This is in Purple Rain movie. Was it ever released on an album or single? I can't find anything about it. Please help!

toejam said:

no.

no, it was never released. yes to help.

as MrChristian said...No.

But it was scheduled for release around the time Apollonia 6 album, and The Time's Ice Cream Castle came out. Warners had it on their release schedule for about a year before it disappeared, never to be released. It never even surfaced in the bootleg or traders circles.

Huh? I don't remember Modernaire being on Mazarati OR Mazarati II.

The closest is a fan remix I have half downloaded.

i think everyone realized how friggin terrible that song was... if the song only appeared in the movie, dez could write it off as a joke... but if he actually released it as a single... ugh... he might have gone down in history as the person who released the worst song in the world ever...

I once read a 1986 interview with Dez Dickerson where he commented on this song.According to him,Warner Bros. was actually gonna release this song on two different occasions.The first release date was in summer 1984,around the time of 'Purple Rain'.The second planned release date was exactly one year later (summer 1985).

I don't know if there is an entire Dez Dickerson and The Modern-aires album (produced by Prince) in the vaults,but I wouldn't be surprised.It seems that,by now,it would be circulating on bootlegs,dontcha think?

I didn't think Prince had any writting input on the Modernaires song, just Dez.

Presumably there would be atleast a few more songs, if not a whole album done, maybe with artwork?

It was pretty standard 80s pop/Minneapolis sound, but I love that kind of stuff. Vanit's first album is a masterpiece of 80s USA Funk-Pop.

Don't laugh but I actualy used to like that song (oh, th 80s) Anyway I think his record contract with Warner Bros. fell through and that's the reason why it was never released.

I actually saw Dez and his band perform this song in NYC in the mid 1980s. He actually slipped and fell on stage. Du-oh!I even got a couple of guitar picks with "Dez" imprinted on them. Don't have 'em anymore, though. Wonder what they would go for on Ebay?

Yes he opened for Billy Idol at the Beacon Theater back in 84 or 85.

MiaBocca said:

Surely you aren't referring to her awful 'Wild Animal' album,are you? That album is embarassingly bad,with some of the worst lyrics I ever heard on ANY album.