Ya'll are going to laugh, but I did not like this song when it first came out. Whenever I heard "When Doves Cry" on the radio, I would think to myself, "Eww, there's that weird song again!" But the more I heard the song, the more I liked it. Now I love it.

Throughout that summer I must have heard that song a zillion times and it really hyped me up to see the movie. I don't think I've ever been as souped up over a flick before that or after. And everyone I knew (funksters, headbangers, DuranWham heads, hip hoppers) loved the song. A great crossover hit.

I've talked about this a few times on here in the past. I had been 15 for less than two months when this song was first released in May of 84. The odd thing about it was that every time I heard it, I always came in when 3/4 of the song had already played. Everytime I would get into the car and I turned on the radio, the song would be on, usually in the same spot. No matter who I was with. If I was with my mother or with my friends who were old enough to drive, didn't matter. I could never catch the song from the beginning. This happened around 7 times in a row. I had already known from the folks in the shipping department at my beloved Tower Records for a good 3 weeks when the sigle was going to drop. But radio had already been bumping it and it still wasn't quite time for the release yet. I remember being in the car with one of my friends saying that this was the new prince song. He didn't believe it was Prince. And he was a fan like I was. I was like "Yeah man, that's P. Can't u tell? Just listen to it. Who else could sound like that?" What was throwing him off was that P was singing in his baritone voice. I knew better. I was like "Listen to the harmonies...That's Prince. And then when P did go into his falsetto, I was like "There! Now who in the hell else is that?! Of course it's Prince!". I could tell from the music it was P. Mind u, I still hadn't heard the intro. Finally I caught the song from the beginning on the radio and I fucking lost my mind. Never had I been this hyped up about a brand new song. When I heard P's guitar lead opening up, I broke my neck grabbing my own guitar, trying to learn what I heard him just do. Finally, when I called on the day it was supposed to be released, and they told me they would have to hold me a copy cuz the 45 was flying out the door. I got the 45, which was on purple wax. I was stoked to Kingdom Come. I wore that out, learning the guitar run in the intro. I had to wait untill the album was to come out cuz I could tell P had another guitar solo that was fading out on the 45 mix.