Never knew he wrote a song for Celine Dion. Thanks for posting.

It is a beautiful song and the lyrics are so pretty. No one here talks about it much.

It was written for Jevetta Steele. You can hear a clip of the song on Carmen's album, in a segue where someone is flipping through radio stations. You can hear "Goldnigga", "Sexy MF", "Hit U In The Socket" and others, too. Celine re-recorded the song, and Walter Afanasieff produced it. The song originally dates to the beginning of 1992.

TrivialPursuit said:

It was written for Jevetta Steele. You can hear a clip of the song on Carmen's album, in a segue where someone is flipping through radio stations. You can hear "Goldnigga", "Sexy MF", "Hit U In The Socket" and others, too. Celine re-recorded the song, and Walter Afanasieff produced it. The song originally dates to the beginning of 1992.

That explains it. Thanks.

purplethunder3121 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

It was written for Jevetta Steele. You can hear a clip of the song on Carmen's album, in a segue where someone is flipping through radio stations. You can hear "Goldnigga", "Sexy MF", "Hit U In The Socket" and others, too. Celine re-recorded the song, and Walter Afanasieff produced it. The song originally dates to the beginning of 1992.

That explains it. Thanks.

From Princevault.com: http://www.princevault.co..._This_Tear

With This Tear is the 13th track (twelfth song) on Celine Dion's 17th album (second English-language album) Celine Dion. The track was written by Prince, but was re-recorded by Dion's own musicians for release.

While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in January 1992 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Born 2 B.R.E.E.D., In A Word Or 2, The Continental, Damn U, The Flow, 3 Chains O' Gold, Qualified and a revamped version of Sex). The song was initially intended for Jevetta Steele, but it is not known if she recorded a version of the track. It was submitted to Celine Dion soon afterwards, and she recorded her own version at some point between January and early March 1992, produced by Walter Afanasieff.

In 1993, a brief sample of With This Tear was used in a Segue from Carmen Electra's album Carmen Electra, as if heard while scanning through a radio dial (clips of Hit U In The Socket, In A Word Or 2, The Voice, Sexy M.F. and Goldnigga are also heard).

I would love if there's a Prince version of this in the vault somewhere.

I imagine that his version might just be piano and vocal.

This song gets me every time I listen to it. This is the only Celine Dion song that I own and the only reason I bought it is because of 'With This Tear'. Well, that and the fact that I really do like some other tracks on there.

LBrent said:

purplethunder3121 said:

That explains it. Thanks.

From Princevault.com: http://www.princevault.co..._This_Tear

With This Tear is the 13th track (twelfth song) on Celine Dion's 17th album (second English-language album) Celine Dion. The track was written by Prince, but was re-recorded by Dion's own musicians for release.

While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in January 1992 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Born 2 B.R.E.E.D., In A Word Or 2, The Continental, Damn U, The Flow, 3 Chains O' Gold, Qualified and a revamped version of Sex). The song was initially intended for Jevetta Steele, but it is not known if she recorded a version of the track. It was submitted to Celine Dion soon afterwards, and she recorded her own version at some point between January and early March 1992, produced by Walter Afanasieff.

In 1993, a brief sample of With This Tear was used in a Segue from Carmen Electra's album Carmen Electra, as if heard while scanning through a radio dial (clips of Hit U In The Socket, In A Word Or 2, The Voice, Sexy M.F. and Goldnigga are also heard).

So, written for Jevetta and given to Celine. Think I finally got it, by George!

purplethunder3121 said:

In the comments on YouTube everyone was oohing and aahing over the song being written by P, but lotsa fans posted that he'd written it and basically braggin on him.

One comment had me laffing so hard tho.

Someone gave it a thumbs up and wrote something like "The smell of lavender and sex and Prince is all over this song!"

P. S. No, it wasn't me who wrote that.

Sure. Sure. Whatever you say. We can track your digital footprints, ya know.....

LBrent said:

In the comments on YouTube everyone was oohing and aahing over the song being written by P, but lotsa fans posted that he'd written it and basically braggin on him.

One comment had me laffing so hard tho.

Someone gave it a thumbs up and wrote something like "The smell of lavender and sex and Prince is all over this song!"

P. S. No, it wasn't me who wrote that.

LBrent said:

In the comments on YouTube everyone was oohing and aahing over the song being written by P, but lotsa fans posted that he'd written it and basically braggin on him.

One comment had me laffing so hard tho.

Someone gave it a thumbs up and wrote something like "The smell of lavender and sex and Prince is all over this song!"

P. S. No, it wasn't me who wrote that.

kingricefan said:

Sure. Sure. Whatever you say. We can track your digital footprints, ya know.....

LMAO

Nope, it was written awhile ago I think.

Anyway, ya know if it was me I'd just say so...cuz what're y'all gonna do? Spank me?

LBrent said:

kingricefan said:

Sure. Sure. Whatever you say. We can track your digital footprints, ya know.....

LMAO

Nope, it was written awhile ago I think.

Anyway, ya know if it was me I'd just say so...cuz what're y'all gonna do? Spank me?

Naw, the ole fish slap will do.

purplethunder3121 said:

LBrent said:

LMAO

Nope, it was written awhile ago I think.

Anyway, ya know if it was me I'd just say so...cuz what're y'all gonna do? Spank me?

Naw, the ole fish slap will do.

You hit me with a fish. Who are you right now???

LBrent said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Naw, the ole fish slap will do.

You hit me with a fish. Who are you right now???

purplethunder3121 said:

LBrent said:

You hit me with a fish. Who are you right now???

LBrent said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Spank you? Well, let me go put on my Violet The Organ Grinder outfit and we'll talk about it.....

LBrent said:

kingricefan said:

Sure. Sure. Whatever you say. We can track your digital footprints, ya know.....

LMAO

Nope, it was written awhile ago I think.

Anyway, ya know if it was me I'd just say so...cuz what're y'all gonna do? Spank me?

Militant said:

I would definitely love to hear a version of this that didn't sound like the aural equivalent of a vaseline lens

It was when I heard this song and learned that Prince wrote it that I understood just how great of a songwriter he was. The fact that he could pen a song like this, and sound like it was literally written for a singer like Celine Dion...he was definitely in touch with things that most men simply are not.

purplethunder3121 said:

Nice.

Wlcm2thdwn3 said:

kingricefan said:

Latin said:

Updated with an additional video added.

The Tonight Show video isn't available at all, so you might wanna update that link, or wipe it out. It doesn't say "in your country". It looks as though it was pulled down across the board, unfortunately.

TrivialPursuit said:

I didn't know this was song was written by Prince and I had the CD too. Truly beautiful.

Thanks for sharing Latin!