From https://variety.com/2019/...203235532/ :

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McCreary: He came in one night and said “What do you drink?” and I said “Remy Martin, why?” And he said “Order a bottle of Remy Martin a bottle of Asti Spumanti.” I I never let my guard down in the studio — you did not f— up around him, it was devastating if you did — so I said, “No, Prince, I don’t wanna drink.” “Order it!” So we had a couple of drinks and he went to the piano and started playing and we cut this song that I thought was so beautiful — he kept the beat on the pedal of the piano and he had such a gorgeous vocal range, I just loved listening to him sing. I never heard him hit a sour note, never, ever, ever. I remember being buzzed and thinking “Is this song really as good as I think it is?” And I didn’t hear it again until years later when I found it on a CD of Prince’s B-sides — and it was “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?” It’s such a great song. The long version is gonna come out soon, we faded it out.

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Awesome, thanks!

perhaps as part of the rumoured 1999 reissue?

Well, honk my hooter! If this happens...geez!!!!

Wow! This is the song that made me realize that there was so much more to Prince and his music than partying and dancing. I hope that it will see the light of day sometime soon.

IstenSzek said:

perhaps as part of the rumoured 1999 reissue?

It does exist, but it's on indefinite hold.

Why did an admin retitle this thread? It is not supposed to be about the article, but about the specific part of it that I quoted in my first post.

BartVanHemelen said:

Why did an admin retitle this thread? It is not supposed to be about the article, but about the specific part of it that I quoted in my first post.

ridiculous for Admin to this...the USP of theboody thread is the extended version of a classic track that I guess very few knew about!

So there is a female vocal part on "Nothing Compares 2 U"?

Hah, people here kept telling me that I kept imagining things when I stated that there must be. It was just obvious to me and I started really questioning my ability to hear such things.

BartVanHemelen said:

From https://variety.com/2019/...203235532/ :

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McCreary: He came in one night and said “What do you drink?” and I said “Remy Martin, why?” And he said “Order a bottle of Remy Martin a bottle of Asti Spumanti.” I I never let my guard down in the studio — you did not f— up around him, it was devastating if you did — so I said, “No, Prince, I don’t wanna drink.” “Order it!” So we had a couple of drinks and he went to the piano and started playing and we cut this song that I thought was so beautiful — he kept the beat on the pedal of the piano and he had such a gorgeous vocal range, I just loved listening to him sing. I never heard him hit a sour note, never, ever, ever. I remember being buzzed and thinking “Is this song really as good as I think it is?” And I didn’t hear it again until years later when I found it on a CD of Prince’s B-sides — and it was “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?” It’s such a great song. The long version is gonna come out soon, we faded it out.

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McCreary: There was never a hello or goodbye.

Sometimes I’d come in and they’d say

“he’s gone” — he’d packed everything up and gone to Minneapolis.

He was very spontaneous and he wasn’t communicative.

I couldn’t get a title of a song.

One time he was playing and I said

“Prince, Prince, stop — the record company and the studio need a title”

and he said,

“What’s your middle name?”

“Colleen.”

“Okay, it’s called ‘Colleen.’”

BartVanHemelen said:

Why did an admin retitle this thread? It is not supposed to be about the article, but about the specific part of it that I quoted in my first post.

You did it wrong, clearly.

Lovejunky said: