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Thread started 07/02/10 4:08pm

Harlepolis

A Question About The Song "Wonderful" From The "Intimate Moments Revisited" Set?

On a second though, I got two questions:

1. Are there anymore recordings from that piano Rehearsal from 1982, beside the 5 ones we're fimiliar with?

And..

2. Did Prince really play "wonderful"? Becuase the guy who said "thank you" at the end of the performance didn't sound like him at all.

Thanx in advance.

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Reply #1 posted 07/03/10 12:27am

squirrelgrease

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Unless someone has a tape with more from that rehearsal, the Intimate Moments tracks are all that are known to have been performed. Some have wondered if How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore could have come from that session, but it seems doubtful. It's Prince on the song referred to as "Wonderful", though the song's title is really unknown.

http://prince.org/msg/7/320445

The Hookers/Vanity 6, home studio, late 1981 – early 1982
Moral Majority #1
Vagina – also the name offered to Denise Matthews when she joined The Hookers in January 1982

The Time: What Time Is It?, home studio, 11 January 1982
Gigolos Get Lonely Too (4:40)*
Bold Generation

The Time: What Time Is It?, Sunset Sound, 14-20 January 1982
International Lover (6:35)* (14/1)
The Walk (9:30)* (14/1)
Colleen (15/1)
You’re All I Want #1 (16/1)
Wild And Loose (7:32)* (19/1) (Prince/Dez Dickerson)
Turn It Up (5:30) (20/1)
Turn It Up (Edit) (3:33)
Turn It Up (Part 2) (2:30)

The Time, pre 12 February 1982
Dance To The Beat (Live at 1st Avenue 8/3-1982) (5:48)

Home studio, early 1982
All The Critics Love U In New York (5:55)*
Do Yourself A Favour #2 (previously “If You See Me”) (8:41) (Pepé Willie)
Money Don’t Grow On Trees – possibly intended for The Hookers
No Call U #1 (3:02)

Vanity 6, Sunset Sound, 25 March – 9 April 1982 – album completed in May
Bite The Beat (3:13)* (Prince/Jesse Johnson)
He’s So Dull (2:32)* (Dez Dickerson) - produced, guitar & drums by Dez Dickerson
Too Much
Nasty Girl (5:16)*
Wet Dream #2 (4:11)*
Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7:20)* (30/3)
Wouldn’t You Love To Love Me? #4 (1/4)
Extra Loveable (7:06) (3/4)
If A Girl Answers (Don’t Hang Up) (5:35)* (Prince/Terry Lewis)
3 x 2 = 6 (5:22)* (5/4)
If It’ll Make U Happy (6/4)

Home studio, April 1982
Girl O’ My Dreams #1
Raspberry Beret #1
777-9311 (7:57)*

1999, Sunset Sound, 20 April – 10 May 1982
D.M.S.R. #1 (8:05)* (20/4)
Free (5:00)* (25/4)
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore (3:54)* (26/4)
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) #1 (4:09) (28/4)
Automatic (9:24)* (2/5)
Delirious #1 (6:05) (9/5)

The Time: What Time Is It?, home studio, May/June 1982 – album completed 20 July
Grace (2:32)*
I Don’t Wanna Leave You (6:30)*
OnedayI’mgonnabesomebody (2:27)*

1999, Sunset Sound, 6-11 July 1982
Moonbeam Levels #1 (3:58) (6/7)
Lady Cab Driver (8:25)* (7/7)
Baby, You’re A Trip #1 (3:26) (8/7)
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) #2 (4:00)* - tentative placing

1999, home studio, July/August 1982
Little Red Corvette (4:58)*
1999 (6:22)*
Mia Bocca #1

1999, Sunset Sound, 10-14 August – album completed
D.M.S.R. #2 (6:23) – edit of #1, tentative placing
Delirious #2 (3:56)* - edit of #1, tentative placing

Piano rehearsal, 1982 - tentative placing
Improvisation (12:04)
Purple Music (16:30)

Home studio, 1982
Boom, Boom, Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart #1
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got #1
Don’t Let Him Fool Ya #1
Fox Trap
Girl (7:36)*
Horny Toad (2:13)*
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man #1
Lust U Always #1
Mink Kitty Cat #1 – intended for Vanity, tentative placing
My Baby Knows How To Love Me #1
New Position #1
Purple Music #1 (10:48)
Purple Music #2 (10:35) – extra guitar parts & vocal differences
Strange Relationship #1
Teacher, Teacher #1
U Should Be Mine (possibly instrumental) – offered to Eric Leeds in July 1989 for new Madhouse album
Yah, U Know #1
You’re My Love #1

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Reply #2 posted 07/03/10 12:50am

manki

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That period of time was just magical.

All those great songs recorded during that short period of time.

He was having a creative flow and I don't think he got much sleep during this time lol

/peace Manki

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Reply #3 posted 07/03/10 9:11am

Harlepolis

Wow eek some of the songs I'm not familiar with at all(so much for being proud that I had his bootlegs on lock & key disbelief none of that anymore lol).

Thanx a plenty smile

The copy I have, has the "Improvisations" set tracked into 4 songs:

1. Up-Tempo Jam

2. Wonderful

3. Showering Beauty

4. Bluesy Jam

That improvisation is def one of the GREATEST showcases of his piano playing(which I still think is pretty underrated).

As for "How Come", I don't think it was from the same session either(Those songs are soundstage recordings, right? Whereas "How Come" was recorded in Sunset Sounds Studios). But some poster said the song was among a set of 5 or 6 other songs that were shelved of course, I've yet to make my research of those songs myself.

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