Prince
Bonnie Raitt
Eric Leeds
the Hookers

Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio

check out Youtube:

I Need A Man is an unreleased song recorded in Summer 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Make-Up, Wet Dream and Drive Me Wild). The track contained lead vocals by Jamie Shoop, and was intended for The Hookers, but was abandoned when The Hookers developed into Vanity 6.

The track was worked on further (or perhaps re-recorded) in early 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, with lead vocals by American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, during a short-lived collaboration between Prince and Raitt.

Eric Leeds recorded saxophone overdubs on 21 January 1987 (the same day Madhouse's first album 8 was released, four days before saxophone overdubs on There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool).

Prince worked on the track again, possibly re-recording it entirely, on 31 May 1988, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The track remains unreleased.
-PrinceVault

http://articles.chicagotr...otest-song

BONNIE RAITT STARTS OVER IN MINNESOTA WITH PRINCE 8.27.1987

There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool is an unreleased song recorded in early Summer 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA. It was worked on further in mid-June 1981, at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, USA, and was mixed at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA, on the first two days of mixing for the Controversy, 14 and 15 August 1981, indicating that it was intended for the album until the last minute.

Prince pulled out the track in 1985 for possible use by Jill Jones, but it is not known if additional instrumentation or vocals were recorded at this point.

The track was worked on further (or perhaps re-recorded) in early 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, for use by American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, during a short-lived collaboration between the two artists. Eric Leeds recorded saxophone overdubs on 25 January 1987 (four days after recording saxophone overdubs on I Need A Man). Raitt recorded vocals for the track in April 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio with Susan Rogers overseeing.

Engineer Don Batts has mentioned that Steve Fargnoli loved the song, and wishes it had been released by Prince. The track is a fast rockabilly-style track, with lyrics about an unfaithful woman who crashes the narrator's car (an idea revisted in Adore), but the narrator is willing to make up with her, "because there's something I like about being your fool".

-PrinceVault

OldFriends4Sale said:

It looks like there were two other songs recorded, too, according to Princevault: Jealous Girl and Promise to be true. Interesting that Prince would consider The Hookers' songs for Bonnie.

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"Jealous Girl is an unreleased song recorded in Summer 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same session as Pizza and Drive Me Wild). The track was intended for The Hookers, but was abandoned when The Hookers developed into Vanity 6.

The track was offered to The Bangles after Prince met Bangles lead singer Susannah Hoffs on a flight to London, England, in early February 1985 (while flying over for the BPI Awards, 11 February 1985); Hoffs asked Prince to provide songs for their next album, and he provided them with Manic Monday and Jealous Girl, which they rejected. It is unlikely The Bangles ever recorded a version of the song.

The track was worked on further (or perhaps re-recorded) in early 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, with lead vocals by American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, during a short-lived collaboration between Prince and Raitt. Eric Leeds recorded saxophone overdubs on 5 February 1987. The track remains unreleased, however."--Princevault

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Hey Hey..what can say?

Im just a jealous Girl!

I cant see Bonnie doing this track but I guess they did. Only the one with his vocals have been heard and it sounds really good. I like it alot. The Bangels should have swept this one up even if the lyrics were immature lol.

Chicago Tribune article from 1987:

There's also an old Prince.org thread on the collaboration from 2006: http://prince.org/msg/7/190870

Also one from 2005: http://prince.org/msg/7/146571

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OldFriends4Sale said:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-27/features/8703050299_1_bonnie-raitt-broadway-singer-john-raitt-protest-song

BONNIE RAITT STARTS OVER IN MINNESOTA WITH PRINCE 8.27.1987

Pardon me, I posted this article before I saw that you had already posted it.

Danny Goldberg discusses Prince/Bonnie Raitt Sessions.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince
Bonnie Raitt
Eric Leeds
the Hookers

Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio

check out Youtube:

I Need A Man is an unreleased song recorded in Summer 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Make-Up, Wet Dream and Drive Me Wild). The track contained lead vocals by Jamie Shoop, and was intended for The Hookers, but was abandoned when The Hookers developed into Vanity 6.

The track was worked on further (or perhaps re-recorded) in early 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, with lead vocals by American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, during a short-lived collaboration between Prince and Raitt.

Eric Leeds recorded saxophone overdubs on 21 January 1987 (the same day Madhouse's first album 8 was released, four days before saxophone overdubs on There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool).

Prince worked on the track again, possibly re-recording it entirely, on 31 May 1988, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The track remains unreleased.
-PrinceVault

I know this leaked last year right? I think it is pretty decent. Sounds just like a Bonnie Raitt song but with lyrics that Prince helped her write. Have not heard the others yet though.

3rdeyedude said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince
Bonnie Raitt
Eric Leeds
the Hookers

Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio

check out Youtube:

I Need A Man is an unreleased song recorded in Summer 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Make-Up, Wet Dream and Drive Me Wild). The track contained lead vocals by Jamie Shoop, and was intended for The Hookers, but was abandoned when The Hookers developed into Vanity 6.

The track was worked on further (or perhaps re-recorded) in early 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, with lead vocals by American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, during a short-lived collaboration between Prince and Raitt.

Eric Leeds recorded saxophone overdubs on 21 January 1987 (the same day Madhouse's first album 8 was released, four days before saxophone overdubs on There's Something I Like About Being Your Fool).

Prince worked on the track again, possibly re-recording it entirely, on 31 May 1988, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The track remains unreleased.
-PrinceVault

I know this leaked last year right? I think it is pretty decent. Sounds just like a Bonnie Raitt song but with lyrics that Prince helped her write. Have not heard the others yet though.

Yeah, its a nice song, but not 'her'

3rdeyedude said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince
Bonnie Raitt
Eric Leeds
the Hookers

Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio

check out Youtube:

I Need A Man is an unreleased song recorded in Summer 1981 at Prince's Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Make-Up, Wet Dream and Drive Me Wild). The track contained lead vocals by Jamie Shoop, and was intended for The Hookers, but was abandoned when The Hookers developed into Vanity 6.

The track was worked on further (or perhaps re-recorded) in early 1987, at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA, with lead vocals by American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, during a short-lived collaboration between Prince and Raitt.

Eric Leeds recorded saxophone overdubs on 21 January 1987 (the same day Madhouse's first album 8 was released, four days before saxophone overdubs on There's Something I Like ... Your Fool).

Prince worked on the track again, possibly re-recording it entirely, on 31 May 1988, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The track remains unreleased.
-PrinceVault

I know this leaked last year right? I think it is pretty decent. Sounds just like a Bonnie Raitt song but with lyrics that Prince helped her write. Have not heard the others yet though.

I don't know, I just heard it on YT

http://princetext.tripod....one90.html

While being so productive on his own, Prince has also found time to produce such disparate talents as Mavis Staples, George Clinton and Bonnie Raitt. "The best thing about producing is that there are so many really talented people who just never got that push over the top," he says. "Without that push, they just get lost."

Raitt was perhaps his most talked-about reclamation project. "Oh, those sessions were kicking!" Prince says. But nothing was ever released -- a fact which Prince takes the blame for. "There was no particular reason it didn't come out," he says. "I was just working on a lot of things at the same time, and I didn't give myself enough time to work with her. I used to do that a lot -- start five different projects and only get a couple done. That's the biggest thing I'm working on: patience and planning."

http://www.rollingstone.c...t-19900503

And the story goes that you thought you might be making a video with Prince and suddenly realized you had to do something about your weight.
What happened was, he had seen my show at the Beverly Theater, in L.A., in December of '86, and he called me up and said he was interested in working with me. He was renting a place in L.A., and he sent his private limo over to pick me up. I don't ride around in limos much, and this car had all kinds of neat stuff — all kinds of purple stuff and neat lighting and little porcelain masks. I didn't realize I'd be whisked away in a fairy tale!

We got to know each other a little bit, and he told me he was starting a new record label and was interested in having me on it. I told him I was interested if it was a true collaboration and not just me singing his music — if we could meet somewhere in the middle.

But then in January I had a skiing accident, and I was sidelined for two months. I look back on it now, and I realize that it was really me asking to have an excuse to get off the road. I knew that I was not feeling great and not looking great. Everybody's got their own thing that pushes them over the edge, and in my case I had this incentive, which was, if I was going to record with Prince, we'd probably have to make a video, and I looked bad, so I wanted to be proud of myself.

A couple of friends who were really close to me told me about a meeting, and they took me with them. And then I got a bicycle and went on a diet. And I've been sober ever since.

Now I feel like I'm a walking poster girl for sobriety. Over the last couple of years, people go, "God, you look great, and you sound like you really know what you're doing, and you don't look like you're ready to jump off a cliff anymore." I don't want to say I've mellowed out, but I'm certainly a lot happier.

And what happened with your collaboration with Prince?
I went to Minneapolis for two days in April of '87. The basic tracks were all done when I got there, and one day we worked together on a song. The next day, I pretty much sang and played on my own with his engineer. He wrote some songs that were in the vein of what I would do, although not knowing what key I sing in, some of them were kind of low. It was really a preliminary collaboration, and he said, "Let's get together in July when I get back from Europe." But I was touring then, and his tour went on longer than he expected, and we ended up not doing any more work together. And in the meantime, I realized that I didn't want to be working with the Warner Bros. promotion staff, which was handling his label.

first off, THE HOOKERS P was fucking nuts, I love it! I always forget their initial name

second, I would have loved to hear the results of those two. in fact, I would have loved to hear them work together later, when he was dabbling a bit more in bluesy stuff

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OldFriends4Sale said:

3rdeyedude said:

I know this leaked last year right? I think it is pretty decent. Sounds just like a Bonnie Raitt song but with lyrics that Prince helped her write. Have not heard the others yet though.

I don't know, I just heard it on YT

Oh ok. Yeah, it's the same one. I think this could have been a hit.