Prince's Purple Reign

Purple Rain 12" Single Cover

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain

Purple rain Purple rain
Purple rain Purple rain
Purple rain Purple rain

I only want to see you bathing in the purple rain

I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend
Baby I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end

Purple rain Purple rain
Purple rain Purple rain
Purple rain Purple rain

I only want to see you underneath the purple rain

Honey I know, I know, I know times are changing
It's time we all reach out for something new
That means you too
You say you want a leader
But you can't seem to make up your mind
I think you better close it
And let me guide you to the purple rain

Purple rain Purple rain
Purple rain Purple rain

If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon raise your hand

Purple rain Purple rain

I only want to see you, only want to see you
In the purple rain

Prince and the Revolution recorded the song live on 3 August 1983 at First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA (at the same concert where Let's Go Crazy, Electric Intercourse, I Would Die 4 U and Baby I'm A Star were also recorded).

This live version was worked on further between late August and September 1983, at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA, where the track was edited to omit a verse and a solo, and a new string section was overdubbed over the finale of the track (during the same set of sessions as The Beautiful Ones, a studio version of Computer Blue, a re-recording of Irresistible Bitch and Sugar Walls).

It was included as the sixth track on the 7 November 1983 configuration of Purple Rain, before becoming the eighth and final track on the 23 March 1984 configuration. It became the ninth and final track on the final 14 April 1984 configuration after some tracklist changes to the album.

Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Bobby Z. - drums and percussion Brown Mark - bass and vocals Wendy Melvoin - guitars and vocals Lisa Coleman - keyboards and vocals Matt Fink - keyboards and vocals David Coleman - cello Novi Novog - violin and viola Suzie Katayama - cello -PrinceVault

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Reply #94 posted 06/13/16 9:23am

The crowd at First Avenue, their faces straining against one another, receive the brief benediction of a wavering spotlight: to them, Purple Rain doesn’t sound like any song that Prince has played before: the tight electronic funk, his harsh and weird sex songs, the soul ballads in which he asks for forgiveness – Purple Rain is something new, something different. They don’t know how to react. In fact the crowd is so muted that when this recording is prepared for the album, the engineer loops some crowd noise taken from a football game to give it some life.

What do great songs sound like the first time we hear them? Can you remember that feeling? When Bob Dylan heard The Animals’ version of House of the Rising Sun, he got out of the car and ran around it again and again he was so excited. The first time you hear a great song is so rare, and it can never be repeated; watching the crowd during this first performance of Purple Rain, I see that look on a few faces, a silent shocked awe. On the twenty-seven other recordings of Purple Rain in my iPod, the moment the first chord is strummed, the crowd cheer, acknowledging the anthem. They become a congregation, keen to be guided through the Purple Rain, and that has its ecstasies, even if it involves cigarette lighters held aloft, and hands waved in the air. But to hear silence flowing back from the audience, no singalong because they don’t know the words, is to eavesdrop on the shock of the new.

The lyrics of Purple Rain suggest the singer has wronged someone, harmed them inadvertently. In the context of the Purple Rain film that someone is Prince’s girlfriend; in fact, in a rather literal outtake from the film, Prince and his girlfriend have sex in a barn at dawn, and the water streaming down from the roof sheathes her naked skin, which is then struck by the dawn rays, so that she appears to be bathing in a kind of purple rain. Music video directors in the 1980s could be very literal; if Bonnie Tyler sang “turn around bright eyes”, then we would see a boy with very bright eyes turning around.

What does purple represent to Prince? Purple is a gateway colour, a transition from one stage to the next, the colour of dusk and dawn, magic hour between day and night. Purple is also a mix of pink and blue, a boy and a girl. I’m not a woman, I’m not a man. I am something you will never understand. Prince casts himself as androgynous as a tactic of seduction, a conventional hetero offer with a side order of feminine sensitivity, or at least, what a twenty three year considers to be sensitivity. Purple is also the colour of royalty, and he is a Prince. The sub-editors of the Sun will pun Purple Rain into Purple R.e.i.g.n. Or is it the purple of Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze? All of these possible meanings are burnt away by the guitar.

The solo is a messianic ejaculation, an absolving, annihilating ecstasy. The sky was all purple and there were people running everywhere, sang Prince, predicting the millennial panic of 1999. He even wrote a song called Ronnie Talk To Russia Before It’s Too Late, a trite bit of rockabilly agit-pop that called for Ronald Reagan to negotiate with the Soviet Union, a sentiment he was to express more succinctly in the high-pitched childish voice in 1999 that asked, “Mommy, why does everyone have a Bomb?” The sky is all purple because it is on fire, and what follows is a quenching of that destruction.

Purple Rain is the redemptive baptism on the night of the apocalypse, forgiveness for the terrible sins committed by the singer and by us. Prince is clear that we are all implicated. Times are changing. It’s time we all reached out for something new, and that means you too. He is our messiah, so he tells us in another song on the album, I Would Die 4 U. You say you want a leader but you can’t seem to make up your mind I think you better close it and let me guide you to the Purple Rain.

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Meeting His Majesty, Prince

The next task at hand was to introduce Magnoli to Prince, and simultaneously, for Magnoli to further familiarize himself with the artist, his background, and his works. Magnoli knew and had liked the 1982 Prince hit singles “1999” and “Little Red Corvette.” He held a powerful image of the artist as “a loner” and “iconoclastic,” but more research was still necessary to get an authentic feel for the man and the performer.

So, while he finished an editing job on a Wednesday and Thursday and prepared for a flight to Minneapolis on Friday to meet his movie’s star, Magnoli wanted to learn everything he could about the musician. “I didn’t know his early career,” Magnoli acknowledged.

“‘Send to the editing room every video and any foot¬age you have on Prince, so I can see the visuals,’” Magnoli remembers saying to Cavallo on the phone. “So he sent me all of this video of Prince in concert in Minneapolis, and it was during his bikini-wearing, high-heel wearing, long coat days. This was prior to the 1999 album, where I think he had his self-titled album Prince . . . I think that’s what it was called. He was wearing a jacket on the cover [of the album] with a bikini bottom, with his chest sticking out, looking very androgynous.

“So now I’m watching all this video that supports this androgyny, and I’m thinking, Wow . . . okay. . . . I realized trying to bring Prince to the public—and I always knew I wanted to cross over from an urban base to a wider one—was going to be difficult,” Magnoli explains.

“So I’m watching all this imagery, but I do see the vulnerability under all that crap, and I think, Okay, I need to focus on that,” he notes. “That’s where this is coming from anyway.”

An encounter on the way to the airport didn’t exactly quell Magnoli’s concern that the visuals surrounding Prince might have difficulty playing in Peoria. He asked his African American cab driver on the way to LAX if he knew of the performer/songwriter Prince. The man did know of him, so Magnoli next pressed the gentleman on what he thought about him.

The man replied that Prince was gay, and furthermore, couldn’t imagine that Prince was not gay.

“Don’t forget,” admonishes Magnoli, “we’re back in 1983 now. Nowadays it’s not even an issue. We’ve come a long way, baby. But now I’m thinking, All right . . . more . . . stuff. But when I later met him, I realized, no, this is not even an issue. This is just the noise. This is just the chatter. I never factored it in, ever -- ever -- from that point on. The frills didn’t bother me. The purple coats didn’t bother me. This was all the stuff, all the chatter, that anybody who didn’t know the soul would just latch on to. And they were going to do that anyway. As long as I could stay focused on the heart and soul, I knew I would be fine.”

Albert Magnoli, from the archive of John K. Muir

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Reply #96 posted 06/14/16 8:42am

18 PURPLE RAIN (8:40)
Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince and The Revolution
Strings arranged by Lisa and Prince
Recorded live at 1st Avenue in the summer of ‘83 by David Rivkin and by David Leonard at the Record Plant, New York
Published by Controversy Music, administered by WB Music Corp. ASCAP
From PURPLE RAIN

“It’s very simple,” Steve told his partner. “He wants a movie. If we don’t get him a film deal with a major studio, he won’t stay with us.”

The next day, Cavallo accumulated a ton of press clippings and began pitching Prince to the film community. Of course it wasn’t easy to convince studio chiefs that a burgeoning rock star could be the focus of a bankable film property. Finally, after a near-deal with Richard Prior’s production company, the Warner Bros. film division expressed a slight interest. But they had to know more…even see more. Desperate for start-up funding, Cavallo persuaded Warner Records Chairman Mo Ostin to loan Prince and his management team the money to begin production.

But first there was work to do and music to make. A scant few weeks after the tour ended, Prince was ensconced in a huge industrial warehouse where he and his band, along with members of The Time and Vanity 6, began a grueling schedule of drama classes, dance training and musical rehearsals.

Prince’s recordings for PURPLE RAIN represented a mind-boggling crazy quilt of sources. A few songs were professionally recorded in Los Angeles but the rest of the album was put to tape in Minneapolis under a bizarre set of circumstances. It started when technician Susan Rogers was unexpectedly asked to tear out Prince’s studio and transport it to the warehouse. Rogers remembers, “That’s when I learned not to be afraid to try something just because it hasn’t been done before. This was something that was unheard of in textbook engineering. You don’t record a band live in a warehouse with no isolation between the musicians and the engineer. But I was learning the ways of Prince. Just hook it up and do it!”

Despite track leakage and electrical interference from every appliance in the building, they managed to get keeper tracks of several songs, including LET’S GO CRAZY.

The next unlikely recording location was a dowdy but musically fashionable club known as First Avenue. A benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theatre, the gig was full of hidden agendas – from introducing no less than six new songs to breaking in guitarist Wendy Melvoin. But none was so surprising as Prince’s last-minute request for a mobile audio truck. What began as a modest club show turned into still another impromptu recording session.

Without an experienced road crew on hand, I inherited the job of production manager by default. It was unusually hot and humid and the club was downright stifling by the time the curtain went up. Prince took to the stage like a boxer to a ring, jabbing, feinting and finally stunning the sweat-drenched audience with the most powerful of the new songs, the brazen I WOULD DIE 4 U and the spine-tingling PURPLE RAIN.

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Reply #97 posted 06/14/16 8:48am

November 19, 1984 Vol. 22 No. 21

Prince's Purple Reign

By Barbara Graustark

With a Hit LP and Movie, Rock's Most Secretive and Sexy Cult Hero Grows into a Cultural Phenomenon

In Purple Rain, Prince played the Kid—a name he is often called by his Minneapolis circle—a selfish, tormented, unreachable soul who fights to survive an unhappy home life and turns inward, refusing to share his emotional or creative life. Prince has described the film as an "emotional autobiography." Says his keyboardist Matt Fink: "For the first two years that I worked with him, Prince never talked to any of us. Once he started talking about his life with his parents. He mentioned something about having a tough time. Then he suddenly realized what he was doing and clammed up. That was two and a half years ago. We never heard about his personal life again."

Revolution guitarist Lisa Coleman calls Prince a "genius," but others haven't been so generous. Some people who have worked with Prince call him Ayatollah or Napoleon. Others says he is simply a perfectionist who demands only what he asks of himself. He drives his musicians hard, even fining them for showing up late to rehearsals. He dictates what they wear during his show and refuses to let them give interviews without his permission.

As an outlet for his other musical interests, he has created pop protégé bands like the Time and Vanity 6 (re-christened Apollonia 6). Like the title character in The Idolmaker, one of his favorite films, he taught his charges how to dress and move onstage and also provided them with royal treatment in the studio. He produces albums other than his own under the pseudonym the Starr Company.

But there are signs that his empire may be crumbling. Morris Day, the Time's dapper front man, whose braggadocio performance in Purple Rain won kudos from critics, left to pursue a solo career. So did Prince's former girlfriend, Vanity, a loss that friends say "left him brokenhearted." Bernadette Anderson, whose son André is another defector from Prince's band, says, "You either go along with Prince or not at all."

"Friendship, real friendship, that's all that counts," Prince once said wistfully, admitting, "I would like to be a more loving person." Keyboard player Wendy Melvoin of the Revolution believes that Prince is changing: "There's a willingness to accept new things." The title of his film, Purple Rain, may have symbolized what she calls "a new beginning. Purple, the sky at dawn; rain, the cleansing factor." The song itself grew in a late-night jam session, with each band member contributing a lick, the first time Prince had let them share in creating his music. "I think the most important lesson he has learned is that people care about him," says Lisa Coleman. "He did start out alone."

Perhaps the quest was not just for stardom but also to belong. That would explain why the Kid continues to live in Minneapolis, where he has devised a social world with other like-minded rebels. Explains Lisa: "I grew up in my own room, making music and having philosophies I thought no one would ever share. That's exactly the way Prince grew up, so we find solace in each other."

With no special woman in his life ("He's married to his music," says Vanity), Prince roams his hometown haunts with friends like Sheila E. A typical evening consists of supper at Rudolf's, a barbecue house where you find the kind of fan who still remembers the autograph Prince signed for her six years ago. "Love, God, Prince," it said. He still turns to religion for guidance, and current protégée Apollonia remembers finding a Bible in her motel room "opened to a scripture that he wanted me to read." (How he got into her room remains a mystery. "Maybe he picked the lock," she jokes.)

At heart, he's a homebody, and he returns from evenings at the now famous First Avenue Club—usually alone—to his purple house with its pots of flowers and Marilyn Monroe posters. Late into the night he writes music and short stories with a purple pen on a purple pad that he carries about "like Walt Whitman," says Wendy. Sometimes the Kid needs more. At least once he has slipped out of bed, jumped onto his bicycle and pedaled off—naked—into the Minneapolis dawn.

That prankish spirit reigns onstage, where His Royal Badness is at his hot, erotic best. "Do you want to take a bath with me?" he taunted the crowd last week during his concert's show-stopper, stripping to his waist and climbing into an oversized elevated purple bathtub. Prince has tamed his sexual shtik; there's no more necking with his female musicians. Gone too are the bikini briefs and his trademark, the pervert's trench coat. What remains is enough to satisfy the most demanding fan: stiletto-heeled splits and leaps, wicked sonic screams and suggestive pelvic thrusts. After nearly two hours he gave his thanks with a melting grin that seemed to say that if the Kid had his way, he'd keep dancing until 1999. We'd ask him, but we know he wouldn't talk.

Contributors:
Julie Greenwalt,
Debbie Looser,
Leah Rozen,
Carl Arrington.

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Paul Peterson on recording the song "Feline" : (I was) trying to learn how to rap, I don't even know if they called it that then. I still remember that rap to this day for some reason. (Singing lyrics) "Feline, get my body working..."

It was funky, it was nasty and I was worried about what my mom would think. (Laughs). You know, (Prince) never talked to me about what the plan was (for that song). He and I didn't communicate on that level. That was his baby. So, I can't say for sure.

Feline is an unreleased song recorded on 14 July, 1984 at Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse (on the same day Prince flew to Dallas to attend the premiere of The Jacksons' Victory Tour), and was intended for The Family album. Paul Peterson confirmed in 2009 that he did record vocals for the track, confirming that a version by The Family does exist. The song was not included on the album, but a rap intended for Paul Peterson was later reworked for Sheila E. on the track Holly Rock when Peterson objected to the lyrics of the song and asked for it not to be included. Eric Leeds worked on the track again in 1990-1 for possible inclusion on his album Times Squared (presumably as an instrumental track), but it was not included on the final album.

There were two tracks that had been done that were going to be put on the second record. But, that was all put in the vault, because, (Peterson) left. But, we definitely had the plan of doing it. (Peterson's) unreleased track had something to do with a tiger or a jaguar, or something like that. I can't remember. You would have to ask him. It had to do with some animal. - Susnnah Melvoin

Feline (rehearsal) Purple Rain sound

Prince (vocals, guitars)

Brown Mark (bass)

Bobby Z (drums/linn)

Wendy Melvoin (guitar)

Dr Fink (keyboards)

Lisa Coleman (keyboards)

Greg Brooks (in the space) possibly other Family band/group members

The Family version

St. Paul Peterson - vocals
Susannah Melvoin - vocals
Prince - all instruments, except where noted
Bobby Z. - tom-toms
Jellybean Johnson - tom-toms
Eric Leeds - saxophone

...everlasting

her emotions, never blue

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

Just the rhythm, I don't care what cords U play

haaaa look at them 2

them 2 funky over there

Greg talkin 2 Mark

both them legs are just...
Greg you gotta show the other roadies that

Oh I'm sorry 'musical technicians'

U want that

uh yeah like 2 oclock?

Cool

[launches into 2 a wicked guitar solo]

G G

3 bass players just talking

yeah yea I like that

that's new yeah

that's that new P__

oh ok

how much that costs U man

how much that's renten U

ah Yeah that's funky

_ so so automatic

don't

know what 2 to do

My hard on, everlasting

her emotions, never blue

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

St Paul's my name

making loves my game

funky as I want 2 be

line up a hundred

swear 2 God

I'll funk em till I just can't C

cause I'm bad good God

badder than the wicked witch

____ -___ ___

Don't U want be my ...

Organ solo

Guitars & Drums

Piano

Bobby Z

everybody uhhh

I __ baby

U know just what 2 do

My hard on everlasting

her emotions, never blue

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

On the 1

Good God

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

Feline

Keep My Body Working

Feline

all night

St Paul's my name

making loves my game

funky as I want 2 be

line up a hundred

swear 2 God

I'll funk em till I just can't C

cause I'm bad good God

badder than the wicked witch

____ -___ ___

Don't U want be my ...

Get off

uhhh

Mass appeal

little boy smile

make you happy all the while

I'm bad Good God

bass and drums

Wendy say gemmie some of that

Wendy said gemmie a little bit of that..

put a little bit of that on my plate

Wendy

Got enough of Wendy's guitar? I can't hear it out here

Got Wendy's guitar in the mix? I can't hear it

Come on

Mass appeal

little boy smile

make you happy all the while

I'm bad Good God

Drop out the guitars

Drop out the bass

On the 1

good God

.
On the 1

that belongs to somebody else tho

we can't play Cinncinatit

with that cause

my man will come up on stage with a pistol

He must of got some money last night

(goes into the Screams of Passion)

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Initial tracking took place on 19 August, 1984 at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie (two days after The Dance Electric and the day before God; a year to the day before the track's release on The Family album). St. Paul Peterson and Susannah Melvoin overdubbed vocals onto the track in late 1984 - early 1985, and Clare Fischer added orchestral overdubs during the same period. PrinceVault

faster than that

a little faster

yeah

just join right in anytime

organ

put the step on Mark

the lighter U touch it the more it does

sensitive 2 the touch

Ooooooh ooooah ooooah

Bobby the piano was 2 low last night could U C me?

Turn it up alittle bit now

Ooooooah

I'll need a little bit more voice 2night

Ooooooah

Alright just play base notes on the organ, drop out the chords

There's a gentle autumn breeze

blows
Whenever we be lyin', lyin' in my bed
.........

My clothes I quickly, I quickly shed

The curtains dance a minuet, autumn plays the music, baby
Come on, hold my hand
......

A picture that is waving, that it seems 2 be with every thrust U
Make me beg 4 more

The curtains dance a minuet, autumn plays the music, baby
Make me dance 4 more

Oh, a robin sings a masterpiece
That lives and dies unheard
4 screams of passion

Whoa, hold me now, baby
Tell me that U love me
Is it Sunday the screams of passion

drop out the bass

organs, Stop

the Screams of Passion

the screams of Passion

Everybody

the Screams of Passion
Hold me now baby

tell me that u love me

or is it passion

drop out the organ

Play some chords Wendy

organ

the Screams of Passion

oooh hold me now baby

tell me that u love me

or was it passion

baby

or was it

just the keyboards and the drums

Everybody

4 Screams of Passion

the Screams of Passion

come on now baby

tell me that U love me

or was it passion

the Screams of Passion

Yeeeeaaaaooowwwhh

the Screams of Passion

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(Sorry, I had meant to post my other comment on here)

Thank you for all the beautiful articles, photos and memories you have gathered on this thread! cool

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OldFriends4Sale said:

The music video (directed by Prince himself) was released on MTV in June 1984. It opens with white doves emerging from double doors to reveal Prince in a bathtub. It also includes scenes from the Purple Rain film interspersed with shots of The Revolution performing and dancing in a white room. The final portion of the video incorporates a mirrored frame of the left half of the picture, creating a doubling effect. The video was nominated for Best Choreography at 1985's MTV Video Music Awards.

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Lol, Come take a bath with me baby... Prince sure loved taking baths wink

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luvgirl said:
OldFriends4Sale said:

The music video (directed by Prince himself) was released on MTV in June 1984. It opens with white doves emerging from double doors to reveal Prince in a bathtub. It also includes scenes from the Purple Rain film interspersed with shots of The Revolution performing and dancing in a white room. The final portion of the video incorporates a mirrored frame of the left half of the picture, creating a doubling effect. The video was nominated for Best Choreography at 1985's MTV Video Music Awards.

Lol, Come take a bath with me baby... Prince sure loved taking baths

LOL from all that sin

Do u still want 2 spend the night?

Good.

Come on.

U said u would wash my hair.

Shall we go swimming 1st?

U can't swim.

Wonderful.

Shall I wash u 1st or shall u wash me?

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OldFriends4Sal e	CherryMoon57 said: (Sorry, I had meant to post my other comment on here) Thank you for all the beautiful articles, photos and memories you have gathered on this thread!
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Reply #107 posted 06/17/16 11:20am

OldFriends4Sale said:

luvgirl said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

The music video (directed by Prince himself) was released on MTV in June 1984. It opens with white doves emerging from double doors to reveal Prince in a bathtub. It also includes scenes from the Purple Rain film interspersed with shots of The Revolution performing and dancing in a white room. The final portion of the video incorporates a mirrored frame of the left half of the picture, creating a doubling effect. The video was nominated for Best Choreography at 1985's MTV Video Music Awards.

Lol, Come take a bath with me baby... Prince sure loved taking baths

LOL from all that sin

Do u still want 2 spend the night?

Good.

Come on.

U said u would wash my hair.

Shall we go swimming 1st?

U can't swim.

Wonderful.

Shall I wash u 1st or shall u wash me?

Lol!

If ever honey U need someone 2 take a shower with girl
Call me up and scream
Extra lovable, honey don't U wanna, don't U wanna
Take a bath with me?

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luvgirl said:
OldFriends4Sale said:

LOL from all that sin

Do u still want 2 spend the night?

Good.

Come on.

U said u would wash my hair.

Shall we go swimming 1st?

U can't swim.

Wonderful.

Shall I wash u 1st or shall u wash me?

Lol! If ever honey U need someone 2 take a shower with girl Call me up and scream Extra lovable, honey don't U wanna, don't U wanna Take a bath with me?

What do you wanna hear?
If I was anything else I'd be the water in your bath, darling

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OldFriends4Sale said:

luvgirl said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

LOL from all that sin

Do u still want 2 spend the night?

Good.

Come on.

U said u would wash my hair.

Shall we go swimming 1st?

U can't swim.

Wonderful.

Shall I wash u 1st or shall u wash me?

Lol! If ever honey U need someone 2 take a shower with girl Call me up and scream Extra lovable, honey don't U wanna, don't U wanna Take a bath with me?

What do you wanna hear?
If I was anything else I'd be the water in your bath, darling

Thank you for posting such an extensive body of archive from the Purple Rain era. Must have taken quite the research and time. Much appreciated.

Oh and...

I ordered, "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't too hungry"
Dorothy laughed
She said, "Sound like a real man to me
You kinda cute, you wanna take a bath?
Do you wanna, do you wanna? Bath"

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214	That scene when the door opens and the doves appear is a beautiful scene
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Reply #113 posted 06/23/16 6:39am

luvgirl said:
OldFriends4Sale said:

What do you wanna hear?
If I was anything else I'd be the water in your bath, darling

Thank you for posting such an extensive body of archive from the Purple Rain era. Must have taken quite the research and time. Much appreciated. Oh and... I ordered, "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't too hungry" Dorothy laughed She said, "Sound like a real man to me You kinda cute, you wanna take a bath? Do you wanna, do you wanna? Bath"

Musician: So what will be first thing you do when you get back to Minneapolis?
Prince: Probably take a bath. I haven’t one in a long time. I’m scared of hotel bathtubs...

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Reply #114 posted 06/23/16 8:57am

17 Days

the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose

17 Days", written by Prince, Wendy, Lisa, Dr. Fink song slated for the Vanity 6 album. background vocals include Brenda Bennett

When Doves Cry B side

released 5.16.1984

Called u yesterday
U didnt answer your phone
The main drag is knowing that
U probably werent alone

So here I sit in my lonely room
Lookin 4 my sunshine
But all Ive got is two cigarettes
And this broken heart of mine

So let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Youve been gone 17 days
17 long nights
The main drag is knowing that
Youre holding someone else tight

I wanna to call u everyday
And beg u 2 be near me
But I know your head is underwater
I doubt that u could hear me

So let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
17 days
Ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
17 days

Called u yesterday
U didnt answer your phone
If youre the one whos always lonely
Then Im the one whos always alone

So here I sit in my lonely room
Lookin 4 my sunshine
All Ive got is 2 cigarettes
And this broken heart of mine

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down

Why dont you answer your phone? 

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
17 days

Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down
Let the rain come down, down
17 days

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Reply #115 posted 06/23/16 9:06am

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Reply #116 posted 06/23/16 11:45am

Musician: So what will be first thing you do when you get back to Minneapolis?
Prince: Probably take a bath. I haven’t one in a long time. I’m scared of hotel bathtubs...

Ha! I'll be sitting at work any given day and a random song will pop into my head, and lo and behold a bath reference! I'll start smiling and everyone looks at me all strange like... Lol

Drop, drop, drop, drop, water, water, water come bathe with me
lets drown each other in each others emotions Bathe with me!
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Reply #117 posted 06/23/16 12:42pm

214	OldFriends4Sale said: Beautiful.
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Reply #118 posted 06/23/16 2:49pm

15 17 DAYS (3:54)
Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince and The Revolution
Published by Controversy Music, administered by WB Music Corp. ASCAP
B-side of “WHEN DOVES CRY”

The plethora of PURPLE RAIN singles had its own reward – four new B-sides. 17 DAYS was recorded in the summer of 1983 and introduced at the Minnesota Music Awards a month before it was released. It enjoyed the esteemed honor of being coupled with WHEN DOVES CRY so, while it’s arguably one of the best, it’s also one of the most common B-sides. With its elastic bottom end and irresistible keyboard hook, 17 DAYS always struck me as a closet hit in search of an album.

-Alan Leeds

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Reply #119 posted 06/23/16 3:01pm

This is a 2nd no no 4 Alan. He said 17 Days was premiered @ the Dance Benefit show 1983

in another place he introduced his brother Eric as the first use of horns in Prince's music (I know he wasn't Sheila E's tour manager) and Eddie M was blowing sax on Possessed Baby I'm A Star Take Me With U Blue Limousine etc (as well as opening with Sheila E. on the Purple Rain tour)

But the other horn player Larry Williams - saxophone on the Glamorous Life

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