertime thang. Pandemonium was written by [Prince] with [Jesse Johnson], [Jimmy Jam] and [Terry Lewis] while on Jerk out [Prince] shared songwriting credits with [Morris Day], [Jimmy Jam] and [Terry Lewis]. Blondie and Skillet were both written by [Jesse Johnson] with [Jimmy Jam] and [Terry Lewis]. In addition the duo wrote It's your world solely and shared credits with [Morris Day] and [Monte Moir] on Sometimes I get lonely.

Whereas the earlier albums had stuck to a basic formula of funk numbers mixed with a few ballads, the musical contents of [Pandemonium] are more varied. The hard rock funk metal of Blondie and Skillet, both boasting [Jesse Johnson's] guitar skills, and the hard and clean dance pop of the hit duo [Jimmy Jam] and [Terry Lewis] added fresh elements to THE TIME's new basic concept. Despite the newly recorded material, two of the standout tracks are [Prince]'s minimalist funk gems Chocolate and Jerk out, the songs with most similarity with earlier recordings of THE TIME. Both achieve a tight, funky groove by locking in the bassline with a scratchy rhythm guitar part. The stomping My summertime thang and Data bank are less interesting, containing only a few noteworthy musical ideas. Donald Trump (black version) meanwhile, is a smooth, laidback ballad, that follows directly in the footsteps of If the kid can't make you come (1984, from the album [Ice Cream Castle]).

Jerk out finds [Morris Day] in his traditional role of the womanizing seducer. He picks up a woman, referred to as "Stella", at a party. The song stresses the appeal of money as an aphrodisiac, as the woman falls for [Morris Day] when he shows her his stash of cash. Similarly in Donald Trump (black version), where he is realizing, that his woman isn't satisfied with merely true love and affection. His adore needs a wealthy magnate, a black version of multi-millionaire Donald Trump, someone who can fulfill a woman every wish and dream, including a $100 dinner at Adriano's, a brand-new coat or a brand-new hat. Chocolate, Data bank and My summertime thang are all about desire and lust. In Chocolate [Morris Day] reprises a phrase that [Prince] used when he acted out "How come U don't call me anymore?" in his "1999"-Tour shows: "Don't you wanna see my tootsie roll?". He pleads with a women, but she seems unwilling to go all the way with him. In Data bank he tries to convince his object of desire, another Stella, that the other guys that she is going out with are nothing but insecure brothers, who might be bedwetters. My summertime thang is about [Morris Day]'s love for a summertime thang, a kind of lover who makes him feel alright.

[Pandemonium] became a big commercial success again, outselling all previous albums by THE TIME. The first single Jerk out, their biggest hit so far, hits #1 at the Billboard R&B-Charts and #9 at the Pop-Charts. However, the second single Chocolate unfortunately went to nowhere and THE TIME's reunion soon lost its momentum. Frictions between certain band members while they were shooting a video for Chocolate signaled the beginning of the end for [Jimmy Jam] and [Terry Lewis], who wanted to concentrate on their own production work.

7. Graffiti Bridge

[Prince]'s album [Graffiti Bridge] was released by Paisley Park Records / Warner Bros. Records on 20th August 1990, more than two months prior to the accompanying motion picture. Four of the 17 tracks were performed by or with THE TIME. The latest fashion was written by [Prince], Shake! was registered to [Prince] with [Morris Day] and Release it and Love machine was a collaboration of [Prince] with [Morris Day] and Levi Seacer jr.

The latest fashion features [Prince] with [Morris Day] on co-lead vocals with saxophone by Candy Dulfer and crowd noise by [Jerome Benton], Robin Power as well as the engineers Tom Garneau and Michael Koppelman. Love machine was a duet by [Morris Day] and Elisa Fiorillo with saxophone by Candy Dulfer and backing vocals by [Jerome Benton]. Jana Anderson contributes backing vocals on Shake! while Candy Dulfer adds saxophone to Release it again. Levi Seacer jr. is listed as musician on Release it and Love machine, but his input isn't really specified.

All tracks were leftovers from the 1989 [Corporate World] album sessions by [Prince] with [Morris Day]. The latest fashion was originally recorded in April 1987 by [Prince] at Paisley Park and was first offered to Dale Bozzo for her 1989 album "Dale", but she rejected. The finally released version is drastically reworked, employing the melody line of My summertime thang (1990, from the album [Pandemonium]) instead of its original melody.

All four tracks are pure dance funk. Driven by busily drumming, Release it is a sparse, edgy funk workout recalling "Lady cab driver" (1982, from the [Prince] album "1999") and "Tamborine" (1985, from the [Prince] album "Around The World In A Day"). Candy Dulfer adds a few saxophone parts on the coda, but her contribution is peripheral. Shake! is a terse and jerky dance tune. The chorus with its cheesy organ sound evokes memories of the two '60s garage rock classics "Wooly Bully" (1965 by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs) and "96 tears" (1966 by The Myterians). The latest fashion is fun, buoyant funk outing with a stomping beat but with very little rhythmic or harmonic variety. The song ends with a rap by [Prince]. Far more impressive, Love machine is a tense, urgent drum-driven funk dance track with formidable rhythmic power. The whole song is created around a drum machine pattern with only flickers of rhythm guitar and synth providing embellishments. The lyrics are alternately sung by Elisa Fiorillo and spoken by [Morris Day].

In the "Graffiti Bridge" motion picture, the songs performed by THE TIME depict [Morris Day] as a dishonest, greedy, sex-crazed and hedonistic pleasure-seeker. The material provides a counterpoint to [Prince]'s overtly spiritual and more serious themes. Shake! is a simple celebration of partying and dancing. It borrows the line "you got to shake somethin" from "Gotta shake something" (1985-86, from [Prince]'s prev. unreleased MC Flesh project). In the motion picture [Morris Day] uses Release it to offend [Prince] (as the Kid) and demand that he releases (give up) the stage and his ownership of the Glam Slam Club. Love machine finds [Morris Day] in the role of a love machine, offering sexual satisfaction to a woman. Being a machine implies that he isn't emotionally involved and that he only wants sex without any love. The latest fashion is a battle between [Morris Day] and [Prince] (The Kid) over being the hottest live act in town. The Kid boasts that there ain't nobody funky like him and he maintained that he is still the king and THE TIME his court only. The lyrics mentions a dance called Murph drag, which was the title of a song from the shelved 1989 [Corporate World] album project.

In October 1990 the subliminal dissensions escalated in the band when THE TIME stayed in New York for a live-appearance on Saturday Night Live. [Jesse Johnson] was subsequently voted out of the band by the other members again.

On 8th January 1991 Shake! was released as the fifth and last single from the [Graffiti Bridge] album. The song failed to enter any Top 100 Charts.

On February 1st & 3rd, 1991 a revised line-up of THE TIME - without the original members [Jesse Johnson] (guitar), [Jimmy Jam] (keyboards) and [Terry Lewis] (bass) - performed two shows in Japan to fullfill their promotion contracts for [Pandemonium]. They were replaced by [Bobby G.] on guitar, [Derek "DOA" Allen] on bass and [Morris Hayes] on keyboards. Finally this were the last concerts for more than 4 years.

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Check out reply #7 I think Jimmy explains it best

1.) a Time movie

2.) a pre GB movie before Sheila E. Cat & Boni Boyer left the band

3.) a Prince/Kim Bassinger rough 30 page draft

4.) the Time / Prince GB version

Let’s look back to 1990 and the Graffiti Bridge movie. How did the original seven members of The Time come to be involved with that project?

Let me try to clarify a little bit. There might be a misconception that we got back together to do the Graffiti Bridge movie. That’s absolutely not the case. What happened, Morris [Day] was working on a project with Prince. It was basically going to be more of a solo project. Prince was going to do the bulk of the writing and playing. I think it was going to be calledCorporate World, but there were a few different names floating around at that point. Around that same time period, we had also been working with Morris on different projects and things. We thought, let’s get The Time back together and just make a record. So we got back together and started making an album. This was with Prince’s blessing, by the way. And we had our own idea for a film.

What kind of film did you guys have in mind?

It was basically based on our own true story, rather than a fictional story. Purple Rain was a fictional story based in some truth, the whole backdrop of Minneapolis and the competition of the bands. The way that worked was very true and very well done in that movie. But we really wanted to make a film about our exploits on the road and some of the things that went on, because we had a great time on the road.

How far did you guys get with this project?

We actually brought in someone to write a screenplay. We sat and talked with a couple of screenwriters, telling them the stories we thought were funny, letting them weave a storyline around it. We were in talks with Warner Bros. to do it. The next thing you know, literally out of the blue, Prince called us for a meeting at Paisley Park. And I remember we walked in thinking it was going to be about the movie — the movie we thought we were going to do. All of sudden it turned into Graffiti Bridge, and we were like,“What’s Graffiti Bridge?” Prince was like, “This is my movie.” And it was, you know, this girl and a feather. [laughs] It was like, “No, no, no — we’ve got our own ideas for a movie.”

Thx This indeed shows that CW/Pandemonium wasn't related to GB at first, however it doesn't tell us how GB was supposed to feature The Time at this point, given, that it was already in the works by the time CW was recorded.

Here is some more to the story...

It's your world (5:25)
recorded October-December 1989 by THE TIME at Paisley Park [6] • performed by [Morris Day] (lead vocals), [Jesse Johnson] (guitar), [Terry Lewis] (bass), [Jellybean Johnson] (drums), [Jerome Benton] (percussion) and [Jimmy Jam] & [Monte Moir] (both keyboards)
written by [Jimmy Jam] & [Terry Lewis] • registered to (n/a)
finally released 1990 on the promo CD-Album [Pandemonium] • 1990 on the Album [Pandemonium]

Your world, your world

Your life is fun and games
But all you do is complain
About the way you live?
You like to take, what do you give?

If you don't work
How will you earn?
Don't like to go to school?
You'll never learn

One thing I know for sure is, baby
It's your world you're livin' in
And what you choose to make it, is what it is
It's your world you're livin' in
If you don't make it better, nobody else will

Tell me, what's on your mind?
We pay the price, who does the crime?
Growing epidemics, kids born chemically dependent
Through a lack of education, we have lost a generation

Livin' a soap opera as the world turns
Feel the crack on your back.
Just think, don't be a fool or you'll get burned
The skillet, the fire, which one is worse?

It's your world you're livin' in
And what you choose to make it, is what it is
It's your world you're livin' in
If you don't make it better, nobody else will

Your world
Oh, baby, it's your world, oh yeah
If you don't make it better, nobody's gonna make it better

When leadership is lacking, guess who's to blame?
(You)
If you don't vote, opportunity is elusive
On trial is destiny, only you can change it
The verdict is still out

(Your world)
It's your world, it's your world, oh, oh yeah
(Your world)
It's your world
If you wanna make it better, baby you can make it better
(Your world)
Look out, horns, wait a minute
Who's world is it?

You're shapin' the world that you're livin' in
You like to take, what do do give?
Who pays the price in the end?
Your life's fun and games, but you still complain
About the way you live your life
Who's to blame for your demise?

It's your world, it's your world
Whatcha gonna do with it?
Gonna make it better?

Monte
(Your world)
Monte moir
Everybody in the house sing
(Your world)
Yes, band

Jerome, M.D.
Who's world?
It's your world Morris
Man, you kinda co-stagnant

Man, ain't nobody bad like you?
Sugar, super bad
Well, let's teach them who's world it is
Wait a minute, y'all sing it

Your world, oh oh
(Yes)
It's your world, oh oh oh
(It's your world, it's your world)
Oh oh oh
(Yeah)
It's your world, oh oh oh
(Everybody)

Your world, oh oh, it's your world, oh oh oh
(Sing it)
Your world, oh oh
(Baby)
It's your world
(Baby)
Oh oh oh
(It's your world, it's your world)

murphdrag said:

So My Summertime Thang was the original recording from 1983? Or did they re-record it?

I believe the Time /w Prince re-recorded it, but may still have elements of the original

Anyone else know?

OldFriends4Sale said:

murphdrag said:

So My Summertime Thang was the original recording from 1983? Or did they re-record it?

I believe the Time /w Prince re-recorded it, but may still have elements of the original

Anyone else know?

According to Princevault it's based on the original recording/ http://www.princevault.co...time_Thang

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I believe the Time /w Prince re-recorded it, but may still have elements of the original

Anyone else know?

According to Princevault it's based on the original recording/ http://www.princevault.co...time_Thang

Yep nothing changed but the full Time band rerecorded it -the same way it was originally

I guess that's what I'm saying/thinking?

My summertime thang #1
originally recorded 26th-27th March 1983 by [Prince] with [Morris Day] & [Jesse Johnson] at Sunset Sound [7]during the [Ice Cream Castle] Album sessions • performed by [Prince](all instruments & vocals) with [Morris Day] (lead vocals) & [Jesse Johnson] (guitar)
written by [Prince]
previously unreleased

My summertime thang #2 (7:14)
reworked June-September 1989 by [Prince] with [Morris Day] at Paisley Park [6] during the [Corporate World] Album sessions • performed by [Prince (all instruments & vocals) with [Morris Day] (lead vocals) and [unknown female singer] & [Jerome Benton] (both background voices)
written by [Prince]
previously unreleased (but circulating on bootlegs)

My summertime thang #2 (edit) (4:17) [lyrics]
previously unreleased (but circulating on bootlegs)

My summertime thang #2 (jazz mix) (4:27) [lyrics]
previously unreleased (but circulating on bootlegs)

My summertime thang #2 (xtended) (11:26) [lyrics]
previously unreleased (but circulating on bootlegs)

My summertime thang #3 (6:52)
reworked October-December 1989 by [Prince] with THE TIME at Paisley Park [6] • performed by [Morris Day] (lead vocals), [Jesse Johnson] (guitar), [Terry Lewis] (bass), [Jellybean Johnson] (drums), [Jerome Benton](percussion) and [Jimmy Jam] & [Monte Moir] (both keyboards)
written by [Prince] (uncredited) • registered to (n/a)
finally released 1990 on the promo CD-Album [Pandemonium • 1990 on the Album [Pandemonium]

My summertime thang #3 (6:50)

Mmmmh!
Ooh. Aaah.
Ooh. Aaah.
My summertime thang, make me feel alright.
I feel good every night, treat me like a lover would.
And it feel so good.

My summertime thang, dancin' on the floor.
Don't stop, let's do some more. We could have a total ball.
I'm happy once and for all, my summertime thang.

Oooh, ahhho.
I think about you when I'm sleeping.
I think about you when I'm at the mall.
I think about the summer I first met you.
Most of all, I think about the time you met me.

My summertime thang, never lets met down.
Keeps working all year round, this thang is my one desire.
It takes me higher. I said it takes me higher..., higher..., higher.

.... Ohhhh.
Summertime.
.... Ohhhh.
Ohhhh, summertime.
Said make me feel..., make me feel..., make me feel alright.

.... Yo, what's up M.D.?
Meet me at the mall, There's a cutie workin' there you will not believe.
.... 10 minutes?
Naw, two.
.... Alright, cool.
Cool?
.... Alright, cool, I'll meet you there.
Cool.

My summertime thang, make me feel alright.
Uh, I feel good every night. Higher..., higher..., higher.

Jimmy Jam? No Jimmy Jam, I...
Naw, no, that... Naw, I need some fire.
I got burned. Got to cook with gas.

.... What about Teflon, man? What do ya... what do ya feel about that?
No, it's got to be cast iron skillet.
.... Cast?
To be cast iron skillet.
.... Cast iron?
.... Too many cooks in the kitchen.
.... What?
.... That don't know how to cook it right.
.... Hold it. We already did that, we already did that. Wait a minute now.
Naw, I like that.
.... Naw man, we already did that baby.
Naw.
.... Find Jerome a girl or somethin' man. Get him outta here.

My summertime thang #2 (jazz mix) (4:27)

My summertime thang.

Mmmmm, yeah! She's bad ain't she? She's so bad she's good!
.... (Want me to rap?)
Yes! I'll be over here posing by the Porsche.

Get ready. Chili sauce.

Alright... alright... alright.

.... (Listen. That's Morris Day with the roller skates.)

Now that's be nice. It's such a pretty day.

Oh, Lawd.

My summertime thang #2 (edit) (4:17)

I'm gonna make you love me.
Ladies and gentlemen! Dude and dudettes!
It's time about, that all out funk... funk... funky action!

Mmmmm! She's bad ain't she? She's so bad she's good!
.... (Want me to rap?)
Yes! I'll be over here posing by the Porsche, solid.

.... (Good afternoon, darlin'. You must be helping out a friend.)
.... (Because you are much too pretty to be working in here. What's up with that?)
.... What's up with your buddy over there holding his stuff? Does he have to use the bathroom?
.... (No baby, he's posing by the Porsche.)
.... Cars don't impress me.
.... (That's Morris Day and he would like to eat you. I.. I mean meet you.)
.... Alright, go get him.
.... (Hey Morris, she wants to meet you, man!)

Oh Lawd!

Hello my dear, my name is Morris. Where'd you get that ass?
.... (Hahahaha!)
.... Same place you got your manners.
Jerome, where'd I get my manners?
.... (Same place she got that ass.)
And where was that?
.... (Mama.)
That's right baby, yo mama! Now let's be nice, it's such a pretty day.

.... Where are we going?
I'm taking you to my club.
.... Your club?
Yeah, I rounded up some people and bought a club. Legal-like, you know?
And that's where we're going.
.... I'll believe it when I see it.

.... ((Morris, how long has it been? 6 hours?))
.... (Chill nigga!)
.... ((What a lovely lady. My God, the one last night.))
.... ((She's so fat, she have to use a VCR for a beeper, no?))
Hehe, you're fired.
.... ((I'm fired?))
That's right.
.... ((I'm fired? I quit. They shouldn't have let you people in the country in the first place!))
Let us in the country?! Now what history book did you read, boy?
Jerome, hook this punk up to my Porsche!
.... (The roller skates?)
The roller skates!
.... ((No, not the roller skates.))
.... I think I wanna go home!
Home? The party's just startin', Stella.
.... But come sit down.
Do you wanna see me dance?
.... Dance?
Jerome, body language. Now do the horse.
.... (Yeah. Oak tree!)
Look out. I like that.
.... (Oak tree!)
Get ready, Chili Sauce.

Fellas?
.... (Yeah!)
Hit me and don'tcha lag. Tell me what dance to do - it start with an M.
.... (Murph drag!)
Good God!

I ain't through yet, band!
Wawk! Hallelujah! Whoa!

.... Wow, that was fun. Will you take me out again?
Oh yeah, Stella, we can do this. You're the type of woman that could settle me down.
Jerome.
.... (Yo.)
Take her home, I have some unfinished business with one of my critics. Are we ready?
.... (I do believe we are ready.)
Maybe, but not much.
Alright, now, what was that you were saying about my people?
.... ((Please Mr. Day, I never roller skated before in my life!))
Well, why put off 'till tomorrow what you can do tonight? Hahahahahaha!

My summertime thang! My summertime thang!
.... (Leave me alone.)
My summertime thang

Yeah! I'm back!

My summertime thang #2 (7:14)

I'm gonna make you love me.
Ladies and gentlemen! Dude and dudettes!
It's time about, that all out funk... funk... funky action!

Ooh. Aaah.
Ooh. Aaah.
My summertime thang, make me feel alright.
I feel good every night baby, treat me like a lover would.
And it feel so good.

My summertime thang, dancin' on the floor.
Don't stop, let's do some more. We could have a total ball.
I'm happy once and for all, my summertime thang.

Oooh, ahhho.
I think about you when I'm sleeping.
I think about you when I'm at the mall.
I think about the summer I first met you.
Most of all, I think about the time you met me.

My summertime thang, never lets met down.
Keeps working all year round, this thang is my one desire.
It takes me higher. I said it takes me higher..., higher..., higher.

.... Ohhhh. (My summertime thang)
Summertime.
.... Ohhhh.
Ohhhh, summertime.
Said make me feel..., make me feel..., make me feel alright.

.... (Yo, what's up M.D.?)
Meet me at the mall, There's a cutie workin' there you will not believe.
.... (10 minutes?)
Naw, two.
.... (Alright, cool.)
Cool?
.... (Alright, cool, I'll meet you there.)
Cool.

My summertime thang, make me feel alright.
I feel good every night. Higher..., higher..., higher.

Mmmmm! She's bad ain't she? She's so bad she's good!
.... (Want me to rap?)
Yes! I'll be over here posing by the Porsche, solid.

.... (Good afternoon, darlin'. You must be helping out a friend.)
.... (Because you are much too pretty to be working in here. What's up with that?)
.... What's up with your buddy over there holding his stuff? Does he have to use the bathroom?
.... (No baby, he's posing by the Porsche.)
.... Cars don't impress me.
.... (That's Morris Day and he would like to eat you. I..., I mean meet you.)
.... Alright, go get him.
.... (Hey Morris, she wants to meet you, man!)

Oh Lawd!

Hello my dear, my name is Morris. Where'd you get that ass?
.... (Hahahaha!)
.... Same place you got your manners.
Jerome, where'd I get my manners?
.... (Same place she got that ass.)
And where was that?
.... (Mama.)
That's right baby, yo mama! Now let's be nice, it's such a pretty day.

.... Where are we going?
I'm taking you to my club.
.... Your club?
Yeah, I rounded up some people and bought a club. Legal-like, you know?
And that's where we're going.
.... I'll believe it when I see it.

.... ((Morris, how long has it been? 6 hours?))
.... (Chill nigga!)
.... ((What a lovely lady. My God, the one last night...))
.... ((She's so fat, she have to use a VCR for a beeper, no?))
Hehe, you're fired.
.... ((I'm fired?))
That's right.
.... ((I'm fired? I quit. They shouldn't have let you people in the country in the first place!))
Let us in the country?! Now what history book did you read, boy?
Jerome, hook this punk up to my Porsche!
.... (The roller skates?)
The roller skates!
.... ((No, not the roller skates.))
.... I think I wanna go home!
Home? The party's just startin', Stella.
.... But come sit down.
Do you wanna see me dance?
.... Dance?
Jerome, body language. Now do the horse.
.... (Yeah. Oak tree!)
Look out. I like that.
.... (Oak tree!)
Get ready, Chili Sauce.

Fellas?
.... (Yeah!)
Hit me and don'tcha lag. Tell me what dance to do - it start with an M.
.... (Murph drag!)
Good God!

I ain't through yet, band!
Wawk! Hallelujah! Whoa!

.... Wow, that was fun. Will you take me out again?
Oh yeah, Stella, we can do this. You're the type of woman that could settle me down.
Jerome.
.... (Yo.)
Take her home, I have some unfinished business with one of my critics. Are we ready?
.... (I do believe we are ready.)
Maybe, but not much.
Alright, now, what was that you were saying about my people?
.... ((Please Mr. Day, I never roller skated before in my life!))
Well, why put off 'till tomorrow what you can do tonight? Hahahahahaha!

My summertime thang! My summertime thang!
.... (Leave me alone.)
My summertime thang

Yeah! I'm back!

I always wondered why many scenes were shot from this particular angle, always thought it was 'corny'?