So I'm in the process of putting together my own homemade Camille album. I got hold of a bootleg copy of "Rebirth of the Flesh" and managed to clean it up using software I bought for burning records to CD. I also used the same software to record the extended version of "Shockadelica" off of my "If I Was Your Girlfriend" 12" single. Then using the following guide that someone posted on alt.music.prince waaaay back in the day I imported the rest of the songs from CD and put it all together like so...

1. Rebirth Of The Flesh (Unreleased)
2. Hosuequake (Same as the SOTT version)
3. Strange Relationship (Same as the SOTT version)
4. Feel U Up (Same as the "Long Stroke" from the 3" "Partyman CD single.)
5. Shockadelica (Same as the extended version from the "If I Was Your Girlfriend" maxi-single.)
6. Good Love (Same as the Bright Lights Big City version)
7. If I Was Your Girlfriend (Same as the SOTT version except that the wedding intro isn't included.)
8. Rockhard In A Funky Place (Same as the Black Album version)

Being a graphic designer by trade (and borderline obsessive compulsive by birth) I'm also doing the artwork for the jewel case. My goal here is to make it look as authentic as possible with copyright info, bar code, everything. So here's my question...I keep reading that Warner Bros. had gone so far as to assign the Camille album a catalog number but I can't find anything that tells me what that number is.

Does anyone know?

Also, I always wondered if those test pressings of the Camille album were just white-label or did Prince actually submit artwork?

BTW...this whole project is strictly for my own twisted sense of amusement. I am not making/selling boots.

I don't know about the barcode number, but I do remember reading somewhere that the original album cover was supposed to have a hand drawn stick figure with X's for the eyes. I'd also keep the colour scheme as much peach and black as possible like the 12" singles attributed to Camille. Just my suggestions

Was Good Love actually ever considered to be a Camille track?
Im not too sure if it was.


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muirdo said:

Yes

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/116565

Camille November 5th 1986
Album sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Rebirth Of The Flesh
02. Housequake
03. Strange Relationship
04. Feel U Up
Side 2:
05. Shockadelica
06. Good Love
07. If I Was Your Girlfreind
08. Rockhard In A Funky Place

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langebleu said:

cheers
The worst of it i have that configuration of the album.
The one with the peach smiley face on a black background.

IstenSzek said:

BTW, the version of Good Love on Camille is the version from CB, not Bright Lights Big City (I love that movie! )

And even though it's apprently not official, I've always loved that cover above.

If I made me a Camille compilation, I would put 'La la la, he he he' on there, as a bonus maybe. I know it's not a Camille track really, but it fits perfectly.

I'd also stick extended scarlet pussy and u got the look on as bonus tracks seen as thugh theyre atrributed to camille.

NouveauDance said:

are you sure about that ? I always used to think that the CB version was just an abbreviated/edited version of the soundtrack version .

I will give both a closer listen today....never noticed a difference except for the edit.

December1984 said:

I got this from this site a little while ago: catalog #9-25522-1 with the release date of January 13, 1987.

Because U mentioned Rebirth of the flesh,I tried 2
download it once again,and I found got it!!!
I've been looking for this one for a year...

Sounds great!!

KoolEaze said:

- The 'Good Love pt.2' bit was added after when Prince compiled Crystal Ball.

NouveauDance said:

Aaah, now I get it...you´re talking about the "original" Crystal Ball, right? , Not the NPG release from ´98.

Now it makes sense, I completely forgot about that one...I didn´t know that Good Love was part of the planned 3-LP-original-Crystal Ball in 86/87.

IstenSzek said:

Where'd you get that?

KoolEaze said

Same as previous source mentioned above:

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/116565

Crystal Ball November 30th 1986
Album Sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Rebirth Of The Flesh
02. Play In The Sunshine
03. Housequake
04. Ballad Of Dorothy parker
Side 2:
05. It
06. Starfish & Coffee
07. Slow Love
08. Hot Thing
Side 3:
09. Crystal Ball
10. If I Was Your Girlfriend
11. Rockhard In A Funky Place
Side 4:
12. The Ball
13. Joy In Repitition
14. Strange Relationship
15. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Side 5:
16. Shockadelica
17. Good Love
18. Forever In My Life
19. Sign O The Times
Side 6:
20. The Cross
21. Adore
22. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

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Thanks l´ange bleu , your accuracy and that avatar are a perfect combination.
I always imagine you as looking exactly like that moustached dude, answering every question like an encyclopedia.

Keep that avi !

KoolEaze said:

No, I was actually talking about the '98 CB - That version of Good Love is the version from Camille. The version on BLBC is the version from the original CB.

Boris says so!

Hi. This is my first post here.

So I was wondering, is that cover that IstenSzek posted the actual cover art to the unreleased 'Camille' album, or fan-created art?

I've also just compiled the album (found a 'Rebirth...' boot online, yay!), and I'd like to stick that pic with it in my iTunes, but only if it's the real thing. God, I'm so anal, it's ridiculous.

Oh, and off-topic, but seeing as it's my first post, I just have to say this: I LOVE 3121!

langebleu said:

That's one hell of an album right there

PopLife77 said:

welcome!

aah....Camille

Ponders back to the times when Prince was able to write decent lyrics, lyrics even that were thoughtprovoking and made you think Prince was a man with a mind, heart and soul

GangstaFam said:

I can't remember, I just plucked if off internet one day.
it might have even been posted on the org originally

Thanks for your input!

Here's what I threw together. It's basically just a reworking of the cover from the "Sign o' the Times" 12" single but it kinda fits.

That artwork is great!

Heres one i found on the net a while ago:

December1984 said:

Wow, this is beautiful! How did you do the song titles?

WOW! Some amazing artwork here. Like 'em all!

NouveauDance said:

There is a longer version than the "Bright Lights" one. And I had it on tape circa 1989, so part 2 has NOT been added in 98. Some has been cut out after the last "cool" of the last chorus.

Is there a Prince historian even crazier than both of us to confirm this crucial point ?

And why does Prince always sound so bad on CD and so good on vynil ? Where's the topic about that ?

u2prnce said:

Thanks. The song titles are just a font called "Girls R Weird". I scanned in the cover of the Sign o' The Times 12", took out all of the text that was on the sleeve and re-typeset everything.