Noon Rendezvous

I've been
wondering what 2 wear
I love our noon rendezvous
I know U tell me U
missed me
And I want 2 make love 2 U

Your words, they intoxicate me
I shiver each time that U speak
How
much more can I endure, my love?
The sound of your voice makes me weak

If my bodily functions operate
This way when U just call my name
I'd
hate 2 see when we are finally
Playing that nasty love game

Your words, they intoxicate me
I shiver each time that U speak
How
much more can I endure, my love?
The sound of your voice makes me weak

The words are all over your face, my love
What shall U or shall I do?

U could show me some new tricks, my love
I'd love 2 be taught by U

I've been wondering what 2 wear
I love our noon rendezvous

© 1984 Girlsongs Music - ASCAP

[Edited 8/12/11 6:58am]

http://www.people.com/peo...77,00.html

Sheila E. Warms Up the Crowds for Prince, but Her Own Career Is Cooking Too

If you pencil in a mustache and pour her vital assets into pegged trousers, Sheila E. could pass for her musical mentor, Prince. She has his chilly eyes, sculpted cheekbones and pouty mouth. And if her own black curls weren't frosted, she would be his hair apparent. Sheila has more in common with Prince than smoldering good looks. She shares his record label, his management team, his costume designers and even the bill on his current world tour (she's the opener). But Sheila E. (for Escovedo) is more than just another sultry siren in a long line of pop protégée acts that Prince has molded in his own image. She's a multitalented musician who left a percussionist post with Lionel Ritchie for a stab at solo stardom. As her manager told a colleague, "This isn't just Prince. This one writes her own songs."
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Of all the sexy women that Prince has beckoned to his artistic court, Sheila E. is the most promising. Her new album, The Glamorous Life, seems destined for gold. Its title cut, a percolating brew of synthfunk and Latin rhythms, is a dance-club smash that cracked the Top 10, and this fall Sheila and her seven-piece band sold out club dates across the country—possibly because Prince is known to join her onstage often.
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No stranger to show business, the 26-year-old musician from Oakland, Calif, is the oldest child of Juanita Escovedo and her husband, Pete, a percussionist best known for his work with Santana. Sheila got her first hands-on experience pounding her father's drum kit when she was 5, and by 15, she was drumming with local Latin bands. One night she stepped in when a member of her father's group became ill. "I got a standing ovation," she recalls. "That was it for me—all I wanted."
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Sheila dropped out of high school after her sophomore year, went on to record two LPs with her father and toured with such heavies as George Duke, Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock and Diana Ross. Playing—often simultaneously—congas, timbales, cowbells and cymbals "is very tough physically," she admits. "Sometimes my hands go numb. I look down at the drums and see blood over everything."
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Friends for six years, Sheila and Prince regularly swapped musical licks but never played together professionally until last March, when he got her to record with him on a hot-breathing single, Erotic City. Afterward he told her, "You've been playing behind people for too long. You should just do your own thing."
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Escovedo's "thing" has come to look and sound suspiciously like Prince's. Although Sheila dismisses any musical similarities ("We've been friends for such a long time; we've picked up on a lot of the same influences"), there's no denying she's picked up on his stylish funk and raw onstage sexuality. More femme but no less fatale than he, she recently teased a Los Angeles crowd with the brazen come-on, "Would you like to play with my timbales?" Her saucy act prompted a high-minded rebuke from one critic who sniffed, "Sheila E. wasn't any more inspiring than the dancers at adult theaters."
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Offstage Sheila's more sedate than seductive. Her Hollywood apartment is adorned with stuffed animals, and she clutched an orange Tootsie Roll Pop for an entire interview. Though rumors of romance between the Prince and the protégée may inspire rock tabloids to purple prose, Sheila is girlishly coy about their relationship. "It's the same as it always has been," she says, barely suppressing a smile. Pause. "We're still good friends."

OldFriends4Sale said:

I love the Glamorous side of Erotic City, the concept, the music videos etc

I never have enough discussion on Prince & the Glamorous Life, Sheila E & Prince duets, GL songs performed by Prince & the Revolution, bandmembers & background ect. Indulge me purple people...

June 4. 1984
The Glamorous Life Sheila

1.The Belle Of St,Mark
2.Shortberry Strawcake
3.Noon Rendezvous
4.Oliver's House
5.Next Time Wipe The Lipstic
Off Your Collar
6.The Glamorous Life

7. 2 Sexy (b-side)

Great thread. I feel the same way!!!

OldFriends4Sale said:

Anyone have any information on where the video was shot?

Couldn't find info so far about the location, but noticed that the video company was Limelight Productions in Los Angeles, with Simon Fields as the company's producer.

THe location is known.....I've read that's it's a mansion somewhere or a public venue you can rent. I can't remember right now. I think it's in the LA area

TheDigitalGardener said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

who was actually in Sheila E's band during the PR era?

Sheila E - Vocals/whatever

Juan Escovedo - Percussion

Eddie Minnifield - Saxaphone

Karl Perazzo - Drums

Ken Grey - Keyboards

Susie Davis - Keyboards

Bejamin Rietveld - Bass

Miko Weaver - Guitar

Stephen Birnbaum - Guitar

This thread http://prince.org/msg/5/344398 is still quite useful

Anyone know who this is on guitar 4 the video?

GaryMF said:

THe location is known.....I've read that's it's a mansion somewhere or a public venue you can rent. I can't remember right now. I think it's in the LA area

I did notice while watching it looked like a mansion or classical theater

it's definately huge

OldFriends4Sale said:

Anyone know who this is on guitar 4 the video?

The "band" in the video is actually Sheila's family. The woman in the pic above on "bass" is Zina her little sister. Her brother Peter Michael is the lead guy/love interest/soprano "sax player".

I think her other brother Juan is in it too. I'll have to watch it again to see if anyone else is in it but she only has 3 siblings!

My PR era Glamorous Life playlist

I love to mix the Purple Music from each era to see how it fits

since somehow it's supposed to tell a story from different parts of Erotic City/Uptown

1.The Belle Of St,Mark

2. 17 Days

3. Next Time Wipe the Lipstick Off Your Collar

4. Erotic City

5. The Glamorous Life
6.Shortberry Strawcake

7. Chocolate

8. A Million Miles

9. Traffic Jam
10.Noon Rendezvous

11. Take Me With U

12. Chili Sauce

13. 2 Sexy

14. Ice Cream Castles
15.Oliver's House

Susie Davis(Sheila E keyboardist) BrownMark Lisa Coleman A6:Susan Apollonia Brenda Prince Bobby Z on the Purple Rain tour

October 7. 1984
Den Bosch.The Netherlands
Sheila E
TV Performance :Toppop

The Belle Of St Mark
The Glamorous Life

I always make sure to check out your posts, I get to learn interesting things Thanks always appreciate it!

1983 Eddie M Jill Jones engineer Suzie & Miko Weaver

Oliver's House

I heard this afternoon from the neighborhood [slut, Deborah]
She said Oliver is leaving soon so he can make a scene

CHORUS:
We're gonna have fun, Oliver's house
Make a lot of white noise
Fun, Oliver's house
Play with the white boys

Last June, Oliver threw a party 4 his girl, Louise
She got drunk and called me a bitch just cuz I kissed him

CHORUS

Fun, Oliver's house {x2}

Oliver's got a swimming pool, a piano in his bathroom
We took turns throwing down, we took turns throwing up

Gonna have fun, Oliver's house
Make a lot of white noise
Fun, Oliver's house
Play with the white boys

Fun, Oliver's house
Make a lot of white noise
Fun, Oliver's house
Play with the white boys

U should see his mother's room, she's got so many fine clothes
Oliver, he dressed me up and then he undressed me slowly
Oliver is so weird but he knows how 2 play guitar
I'm a sucker 4 a major chord, a ride in an open car

We're gonna have fun, Oliver's house
Fun, Oliver's house {x3}
We're gonna have fun
Fun {x27}

© 1984 Girlsongs Music - ASCAP

OldFriends4Sale said:

Oliver's House

I heard this afternoon from the neighborhood [slut, Deborah]
She said Oliver is leaving soon so he can make a scene

CHORUS:
We're gonna have fun, Oliver's house
Make a lot of white noise
Fun, Oliver's house
Play with the white boys

Last June, Oliver threw a party 4 his girl, Louise
She got drunk and called me a bitch just cuz I kissed him

CHORUS

Fun, Oliver's house {x2}

Oliver's got a swimming pool, a piano in his bathroom
We took turns throwing down, we took turns throwing up

Gonna have fun, Oliver's house
Make a lot of white noise
Fun, Oliver's house
Play with the white boys

Fun, Oliver's house
Make a lot of white noise
Fun, Oliver's house
Play with the white boys

U should see his mother's room, she's got so many fine clothes
Oliver, he dressed me up and then he undressed me slowly
Oliver is so weird but he knows how 2 play guitar
I'm a sucker 4 a major chord, a ride in an open car

We're gonna have fun, Oliver's house
Fun, Oliver's house {x3}
We're gonna have fun
Fun {x27}

© 1984 Girlsongs Music - ASCAP

She played this one at one of her shows at Yoshi's in SF

Where she had BrownMark on Bass Eddie M on sax and played Pop Life, Hollyrock, Glamorous Life, America & Oliver's House

I would love to get that show on DVD

[Edited 8/21/11 12:48pm]

September 13th 1984

@ the Ritz in NYC

Sheila E. *
Miko Weaver (Guitar)
Stephan Birnbaum (Guitar) *
Benny Rietveld (Bass)
Karl Perazzo (Drums)
Susie Davis (Keyboards)
Ken Gray (Keyboards)
Eddie Minnifield (Sax)
Juan Escovedo (Percussion)

always dug her with those drumsticks in her hips.thighs like a gunslinger on the cover

OldFriends4Sale said:

My PR era Glamorous Life playlist

I love to mix the Purple Music from each era to see how it fits

since somehow it's supposed to tell a story from different parts of Erotic City/Uptown

1.The Belle Of St,Mark

2. 17 Days

3. Next Time Wipe the Lipstick Off Your Collar

4. Erotic City

5. The Glamorous Life
6.Shortberry Strawcake

7. Chocolate

8. A Million Miles

9. Traffic Jam
10.Noon Rendezvous

11. Take Me With U

12. Chili Sauce

13. 2 Sexy

14. Ice Cream Castles
15.Oliver's House

Nice playlist I have to try this one out Though I haven't heard of Traffic Jam

TheDigitalGardener said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

who was actually in Sheila E's band during the PR era?

Sheila E - Vocals/whatever

Juan Escovedo - Percussion

Eddie Minnifield - Saxaphone

Karl Perazzo - Drums

Ken Grey - Keyboards

Susie Davis - Keyboards

Bejamin Rietveld - Bass

Miko Weaver - Guitar

Stephen Birnbaum - Guitar

Make Love Not War, Erotic City Come Alive

co-lead: Sheila E.

The song starts with a guitar string plucked and whammied, before dropping into the drum track. The experimental number relies on a strong bass line and a simple keyboard riff. The song features Prince's voice both sped up and slowed down at various times to sound like different singers. Also featured is Sheila E., in her recording debut,

Initial tracking took place on 30 December, 1983 at Sunset Sound (two days after In A Spanish Villa and Next Time Wipe The Lipstick Off Your Collar, the same day as She's Always In My Hair, and the day before We Can Fuck (later retitled We Can Funk)). It is possible that Sheila E. added her vocals sometime between 1-4 April, 1984, when Prince and Sheila E. worked on tracks for her album The Glamorous Life

All of my purple life
I've been lookin' 4 a dame
That would wanna be my wife
That was my intention main

CHORUS:
If we cannot make babies
Maybe we can make some time
Fuck so pretty, U and me
Erotic City come alive
We could fuck until the dawn
Makin' love till cherry's gone
Erotic City, can't U see?
Fuck so pretty, U and me

Everytime I comb my hair
Thoughts of U get in my eyes
U're a sinner, I don't care
I just want your creamy thighs

CHORUS

All of my hang-ups are gone
How I wish U felt the same
We could fuck until the dawn (Until the dawn {x2})
How I wish U were my dame (Baby, won't U be my dame?)

CHORUS {x2}
(Oh yeah)
(Until the light)

Uh, whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa (Mmmm)
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa {x2}

Baby, U're so creamy

I... I... I... I... I...
Fuck some creamy human jive
Erotic City come alive

CHORUS

If we cannot make babies
Maybe we can make some time
Fuck so pretty, U and me
Erotic City come alive (I... I... I...)
We could fuck until the dawn (Come alive)
Makin' love till cherry's gone (Come alive)
Erotic City, can't U see?
Fuck so pretty, U and me

If we cannot make babies (U and me)
Maybe we can make some time
Some time, some time, some time, Erotic City
We could fuck until the dawn
Makin' love till cherry's gone
Erotic City, can't U see?
Fuck so pretty, U and me
If we cannot make babies
Maybe we can make some time
Yeah, oh, oh, Erotic City

Whoa whoa
Whoa whoa {repeated} Oh no!
Erotic City {x3}
(Baby, U're so creamy) {x2}
Come on and dance while U... while U still have your cherry baby
Cherry baby!
We could fuck until the dawn
Makin' love till cherry's gone
Erotic City, yeah

I... I... I... I...
Erotic City, yeah

I see her boobies.