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Thread started 06/17/16 8:04pm

EddieC

Love Never Has To Say Goodbye written by Vinnie Barrett

Well, that's what a few different places say (Barrett's Facebook, a few videos on a popular site)--but I can't find anyone else performing it so far. I know I've never heard it except for Prince's outtake, and I don't remember anyone ever bringing this composition credit up before. Princevault assumes it's Prince's song.

Has anyone else got any information on this subject?

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Reply #1 posted 06/17/16 8:13pm

purplethunder3
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Who is Vinnie Barrett and how do we know he wrote it? Does the song have a copyright?

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #2 posted 06/17/16 8:18pm

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Perhaps contact that person through Facebook.

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Reply #3 posted 06/17/16 8:26pm

suomynona

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Sounds very much like another song she wrote.



I'd bet that she wrote "Love (Never Has To Say Goodbye)" too.

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Reply #4 posted 06/17/16 10:03pm

EnDoRpHn

Love never has to say goodby.

Type of Work: Music
Registration Number / Date: PAu002230361 / 1997-09-12
Title: Love never has to say goodby.
Description: Sound cassette.
Notes: Words & music.
Copyright Claimant: Gwendolyn H. Woolfolk, 1947- (a.k.a. Vinnie Barrett)
Date of Creation: 1997
Names: Woolfolk, Gwendolyn H., 1947-
Barrett, Vinnie

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Reply #5 posted 06/17/16 10:09pm

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I was wondering why I couldn't find it.

How do you not know how to spell goodbye? :rofl:

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Reply #6 posted 06/17/16 10:37pm

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EnDoRpHn said:

Love never has to say goodby.

Type of Work: Music
Registration Number / Date: PAu002230361 / 1997-09-12
Title: Love never has to say goodby.
Description: Sound cassette.
Notes: Words & music.
Copyright Claimant: Gwendolyn H. Woolfolk, 1947- (a.k.a. Vinnie Barrett)
Date of Creation: 1997
Names: Woolfolk, Gwendolyn H., 1947-
Barrett, Vinnie

Well, that answers my question.

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #7 posted 06/18/16 12:00am

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I knew it didn't sound like a Prince original.

So if this was written in 1997, it's not an Emancipation outtake after all. Interesting.

This is not music, this is a trip
No, it's not a drug, it's something more hip
Don't need no reefer, don't need cocaine
Purple music does the same to my brain
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Reply #8 posted 06/18/16 12:02am

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Endorphin should be the one that gets to update princevault smile

https://princevault.com/i...le=Contact

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Reply #9 posted 06/18/16 7:07am

EddieC

Ahh, why didn't I do a copyright search before I posted? Then I could have jumped to other questions. Okay--now, PAU registrations are when an unpublished work is copyrighted, right? So, still no evidence that the song was released at any point--so it's not something that was hiding out on some b-side that Prince decided to record. But if it wasn't released in some form, how did it get to Prince, I wonder?

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Reply #10 posted 06/21/16 11:49am

purplepolitici
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This 1 got me earlier with the "life is a glorious journey etc" part sad :crybaby:. Decent 1 whoever wrote it thumbs up!
For all time I am with you, you are with me.
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