I bought this CD called 94 East and it has a pic
of Prince in his early days with an afro.There is also
a poor version of the symbol on the cover.There are 6
songs on the CD and they're all instrumentals save for
a couple,but Prince is on none of the songs.The first
track is called One Man Jam

Are these Prince songs?Does anyone know cuz I'm

The CD also says it was made in England and there's a
website called www.dressed2kill.co.uk.

94 east was recorded by Pepe Willie and different musicians, among them prince and Andre Cymone i the mid 70's. This was before Prince had got record contract of his own. It's not a prince album but he definitley plays on it.

No,these are not Prince songs.These are mid-70s recordings by Pepe Wille and his band 94 East.He hired a young Prince and Andre Cymone to play on these sessions.Many songs were recorded for a planned debut album on Polydor Records.The deal fell through but Pepe held on to these recordings and released them in 1985 as "94 East: The Historic 1977 Recordings".Since then,he has released this album countless times,always with Prince's name and photo splashed across the cover (in order to make people think it's a "Prince" project).Don't be fooled.

But,if you just gotta have this project,I suggest you get the 2-CD 'Symbolic Begiinings' set,which contains even more songs than the 6-track CD you just bought.

I have this 2cd album and it is not bad.
This song 'if you see me' was put on the jewel box as a prince song (was it 'do yourself a favour'?). Great song .

The song "JUST ANOTHER SUCKER" is credited 2 Prince having the "Controversy Music (ASCAP)". So he probably wrote lyrics or at least co-written the song.

Thanks 4 all the info people.

sojourner said:

Yeah,"If You See Me" is an early version of the song "Do Yourself A Favor",which Prince recorded himself in 1982 for possible use on a Time album.The song was written by Pepe Willie and recorded in late 1975.Jesse Johnson recorded his own great version in 1986.

The moderators need to create a special forum just for this album.

Tom said:

you have to admit though, it's been a while since we've seen this thread...at least a few weeks!

endorphin74 said:

That's correct. And there are ONLY two threads currently devoted to this particular subject as I type this, lol!


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