I remember when this was first released. I was in Jr. High and I used to go to this import store in the valley that got stuff quicker than anybody else. Well, I saw the 12' version of Little Red Corvette and flipped, all the while wondering what was going to be so different about it compared to the version off of the album. Up untill that point, I wasn't that crazy about the song. I prefered "Lady Cab Driver" and "Automatic". I was happy that Little Red Corvette was a big hit for P (MTV WORE this video out), but still, it was very MOR. But when I listened to the long version, right away the Lady Cab Driver style funk was brought out in the mix. Simply put; the bass guitar! Man, I thought, why didn't P put THIS version on the album?! Because P wanted, ..ahem..NEEDED a crossover hit at this point and he didn't want to blow it with getting too funky. But he made up for it in this mix. The tracks were there all the time, he just buried certain ones for FM radio. The funky bass guitar doubling the funky bass keyboard line, plus his "May Day! May Day!", this is one of his early 80's funk cuts! Just the second half of the song alone. This is P's "black" version of Little Red Corvette. O.G. P fans will know what I'm talking about. Anyway, who out there digs this version?

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Co-Sign on everything you said. May be really see how damm good he is. He took a middle of the road pop song and turned it into something funky.

I just recently got this on CD and now I can die happy. I have seen the 12 inch sell for as much as $100.00.

Yep. Like I've said before on different post, this is when P was in a zone. Everything the brother put out during this period was hittin'. I know many of ya'll on here weren't even hip to who P was, let alone into his music. That's why LoveSexy gets so much love, cuz that's when many on here first got into P. And that's cool. But coming from someone who has been hip to P from the get, his 81-84 period is untouchable as far as him having the Midas touch. And this version simply showcases this in spades.

I've yet to hear this one, but I'm gonna put it higher on my "must hear" list.

I've yet to hear this one, but I'm gonna put it higher on my "must hear" list.

I've yet to hear this one, but I'm gonna put it higher on my "must hear" list.

This long remix version was done well after 1999 was even released. He went in and did the remix after the single was released for a dance mix version that was de'riguer(sp?) of the times. But this was done way AFTER LRC original and 1999 album was already released.

And Davis Z and The Jets copied the fuck out of this remix version with their first single debut Curiosity. It has Prince LRC remix bass and melody all over it and that same geetar chicken scrach sound and melody of the remix. I can't believe Prince didn't sue.

But then again he stole the original version LRC from Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes anyways so.....

Whatever the case, all I know is that black radio used to play THIS version when MTV was playing the video and when the 45 edited version from the album was released. I have the 45 single and bought it when it was first released. I bought the 12' very shortly after.

I only heard this version on KJLH a Los Angeles r-n-b radio station back in 84 actually. I was at a friends house when it came on near midnight and flipped. 3 years late hearing an awesome LRC version that I lived and died with. After that I requested it always and my search for it was on. It took five ytears later to finally find the versions on 12"vinyl and later on import French cd.

But most stations weren't doing remixed versions anyways back then unless it was r-n-b radio. And the album vwersion was a blatant stab for rock cred and rock radio play in the vein of Springsteen (and Prince and Fargnoli said as uch in the famed 82 L.A. Times interview).

Whatever the case, all I know is that black radio used to play THIS version when MTV was playing the video and when the 45 edited version from the album was released. I have the 45 single and bought it when it was first released. I bought the 12' very shortly after.

paisleypark4 said:

STILL never heard this version to this day


JUST TO HARD TO FIND!!

Its a black version just because its got a dance bass line and a few shouts?

Besides, its not an "unedited" version, just an extended remix done after the album version was completed. The extended middle section is the give away. Typical bad editing.

Its a black version just because its got a dance bass line and a few shouts?

Besides, its not an "unedited" version, just an extended remix done after the album version was completed. The extended middle section is the give away. Typical bad editing.

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It is the black version because this is the version black radio station played.
Why don't you ask yourself this question? How come Pop stations did not play this version back in the day?

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I guess your the only one that noticed that Bette Davis eyes (Lol)
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Wrong