Dogsinthetrees said:

You mentioned Cat. When did she come into the picture? Was she around for this era or Parade? I dig Cat.

Cat was around sometime during the Dream Factory sessions 1986

SquirrelMeat said:

My favourite thing about it is that it sounds less dated than many 80's albums.

This is all about it, right there.

OldFriends4Sale said:

razzman said:

No, I haven't.....is it much longer than the album version?

I'll send it later

the version with the bass line

Around The World In A Day

Open your heart, open your mind
A train is leaving all day
A wonderful trip through our time
And laughter is all U pay

Around the world in a day, oh!
Around the world in a day

Now dig...
Loneliness already knows U
There ain't no reason 2 stay
Come here, take my hand, I'll show U
I think I know a better way, y'all

Around the world in a day, ow!
(Listen 2 me now)
Around the world in a day
All the babies sing it now

No, sha, sha
No, no shouting every day
No shouting
No, no shouting
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

The little one will escort U
2 places within your mind
(The former is red, white, and blue)
Former is red, white, and blue!
(The latter is a purple climb)
The latter is a purple - come on and climb!

Around the world in a day, sugar (Oh, baby)
Around the world in a day
Come on, say it!
Around the world in a day
Say papa, I think I wanna dance!

(In summer she’s sweeter)

Around the world in a day {repeat}
Oh yeah!
All the little babies sing around the world
A government of love and music boundless in its unifying power
A nation of art 2 production
Sharing ideas, a shower of flowers
All the little babies sing around the world
Sing it 4 your man, sing it 4 your girl
All the little babies sing around the world

[vocal ad libs]

Baby, baby, darling, why, why?
Where?
Lisa, Lisa?

WOW!!!!! Lookin 4ward 2 it!!!!!

THX!!!!

Novi Novog

Music: Eclectic, High strung instrumental quartet Novi Novog and her viola have been heard and seen on recordings, films and concert stages all over the world. She is one of LA's top session musicians, with a long list of credits including solos on Prince's "Purple Rain" and "Raspberry Beret," The Doobie Brothers' "Black Water", and album appearances for such diverse artists as Shaun Colvin, Bonnie Raitt, Terrance Trent D'Arby, Carly Simon, 10,000 Maniacs, Cher, James Taylor, Spinal Tap, Madonna, Tom Petty and Tangerine Dream. Her touring credits include such names as Frank Zappa, The Doobie Brothers, Aretha Franklin and Jennifer Warnes. A valley girl from North Hollywood, CA, Novi began playing piano at age four. When she was eight, she took up the violin, then moved on to viola. As part of the American Youth Symphony, Novi studied under Mehli Mehta, then attended California Institute of the Arts on scholarship under Louis Kievman, where she received the American String Teachers Award. Novi has recorded several albums with her own groups - Freeway Philharmonic (Sheffield Lab), Chunky, Novi & Ernie featuring her cousin Lauren Wood (Warner Bros. Records) and Sumner (Elektra/Asylum). Novi combines the background and training of the most intense classical disciplines with the improvising and listening abilities of a great jazz musician. She is one of the most versatile musicians in the Los Angeles scene, equally at home in classical, jazz, pop or rock

1984 -Prince & the Revolution:Purple Rain
1984 -the Time:Ice Cream Castles
1984 -Sheila E: the Glamorous Life
1985 -Prince & the Revolution:Around the World in a Day
* Paisley Park:Violin performed by Novi Novog
* Raspberry Beret:Novi Novog-Violin

Raspberry Beret-
She's Always In My Hair -Bside rel 5.15.1985

I remember when this came out, we were still in the throes of Purple Rain(was the tour done yet?) Raspberry Beret got a lot of air play were I lived. The video was a real piece of art versus Prince's previous videos visually.

And it's interesting how the cartoon section of the videos barn scene is from the deleted scenes from Purple Rain where the Kid & Apollonia are on the bike and end up at a barn and have sex. It was supposed to be a very sexually explicit scene.



1 2 1 2 3

Yeah

I was working part time in a five-and-dime
My boss was mr. mcgee
He told me several times that he didnt like my kind
cause I was a bit 2 leisurely

Seems that I was busy doing something close 2 nothing
But different than the day before
Thats when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
She walked in through the out door, out door

She wore a
Raspberry beret
The kind u find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldnt wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her

Built like she was
She had the nerve 2 ask me
If I planned 2 do her any harm

So, look here
I put her on the back of my bike
And-a we went riding
Down by old man johnsons farm

I said now, overcast days never turned me on
But something about the clouds and her mixed

She wasnt 2 bright
But I could tell when she kissed me
She knew how 2 get her kicks

She wore a
Raspberry beret
The kind u find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldnt wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her

The rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof
And the horses wonder who u are
Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees
U feel like a movie star

Listen
They say the first time aint the greatest
But I tell ya
If I had the chance 2 do it all again

I wouldnt change a stroke
cause baby Im the most
With a girl as fine as she was then

(raspberry beret)
The kind u find (the kind u find)
The kind u find (in a second hand store)
Oh no no
(raspberry beret)
(and if it was warm)
Where have all the raspberry women gone? (she wouldnt wear much more)
Yeah (raspberry beret)

I think i... I think i... I think I love her

(raspberry beret)
No no no
No no no (the kind u find)
(in a second hand store)
(raspberry beret)
Tell me
Where have all the raspberry women gone? (and if it was warm she)
(wouldnt wear much more)
(raspberry beret)
I think I love...

Didnt Prince say after Purple Rain that every1 was xpecting Purple Rain 2??? so he wanted 2 off in a totally diferent direction & it would b very far from Purple Rain!!!Around The World In A Day is my fave album after PR eye just understood what he was trying 2 do with A.T.W.I.A.D & was hooked!!

Remember, a lot of corny, or weird for the sake of being weird stuff was considered cool in the 80's. I don't mean ironic, but actually cool. You may have laughed at Prince's high heels, or him licking his fingers, but the rest of the puzzling non-sensical Prince stuff was really hip at the time. He could have done annnnnnything and got away with it. Then he did.

So ATWIAD comes out without any real transition, and it was almost too puzzling. People could follow Erotic City/Another lonely Christmas at least, but this wasn't what any Prince fan wanted. Nobody was like " I hope he brings in sitar, and goes all 60's sounding".

Then he's got a couple songs which are undeniable pop, like Pop Life, which was the one song nobody could hate it seems, and then Raspberry Beret, which was almost too...happy. Plus he's in the video smiling in a cloud suit, and it was like, what happened to the brooding in a lace blouse with the Hendrix hair? I think a lot of people had a love-hate thing for the record. It's just aged well.

He lost Black radio entirely, when there were still Soul and r&b stations, without much crossover. Then again, if you're Prince, every time you flipped to a Black station you would hear Chaka Khan singing your song all day long, but we didn't know that. Black radio really couldn't keep up after 1999 anyway. They were clinging on to "Controversy" but never bothered to listen to the words, I guess.

What I most remember about ATWIAD was you thought he was going somewhere with it. You thought he was telling stories with a direction, and you would get some resolution, or he was creating a movement. Now we just recognize Prince and "symbolism" is to be taken with a grain of salt... but nobody knew that then.

Prince was on top of his game then and ATWIAD proved that.

Timmy84 said:

Prince was on top of his game then and ATWIAD proved that.

Absolutely. Great record, still holds up.

I was thrilled when the Rolling Stone cover/interview came out around that time.

treehouse said:

Remember, a lot of corny, or weird for the sake of being weird stuff was considered cool in the 80's. I don't mean ironic, but actually cool. You may have laughed at Prince's high heels, or him licking his fingers, but the rest of the puzzling non-sensical Prince stuff was really hip at the time. He could have done annnnnnything and got away with it. Then he did.

So ATWIAD comes out without any real transition, and it was almost too puzzling. People could follow Erotic City/Another lonely Christmas at least, but this wasn't what any Prince fan wanted. Nobody was like " I hope he brings in sitar, and goes all 60's sounding".

Then he's got a couple songs which are undeniable pop, like Pop Life, which was the one song nobody could hate it seems, and then Raspberry Beret, which was almost too...happy. Plus he's in the video smiling in a cloud suit, and it was like, what happened to the brooding in a lace blouse with the Hendrix hair? I think a lot of people had a love-hate thing for the record. It's just aged well.

He lost Black radio entirely, when there were still Soul and r&b stations, without much crossover. Then again, if you're Prince, every time you flipped to a Black station you would hear Chaka Khan singing your song all day long, but we didn't know that. Black radio really couldn't keep up after 1999 anyway. They were clinging on to "Controversy" but never bothered to listen to the words, I guess.

What I most remember about ATWIAD was you thought he was going somewhere with it. You thought he was telling stories with a direction, and you would get some resolution, or he was creating a movement. Now we just recognize Prince and "symbolism" is to be taken with a grain of salt... but nobody knew that then.

uh I can't say he lost Black radio entirely. Because he didn't loose Black fans entirely. I seen Parade concerts in the US was predominately black faces loving the Parade/Around the World in a Day/1999 music

Where I live the 'Black Station' is/was WDKX 104, and Raspberry Beret America Pop Life Hello the Ladder She's Always in My Hair got lots of regular airplay. the whole album was played in its entirety.

the Family album got serious airplay on that station: Screams of Passion, High Fashion, Mutiny, Nothing Compares 2 U

Sheila E's A Love Bizarre, Sister Fate & Dear Michelangelo got lots of air play too

Old Friends 4 Sale was played as a 'promo' for the new Prince movie, New Position, Girls & Boys, Kiss, Love or Money, Under the Cherry Moon, AnotherLover... & Sometimes It Snows In April were constantly on the playlist

From what I know back then, Black music was anything a "black" person did. Come on PR was a rock album and Let's Go Crazy, the Beautiful Ones, Computer Blue, Darling Nikki Purple Rain was seriously played. Another Lonely Christmas to this very did is still played a few times a day on Christmas

treehouse said:

Remember, a lot of corny, or weird for the sake of being weird stuff was considered cool in the 80's. I don't mean ironic, but actually cool. You may have laughed at Prince's high heels, or him licking his fingers, but the rest of the puzzling non-sensical Prince stuff was really hip at the time. He could have done annnnnnything and got away with it. Then he did.

So ATWIAD comes out without any real transition, and it was almost too puzzling. People could follow Erotic City/Another lonely Christmas at least, but this wasn't what any Prince fan wanted. Nobody was like " I hope he brings in sitar, and goes all 60's sounding".

Then he's got a couple songs which are undeniable pop, like Pop Life, which was the one song nobody could hate it seems, and then Raspberry Beret, which was almost too...happy. Plus he's in the video smiling in a cloud suit, and it was like, what happened to the brooding in a lace blouse with the Hendrix hair? I think a lot of people had a love-hate thing for the record. It's just aged well.

He lost Black radio entirely, when there were still Soul and r&b stations, without much crossover. Then again, if you're Prince, every time you flipped to a Black station you would hear Chaka Khan singing your song all day long, but we didn't know that. Black radio really couldn't keep up after 1999 anyway. They were clinging on to "Controversy" but never bothered to listen to the words, I guess.

What I most remember about ATWIAD was you thought he was going somewhere with it. You thought he was telling stories with a direction, and you would get some resolution, or he was creating a movement. Now we just recognize Prince and "symbolism" is to be taken with a grain of salt... but nobody knew that then.

Great post...The irony is black radio and his black fans came back to him with the SOTT album...When I was growing up in Chicago you couldn't escape "Sign O' The Times," "Housequake," "Adore" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend" on black radio stations....By the time Diamonds & Pearls came around, it was almost a reverse...Prince's black fans were back in force, while his rock fans kind of turned their back on him.....

(60) EXT. GLADE AND BARN -- DAWN

as they ride down a leaf-strewn path and
pull to a stop near an old, weathered,
dilapidated BARN. It stands laarge and
silent like a painting. A low THUNDER
rolls across the land...

(61) INT. BARN -- DAWN

DAWN LIGHT burns through the wooden
slats.. STEAM rises from the wet hay
scattered throughout. The air is thick
and damp. It begins to RAIN.

Vanity stands in the middle of the barn,
gazing at the storm. Beads of
perspiration glisten on her forehead.
She turns slowly, watches as Prince
retrieves old blankets from a nearby
stall. Their eyes search one another
out, their breathing becomes short,
expectant. She hesitates a moment, then
pulls off her blouse, discards it to the
moist, dusty floor.


(62) INT. BARN -- DAY

ANOTHER ANGLE
RAIN patters srtongly against the barn.
A deep THUNDER rolls. She's on top of
him, moving deliciously, her body
glowing in the purple, dawn light.
Moist, purple water shadows streak and
course her skin as she moves slowly,
then deliberately against him. He
watches her avidly, his hands firmly on
her thighs, and thrusts into her again
and again...and again.





Built like she was, she had the nerve 2 ask me
If I planned 2 do her any harm
So looka here now, I put her on the back of my bike
Where we go? (Down by) ...Old Man Johnson's farm
So looka here now, overcast days never turned me on
But somethin’ ‘bout the clouds and her mixed
She-e-e-e wasn't 2 bright, but I could tell when she kissed me
She knew how 2 get her kicks

Rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof
And the horses wonder who U are
Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees
U feel like a movie star
They say the first time ain't the greatest
But I'll tell ya, if I had the chance 2 do it all again, oh

April 1985 @ S.I..R Studio
Video shoot 4 Raspberry Beret









A few hours later, Prince is kneeling in front of the VCR, showing his "Raspberry Beret" video. He explains why he started the clip with a prolonged clearing of the throat. "I just did it to be sick, to do something no one else would do." He pauses and contemplates. "I turned on MTV to see the premiere of 'Raspberry Beret' and Mark Goodman was talking to the guy who discovered the backward message on 'Darling Nikki.' They were trying to figure out what the cough meant too, and it was sort of funny." He pauses again. "But I'm not getting down on him for trying. I like that. I've always had little hidden messages, and I always will."
ROLLING STONE, APRIL 26TH, 1985

Xibalba said:

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Nice cover by Jim Warren. Hahaha @ that GIF.

... great thread

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In 1984 I was contacted by Prince's management to do a painting for Prince. The information I was given was simply one sheet of paper numbered 1 to 16 of various specific things that Prince wanted included in the painting. These things included "An obese bearded man covered with tattoos affectionately hugging a tiger", An exotic beautiful woman wearing a black cape and raspberry beret" and "A clown juggling two balls and a globe".

After reading and having a few questions, I asked the management to clarify a few things and was told simply to "Use your imagination". So I did.

Half way through the painting I was asked to fly me and the painting from California to Cincinnati in freezing cold weather as Prince had given instructions that the first thing he wanted to see when he woke up was my painting.

So off I flew, the half finished painting sitting in the seat next to me. While I waited in my hotel room in Cincinnati, two bodyguards came to get the painting to show Prince, returning the next day with instructions to "finish it" (This was before the Internet Age as you can tell). So I finished it and handed it over to management.

Two weeks later I was told, again very simply, "He Loved it".

- Jim Warren

Xibalba said:

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In 1984 I was contacted by Prince's management to do a painting for Prince. The information I was given was simply one sheet of paper numbered 1 to 16 of various specific things that Prince wanted included in the painting. These things included "An obese bearded man covered with tattoos affectionately hugging a tiger", An exotic beautiful woman wearing a black cape and raspberry beret" and "A clown juggling two balls and a globe".

After reading and having a few questions, I asked the management to clarify a few things and was told simply to "Use your imagination". So I did.

Half way through the painting I was asked to fly me and the painting from California to Cincinnati in freezing cold weather as Prince had given instructions that the first thing he wanted to see when he woke up was my painting.

So off I flew, the half finished painting sitting in the seat next to me. While I waited in my hotel room in Cincinnati, two bodyguards came to get the painting to show Prince, returning the next day with instructions to "finish it" (This was before the Internet Age as you can tell). So I finished it and handed it over to management.

Two weeks later I was told, again very simply, "He Loved it".

- Jim Warren

So if the "Around The World In A Day" album cover wasn't animated, it would look like this?

OldFriends4Sale said:

Where I live the 'Black Station' is/was WDKX 104, and Raspberry Beret America Pop Life Hello the Ladder She's Always in My Hair got lots of regular airplay. the whole album was played in its entirety.

WDKX isn't a normal station, then or now, it's independent and Black owned.....but you're right, Black radio didn't turn their backs on Prince immediately, they still played the OLD records, and they still played Sheila E. and tried to promote his other projects like The Family...and sure, some stations did a big first day release event where they played the whole record, but on what universe was Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, or America getting routine airplay next to A Love Bizarre? Erotic City got more airplay than anything off ATWIAD. Raspberry Beret got play, but it stuck out like a sore thumb with the violins. The Ladder's gospel sounds weren't right either, because these stations had specific hours for soul and gospel. Speaking of which, the soul stations weren't the same as the R & B station in major markets.

TylerHippie said:

So if the "Around The World In A Day" album cover wasn't animated, it would look like this?

I much prefer it.

Probably the most misunderstood of his 1980's albums (outside of Lovesexy).

As stated earlier, the man was on point at this time and the album was a welcome departure from PR.

My all time favorite Prince ballad (Condition of the Heart) is on here and minus the 800 lb gorilla that preceded it (Purple Rain), i would have been much more popular. Stylistically a fun, artsy album that hinted at what was to come with Parade.

In some ways, I still think it is his funkiest album, and oddly his most personal.

It's insular and paranoid in a way that creeps me out... there's a tension to the music.

I think that much of what I consider to be Prince's eccentricity is best displayed on ATWIAD, he sort of creates his own vocabulary. Images of color, perception of faith and sexuality, his place in the world of music.

It's hard for me to turn other people onto it, but for the Prince fans, well, you feel it.

treehouse said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Where I live the 'Black Station' is/was WDKX 104, and Raspberry Beret America Pop Life Hello the Ladder She's Always in My Hair got lots of regular airplay. the whole album was played in its entirety.

WDKX isn't a normal station, then or now, it's independent and Black owned.....but you're right, Black radio didn't turn their backs on Prince immediately, they still played the OLD records, and they still played Sheila E. and tried to promote his other projects like The Family...and sure, some stations did a big first day release event where they played the whole record, but on what universe was Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, or America getting routine airplay next to A Love Bizarre? Erotic City got more airplay than anything off ATWIAD. Raspberry Beret got play, but it stuck out like a sore thumb with the violins. The Ladder's gospel sounds weren't right either, because these stations had specific hours for soul and gospel. Speaking of which, the soul stations weren't the same as the R & B station in major markets.

No that believed in playing all styles, plus theere was a lot of fusion going on in music during the 1980's a lot of the minneapolis sound was being duplicated and a lot of rock/rnb fusion or jazz and pop fusion etc.

Yes WDKX did play Darling Nikki and Computer Blue on a regular bassis, and America definatley. If Let's Go Crazy go serious air play why wouldn't America?

Also MJackson's albums got non stop air play and songs like Beat It is a rock song.

the radio station used to do music battles like playing MJ music vs Prince and people would vote in

I mean I lived it so I know what I'm talking about. They still play 'live recordings' of Prince music at certain times of the night. I've heard version of Purple Rain live that I still don't know where it came from

shonenjoe said:

It's insular and paranoid in a way that creeps me out... there's a tension to the music.

Yeah, even thought the title track, and a few other tracks were my favorites, I still couldn't listen to that album for a long time, because I remembered a lot of the songs sounding like the song "God" ...but of course, that was just that tension thing you're talking about.

Worse are the live renditions of songs I have always loved, like Around the World in a Day, in medley with Christopher Tracey's Parade. It's just uncomfortable in the attempt to strip it of tension entirely and sound like a television theme song.

OldFriends4Sale said:

No that believed in playing all styles, plus theere was a lot of fusion going on in music during the 1980's .....

Okay well if that's how you remember it, I'm not going to burst your bubble and I wasn't in Rochester, NY.

..but the rest of Black radio wasn't playing all styles. A lot of them wouldn't even play certain kinds of hip hop.

Eddy Grant was considered a breakthrough on Black radio too. It was that far from being free form, and that damn format oriented back then.

About a month ago I put this album on at work, and as I was working alone and unbothered at the time, it took me back to remembering when I first heard it. Wonderful vibe to the entire album - it really is a journey of sorts, in tone and feel if nothing else.

'Temptation' still surprises me to this day - I think it has to be THE single darkest thing Prince has ever recorded. Well, that I've heard anyway.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Built like she was, she had the nerve 2 ask me
If I planned 2 do her any harm
So looka here now, I put her on the back of my bike
Where we go? (Down by) ...Old Man Johnson's farm
So looka here now, overcast days never turned me on
But somethin’ ‘bout the clouds and her mixed
She-e-e-e wasn't 2 bright, but I could tell when she kissed me
She knew how 2 get her kicks

Rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof
And the horses wonder who U are
Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees
U feel like a movie star
They say the first time ain't the greatest
But I'll tell ya, if I had the chance 2 do it all again, oh

absolutely love this album, amazing vibe... prince sang raspberry beret at the 3rd nsj concert & had this cartoon segment playing on the back screen during that time. nostalgia heaven!

treehouse said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

No that believed in playing all styles, plus theere was a lot of fusion going on in music during the 1980's .....

Okay well if that's how you remember it, I'm not going to burst your bubble and I wasn't in Rochester, NY.

..but the rest of Black radio wasn't playing all styles. A lot of them wouldn't even play certain kinds of hip hop.

Eddy Grant was considered a breakthrough on Black radio too. It was that far from being free form, and that damn format oriented back then.

The world is a big place, the radio station here was definately playing any kind of style of music by 'black' artist. No bubble to burst. No where did I say this was happening all over the world. BUT if this 1 black station out of 1000's played it then there might have been a few more.

I didn't make a general statement. I responded to your general statement that Black station weren't ... and that black people weren't .... which is not true. When I went to school (Junior) high all the Black kids were singing "Raspberry Beret, the kind you find in a 2nd hand store"

I mean Purple Rain is hardly "BlaCk music" its not RnB it's not "funk" it's strongly rOck but it got played on this station on a regular rotation. Before I even had the album I had a few tapes where I was able to record the whole album from the station.

WDKX as tame as rap was back then they would only play rap after 11pm. And every year they still play Prince's Another Lonely Christmas every Christmas a between 12 midnight to 12midnight

The one thing I did appreciate about that station back then was they gave us a wide range of music styles which opened me up to all kinds of music. So maybe they were the ONLY station in the nation that did that, but I'm glad they did.

It's a very generalized statement for you to say the 'rest of Black radio' like you heard all of them across the nation. Like all black people think alike from coast to coast. Again if there was 1 104 WDKX then there prob were others

Raspberry Beret

Pop Life

America

the Ladder

She's Always In My Hair

Girl

Hello

got regular spin rotation on 104 WDKX in Rochester, NY

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OldFriends4Sale said:

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