I like listening to other artists and hearing the same samples pop up, so Prince must have lifted those sounds from a published sample album.

The traffic on Lady Cab Driver.
The baby at the end of Delirious.

But also the screaming on Others Here With Us, as I just heard it on Chris ´The Glove´Taylor & Ice-T's club mix for Reckless. But I might be mistaking... if you got the club mix; it's 3:20 into the song.

Or is this a keyboard sound?

Anyways. Did anyone ever find out what sample album he lifted those sounds from?

And the boxing match from 'Pop Life.'

The animal sounds at the end of "Animal Kingdom" I've heard used in commercials before

or the interactive / gold era computer sounds..... many times I heard them in all kind of audio.

About 1999
I've read once a reference to the use of a certain soundeffect collection. Porb in uptown or one of the bibles from per nilsen
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The boxing match?????I read that was snippets of audio from the Rolling
Stones dates when he was booed of stage.....?????

EAL said:

Urban legend.

HamsterHuey said:

The is old old sampling set that these sounds came from.
I belive it's called "Sounds of Hollywood" or something like that.

Graycap23 said:

Thanks!

i heard the lady cab driver traffic in "the sting" with paul newman and robert redford

Newman said:

Kewl! Gotta go see it now!

HamsterHuey said:

Actually I think it's called "Sound effects of Hollywood"
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I had a job as a video editor working on porn (man on man hardcore). The guy who did the music came in one day with a set of sound effect cds. It's was a 20 cd set with Sony branding, and it had the sound of the boxing match from Pop Life.

Until then I had always imagined him and Shelia E. had gone to the fights and recorded it there. I guess not.

the most obnoxious one is the woman screaming at the beginning of "we march"
because it's in just about every single b-movie where a woman gets mugged or
a bankrobber pulls a gun and the crowd starts to scream



plus, finding out about the sample discs took away a bit of the magic from
lots of songs because i used to think that artists would just go out onto
the street and record sounds to use on their records.

some did, i know that for sure. like dave steward, he used to record all
sorts of things outside.

Is it Prince that spitz in "Family Name?" I love that. It's the cutest spit I've ever heard...right on time...

IstenSzek said:

That did not happen to me, I just got more fascinated with Prince's old recording techniques.