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'77 Hour Prince Marathon On VH-1 Soul This Weekend!

Posted in Celebrity News, Music with tags 77, Carmen Electra, Chaka Khan, Jill Jones, Morris Day, Pat Smear, Prince, Prince of Paisley Park, Purple Rain, Rosie Gaines, Sheena Easton, Sheila E., Stereofox, Taja Sevelle, The Family, The Time, Vanity 6, VH1 Soul, Wendy & Lisa on August 30, 2008 by drfunkenberry

Ok, we are going to be on a purple cloud all weekend; There is a 77 Hour Prince Special on VH-1 Soul. It almost makes up for us missing Prince jamming with Stereofox. I said almost.

The Emperor of funk Prince will have 3 hour blocks of videos including “Sexuality”, “Controversy”, “Raspberry Beret” (w/a young Pat Smear of Nirvana fame backing him up in white and long hair), “Girls & Boys”, “Mountains”, “Alphabet St.”, “I Wish U Heaven”, “Glam Slam”, “Partyman”, “Scandalous”, “The Morning Papaers”, “Gold”, “The Most Beautiful Girl….”, “Somebody’s Somebody”, “The Holy River”, “My Name Is Prince”, “The Greatest Romance Ever Sold”, “U Make My Sun Shine”, “Musicology” and “Black Sweat”. Sometime later will be live versions “I Would Die 4 U”, “Alphabet St.”, and “America” along with more later this weekend.

If that is not enough, you will then have a 3 hour block of Prince Proteges, while some are associated with Prince, they did not eaxactly use videos for songs he helped out with. Nevertheless, you will get jams by Vanity 6, Sheena Easton, a three pack of Wendy & Lisa videos, Carmen Electra, Taja Sevelle, Jill Jones, a 6 pack of videos by Sheila E., 4 videos by The Time including “Ice Cream Castles” & “jerk Out”, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Chaka Khan, The Family, Rosie Gaines, and many more.

There will also be a Prince pop up video special, multiple airings of “The Prince of Paisley Park” and his Acadamy Award winning film, “Purple Rain”.

The special will be airing all weekend so if you miss it once, you will catch it again. Now, the Dr. knows the most creative man in music has enough videos of himself & his royal court to fill 77 hours without showing the same video twice.

Now, if it was up to us, Dr. Funkenberry would be your video DJ with no face making that happen and maybe perhaps playing some videos that have never seen the light of day on that special. Sound good to you? It sure sounds good to us. You may not be able to give the people what they want, but we sure would like to give them what they need. Can YOU hear me? Good. Enjoy the 77 hours of funk.-Dr.FB

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[Edited 8/30/08 5:49am]

Off the Wall: Prince gets his purple reign on VH1

Diane Werts
August 30, 2008

PURPLE REIGN. Prince gets a three-day holiday weekend tribute from VH1 Soul. Three hours of "Prince Videos" (today 6-9 a.m.) kick off a weekend salute to the musical titan and his proteges (The Time, Vanity 6, Sheila E). Other highlights include the backstage peek "The Prince of Paisley Park" (today at 1 and 9 p.m., tomorrow at 1 and 11 p.m., Monday at noon) and the 1984 feature film sensation "Purple Rain" (tonight at 10, tomorrow at 2 p.m., Monday at 1 and 10 p.m.). Over on VH1 Classic, it's "80 Hours of the '80s" (continues through Monday), running A-ha to ZZ Top, climaxing with "80 Greatest Songs of the '80s" (Monday at 8 p.m.). Full lineups at vh1.com.

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No VH1 Soul 4 me. I'll pay anybody who wantz 2 sell a complete copy of this event,tho.

arg! I dont get Vh1- Soul , those who have it enjoy for the rest of us who cant watch!

I had it with Comcast but I am with Direct TV and they do not have SOUL...fools

Anybody watching this?
I'm kind of enjoying myself.....

aaarrrghghhhhh i dont have vh1soul either, how annoying..

ButterscotchPimp said:

Yeah! I'm LOVING it! I have been recording since this morning.

I'm not sure if I have VH1 Soul. *runs into other room frantically to check*
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i have comcast and get VH1 Soul...

Here we go again. I thought they'd play Mj stuff since his bday just passed.

Rinluv said:

Me too.

I have Comcast,but I don't think I have it!! AH!! what channel is is supposed to be on?

Are you serious?! I've been recording this damn 80-hour block of videos on VH1 Classic, and now you're telling me VH1 Soul's doing this? I can't record two things at once!

This is why VH-1 is hot and MTV is not.

we don't get it over here either!

EmeraldSkies said:

In sothern California, its 135.

ToraToraDreams said:

I'm in Northern California. Thank U anyway!!

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ToraToraDreams said:

Crap! I don't get that channel,I only have the standard cable,VH1 Soul in on Digital cable

I don't get it either... MF'r.. get VH1 & VH1 Classic, but not VH1 Soul.

Life a bitch

Smoke em' if u got em'

Wow, I just found a site where you can vote for the best song by Prince Really cool. http://www.rankopedia.com...1/2998.htm

WisdomNLove said:

I don't have it either...although I am thankful that I at least have a colored tv.

This marathon rules. Wow, Prince has sure worked with a lot of women who are awful singers!

IRockThere4IAm said:

exactly what I was thinking! Prince, just cuz they were good in bed, that doesn't make them good singers!!! But I'm loving the marathon, I've seen it a few times before this year with Comcast, but now since I moved into my own place this summer (YEAH!!!) I have Verizon Fios, and that also carries VH1 Soul!!!!

I just saw the Jesse Johnson videos this morning....how awful!!! I laughed through those videos. I didn't even know he had a video with Sly Stone!!!! That was shocking.

Rinluv said:

That's the craziest thing right there, but I'm not complaining! The more Prince, the better!

i was busy watching the 80 hours of 80s waiting for P and missed a lot of this...
>.>

Isn't this the same marathon they ran on Prince's Birthday??

I hate comcast even more now!!

they don't play any of prince's dirty mind videos. They played the live videos 4 take me with u and baby i'm a star
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