The oldest footage I know that exists on film of Prince is form the Dirty Mind Tour. I know of the Paris & New York footage. Is there any more from that period or older than that that exists?

must be something from his first tour somewhere...earliest footage i have seen is americian bandstand from early 1980 i think...

blackbob said:

must be something from his first tour somewhere...earliest footage i have seen is americian bandstand from early 1980 i think...

^ I always 4get about that show. I was about to say the Dirty Mind tour shows...

blackbob said:

must be something from his first tour somewhere...earliest footage i have seen is americian bandstand from early 1980 i think...

Do you recall what song he sang on AB?

sweething said:

blackbob said:

must be something from his first tour somewhere...earliest footage i have seen is americian bandstand from early 1980 i think...

Do you recall what song he sang on AB?

I Wanna Be Your Lover and Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad. He performed the same songs on the tv show Midnight Special as well.

Mindbells9 said:

sweething said:

Do you recall what song he sang on AB?

I Wanna Be Your Lover and Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad. He performed the same songs on the tv show Midnight Special as well.

and i think, AB and Midnight Special are the oldest ones. Or have he performed in 1978s ?

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

Mindbells9 said:

I Wanna Be Your Lover and Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad. He performed the same songs on the tv show Midnight Special as well.

and i think, AB and Midnight Special are the oldest ones. Or have he performed in 1978s ?

No, his first TV appearance was The Midnight Special on 11th January 1980.

American Bandstand was broadcast on 26th January 1980.

I haven't seen those tv clips in a while. Was it all lip synched, or were the vocals live?

eyewishuheaven said:

I haven't seen those tv clips in a while. Was it all lip synched, or were the vocals live?

i think, there were live vocals.

just look again: http://www.myspace.com/vi...d/34883591

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

eyewishuheaven said:

I haven't seen those tv clips in a while. Was it all lip synched, or were the vocals live?

i think, there were live vocals.

just look again: http://www.myspace.com/vi...d/34883591

Nope, both AB and Midnight Special were lip synced. His first LIVE tv appearance was on SNL 1981 doing "Partyup"

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

eyewishuheaven said:

I haven't seen those tv clips in a while. Was it all lip synched, or were the vocals live?

i think, there were live vocals.

just look again: http://www.myspace.com/vi...d/34883591

Oh no, they were lipsynched

Mindbells9 said:

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

i think, there were live vocals.

just look again: http://www.myspace.com/vi...d/34883591

Nope, both AB and Midnight Special were lip synced. His first LIVE tv appearance was on SNL 1981 doing "Partyup"

And did it well...

Elle85n09 said:

Mindbells9 said:

Nope, both AB and Midnight Special were lip synced. His first LIVE tv appearance was on SNL 1981 doing "Partyup"

And did it well...

I know right Seemed like I was actaully listening to the real song, because then he was performing every song exactly how it was on the album. And that's work jumping and moving around while sticking to perfect falsetto without breaking ur voice.

It wasn't until a bit later that he started deepeniing his voice on falsetto based songs (ex. When U Were Mine on Makings of Rain, Bambi on March 8? 1982 show, etc), which made it even more interesting.

I know about TV appearances, but more specifically, I'm wondering of there is any footage of him playing live that is older than the Dirty Mind Paris & New York shows....