Man, this video... As an editor, I've give ANYTHING to get my hands on all the original footage, and remaster the entire thing with today's technology.

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I'd keep it soft focus, keep every single cut the way it is, but the chromakey stuff needs a serious overhaul.

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And if were shot on film, I'd upgrade everything to 4K so it would look better.

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This is my favorite Prince video, so I'd like to see it as perfect as it could possibly be.

GiggityGoo said:

Man, this video... As an editor, I've give ANYTHING to get my hands on all the original footage, and remaster the entire thing with today's technology.

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I'd keep it soft focus, keep every single cut the way it is, but the chromakey stuff needs a serious overhaul.

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And if were shot on film, I'd upgrade everything to 4K so it would look better.

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This is my favorite Prince video, so I'd like to see it as perfect as it could possibly be.

I totally hear U.
Is there someone we can contact about making this happen?

She's Always In My Hair -Bside rel 5.15.1985

JJ



Whenever I feel like givin' up
Whenever my sunshine turns 2 rain
Whenever my hopes and dreams
Are aimed in the wrong direction
She's always there
Tellin' me how much she cares
She's always in my hair

She's always in my hair
My hair

Whenever I feel like not 2 great at all
Whenever I'm all alone
And even if I hit the wrong notes
She's always in my boat
She's always there
Tellin' me how much she cares
She's always in my hair

She's always in my hair
My hair

Maybe I'll marry her (Maybe I'll marry her)
Maybe I won't (Maybe I won't)
Maybe I will not (Maybe I will not)
Lemme tell ya (Even if I was a gigolo)
If I was a gigolo all my life (All my life)
She'd still be there (She'd still be there)
Tellin' me just how much she really cares (She cares)
She's always in my hair

She's always in my hair
My hair

Listen
Whenever I feel like givin' up
Whenever my sunshine turns 2 rain
Whenever my hopes and dreams
Are aimed in the wrong direction
She's always there
Tellin' me just how much she cares (Tellin' me how much she cares)
Tellin' me...she's always in my hair (Always in my hair)

She's always in my hair
My hair

She's always in my hair

14 SHE’S ALWAYS IN MY HAIR (3:27)
Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince and The Revolution
Published by Controversy Music, administered by WB Music Corp. ASCAP
B-side of “RASPBERRY BERET”

All in all this is an album made more for being heard as a cohesive body of work rather than as individual singles. Perhaps that's the reason that some of Prince's most commercial songs ever did not appear on this album but were used as b-sides to the album's singles. Take for example the fab "She's Always In My Hair", b-side to the first single release of the album ("Raspberry Beret" in the US, "Paisley Park" in the UK). The song is fantastic, with more chart potential than anything in the album, yet it's pop and doesn't really suit the melancholia of the record. So it was a b-side, albeit one that was played thousands of times by every Prince fan and some more.

https://www.ukmix.org/for...;start=725

Man, I so wish that we would have left the Around The World in A Day song the way it was originally. Infinately better than the released version!

In my top 10 Prince albums

TAMBORINE

Oh my God here U are
Prettiest thing in life I've ever seen
Close my eyes what's it like,
What's it like inside your tamborine?

Oh my God, there I go
Falling in love with the face in a magazine (uh oh, not again)
All alone by myself
Me and I play my tamborine

Troubling
Troubling
Troubling
Troubling
Long days, lonely nights
Troubling
Long days, lonely nights
Troubling

I don't care 4 1 night stands
With trolley cars
That juggle 17
I just want 2 settle down and
Play around
My baby's tamborine

Tamborine what are U
Why are U the star of
All my dreams
(Star of all my dreams, are U a good tamborine)
Are U good, are U bad
Are U just unnecessary means

Troubling
Tamborine
Tamborine
Trolley cars

Long days, lonely nights
2 bad we're not allowed 2 scream (yeah, yeah, too bad)
Guess that I'll stay at home
All alone and play my tamborine (aww)

Tamborine
Tamborine
Tamborine
Tamborine
The tamborine

Tamborine
All instruments and voices performed by Prince
Recorded at Paisley Park by David Leonard

OldFriends4Sale said:

Oh my God here U are
Prettiest thing in life I've ever seen
Close my eyes what's it like,
What's it like inside your tamborine?

Oh my God, there I go
Falling in love with the face in a magazine (uh oh, not again)
All alone by myself
Me and I play my tamborine

Tamborine (Troubling)
Tamborine (Troubling)
Tamborine (Troubling)
Tamborine (Troubling)
Long days, lonely nights
Tamborine (Troubling)

Long days, lonely nights
Tamborine (Troubling)

I don't care 4 1 night stands
With trolley cars
That juggle 17
I just want 2 settle down and
Play around
My baby's tamborine

Tamborine what are U
Why are U the star of
All my dreams
(Star of all my dreams, are U a good tamborine)
Are U good, are U bad
Are U just unnecessary means

Tamborine (Troubling)
Tamborine
Tamborine
Trolley cars

Long days, lonely nights
2 bad we're not allowed 2 scream (yeah, yeah, too bad)
Guess that I'll stay at home
All alone and play my tamborine (aww)

Tamborine
Tamborine
Tamborine
Tamborine
The tamborine

Tamborine
All instruments and voices performed by Prince
Recorded at Paisley Park by David Leonard

The lyric for the singular verse "Tamborine" is actually "Troubling" as in it is troubling that he would be spending lonely nights thinking of the Tamborine. One of my all time favorite Prince songs.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Tamborine
All instruments and voices performed by Prince
Recorded at Paisley Park by David Leonard

The lyric for the singular verse "Tamborine" is actually "Troubling" as in it is troubling that he would be spending lonely nights thinking of the Tamborine. One of my all time favorite Prince songs.

thanks OMG i forgot

One of my all time favorites too

wicked, the fiery finger cymbals... I pair this with Darling Nikki

Can U imaging a longer version, with a ripping guitar

OldFriends4Sale said:

It’s true that the album’s sleeve art – a colourful depiction of characters and images taken directly from the songs – did little to dispel this impression. Artist Doug Henders, who worked on thePurple Rain movie and tour, providing the Pierrot-like faces that adorned both The Kid’s basement and the stage set, as well as taping each live show for Prince’s later inspection, confesses that his cover painting for the gatefold sleeve was indeed inspired bySgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

“Prince gave me a laundry list,” says Henders. “Old woman crying; a clown juggling the earth; a ladder going to heaven. So I could do it two ways: a collage or a surrealistic landscape, and [the latter] is what I chose, kind of a la Sgt. Pepper’s. I did that on the road, while I was on the Purple Rain tour. I would go early to the arena, arrange the stage, because a lot of the artwork was on the stage, set up my camera, shoot the show and the videos would go to him right after the show. Then he would have parties in his hotel suite in whatever city, and some people were prisoners and some people were guests. I ended up going back to my hotel room and painting all night long. After two weeks I got pretty burned out and I hired someone to take my place shooting video. I rented a hotel in Los Angeles and finished the painting. I made Prince’s management buy it an airline seat because we couldn’t trust them to put it below.”

This may or may not be a very stupid question (I'm not very good at identifying people's faces): Is this Jill Jones who modeled for the old woman crying?

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I couldn't find anything in any of the articles that said who it was. But I did see this on Jill Jones' daughter's instagram (jonesyluv is Jill Jones):

LuvuInMe said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

It’s true that the album’s sleeve art – a colourful depiction of characters and images taken directly from the songs – did little to dispel this impression. Artist Doug Henders, who worked on thePurple Rain movie and tour, providing the Pierrot-like faces that adorned both The Kid’s basement and the stage set, as well as taping each live show for Prince’s later inspection, confesses that his cover painting for the gatefold sleeve was indeed inspired bySgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

“Prince gave me a laundry list,” says Henders. “Old woman crying; a clown juggling the earth; a ladder going to heaven. So I could do it two ways: a collage or a surrealistic landscape, and [the latter] is what I chose, kind of a la Sgt. Pepper’s. I did that on the road, while I was on the Purple Rain tour. I would go early to the arena, arrange the stage, because a lot of the artwork was on the stage, set up my camera, shoot the show and the videos would go to him right after the show. Then he would have parties in his hotel suite in whatever city, and some people were prisoners and some people were guests. I ended up going back to my hotel room and painting all night long. After two weeks I got pretty burned out and I hired someone to take my place shooting video. I rented a hotel in Los Angeles and finished the painting. I made Prince’s management buy it an airline seat because we couldn’t trust them to put it below.”

This may or may not be a very stupid question (I'm not very good at identifying people's faces): Is this Jill Jones who modeled for the old woman crying?

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I couldn't find anything in any of the articles that said who it was. But I did see this on Jill Jones' daughter's instagram (jonesyluv is Jill Jones):

That is Wendy Melvoin modelling the part.

For some reason in the past, many of us assumed it was Jill for some reason...
I cannot for the life of me, remember why

Telecaster5 said:

I remember when I bought ATWIAD too and how I felt when I heard that middle eastern vibe on the opening track...And then Tamborine and that wild guitar solo and final dialogue on Temptation...I was amazed and with that album Prince caught me for life.

I also remember when I bought ATWIAD too and how I felt....bewildered.....and with ATWIAD my 7 year obsession/love affair with Prince had come to a grinding halt. I sang along to Pop Life, but no longer lived and breathed Prince and this was my final Prince purchase...... until 2016 when I re-purchased For You and H&RPhase2. Wish I had not stayed away so long

Asenath0607 said:

Telecaster5 said:

I remember when I bought ATWIAD too and how I felt when I heard that middle eastern vibe on the opening track...And then Tamborine and that wild guitar solo and final dialogue on Temptation...I was amazed and with that album Prince caught me for life.

I also remember when I bought ATWIAD too and how I felt....bewildered.....and with ATWIAD my 7 year obsession/love affair with Prince had come to a grinding halt. I sang along to Pop Life, but no longer lived and breathed Prince and this was my final Prince purchase...... until 2016 when I re-purchased For You and H&RPhase2. Wish I had not stayed away so long

ooh man, this album, felt like such an intimate letter 2 me as a fan of all the previous stuff.
This was the album that let me know there was serious substance here.

I still have my lp from 1985

ATWIAD Masquerade Ball 6.7.1985

artwork by Prince...

artwork by Prince?

4.7.1985 Purple Rain tour finale in Florida

4.12.1985 We Are the World rel -4 the Tears In Your Eyes (full band version)

4.15.1985 4 the Tears In Your Eyes [accoustic video version]

4.22.1985 Around the World in a Day released

May rehearsal possibly for the 1985 birthday show

1. Bedtime Story 2. Do Me Baby 3. Baby Baby Baby(Aretha Franklin) 4. G-Spot 5. Let's Go Crazy 6. When Doves Scream 7. A Love Bizarre

6.7.1985 Birthday Show Prom Center-St Paul Minnesota

July 1985 A.Cymone Dance Electric rel

7.11.1985 7th Street Entry show [1st Avenue 1.) Girls & Boys 2.) Hollyrock

8.13.1985 the Family 1st Avenue performance

8.26.1985 Romance 1600 album released

September the Family album released

Jill Jones: The picture on Around the World in a Day, when he showed me the cover, he pointed out who everybody was. Jerome was the little old man with the cane. He told me Sheila was combined with Melvoin] with the violin. And he goes, "And this is you." And it was the old maid crying, with a blue dress and these horrible boots. I'm still: Why was I always crying? I cried in Purple Rain, I cried in Graffiti Bridge, before he cut it out. He always had me crying, and I'm crying on the cover. And then he said, "I'm gonna know you until the very end of this—you're gonna be here." And I said, "Why aren't you in the [picture]?" He said, "I'm up the ladder. I'm gone."

Rasberry Beret video shoot

2 days before the 6.7.1985 Masquerade Ball

OldFriends4Sale said:

Asenath0607 said:

I also remember when I bought ATWIAD too and how I felt....bewildered.....and with ATWIAD my 7 year obsession/love affair with Prince had come to a grinding halt. I sang along to Pop Life, but no longer lived and breathed Prince and this was my final Prince purchase...... until 2016 when I re-purchased For You and H&RPhase2. Wish I had not stayed away so long

ooh man, this album, felt like such an intimate letter 2 me as a fan of all the previous stuff.
This was the album that let me know there was serious substance here.

I still have my lp from 1985

Me too ! In a plastic cover, in very good condition. My precious

America - Prince & the Revolution 10.2.1985

America

"America" was the final U.S. single off Prince and The Revolution's 1985 album, Around the World in a Day. The song is appreciative of the mid-1980s United States, condemning Communism, and worrying about nuclear war. The song begins as if it is a record being spun by a DJ. This leads into a guitar solo and a rising keyboard line. The main tune is standard rock and roll and fades out at 3:40.

Peace!

Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Makin' money, losin' time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It'll be the only word that's heard

CHORUS:
America, America
God shed His grace on thee
America, America
Keep the children free

Little sister make minimum wage
Livin' in a one-room jungle monkey cage
Can't get over, she almost dead
She may not be in the black
But she happy she ain't in the red

CHORUS

Freedom - Love - Joy - Peace

Jimmy Nothing never went 2 school
They made him pledge allegiance
He said it wasn't cool
Nothin' made Jimmy proud
Now Jimmy live on a mushroom cloud

CHORUS {x2}

Freedom - Love - Joy - Peace

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! (Oh Lord)
And the bomb go
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! (Oh Lord)
And the bomb go
Boom!

Teacher, why won't Jimmy pledge allegiance?

A m e r i c a
Tamborine: Brad Marsh
Recorded at Paisley Park by Susan Rogers

23 February, 1985, The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA

• Prince - all vocal and instruments, except where noted
• Bobby Z. - drums and percussion
• Brown Mark - bass guitar and background vocals
• Wendy Melvoin - guitar and background vocals
• Lisa Coleman - keyboards and background vocals
• Dr. Fink - keyboards
• Jonathan Melvoin - tamborine (uncertain involvement)
• Brad Marsh - tamborine

New York Times
April 22, 1985

Prince's 'Around the World

"America," the song that begins the album's second side, is brisk, driving and decidedly urban; like a 60's protest song, it addresses an idealized spirit of "America" and demands that it "keep the children free." But just as the psychedelic- style songs on side one are notably free of drug references, side two's "America" might be termed a patriotic protest song. No draft cards are being burned here. In fact, one of the song's capsule character sketches seems to suggest that those who reject patriotism and dabble in nihilism may get their just rewards in a nuclear cataclysm:

Jimmy Nothing never went to school
They made him pledge allegiance, he said it wasn't cool
Nothing made Jimmy proud
Now Jimmy lives on a mushroom cloud.

Around the world in a daze
(not rated)

AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
Paisley Park/Warner Bros.

BY JOHN PARELES

Now Prince has come out of the bedroom. Only three of the nine songs on Around the World -- Prince's lowest proportion by a long shot -- aim below the waist.

"America," a mock-Slavic rewrite of the tune we all know, plus a funk beat, threatens a boy who doesn't pledge allegiance with permanent residence on a "mushroom cloud." Prince gets more mileage than Alice Walker from the color purple, his shorthand symbol for the end of the world, which shows up in the first song of the album and in the last.

A m e r i c a
Tamborine: Brad Marsh
Recorded at Paisley Park by Susan Rogers

- 1984

Drum technician, and crew member. He has been in the industry since 1970, and worked for a large number of rock bands before joining Prince in 1980. On his departure from Prince's crew in 1990, he joined the Phil Collins set-up, and has worked for him since this time.

A m e r i c a (extended)

America was the final U.S. single off Prince and The Revolution's 1985 album, Around the World in a Day. The song is appreciative of the mid-1980s United States, condemning Communism, and worrying about nuclear war. The song begins as if it is a record being spun by a DJ. This leads into a guitar solo and a rising keyboard line. The main tune is standard rock and roll and fades out at 3:40. The 12-inch single extended version is notable for being over 20 minutes and including various instrumental solos. The song even fades in this version; in the original extended version the listener can actually hear the audio tape run out, being that Prince and the Revolution had jammed the song out until there was no more room on the tape.

Teacher, why won't Jimmy pledge allegiance?

That's enough {5:35 mark}

CHORUS

Drums!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
And the bomb go
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ([...])
And the bomb go
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
(And the bomb go... Boom!) {x2}

CHORUS {x2}

Freedom - Love
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Purple mountain majesty

Aristocrats on a mountain climb
Makin' money, losin' time
Communism is just a word
But if the government turn over
It'll be the only word that's heard

U gonna stand in my way? Hey!
[Come on, they said, can I sing ...]
Yeah

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
And the bomb go

Clocking in at nearly 22:00 long, this "original version" of America "was the version Prince and bandmates wanted to include on "Around The World In A Day," but agreed to instead use a less lengthy, edited version for the LP at Warner Brothers' request. Warner Brothers desire to truncate the song on the LP stemmed from concern that putting a 20+ minute jam session version of one song would be great for die-hard fans, but as "Around..." was the follow-up to the "Purple Rain" soundtrack, WB wanted to keep as many people coming back to buy "Around..." as possible. Original version or not, WB didn't want to risk a 21:46 song possibly putting off critics and consumers alike.

So Prince and crew released it as the 3rd single from "Around The World In A Day" - all 22 minutes of it and nowhere on it or in WB's catalogue was it listed as an "Extended Version"... instead the 7" version was promoted as the "Edit."

reprinted in ROCK & SOUL * APRIL 1986

THE PRINCE INTERVIEW
Mr. Purple Discusses His Movies, His Music, His Musicians
And More, More, More.

By Michael Shore

Speaking of singles and videos, your latest is "America." This is one of the most political songs you've ever done. Could you tell us what the song is supposed to say to people? For example, is it straightforwardly patriotic or more complicated than that?

Straightforwardly patriotic.

This could be me, but I find it funny that even though this album wasn't completely raved about back in the day, 30 years later it sounds better than almost any mainstream release in 1985!! Feel free to disagree but this is what I think.