this was left off the For You album, anyone heard it?

no!
orgnote me.

yes.
i heard it too.

someone orgnote me!

[Edited 7/3/05 21:01pm]

4nowneway said:

These boots would be interesting for you too:

Studio Nights Work In Progress

1976-77 Boom Box Demos :
Sweet Thing, Wouldn't You Love To Love Me, Spending My Time, Rock Me Baby, Untitled, Do You Wanna Ride, Nightingale, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Telephone Conversation, Untitled, Untitled, For You, For You, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Soft And Wet, For You, For You, Untitled
Likely A Fake Track: Leaving For New York

Studio Nights Sound 80

Sound 80 Demos 1977 :
Just As Long As We're Together, Baby, Soft And Wet, My Love Is Forever, We Can Work It Out, Make It Through The Storm, Instrumental, Just As Long As We're Together
1978-1979 Outtakes :
Wouldn't You Love To Love Me, I Miss You, Donna, Down A Long Lonely Road, 16 Instrumentals

tis not a fake track..

Interestingly, the version of "Leaving For New York" that is circulating on boots such as Studio Nights et al is Prince's home demo of the song, and not the studio recording.

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giotto said:

..... or ..... likely a fake track ??

ThataintFunky said:

to bad u've never heard it. its on the work vol.1-4, indeed its a really track.
it probably would've have fit perfectly on parade with updates.

I have a demo version of this song. I really like it, he should have released it. He desperately needs to release the Grand Progression, that's another great song that deserves to be heard.
[Edited 7/4/05 11:41am]

sosgemini said:

no. nor is it a for you outtake, as was previously mentioned.

camille2002 said:

??? because it's on The Work Volume 1, it doesn't mean it's genuine ....
surely ... I do own this set, and Revelations 2.1

There does excist some discussion if it's really a Prince track,
or somesome was just trying to fool us ... I don't know!

MochaStarr said:

You're not gonna believe this but you for a while you could listen to a sample of it on MTV.com cuz that's where I heard it for the first time. You type in Prince and click on all his albums and they had some unofficial albums, The Work was one of them. When you clicked on it you could hear samples of the songs for about 30 seconds and that's when I heard Leaving for New York. It is a pretty song the little I heard and it does sound like something he recorded at home, but it's definitely him.

[snipped. no asking about how to acquire bootlegs in the forums, please. - anx]

Also, I noticed "Sweet Thing" and "Rock Me Baby" are covers, how many more demos of covers did he do?

mb

ThataintFunky said:

u're just 2 funny.

mcbliss said:

"Sweet Thing" was the only cover version.


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definetly not a fake track, listen to it again..if you really think so...

isn't "rock me baby" the BB King song?

mb

hhcoy said:

Whoever thinks this song is not Prince is deluding themselves. It's part of the batch of home recordings and demos found on a copy of Owen Husney's tape.

These later surfaced on "Studio Nights", then on stuff like "The Work".

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mcbliss said:

No. The title is tentative and could actually be called "Rock Me Lover".

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