Prince sometimes used pseudonyms to separate himself from the music he had written, produced, or recorded, and at one point stated that his ownership and achievement were strengthened by the act of giving away ideas

Any of you ever heard songs from Joey Coco (for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s)?

I recently started a thread about a song he gave to Kenny Rogers (and was once considered for The Family, but dates earlier). "You're My Love" was the first song to be officially released that was credited to Joey Coco.

And I think it was a play or musical he had thought of doing that had the Coco Boys or something like that, using the Joey Coco name, too. I forget off hand.

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Joey Coco was his character from The Dawn musical he was planning in the 85-87 era. This eventually morphed into Graffiti Bridge. The "Coco Boys" song leaked recently, I believe because Questlove played it at a party.

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I say "his" character, but I believe he wasn't actually going to be in the movie and just direct.

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On an old thread (http://prince.org/msg/7/360122), the no longer frequenting this site BorisFishpaw provided a list of songs that had been officially registered as Joey Coco compositions:

"The only songs credited to "Joey Coco" were...

Telepathy - Deborah Allen

Neon Telephone - Three O'Clock

You're My Love - Kenny Rogers

Baby Go-Go - Nona Hendryx

101 - Sheena Easton

Cool Love - Sheena Easton

plus the following Jill Jones tracks...

Baby, You're A Trip

My Man

Violet Blue

The last three, as Boris points out, were only credited to Joey Coco before they were released, then changed to Jill Jones credits for release. That same thread has a little speculation about exactly what was going to be going on in the "Dawn" film project. As to the Coco-credited songs, yeah, I've heard them (I haven't heard "Coco Boys" yet, actually)--and, except for Baby Go-Go, I rate them pretty highly (well, You're My Love is just interesting to me, not necessarily one I think is great). 101 is one of the top non-Prince releases in his body of work (the Jill Jones songs didn't keep the attribution--but they're all strong track). But I don't see any real connection between them, and I can't imagine they were ever really part of a single project or vision.

What was the name he used for Sheena Easton's 'Sugar Wall'? I looked in the princepedia and it's not listed. I thought it was Joey Coco?

kingricefan said:

What was the name he used for Sheena Easton's 'Sugar Wall'? I looked in the princepedia and it's not listed. I thought it was Joey Coco?

The even more elusive and rareified Alexander Nevermind, I believe.

Oh, yeah. That's the one!

robertgeorge said:

kingricefan said:

What was the name he used for Sheena Easton's 'Sugar Wall'? I looked in the princepedia and it's not listed. I thought it was Joey Coco?

The even more elusive and rareified Alexander Nevermind, I believe.

Astasheiks said:

Prince sometimes used pseudonyms to separate himself from the music he had written, produced, or recorded, and at one point stated that his ownership and achievement were strengthened by the act of giving away ideas

Any of you ever heard songs from Joey Coco (for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s)?

search Joey Coco and his Prince connection 1982-1986