I think the very first song I heard was "kiss" from the parade album.

Darling nikki

I Wanna Be Your Lover on the radio back in 79. Was this one on a K-Tel record too back then??(hey old schoolers...remember THOSE???) Anyway I definitely heard it on the radio back then. Although I wasn't a fan 'til I heard Little Red Corvette a few years later.

Animal Kingdom. From that moment I knew he was the one.

"I Wanna Be Your Lover". I was in 7th grade. I thought he was a girl.

Wonderwall said:

I remember K-Tel records! I also remember saving my money to go grocery shopping with my mom on Saturdays because the supermarket sold 45s for like, 79 cents a piece, in racks above the shelves in the aisles! I had a hot pink box with a handle that I carried them in! (damn, I feel old just typing that! )

[But wait- I still have that box! ]

My parents played me "Raspberry Beret" because they both love that one...I wasn't super impressed until the album got around to "Temptation"

Wonderwall said:

My first Prince song? Soft and Wet. I remember an ad in Jet magazine of Princes debut album and a picture of him with this HUGE afro and my sisters saying how "fine" he was.

I wanna be ur lover!!

Uptown!!!

1999 !!!!!

diamonds and pearls. when i was like 3 or 4
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the first song I truly remember was partyman in Batman...I remember seeing the movie I was maybe 10 years old....and crazy for the Joker and Kim Bassinger was just so beautiful ...I kept talking about the song so my dad finally bought me the soundtrack...what a day and then my mother told me that it was also prince who made rasberry beret which I loved when I was younger...so they realised I was a prince fan LOL ... and my prince collection started...

"I Wanna Be Your Lover" on the radio and at the rollerskating rink. I didn't know who was Prince was and that was one of his songs until a couple of years later during the "1999" album period.

Wonderwall said:

ditto me on that too.

My discovery went like this

1999-Dirty Mind-Controversy-Prince-For You. Finally the summer after Purple Rain(on its release date). Purple Rain was easily one of my most anticipated albums ever. It was a Prince summer of love/discovery that summer when 1999 came out. Tis the reason 1999 will always be special to me.

But when I got to the Prince album and heard "I wanna be your lover" it dawned on my that I was listening to Prince 4-5 years earlier and never put 2 & 2 together. I would have been 9 or 10 in 79 when I first heard it.

Later
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Soft and Wet.

"u got the look"--at the time i didn't have a clue who it was, because i was only 6 years old.

Baby I'm A Star

malbena said:

My first one was Kiss too... thanks to Pretty Woman.

Soft and Wet but was hooked after hearing Controversy

Purple Rain.

Little Red Corvette

I think it was Diamonds And Pearls.

Dirty mind.

"Little Red Corvette".

The first song I ever heard was "Gett Off" when I was 5. LOL.

I was at home in the living room watching the BET Awards 06. Prince performed the song 3121. It caught my attention. Here we are now.

Lady Cab Driver. 6th Grade. My friend Tyrus Williams brought in the 1999 album for the last day of school. I brought in Thriller, and I remember trying to trade him albums by the end of the day. Smart man, that Tyrus, he kept 1999.

Wonderwall said:[quote]I Wanna Be Your Lover on the radio back in 79. Was this one on a K-Tel record too back then??(hey old schoolers...remember THOSE???) Anyway I definitely heard it on the radio back then.
:Just told my age on that one...

Wonderwall said:

I had those K-tel records also. I think it was either on one called Soundwaves or Nightflight.
I Wanna Be Your Lover was the first Prince song I heard also.