Presently up for Auction: [This sure looks like Prince's doodling.] A pre-release 12-inch single of “Little Red Corvette” given to Vanity by Prince. The album contains multiple versions of the song's dance remix. The typed white label, with one handwritten correction, reads “Prince/ Warner Brothers/ January 14, 1982/ 45 RPM/ Stereo/ Little Red Corvette.” The white album sleeve has been decorated with marker, possibly by Prince or Vanity, and reads “Prince/ Little Red Corvette/ (dance re-mix).” This song appears on Prince’s October 1982 release 1999 and was released as a single in February 1983.

12 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches

http://www.julienslive.co...y%3DPrince

Just curious as to where are these auction pieces coming from?

PennyPurple said:

Just curious as to where are these auction pieces coming from?

I was wondering the same thing. They seem to have some very valuable, authentic things, including some of his awards.

Yup, that's Prince doodling. Cute as hell. And maybe the earliest iteration of (what will become) the love symbol?.....

NOooo, not the waist chain and AMA for Purple Rain.

WTH??

jayseajay said:

Yup, that's Prince doodling. Cute as hell. And maybe the earliest iteration of (what will become) the love symbol?.....

I wonder if he gave one of these pre-releases to the woman claiming that he wrote LRC about her (and who's writing a book about it). Prince dedicated LRC to Denise on the night that he found out about her passing before taking the stage during his Piano and Microphone show in Melbourne.

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nice to see

PennyPurple said:

laurarichardson said:

PennyPurple said:

NOooo, not the waist chain and AMA for Purple Rain.

WTH??

-- The AMA could be awarded to anyone that worked on Purple Rain.

That's true. I think all of the members of The Revolution would have received one, but I'm surprise that anyone would willingly part with it.

I'd like to know where they got the shoes from.

I love the silver one with the translucent heel.

FlyOnTheWall said:

luvgirl said:

Wow! What a special reverence in the world of Prince and Vanity! This helps to Solidify the rumor of the song being about her. Great find!!! [Edited 10/10/16 20:28pm]

I agree. I think this shoots down--or, at the very least, calls into question--the notion that it was written for some other woman, about whom most of us had never heard.

FlyOnTheWall said:

luvgirl said:

Wow! What a special reverence in the world of Prince and Vanity! This helps to Solidify the rumor of the song being about her. Great find!!! [Edited 10/10/16 20:28pm]

I agree. I think this shoots down--or, at the very least, calls into question--the notion that it was written for some other woman, about whom most of us had never heard.

huh? it means he gave her this doodle.

FlyOnTheWall said:

wavesofbliss said:

luvgirl said:

wavesofbliss said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

luvgirl said:

Wow! What a special reverence in the world of Prince and Vanity! This helps to Solidify the rumor of the song being about her. Great find!!! [Edited 10/10/16 20:28pm]

I agree. I think this shoots down--or, at the very least, calls into question--the notion that it was written for some other woman, about whom most of us had never heard.

huh? it means he gave her this doodle.

:falloff: Doodle to some. A part of a missing puzzle to others...
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strawberrylova123 said:

luvgirl said:

Doodle to some. A part of a missing puzzle to others...
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Well you have to remember that vanity was with prince when LRC was released and that mi ling was with prince in 1979-1980 according to her, prince is the same dude that told carmen,mayte, and vanessa mercil that TMBGITW was about them lol so i personally don't believe that mi ling is lying.

I really want to know more abour these multiple versions. Just different edits? Just variations in the mixes? Or something more unique?

wavesofbliss said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

I agree. I think this shoots down--or, at the very least, calls into question--the notion that it was written for some other woman, about whom most of us had never heard.

huh? it means he gave her this doodle.

In more ways than one!!

bluegangsta said:

I really want to know more abour these multiple versions. Just different edits? Just variations in the mixes? Or something more unique?

That is interesting! Please let us know if/when you find out more.

There must either be a mistake with the date on the label - January 14 1982 - or a typo on the website. The original Little Red Corvette was recorded on August 7 1982, while the remix was done between January 7 and 14 1983.

FlyOnTheWall said:

luvgirl said:

Wow! What a special reverence in the world of Prince and Vanity! This helps to Solidify the rumor of the song being about her. Great find!!! [Edited 10/10/16 20:28pm]

I agree. I think this shoots down--or, at the very least, calls into question--the notion that it was written for some other woman, about whom most of us had never heard.

I really don't think it does. All it tells us is that Prince gave this to Vanity when he was with her - it's the Prince version of giving your girlfriend a mix-tape (but like, how much cooler). Also, the fact he dedicated it to V during P+M doesn't tell us much either - there is no reason to suppose Prince wrote songs about one specific woman and it was thereafter and always only about that one specific woman. Like most people, his associations with experiences and pieces of music probably shifts about...as people say, he tells several different people TMBGITW is about them, and maybe each time he said it, it was kind of true, in that it captured his feelings about them at that time (that sounds quite like Prince, 'you're TMBGITW, no no, you are, no, sorry, I mean you' ). We also have no way of knowing whether the woman in LRC isn't already a composite of more than one woman anyway. Maybe a bit of Mi Ling, maybe a bit of V, maybe any number of other flings in between...and maybe, y'know, sometimes he just makes stuff up?

jayseajay said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

wavesofbliss said:

huh? it means he gave her this doodle.

In more ways than one!!

i see what u did there.

wavesofbliss said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

In more ways than one!!

i see what u did there.

You started it, wavesofbliss!!

jayseajay said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

I agree. I think this shoots down--or, at the very least, calls into question--the notion that it was written for some other woman, about whom most of us had never heard.

I really don't think it does. All it tells us is that Prince gave this to Vanity when he was with her - it's the Prince version of giving your girlfriend a mix-tape (but like, how much cooler). Also, the fact he dedicated it to V during P+M doesn't tell us much either - there is no reason to suppose Prince wrote songs about one specific woman and it was thereafter and always only about that one specific woman. Like most people, his associations with experiences and pieces of music probably shifts about...as people say, he tells several different people TMBGITW is about them, and maybe each time he said it, it was kind of true, in that it captured his feelings about them at that time (that sounds quite like Prince, 'you're TMBGITW, no no, you are, no, sorry, I mean you' ). We also have no way of knowing whether the woman in LRC isn't already a composite of more than one woman anyway. Maybe a bit of Mi Ling, maybe a bit of V, maybe any number of other flings in between...and maybe, y'know, sometimes he just makes stuff up?

I disagree. Prince has a VAST catalogue, so there are any number of songs he could have dedicated to Denise after her passing, dozens of ballads, even, but he chose LRC. I'd say that is very telling. IMHO...

FlyOnTheWall said: