1980's period,

...entertainers/singers/musicians who were not a part of Prince's scene/bands-protges/camp(even if they used to be) or collaborated with.

So much unknown music Prince created 4, given 2 or purposed 4 someone else in the 1980s

I'm amazed I'm still learning of such music.

Can we each post a song or two, with background info, intentions, dates and such?
Help each other learn a thing or two

as people post I will update this page with the post # and song/artist attached

1. Mindbells [ Kahoru Kohiruimaki 小比類巻かほる ]

2. Bliss [ Kahoru Kohiruimaki 小比類巻かほる ]

3. Sugar Walls [ Sheena Easton ]

4. Dance Electric [ Andre Cymone ]

5. 101 [ Sheena Easton ]

6. I Don't Wanna Stop [ Ren Woods ]

7. Neon Telephone [ Three O'Clock ]

8. Bang Bang [ BrownMark ]

9. Sticky Wicked [ Chaka Khan ]

10. Love Song [ Madonna ]

11. Eternity [ Sheena Easton ]

#1

Kahoru Kohiruimaki 小比類巻かほる

"My deepest appreciation to: Prince: Thank you for your great songs "Mind Bells" and "Bliss." I love it.

D. Kirk and D. Campbell: We have done a great job together. Thank you. M. Kloster: Thanks for the hard job. J. Tama Kawaguchi: Without you, I couldn't have finished this project. Gary T. Hara: Thank you, God Father! My Great Staff: Takako E and Dennis Y. Neve, Everybody, Thanks! Jesse: You're my imagination.

God BLISS you."

the sixth full-length studio album by Japanese recording artist Kahoru Kohiruimaki, and was released in Japan only in December, 1989.

The album includes the songs Mind Bells and Bliss, both co-written and mostly performed by Prince and Levi Seacer, Jr.. Kahoru Kohiruimaki's manager, Seijiro Udo, had promoted Princes Japanese concerts on the Lovesexy Tour, and Udo asked Prince to provide some tracks for Kohiruimaki.

Prince and Levi Seacer, Jr. recorded the tracks in Summer 1989, and Kohiruimaki simply overdubbed vocals for the tracks in Autumn, 1989.

No singles were released from the album. As the album was not released outside of Japan, it did not enter the US charts. -PrinceVault

Uh oh, there they go lurkin' in my mind
Try 2 stop'em, I am lost in time
So lost, the best that I did is go huntin' 'em down
Everybody thinks I'm crazy, but I know that U're the reason 4 the sound

CHORUS:
Mindbells every time U touch me
Mindbells every time U're near
When U sing with your body, baby
When U sing with your body, baby
Mindbells is all I hear, oh

Mindbells

Listen..
Every time U tell me I'm the one 4 U
And I just can't believe it's me U're talking 2
And my life and destiny, they scare me so
What am I gonna do, I can't let U go

CHORUS

Like the choir sings (la la la la la la)
These mindbells, they ring (ding dong)
I want U now
(Take me)

Oh, mi..mindbells
Mi..mi..mi..mindbells

Can it be these bells I hear ring 4 more than me?
Am I just another star, one of your fantasies?
No baby, baby, don't let it be
Can't U see this love is killing me?

Mindbells every time U touch me (Killing me, yeah)
Mindbells every time U're near (Come near)
When U sing with your body, baby
When U sing with your body, baby
Mindbells is all I hear, oh

Mind Bells is the sixth track on Kahoru Kohiruimaki's sixth album Time The Motion (the first of two Prince-related tracks). The track was written and produced by Prince and Levi Seacer, Jr.
While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in Summer 1989, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions as Bliss, Shall We Dance, Sex, Heaven Must Be Near and Seven Corners). Kahoru Kohiruimaki's manager, Seijiro Udo, had promoted Prince's Japanese concerts on the Lovesexy Tour, and Udo asked Prince to provide some tracks for Kohiruimaki, leading to the recording of Mind Bells and Bliss. Kahoru Kohiruimaki recorded her own vocals over the basic tracks in Autumn 1989 -PrinceVault

This is Prince's version given to Japanese artist Kahoru Kohiruimaki for her 1989 Time The Motion album. She simply substituted his vocals for her own. The song has a production date of September 3rd, 1989, which probably refers to the final mix date.

Mindbells

Uh oh, there they go lurkin' in my mind
Try 2 stop 'em, I am lost in time
So lost, the best that I did is go huntin' 'em down
Everybody thinks I'm crazy, but I know that U're the reason 4 the sound

CHORUS:
Mindbells every time U touch me
Mindbells every time U're near
When U sing with your body, baby
When U sing with your body, baby
Mindbells is all I hear, oh

Mindbells

Listen...
Every time U tell me I'm the one 4 U
And I just can't believe it's me U're talking 2
And my life and destiny, they scare me so
What am I gonna do, I can't let U go

CHORUS

Like the choir sings (la la la la la la)
These mindbells, they ring (ding dong)
I want U now
(Take me)

Oh, mi... mindbells
Mi... mi... mi... mindbells

Can it be these bells I hear ring 4 more than me?
Am I just another star, one of your fantasies?
No baby, baby, don't let it be
Can't U see this love is killing me?

Mindbells every time U touch me (Killing me, yeah)
Mindbells every time U're near (Come near)
When U sing with your body, baby
When U sing with your body, baby
Mindbells is all I hear, oh

CHORUS

Filthy Fifteen

Specific recording dates are not known, but initial tracking took place in September 1983 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA. -PrinceVault

My sugar walls
My sugar walls

Where I came from there's a place called heaven
That's the place where all the good children go
The houses are of silver, the streets are gold
But there's more where you come from, my sugar walls

(My sugar walls) oooh (my sugar walls)

Blood races to your private spots, lets me know there's a fire
You can't fight passion when passion is hot
Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls

(Chorus)

Lemme take you somewhere you've never been
I can show you things you've never seen
I can make you never want to fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls

Take advantage, it's alright

I feel so alive when I'm with you
Come and feel my presence, it's reigning tonight
Heaven on earth inside my sugar walls

(Chorus)

I can tell you want me, (my sugar walls) it's impossible to hide
Your body's on fire, admit it! Come inside (my sugar walls)
Ahhhhhhhhh (my sugar walls) oooooh
Come inside (my sugar walls) , my sugar walls (my sugar walls)
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls (my sugar walls)

This song was written especially for Easton by Prince (under his alias Alexander Nevermind). Their liaison came about as engineer David Leonard was working on both her A Private Heaven album, and his Purple Rain set. Not having the courage to approach the Purple Maestro directly for a collaboration, Easton asked Leonard to pass on a message. Much to her surprise, Prince responded by sending her the backing tracks for this funky innuendo-strewn number. "Loved it!" recalled Easton to Q magazine September 1991. "It flipped me out! Ohmigod, it's so perfect! I called him up, and he said, Would you like to come over and sing it? So I went in and did the vocals after I'd had a Super Bowl Sunday barbecue at my house. I won 50 bucks on the Super Bowl and got to do a vocal with Prince - a big day for me!

I walked into the studio and there was no 12 bodyguards, just him," she continued, "and he was very quiet and shy. And I'm kinda quiet and shy, believe it or not, when I meet new people, and we recognized that in each other. On the face of it we didn't have anything in common, but we had a lot. We sat and talked about all sorts of things - he was really interested in Scotland, and I asked him about Minnesota where he grew up in similar circumstances to me. He was very smart: he knew to relax me and get me comfortable before I sang. He was really focused on me and getting the best performance in the way a director would direct an actor."

July 1985
A.C.Andre Cymone



Another Purple Rain era track released during this time period

You gave Andre Cymone the song, "Dance Electric," for his new album, and we know that you two had some kind of falling out a few years back. When and how did you patch things up?

Prince:I saw him in a discotheque one night and grabbed him by his shirt and said, [at this point, Prince reenacts the scene down to the last facial gesture], "Come on, I got this hit. You know I got this hit, don't you? "Dance Electric"? Yeah, it's great. You need it, you need it. no... Hey, come here, don't you play, hey, no, no, no you're not crazy, I'm crazy. I'm the one that's crazy, K? What chu gonna do? You gonna come by? For real? You ain't mad or nothing? So what? Yeah tomorrow. Noon. Cool."

1.The Dance Electric *
Backing Vocals - Lisa Coleman , Wendy Melvoin Producer, Written-By - Prince
2.Lipstick Lover
3.Pretty Wild Girl
4.Book Of Love
5.Satisfaction
6.Sweet Sensuality
7.Vacation
8.Neon Pussycat

Good morning children
Take a look out your window
Our world is falling
It's almost time 2 go

(Dance)

Dance the Dance Electric
The rhythm is love and love is blind
Love your enemies
There isn't much time, there isn't much time

101
https://www.youtube.com/w...60p78OvxQY

Song details

101 is the eighth track on Sheena Easton's ninth album The Lover In Me, and, eight months after the album's release, 101 was released as the album's third single. 101 was written and produced by Prince (credited as Joey Coco).Initial tracking took place on 10 January 1987 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (four days before Jaguar).In a 2012 interview, Sheena Easton discussed the song's recording:"When you work with Prince, he's one of those kind of guys that likes to keep you off guard. You'd get the phone call saying 'Hey, come down to the studio. There's something I'd want you to hear.' Then you'd get down there, like with 101 and he'd play it and I'd be like, 'I don't know' and he'd say, 'Well, just go and sit and listen to it a little bit.' I'd go and he'd come right in and say, 'Let's go.' 'But I don't know it completely,' [I'd say]. 'Well just sing what you know, then,' [he'd say]. There's this part in there where I kinda go off-melody and I just start taking higher and higher and he says, 'Well, that's not the right melody but we're keeping that and we're gonna work with that.' And so it's one of those things that's really organic - just a great moment in the studio. Plus I like the production. I love the subway doors opening and closing. He wanted it to be very haunting, and to just be about the desperation in the voice - [and] about the concept of you being away from this person for forever, it seems, and you just can't bear it for one more night."In the same interview, she declared that: "of all my songs I've ever done, that's my favorite."

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For every night that you've been gone I've lit a candle
There must be ninety nine around my bed, around my bed
Lying awake all night long tears in vain
Sometimes I think that I'd be better off dead
Being without you is murder baby
Get in a taxi, subway train
Don't make me cry these tears in vain, baby
A hundred nights without you is murder baby
A 101 just won't do, no!
Why do I cry for you - you probably found someone new
And no one deserves ya, I say, no one deserves ya like I do
Baby you know it's true
Oooh - what we had you said was meant to be
If that was true tell me why'd you leave
Baby, I want to know
I'm sick of, I'm sick of, I'm sick of
Crying these tears in vain baby
Why don't cha get in a taxi, subway train
I'm going mad baby
I'm going insane baby don't cha know
101 just won't do - no, no listen
Nothing on TV, my girlfriends bore me
They try to please me but I need you baby
You and me need to be together, together physically
Why can't you come see about me?
Why can't you come see about me?
You've got to get in a taxi, subway train
Don't make me cry these tears in vain, baby
A hundred nights without you is murder baby
A 101 just won't do, no!
No just won't do
I'm in the funk
I'm in deep
You got to come baby see about me
That 101 just won't do

I Don't Wanna Stop
https://www.youtube.com/w...5Teo5oQB0g



I Don't Wanna Stop is the eighth and final track on Ren Woods's second and final album Azz Izz. The track was written by Prince, but re-recorded by Ren Woods, marking the first time Prince gave a track to another artist without contributing to the released recording. The song was removed from later pressings of the album at Prince's request, although no reason has been given.While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in 1980, most likely in Prince's Wayzata Home Studio, Wayzata, MN, USA (where he lived from April 1980).

Song details

Neon Telephone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1sIWjI499A



Neon Telephone is the sixth track on Three O'Clock's first and only Paisley Park Records album Vermillion (their fourth and final album), and soon after the album's release, Neon Telephone was released as the album's second single (which also turned out to be the band's final single). Writing credit is given to Joey Coco, a pseudonym used on a few 1985-7 songs given to other artists (including You're My Love, Telepathy and Baby Go-Go).Initial tracking took place on 10 July 1985 at the Crosstown Circle Warehouse in Eden Prairie, MN, USA (the day after ♥ Or $). It was initially considered for use on Parade and/or Under The Cherry Moon but was instead saved for later use (it did, however, inspire the use of a neon telephone in Christopher Tracy's apartment in the movie Under The Cherry Moon).It was sent to Three O'Clock for consideration along with Girl O' My Dreams, We Can Funk, Teacher, Teacher and Can't Stop This Feeling I Got, but the band decided to use only this track. Three O'Clock's vocal overdubs and instrumentation was recorded in 1987 - early 1988 at American Recording, Woodland Hills, CA, USA, retaining only Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman's background vocals from the original recording.


Prince's Demo (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibs8pQkhYBc

Song details

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Maybe she'll call me (Neon telephone)
Maybe she won't (Maybe she won't)
And if she don't (Neon telephone)
I'm gonna lose my mind (This time I'm gonna lose my mind)

It's kinda dark in here (Neon telephone)
I need a light (It's 2 bright)
I could use a sexy situation that would do my body just right
2night I'm gonna lose my mind

Sometimes her pride is like a big tall building
It hides the street that leads 2 a sweet mystery
(Sometimes) Sometimes we blow the chance 2 be so happy (Happy)
If we could only make up our minds
We could have such a good time

I know she wants me (Neon telephone)
I know she cares (I don't care)
Tell me what's stoppin' me (I don't care 2 know)
From runnin' right over there and runnin' my fingers through your hair

I'm goin' crazy, yes I am (Neon telephone)
Why can't U understand? (He needs 2 change)
I can't stop (can't stop) thinkin' about U, baby
This time I'm gonna lose my mind (This time I'm gonna lose it)

Why can't U call me, baby? Pick up the phone
U know your little Prince can't be alone
I need some of your sweet, sweet... oooh!

(Neon telephone)
(I don't care)
(Neon telephone)

Hello
How come U didn't call?
What, U think U're 2 good or something?
Can I talk 2 U?
Are U alone?
Good God

lemoncrush19 said:

I Don't Wanna Stop
https://www.youtube.com/w...5Teo5oQB0g



I Don't Wanna Stop is the eighth and final track on Ren Woods's second and final album Azz Izz. The track was written by Prince, but re-recorded by Ren Woods, marking the first time Prince gave a track to another artist without contributing to the released recording. The song was removed from later pressings of the album at Prince's request, although no reason has been given.While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in 1980, most likely in Prince's Wayzata Home Studio, Wayzata, MN, USA (where he lived from April 1980).

Song details
Performer:	Ren Woods
First Released:	19 March 1982 - Azz Izz album
Album(s):	Azz Izz
Writer(s):	Prince
Producer(s):	Chuck Jackson

THANK U
I did not know about this one

Tracklist

Sticky Wicked is the fifth track on Chaka Khan's eighth solo studio album CK. The track was written, produced and largely performed by Prince, marking his first contribution to studio work by Chaka Khan. In 2011, it was included as the seventh track on the fifth and final disc of the Miles Davis compilation The Warner Years: 1986-1991, due to his appearance on the track.

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Initial tracking took place on 11 June, 1988 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (two days after recording Pink Cashmere, Pickle and an entirely-unrelated instrumental, initially also called Sticky Wicked, but later released by Eric Leeds as Times Squared, and two days before Eric Leeds recorded overdubs for that same instrumental). Eric Leeds and Atlanta Bliss recorded horn overdubs onto the track before it was sent to Chaka Khan (specific recording details for their overdubs are not known). Khan then recorded vocal overdubs in June, 1988 (studio details are not known, although the album credits list multiple locations for the album's recording). She then sent the track to Miles Davis, who recorded trumpet overdubs on 29 June, 1988 at The Hit Factory, New York, NY, USA, New York, NY, USA. It was included as the 33rd track on a 2001 6CD configuration of the Warner Bros. compilation of Miles Davis work titled The Last Word, but the track was not included on the eventual 2-disc 2010 release, titled Perfect Way.

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This is the only released track to feature both Prince and Miles Davis (the two had previously collaborated on the unreleased track Can I Play With U?, although the collaboration did not take place in the studio, and Prince himself may not have had any input on Davis' trumpet work).

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One of the two tracks not to be produced by Russ Titelman was the funky and improvisational "Sticky Wicked", Khan's first proper collaboration with Prince after having covered his "I Feel for You" in 1984 and turning it into a million-selling hit single. CK also includes a second Prince composition, "Eternity" (produced by David Frank and Khan herself),

1) Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) 4:45

2) Soul Talkin' 4:16

3) It's My Party 5:11

4) Eternity 4:03

5) Sticky Wicked 6:54

Eric Leeds - saxophone Atlanta Bliss - trumpet Miles Davis - trumpet

6) The End Of A Love Affair 5:10

7) Baby Me 4:04

8) Make It Last 4:47

9) Where Are You Tonite 4:54

10) I'll Be Around 5:20

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Miles Davis - trumpet

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(Prince)
[Chorus:]
Carmel-coated pseudo happy
Call her sticky wicked
Will she answer agin today or pray that love'll kick it?

Kick it love, see her little baby
Hey girl, she don't remember your name
Kick it love, mama gettin' busy
Got no time 4 games

Sticky wicked
She just got a pair of tickets to the opera in her mind
No applause, no encore if she dies

[Chorus]

Kick it love, visions of her childhood
When her heart was gold
Sticky wicked
Tell me people what reason's good enough 2
Die before U're old? Kick it love, covenants of promise lay before your eyes
Stick wicked will trick U, lick U, then it kicks you aside!

[Chorus]

People crashing in the middle of the day
When U wake up sticky wicked don't go away
Sticky wicked
Pretty stick wicked

(Scenario of a mother who can't remember her daughter's name)
Hey little baby, what's your name?
Oh ain't she cute?
Mama got 2 run today
I don't have time 4 games
No don't worry about me, I'm alright
I'm alright, I'm alright

Carmel-coated pseudo happy
Call her sticky wicked
People crashing in the middle of the day
When U wake up sticky wicked don't go away
If U want it, help is here today
There's a better God, don't U wanna play?

Sticky wicked, love'll kick it
Sticky wicked, love'll kick it

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TLM: Miles appears on Prince’s song “Sticky Wicked”, along with Prince Chaka Khan. But I gather the song wasn’t written with Miles in mind.
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Eric Leeds: When Prince had the track up and Matt Blistan and I did the horn parts I can’t recall Prince making any mention about Miles, although he did say he’d written it for Chaka. Interestingly enough, the title “Sticky Wicked” had been applied to a different song, which was actually the title song of my first album Times Squared. I heard the track and asked Prince if I could work on it for my album and he said yes. And then a couple of weeks later, we were working on this track for Chaka and I asked what the name of it was and he said “Sticky Wicked!” Later on when we were on the road he said “Listen to this.” It was the finished track and Miles was on it. That was the song that got me officially into the Miles Davis discography! It was a much better track and much better utilisation of his horn than on “Can I Play With U?” It was a cool little song.

Hi OldFriends4Sale. I’ve nothing to add, but I wanted to thank you for the effort that you put into your posts – they’re always interesting and informative. x

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I'm listening to "Mind Bells" right now on YouTube.

I'm pretty sure I'm hearing P's tracking vocals in the background.

Search: mind bells Kahoru

It's the first link (in Japanese)

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laytonian said:

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I'm listening to "Mind Bells" right now on YouTube.

I'm pretty sure I'm hearing P's tracking vocals in the background.

Search: mind bells Kahoru

It's the first link (in Japanese)

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I forget which 'set' but there is a Prince on lead version
I was listening to it last night

fen said:

Hi OldFriends4Sale. I’ve nothing to add, but I wanted to thank you for the effort that you put into your posts – they’re always interesting and informative. x

Hi Fen

OldFriends4Sale said:

fen said:

Hi OldFriends4Sale. I’ve nothing to add, but I wanted to thank you for the effort that you put into your posts – they’re always interesting and informative. x

Hi Fen

Hi - and thanks again. The ATWIAD thread was great as well. Much appreciated - keep it up.

"Love Song"

As Madonna was finishing up her stint on Broadway with Speed-the-Plow in 1988, Prince visited her to see the show and brought along some of the rough ideas they had worked on the previous year. One of these ideas was an early cut of what would become “Love Song”:

I’d sort of forgotten about it. So I called him up and said I loved it and that after I was finished with the play, I wanted to get together with him and work on it for my album. As it turned out, we did it in a very funny way. We sent tapes to each other back and forth between L.A. and Minnesota. Then we would talk on the phone, and he would play stuff for me over the line. I loved working that way. – Madonna, Rolling Stone, March 1989

From SongTalk, Summer 1989:

Interviewer: You and Prince wrote “Love Song” together, which is a wonderful song. Did you and he work together or did he give you a track?

Madonna: No, he didn’t give me a track. We sat down and just started fooling around. We had a lot of fun. What happened is that he played the drums and I played the synthesizer and we came up with the original melody line; I just, off the top of my head, started singing lyrics into the microphone. And then he overdubbed some guitar stuff and made a loop of it and sent it to me, and then I just started adding sections to it and singing parts to it. And then I sent it back to him, and he’d sing a part to it and add another instrument and send it back to me…it was like this sentence that turned into a paragraph that turned into a little miniseries. So it was great. It was a completely different way to work. And because of our schedules and everything, and he was in Minnesota and he likes to work there and I like to work here. So we kind of sent it back and forth. He’s great. He’s a real interesting…unique talent.

Interviewer: And it was an easy connection from the beginning for the two of you?

Madonna: Yeah, it was. We started out being real admirers of each other’s work. And, you know, we’re already successful so we didn’t have to prove anything to each other. We were on the same level. And I don’t think he’s had that same opportunity with other people that he’s worked with. Because generally he tends to dominate everything.

An unreleased song titled “By Alien Means” also exists from their “Love Song” sessions (along with two other unknown tracks). The song contains a strong anti-suicide message, though it is unknown if Madonna actually laid down vocals to the demo Prince submitted.

These songs weren’t the only ones the two collaborated on for the 1989 LP; the first thing you hear on the title track is Prince playing guitar, along with guitar on “Keep it Together” and “Act of Contrition” (credited to The Powers That Be).

Outtakes from Prince and Madonna’s session for “Like a Prayer” appear on the Prayers Remixed EP. The dub beats version features samples from a then unreleased Prince track titled “Bob George” from his cancelled Black Album.

Seems like eternity since I've been in your arms
A multitude of colorless hours pass
I crave the life inside U, it keeps me from harm
I only pray that it's not just another god

Eternity - I want 2 be
With U 4 all eternity
Hey, darling U be the only one 4 me
2gether 4 eternity

I long 2 touch your... warm (I long 2 touch)
The world out there's so cold (In a world so cold)
Whenever we... (Whenever we...)
I don't know (I don't know, mama)
But I want U all the time (I want U all the time)
U are the beginning, middle and end 2 every story told
U are the science of my mind

Eternity - I want 2 be
I want 2 be with U 4 all eternity
Oh, darling U be the only one 4 me
2gether 4 eternity

And it seems like a year away
That U and I were making love
One should take life day 2 day
But all my dreams are made of...
All my dreams are made of...

Eternity - I want 2 be
With U 4 all eternity
Darling, U be the only one 4 me
2gether 4 eternity

Eternity - I want 2 be (Want 2 be)
With U {x3}
Darling, U be the only one 4 me (I want 2 be)
2gether 4 eternity

Eternity - I want 2 be (Don't leave)
With U 4 all eternity (No, eternity, eternity)
Darling, U be the only one 4 me (Oh)
2gether 4 eternity

Eternity, eternity, yeah

Eternity is the first track on Sheena Easton's eighth album No Sound But A Heart, and, around the same time as the album's release, Eternity was released as the album's first and only single. In 1993, it was included as the 19th and final track on The World Of Sheena Easton: The Singles Collection compilation. The song was written, produced and largely recorded by Prince (although production is credited to David Leonard, and Prince uses the pseudonyms Rocker Happyfeller and for musician credits).

While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in December 1985, at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA. Prince first offered the track to George Clinton for a project he was producing for Vanessa Williams, but the song was not used. Sheena Easton's vocals were recorded later, although details of her recording are not known.

-PrinceVault