Hello everybody, I haven't been able to find any info on this, But I was wondering if the track High Fashion (Put on the Family CD) was originally intended to be sung by Morris Day and the Time?

To me this track has the Time sound to it (a lot of the same people played in both bands) as well as the lyrics being classic Morris Day ("I'm riding around in the back of a Rolls Royce limo custom painted plaid!"). Is there a chance that Prince conceived of this track as an addition to the Time having a post Ice Cream Castles album?

I don't think anyone would mistake St Paul for Morris Day though

Not that I know of, but you know the history behind The Family right. They rose out of the ashes of The Time, and were basically conceived as a white-faced The Time in the beginning (as Prince puts it, he wanted some of that 'Duran Duran money').

'High Fashion' was recorded June 1984, same month Ice-Cream Castles was released, so it was only ever intended for the Family AFAIK, but the first couple of tracks on the album do pretty much continue in the vein of the Time, and there's the dig at Morris at the end of Mutiny (or even the whole track itself).

So St. Paul's character on the LP was an extension of the old pimp/Jamie Starr/Morris Day (and Christopher Tracy) character of Prince's. St. Paul was just following Prince's guide vocals.


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[Edited 12/25/09 7:45am]

I always thought that track should have been a Time song

Had Morris stayed around and Prince kinda loosen up. imagine how awesome that Time Album would be?

Side 1
High Fashion
Mutiny
Oak Tree


Side 2
Don't Wait For Me
The Character
Color Of Success