Could someone tell me what was the song that Prince wrote for the No Doubt album?

It's called Waiting Room on the No Doubt Rock Steady cd, which I have. You can hear Prince sing on it with Gwen Stefani and the music is Prince too.

It should have been on Stefani's solo cd
since nobody from No Doubt played on it...
except for Stefani's singing.

cheers

Prince reworked an existing song by adding vocals and keys and mixing it differntly so he got a Co-writing credit.

lovemachine said:

ah - so he didn't write the song for them then...

Just out of interest do you know how he works with the people he co-writes with? For example Madonna with Love Song. Does he do all the lyrics and everything then hand it back for their input?

studioline said:

According to Uptown's 'The Vault' - "According to an interview Madonna gave in late 2001, 'Love Song' began as a jam by Madonna at the keyboard and Prince behind the drums, which contrasts with the previous assumption that the track was penned by Prince before being sent to Madonna for her input (and then despatched back and forth a few times). "We had a lot of fun," Madonna recalled, "We came up with the original melody lne. I just, off the top of my head, started singing lyrics into the microphone. And then he overdubbed some guitar stuff and made a loop of it and sent it to me, and then I just started adding sections to it and singing parts to it." The original tracking was done at Paisley Park in March 1988."

"Stefani contributed vocals to 'So Far, So Pleased' on Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic and in return the band sent him 'Waiting Room' which was written by three No Doubt members (Dumont, Kanal, and Stefani). Prince revised the track considerably and and returned the tapes in 1999. "Waiting Room' was originally planned for inclusion on their 2000 album 'Return Of Saturn' but the band didn't feel it fit with the rest of the material so they decided to keep the track for a future release. Prince received a composition credit along with the three band members, probably as a way to thank him for his signicant input."

I read somewhere that No Doubt sent him the tapes for their version of the song, and then they were invited over to Paisley Park. When they got there, they found Prince had completely redone the song.

Just felt like saying, I love Waiting Room (the song)