Top 40 Hits written by prince for others

Stevie Nicks "Stand Back" (1983) #5 US
Chaka Khan "I Feel For You" (1984)#3 US #1 UK (yr end charts '85 #5 in us)
Sheila E. "The Glamorous life" (1984) #7 US
The Time "The Bird" (1984) #36US
The Time "Jungle love" (1985) #20 US
Sheena Easton "Sugar walls" (1985) #9 US
Sheila E. "The Belle Of St Mark" (1985) #34 US #18 UK
Bangles "Manic Monday" (1986) #2 US (behind "Kiss, at #1), #2 UK
Sheila E. "A Love Bizarre" (1986) #11 US
Art Of Noise featuring Tom Jones "Kiss" (1988) #5 UK

Simple minds "sign o the times" (1989) #18 UK

Elisa Fiorillo "On the way up" (1990) #27 US
Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990) #1 US #1 UK (#1 in yr end charts in us and #2 in uk)(#1 in 21 countries)
Kid Creole & The Coconuts "The Sex Of It" (1990) #29 UK
MC Hammer "Pray" (1990) #2 US #8 UK (sampled)
The Time "Jerk Out" (1991) #9 US
Tevin Campbell "Round and Round" (1991) #11 US
Martika "Love... Thy Will Be Done" (1991) #10 US #9 UK
Martika "Martika's Kitchen " (1991) #17 UK
Monie Love "Born 2 B.R.E.E.D." (1993) #18 UK
Monie Love "In A Word Or 2 / The Power" (1993) #33 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1995) #19 UK
MoKenStef "He's Mine" (1995) #7 US (sampled "Do Me Baby")
New Power Generation "The Good " (1995) #29 UK
New Power Generation "The Good" (1997) #15 UK (reissue)
Ginuwine "When Doves Cry " (1997) #10 UK

Jordan knight "I could never take the place of your man" (1999) #37 US
Alicia Keys "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" (2002) #26 UK
Jay-Z featuring Beyonce Knowles "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2003) #4 US #2 UK (sampled)
Inaya Day "Nasty Girl" (2005) #9 UK


Top 40 R&B Hits only written by Prince

"Meli'sa Morgan" "Do me baby" #1
"TLC "get it up" #14(also #42 on H100)
"Apollonia 6 "Sex Shooter" #19
"Sheila E "Sister Fate" #36
"Sheila E "Koo Koo" #35
"The Family "The Screams Of Passion" #9
"The Family "High Fashion" #34
"Patti Labelle "Yo Mister" #6
"Madhouse "6" #5
"Mazarati "100 MPH" #19
"Mavis Staples "Melody Cool" #36
"The Time "Get It Up" #6
"The Time "Cool" #7
"The Time "777-9311" #2
"The Time "The Walk" #24
"The Time "Ice Cream Castles" #11
"Vanity 6 "Nasty Girl" #7

"Andre Cymone "The Dance Electric" #10

Other contibutions

Stevie Wonder "What's the Fuss (on guitar) #34 US r&b UK #19

Madonna "Like a prayer"( on guitar uncredited) #1 US

[Edited 3/11/12 20:00pm]

[Edited 4/11/12 10:52am]

interesting

Dind't know he wrote Sheilas stuff & Monie Love... not ot mention M.C Hammer lol

Gunsnhalen said:

interesting

Dind't know he wrote Sheilas stuff & Monie Love... not ot mention M.C Hammer lol

sheilas 1st album was supposed to be appollonias 2nd album and she had already recorded some of the songs including glamorous life infact the drums on glamorous life r also prince but percution is shiela

charts are manipulated and corrupt but interesting list. I agree that he probably wrote most of jungle love and the bird

how does sampling a song mean it's written for you ?

cool list but you need to edit the thread title

I thought he just provided the inspiration and synthesiser for Stand Back?

Gunsnhalen said:

Dind't know he wrote Sheilas stuff

?

He only played on "Stand back", he didn't write it. Interesting list though.

muirdo said:

I thought he just provided the inspiration and synthesiser for Stand Back?

thepope2the9s said:

thepope2the9s said:

Impressive list, although "Get wild" was always Prince under another name for me.

New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1995) #19 UK
MoKenStef "He's Mine" (1995) #7 US (sampled "Do Me Baby")
New Power Generation "The Good " (1995) #29 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1997) #15 UK (reissue)
Ginuwine "When Doves Cry " (1997) #10 UK
Alicia Keys "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" (2002) #26 UK
Jay-Z featuring Beyonce Knowles "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2003) #4 US #2 UK (sampled)
Inaya Day "Nasty Girl" (2005) #9 UK

Wasn't it was The Good Life that was reissued in 97, not Get Wild? The Platinum People mix or whatever it was called got picked up by lots of commercial radio stations around the time and it re-charted.

Gunsnhalen said:

interesting

Dind't know he wrote Sheilas stuff & Monie Love... not ot mention M.C Hammer lol

MC Hammer being included is misleading. Hammer sampled Prince, Prince didn't write anything for Hammer. But, as he's sampled, Prince gets a writing credit.

Mindflux said:

Gunsnhalen said:

interesting

Dind't know he wrote Sheilas stuff & Monie Love... not ot mention M.C Hammer lol

MC Hammer being included is misleading. Hammer sampled Prince, Prince didn't write anything for Hammer. But, as he's sampled, Prince gets a writing credit.

Thats why i have put sampled at the end. But prince did have writing credits on hammers album on soft and wet. which wasnt released as a single

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erik319 said:

New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1995) #19 UK
MoKenStef "He's Mine" (1995) #7 US (sampled "Do Me Baby")
New Power Generation "The Good " (1995) #29 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1997) #15 UK (reissue)
Ginuwine "When Doves Cry " (1997) #10 UK
Alicia Keys "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" (2002) #26 UK
Jay-Z featuring Beyonce Knowles "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2003) #4 US #2 UK (sampled)
Inaya Day "Nasty Girl" (2005) #9 UK

Wasn't it was The Good Life that was reissued in 97, not Get Wild? The Platinum People mix or whatever it was called got picked up by lots of commercial radio stations around the time and it re-charted.

You are right i have made the correction

uk charts are easy to track on http://everyhit.com.

This list has been compiled by me and I have only limited knowledge. I am sure i have missed out on alot of songs please add to this list

Prince didn't write "Love is contagious".

His contrubutions to Taja was "Wouldn't you love to love me" and "If I could get your attention".

And Jesse Johnson wrote Jungle Love.

SquirrelMeat said:

Prince didn't write "Love is contagious".

His contrubutions to Taja was "Wouldn't you love to love me" and "If I could get your attention".

updated

SquirrelMeat said:

And Jesse Johnson wrote Jungle Love.

From prince vault

Jungle Love is the fourth track on The Time's third album Ice Cream Castle, and, five months after the album's release, Jungle Love was released as the album's third single. Jungle Love was written by Morris Day and Prince under the pseudonym Jamie Starr. Jesse Johnson was initially included in the credits when submitted for copyright in May, 1984, but after he left the band, his name was removed from the credits when the track was released. It was co-produced by Morris Day and Prince under the name The Starr Company. The song also features in the movie Purple Rain. A 1998 live version recorded by Morris Day was released in 2004 on his album It's About Time, but this has no input by Prince and is not included here, as it is considered a cover version.

Initial tracking took place on 26 March, 1983 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (the day before My Summertime Thang and Cloreen Baconskin).

asg said:

SquirrelMeat said:

And Jesse Johnson wrote Jungle Love.

From prince vault

Jungle Love is the fourth track on The Time's third album Ice Cream Castle, and, five months after the album's release, Jungle Love was released as the album's third single. Jungle Love was written by Morris Day and Prince under the pseudonym Jamie Starr. Jesse Johnson was initially included in the credits when submitted for copyright in May, 1984, but after he left the band, his name was removed from the credits when the track was released. It was co-produced by Morris Day and Prince under the name The Starr Company. The song also features in the movie Purple Rain. A 1998 live version recorded by Morris Day was released in 2004 on his album It's About Time, but this has no input by Prince and is not included here, as it is considered a cover version.

Initial tracking took place on 26 March, 1983 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (the day before My Summertime Thang and Cloreen Baconskin).

Nice list by the way.

Jungle love is always contentious. Officially, its a Prince penned track, but unofficially, it was written by Jesse. Its along the lines of:

Partyup - Actually written by Morris Day.

Do Me Baby - Acutally written by Andre Cymone.

We many never know for sure what the full story is.

On the flip side, you have Sheila claiming writing credit on a lot of her tracks, when in fact it was all Prince.

SquirrelMeat said:

asg said:

From prince vault

Jungle Love is the fourth track on The Time's third album Ice Cream Castle, and, five months after the album's release, Jungle Love was released as the album's third single. Jungle Love was written by Morris Day and Prince under the pseudonym Jamie Starr. Jesse Johnson was initially included in the credits when submitted for copyright in May, 1984, but after he left the band, his name was removed from the credits when the track was released. It was co-produced by Morris Day and Prince under the name The Starr Company. The song also features in the movie Purple Rain. A 1998 live version recorded by Morris Day was released in 2004 on his album It's About Time, but this has no input by Prince and is not included here, as it is considered a cover version.

Initial tracking took place on 26 March, 1983 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (the day before My Summertime Thang and Cloreen Baconskin).

Nice list by the way.

Jungle love is always contentious. Officially, its a Prince penned track, but unofficially, it was written by Jesse. Its along the lines of:

Partyup - Actually written by Morris Day.

Do Me Baby - Acutally written by Andre Cymone.

We many never know for sure what the full story is.

On the flip side, you have Sheila claiming writing credit on a lot of her tracks, when in fact it was all Prince.

on the vault they do say the same thing about "partyup" and "do me baby" but not for jungle love

Temp sticky

I don't think he had anything to do with "What The Fuss" from Stevie other than play.

What The Fuss was not written by him.

smoothcriminal12 said:

What The Fuss was not written by him.

no it wasnt i just added it coz he played the guitar on it and i say that ont he end

Smittyrock70 said:

Smittyrock70 said:

Thats true.

The Synth riff was the heart of the song. So he's at least co-writer, credited or not.

asg said:

Top 40 Hits written by prince for others

New Power Generation "The Good " (1995) #29 UK
New Power Generation "The Good" (1997) #15 UK (reissue)

^

You mean "The Good Life" ?

Nice list, impressive... thanks to you, asg for posting/ doing the work...

Meli'sa Morgans cover of Do Me Baby went to Number 1 on the RnB chart in 1985.

mynameisnotsusan said:

Meli'sa Morgans cover of Do Me Baby went to Number 1 on the RnB chart in 1985.

Thanks you. I have updated the list