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Prince & Carmen Electra ~ 1990-1992

The hidden years? The not so obvious protege?

She is our Future

Now, this king he had a subject named Electra

Come Electra Truesday

Carmen Electra

...

Time to get caught up on this piece of Prince history

Go Go Dancer,
Good Judy Girlfriend
,
Go On (Witcha Bad Self)
,
Step to the Mic
,
S.T.
,
Fantasia Erotica
,
Everybody Get on Up
,
Segue
,
Fun
,
Just a Little Lovin'
,
All That
,
This Is My House

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MikeyB71

14th September 1990.

Prince meets an 18 year old girl at an L.A nightclub "Spice." She is named Tara Leigh Patrick, and had moved to L.A to pursue her dream of breaking into the entertainment business. She had been dancing and singing from an early age and was invited to Prince's Beverly Hills home to audition.

A few months later, she received a phone call from Prince saying that he wanted to record an album with her, and sign her to Paisley Park Records. She was re-named Carmen by Prince, who took the name from a 1954 film named "Carmen Jones." Carmen then came up with "Electra," the name of a Greek godess to add to the title.

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OldFriends4Sal
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CarmenElectra(album).jpg

In the back of my mind, an animalistic ritual
Me swingin' from a brass pole
Primal vibe is the way 2 describe {crowd noise in BG}
Dancin' in my cage, I'm ridin' high
And there is no one better step 4 stroke
4 the girl in the cage, there's still hope
And as you peep the scheme of things
U'll find U're livin' in my dreams
Yeah, I'm the go go dancer

Go go dancer - I'm the life of the party
Go go dancer - Nothing can stop my body
Go go dancer - Dancing's all I want to do

Caged in a rage, the beat hits
I step into my 4 by 6 cell now
Ahh sho'nuff in the house as I elevate
But in my mouth's a bad taste
This situation I'm sometimes placed
Is it art or just a display of
Flesh contained, slangin' and bangin' 2 a bass drum?
Silhouetted by lights, caught up in the hype
I'm doin' my own thing night after night

Go go dancer - I'm the life of the party
Go go dancer - Nothing can stop my body
Go go dancer - Dancing's all I want to do (G go, G go dancer)

Crawlin' back and forth, no recourse
This is it 4 me and my life, yeah, and it's my choice
Somebody's trippin', I feel myself slippin' away
Lights flashin', music playin' as I grind in my cage
Every day and night no matter what I do
Whether wrong or right, the music makes me ooh
In the taxi cab, if the radio's on (Go {x12})
Off goes the top and I'm goin', goin', goin', gone (Ahh)

Go go dancer (Ahh)
Dancer - I'm the life of the party (G go, G go dancer)
Go go dancer - Nothing can stop my body (Go {x4})

Excuse me dandelion, do you want to dance?
you know you oughta try it, you might find some new romance
you know you gotta get wild 2 tolerate this world 2 day
you gotta do it with style, I got a game - want to play?

Go go dancer, go go dancer
Go go dancer, go go dancer (Ahh)

Life of the party night after night
I work my butt off while the women roll their eyes
And the fellas gawk, yeah
But it's somethin' that I'm use 2, an occupational hazard
you see, I do what I gotta do 2 make ends meet
Yo, I dance and sweat in a cage 2 a go go beat
Though at times it feels demeaning, this feeling that I'm feeling
It's a love and hate thing - catch my meaning? (Ahh)


Go go dancer - I'm the life of the party (G go, G go dancer)
Go go dancer - Nothing can stop my body (Go)
Go go dancer - Dancing's all I want to do (G go, G go dancer)

(Ahh) (G go, G go dancer) (Go)
Go go dancer (G go, G go dancer)
Go go dancer (Ahh)
Go go dancer
Go go dancer (Let's go!)
Go go dance, go go dance, go go dance {x4}
(Let's go!) {repeats 9 times in BG}
Go go dancer
Go go dancer {crowd noise in BG}
(Ahh)

The Source:
Label:
Paisley Park Records
Catalog#: 0-40458
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 1/3 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1992

The A Side:
Go Go Dancer (12″ Mix) 6:00
Go Go Dancer (The Dub) 5:53
Go Go Dancer (Radio Edit) 4:27

The B Side:
Go Go Dancer (Factory Mix) 6:00
Go Go Dancer (Dub Dub Dancer) 6:00

The Brief:

This is our future. She is the scariest female on the planet. She is inevitable. She is addictive. To listen to her music on a loud system is to come a thousand times… Prince

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Reply #5 posted 09/06/16 1:13pm

OldFriends4Sal
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Carmen Electra - vocals Prince - all instruments Kathleen Johnson - background vocals Monie Love - background vocals

Go Go Dancer is the first track on Carmen Electra's only album Carmen Electra, and, eight months prior to the album's release, Go Go Dancer was released as the album's first single, containing several remixes of the track, while Carmen Electra was serving as the opening act on the Diamonds And Pearls Tour. In 1993, the Radio Edit was also included on the maxi-single of Everybody Get On Up, the album's second single. The track was written by Prince, Carmen Electra and Tony Mosley, and produced by Prince (although no producer credit was given, other than Paisley Park as executive producer).

Initial tracking took place on 8 November 1991 at Record Plant, Hollywood, CA, USA (the same day as Race). The track contains a sample of Lost In Music by Sister Sledge (from their 1979 album We Are Family, also released as a single), although the Go Go Dancer single incorrectly attributes the track to Chic. Monie Love's background vocals may have been recorded in January 1992, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA, during the same set of sessions as Love's Born 2 B.R.E.E.D. and In A Word Or 2, but it is also possible that she was present at the initial tracking session, which would mark the earliest known recording by Monie Love on a Prince-related recording.

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Image result for Prince 1991

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Reply #6 posted 09/06/16 3:22pm

Latin

This question was asked in the poll thread, but no one has answered yet.

Should Carmen be invited or not to perform a song or two from her Paisley Park album at the upcoming Prince memorial tribute being organized by his family?
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Reply #7 posted 09/06/16 4:16pm

wavesofbliss

Latin said:

This question was asked in the poll thread, but no one has answered yet.

Should Carmen be invited or not to perform a song or two from her Paisley Park album at the upcoming Prince memorial tribute being organized by his family?




Don't Be Daft!!!!
Prince #MUSICIANICONLEGEND
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Reply #8 posted 09/06/16 4:32pm

Latin

wavesofbliss said:

Latin said:

This question was asked in the poll thread, but no one has answered yet.

Should Carmen be invited or not to perform a song or two from her Paisley Park album at the upcoming Prince memorial tribute being organized by his family?




Don't Be Daft!!!!


Perhaps "Get On Up"?
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Reply #9 posted 09/06/16 4:59pm

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Edited
[Edited 9/6/16 17:02pm]
It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. We all need one another. ~ PRN
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Reply #10 posted 09/06/16 5:01pm

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Latin said:

This question was asked in the poll thread, but no one has answered yet.

Should Carmen be invited or not to perform a song or two from her Paisley Park album at the upcoming Prince memorial tribute being organized by his family?


Why not?
It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. We all need one another. ~ PRN
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Reply #11 posted 09/06/16 5:03pm

Latin

The best song on that album was the "Judy" song. What was the full name? It had a great beat!
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Reply #12 posted 09/06/16 5:09pm

Latin

Surprised that luv4u moderator has not moved this to associated artists. Let's keep it here! Lol.
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Reply #13 posted 09/06/16 5:12pm

strawberrylova
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OldFriends4Sale said:


The hidden years? The not so obvious protege?




Now, this king he had a subject named Electra


Come Electra Truesday


Carmen Electra


...



Time to get caught up on this piece of Prince history



Go Go Dancer,
Good Judy Girlfriend
,
Go On (Witcha Bad Self)
,
Step to the Mic
,
S.T.
,
Fantasia Erotica
,
Everybody Get on Up
,
Segue
,
Fun
,
Just a Little Lovin'
,
All That
,
This Is My House









Nice picture ❤❤❤
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Reply #14 posted 09/06/16 5:14pm

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OldFriends4Sale said:

MikeyB71



14th September 1990.


Prince meets an 18 year old girl at an L.A nightclub "Spice." She is named Tara Leigh Patrick, and had moved to L.A to pursue her dream of breaking into the entertainment business. She had been dancing and singing from an early age and was invited to Prince's Beverly Hills home to audition.


A few months later, she received a phone call from Prince saying that he wanted to record an album with her, and sign her to Paisley Park Records. She was re-named Carmen by Prince, who took the name from a 1954 film named "Carmen Jones." Carmen then came up with "Electra," the name of a Greek godess to add to the title.










Robin power has stated numerous times that shes the one who introduced carmen to prince.
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Reply #15 posted 09/06/16 5:25pm

strawberrylova
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strawberrylova123 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

MikeyB71

14th September 1990.

Prince meets an 18 year old girl at an L.A nightclub "Spice." She is named Tara Leigh Patrick, and had moved to L.A to pursue her dream of breaking into the entertainment business. She had been dancing and singing from an early age and was invited to Prince's Beverly Hills home to audition.

A few months later, she received a phone call from Prince saying that he wanted to record an album with her, and sign her to Paisley Park Records. She was re-named Carmen by Prince, who took the name from a 1954 film named "Carmen Jones." Carmen then came up with "Electra," the name of a Greek godess to add to the title.

Robin power has stated numerous times that shes the one who introduced carmen to prince.

Find That Girl: Robin Power Royal And Prince

The singer, rapper, actress, New Orleans resident and model known as Robin Power Royal was known by another name until she met Prince—she became one of the Purple One’s many female muses in the late eighties and early nineties. Now promoting a double CD–DVD package of erotic/spiritual music called Sexy Passion and The Art of Love and Sexuality, on sale at the Louisiana Music Factory, she’s never looked back, but she maintains the icon is still with her in spirit, decades after she starred in his 1990 movie Graffiti Bridge.

Though she’s been in the public eye before, during and after her time with His Royal Badness—you may remember her as the Biker Shorts Girl in Young MC’s “Bust a Move” video, or the woman whose “ass is put to sleep” by Ice Cube’s sexual prowess in his video for “It Was a Good Day”—she was kind enough to talk to OffBeat about her Prince era, which began when she had just graduated high school. “I met him because I slept outside at one of his concerts in Chicago, which is where I’m from,” she says. “He played four nights and I was in the front row for every single one.” Prince noticed her up front and started bringing her some very Princely gifts, one per gig, which he made a point of handing to her from the stage: a guitar pick, a tambourine, a carnation and a pair of lace panties. Revolution guitarist Miko Weaver was dispatched to invite her to the after party at the Park West nightclub, and infamous bodyguard Chick Huntsberry got her in despite her age. Prince did little that night but hide behind columns and play peek­a­boo with her. “He didn’t know how old I was at first,” she laughs now. “I assume somebody told him I was 17.”RPP.alt2

They disappeared from each other’s lives for a few years after that encounter; while Robin moved to Los Angeles and pursued her hyphenate career, dancing on “Soul Train” and appearing in movies like Coming to America and House Party.

What she didn’t know was that the Purple One had never forgotten her. “I only found out years later that he’d seen the ‘Bust a Move’ video, called a conference at Paisley Park, and told his people to FIND THAT GIRL.” When she finally reconnected at an L.A. party at the age of 21, he pretended he was meeting her for the first time. And then she entered full-­time muse duty: He renamed her Robin Power—“right at the same time he named his band the New Power Generation,” she notes—and he quickly shoehorned her into the Graffiti Bridge film, which was already in pre­production, as the girlfriend of Morris Day’s character. “He always had several other young ladies at the same time,” she remembers. “As a bisexual, I was more than cool with it. He liked to be surrounded with beauty.”

For the movie, Prince produced a song for her called “Number One,” which was supposed to be the leadoff for an album by her band, Robin Power and the Uptown Dames. It never materialized, partly because she auditioned an 18­-year-­old dancer for that band named Tara. When she introduced Tara to Prince, he renamed her Carmen Electra, and soon she starred to take Robin’s place in the hierarchy. “He disrespected me in the business,” she says. “I deserve respect. I had to put my foot down.”

She struck out on her own again, but Motown and Capitol wouldn’t put her album out unless Prince was attached to the project. Nevertheless, she has nothing but fond memories of the Purple One: “Our relationship was creative, magical, sensual… everything I dreamed it would be.”

They remained friends, but the last time she spoke to Prince was in 2001, when she called the singer to tell him she’d been “speaking with angels.” “Things are happening I really don’t understand,” she told him then, “but God told me to follow the music. So I called you.” “I don’t believe in angels anymore,” she claims he replied. “His son had passed on,” she remembers, referring to Boy Gregory, his child with ex-­wife Mayte Garcia, who had died at just one week old. “He was a Jehovah’s Witness at that point. I could recognize the difference in him. I asked him had he spoke to Morris or Jerome [from The Time], and he said, ‘Robin, every time I pull out the Bible, everyone runs away.’” For her part, Robin has kept her muse name and dedicates her erotic dancing, modeling and singing to what she calls “the god of love. There are many different gods. People don’t realize that.” And like her muse, she likes to lead with her still­-fit body before getting her audience into matters of the spirit: “They think what I do is so sexual, then I tell them about the god of love and music and creation, and I say, ‘You weren’t expecting that!’”

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Reply #16 posted 09/06/16 6:25pm

itsme123

OldFriends4Sale said:

This looks NOTHING like his handwriting. Am I the only one that thinks he didnt write this letter?

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itsme123 said:



OldFriends4Sale said:








This looks NOTHING like his handwriting. Am I the only one that thinks he didnt write this letter?


It's one of his handwriting style, its the same doodle character from Under the cherry moon.
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Reply #18 posted 09/06/16 7:14pm

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OldFriends4Sale said:






Prince was maybe a fan of Public Enemy!!

Fight the power!

Don't worry be happy.
Was a number one jam.
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
Cant believe my purple psychedelic pimp slap pimp2

And I descend from grace, In arms of undertow
I will take my place, In the great below
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Reply #19 posted 09/06/16 7:24pm

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FragileUndertow said:

OldFriends4Sale said:






Prince was maybe a fan of Public Enemy!!

Fight the power!

Don't worry be happy.
Was a number one jam.
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here



lol Well Spike Lee directed the film it's from and P did later work with Chuck D so I'd say it's a good bet biggrin
There's always a rainbow 🌈 , at the end of every rain ☔️
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Reply #20 posted 09/06/16 8:26pm

Vashtix

Not that it matters but I have always liked Carmen- she seems fun loving and she is such a beauty

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Reply #21 posted 09/07/16 7:33am

OldFriends4Sal
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FragileUndertow said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince was maybe a fan of Public Enemy!! Fight the power! Don't worry be happy. Was a number one jam. Damn if I say it you can slap me right here

wasn't Don't Worry Be Happy by jazz vocalist Bobby McFarren?

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Reply #22 posted 09/07/16 7:56am

OldFriends4Sal
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All U need is Judy, she's good 4 U (U bad sister) {James Brown sample repeats in BG}

How do I start off, what can I say?

Who makes U happy each and every day?

Who makes U happy each and every night?

When we're 2gether, who makes things right?

Big words escape U when U think of me

No words can evaluate this mystery

U could be so tired, find it hard a-walkin'

But I could get U wired, get your body talkin'

CHORUS:

Long as U got me, all things alright

It don't take a lot, see, and U're wound tight

In the middle of the day, babe, in the middle of the night

Long as U got me, all things alright

There ain't no other junk that U wanna do

All U need is Judy, she's good 4 U

How simple can I make it,

I just want U 2 take it Rattle, roll and shake it,

Judy gonna do ya, ooh

CHORUS

CarmenElectra(album).jpg

Initial tracking took place in late 1988 or the first two weeks of 1989, most likely at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The track, with Prince's original vocals, was initially included as the third track on the mid-January 1989, configuration of Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic (a different project than the 1999 album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic). If the lyrics were the same as the released version, it is possible that they were sung by Sheila E. or Boni Boyer on this version, as they are written from a female perspective. The track was reworked or re-recorded (details are not not known) between Spring, 1991 and early 1992 (at one of Record Plant, Hollywood, CA, USA, Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA or Paisley Park Studios). Carmen Electra's version was included as the seventh track on a 15 June 1992 configuration of Carmen Electra's debut album, then titled On Top (with the artist credit "Carmen"). The released version contains samples of Funky Drummer by James Brown (released as a single in 1970) and Think (About It) by Lyn Collins (also co-written and produced by James Brown, from her 1972 album Think (About It), and also released as a single).

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Reply #23 posted 09/07/16 7:57am

OldFriends4Sal
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Don't worry Carm, your secret's safe with us!

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Reply #24 posted 09/07/16 9:15am

Latin

OldFriends4Sale said:






All U need is Judy, she's good 4 U (U bad sister) {James Brown sample repeats in BG}



How do I start off, what can I say?



Who makes U happy each and every day?



Who makes U happy each and every night?



When we're 2gether, who makes things right?



Big words escape U when U think of me



No words can evaluate this mystery



U could be so tired, find it hard a-walkin'



But I could get U wired, get your body talkin'



CHORUS:



Long as U got me, all things alright



It don't take a lot, see, and U're wound tight



In the middle of the day, babe, in the middle of the night



Long as U got me, all things alright



There ain't no other junk that U wanna do



All U need is Judy, she's good 4 U



How simple can I make it,



I just want U 2 take it Rattle, roll and shake it,



Judy gonna do ya, ooh



CHORUS



CarmenElectra(album).jpg



Initial tracking took place in late 1988 or the first two weeks of 1989, most likely at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The track, with Prince's original vocals, was initially included as the third track on the mid-January 1989, configuration of Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic (a different project than the 1999 album Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic). If the lyrics were the same as the released version, it is possible that they were sung by Sheila E. or Boni Boyer on this version, as they are written from a female perspective. The track was reworked or re-recorded (details are not not known) between Spring, 1991 and early 1992 (at one of Record Plant, Hollywood, CA, USA, Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA or Paisley Park Studios). Carmen Electra's version was included as the seventh track on a 15 June 1992 configuration of Carmen Electra's debut album, then titled On Top (with the artist credit "Carmen"). The released version contains samples of Funky Drummer by James Brown (released as a single in 1970) and Think (About It) by Lyn Collins (also co-written and produced by James Brown, from her 1972 album Think (About It), and also released as a single).



PrinceVault




Thanks for the info!
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Reply #25 posted 09/07/16 9:52am

Latin

What do people think of this album? Which tracks do u like?
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Reply #26 posted 09/07/16 10:22am

OldFriends4Sal
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Latin said:

This question was asked in the poll thread, but no one has answered yet. Should Carmen be invited or not to perform a song or two from her Paisley Park album at the upcoming Prince memorial tribute being organized by his family?

I don't see why she would be asked to perform. As hardcore a fan as I am I forget there was more to her than being a lil girlfriend 2 Prince.

Prince removed her from opening the D&P tour, I don't know why she needs to be a part of the tribute. How would that even work...

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Reply #27 posted 09/07/16 10:23am

mushmackalenta

There's not not much on this album I could rave about but it has a few moments.

My pick for best track would easily be Good Judy Girlfriend, I also quite like Go GO Dancer, Fun and Fantasia Erotica.

I might dig it out and give it another listen.

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Reply #28 posted 09/07/16 10:39am

SoulAlive

Latin said:

What do people think of this album? Which tracks do u like?

I wasn't crazy about this album,but I do like "Fantasia Erotica".That's a very good dance track.

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Reply #29 posted 09/07/16 11:42am

Latin

Which is the song that has "Adore" mixed in?
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