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Wendy & Lisa share a preview of Duane Tudahl's upcoming book "Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985-1986" about the recording of "Sometimes It Snows In April".

Thanks for sharing, a great article. The date of the recording is either a coincidence or part of the purple mystery...he really had too many of those 'coincidences'

Duane Tudahl has now shared those same pages in his own FB group, and it looks like his pages are better quality images and more legible: https://www.facebook.com/...552884635/ .

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

Thanks for sharing, a great article. The date of the recording is either a coincidence or part of the purple mystery...he really had too many of those 'coincidences'

Interesting that parts of SISIA is based on a pre-Warner signing song???

Didn't know that!

Does anyone know what that song could be??

soladeo1 said:

Interesting that parts of SISIA is based on a pre-Warner signing song???

Didn't know that!

Does anyone know what that song could be??

under the cherry moon (the song) too... late 70s, not too late though

soladeo1 said:

Interesting that parts of SISIA is based on a pre-Warner signing song???

Didn't know that!

Does anyone know what that song could be??

it was always called "Sometimes it Snows in April" or at the very least "Snow in April", i can't quite remember. there was a picture of it written down somewhere. was it in his biography? there has been so much information these past few years. but i'm certain that i had already seen information on this site about the bare bones of the song being late 70s.

LILpoundCAKE said:

LoveGalore said:

LILpoundCAKE said:

it was always called "Sometimes it Snows in April" or at the very least "Snow in April", i can't quite remember. there was a picture of it written down somewhere. was it in his biography? there has been so much information these past few years. but i'm certain that i had already seen information on this site about the bare bones of the song being late 70s.

It's on the handwritten tracklist for an early configuration of For You from the memoir. [Edited 4/21/21 14:52pm]

Thank you! I knew I had seen it somewhere.

LILpoundCAKE said:

It was always called "Sometimes it Snows in April" or, at the very least, "Snow in April," I can't quite remember. There was a picture of it written down somewhere. Was it in his biography? There has been so much information these past few years. But I'm certain that I had already seen information on this site about the bare bones of the song being late 70s.

I sorta wonder if it was a melody for the chorus or something. Its melody is quite different than the verses of the song. And while we're so used to it on Parade, if you sorta just listen to the notes of the chorus melody, it feels like something older, than the newer variations in the verses. That's just conjecture, but reading that bit of the book made me think about what part(s) of that song date back to his early days.

Hell, maybe it was just the lyric idea, maybe it was a melody line. Who knows.

Cannot wait for this book

LILpoundCAKE said:

soladeo1 said:

Interesting that parts of SISIA is based on a pre-Warner signing song???

Didn't know that!

Does anyone know what that song could be??

it was always called "Sometimes it Snows in April" or at the very least "Snow in April", i can't quite remember. there was a picture of it written down somewhere. was it in his biography? there has been so much information these past few years. but i'm certain that i had already seen information on this site about the bare bones of the song being late 70s.

Dez also tried to sell a cassette with it from 1978

"On side B, Prince had his work versions of 6 songs, which I left intact for, at that time, unknown reasons (obviously, we now know it preserved a piece of musical history)." The Side B, containing Prince's songs, opens with an early, acoustic version of "So Blue", followed by two unreleased love songs with bouncy, upbeat choruses and risque lyrics. Next is an early version of "Gotta Broken Heart Again", which later appeared on Prince's seminal "Dirty Mind" album. The fourth track features heavy guitar distortion and a chorus that include very candid sexual pleas from Prince. The tape ends with a very early, virtually unrecognizable version of "Sometimes it Snows in April", with only a couple of lines from the chorus making the final cut onto the later version of the song that's featured on the "Parade" album, released some eight years after this tape was created. The audio quality on the tape is very good, with Prince's voice very clear and the overall sound still quite sharp. Tape is offered as collector's piece only and does not come with rights for reproduction, manufacturing or distribution. Cassette is housed in its plastic cover with "Prince Worktape '78" handwritten on it by Dez. From the collection of Dez Dickerson."

jfenster said:

What is the civil war he refers to??? Is it an internal struggle ?

the civil war between himself and tricky in the movie

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

Thanks for sharing, a great article. The date of the recording is either a coincidence or part of the purple mystery...he really had too many of those 'coincidences'

Putting the impossibility of him writing a song about his fictional passing and literally passing on the very day it was recorded 30 something years later aside. His first words on record were ALL OF THIS AND MORE IS FOR YOU and his last words on record were THATS IT, from Big City. If that ain't spooky.....


He also did the full circle thing with his hair, started with afro, ended with afro.

What other symmetries, coincidences, bizarre things have you all discovered?

leadline said:

jfenster said:

What is the civil war he refers to??? Is it an internal struggle ?

the civil war between himself and tricky in the movie

LOL uh, I don't think so. They were bestiest. They weren't at war for a long time. Mary was a short period. CT was stuck in Paris with no way back to Miami (although why wasn't Tricky holding down a job?). I sorta believe it was just his struggle to not be a gigolo. The character probably never had aspirations to be a hooker in Paris when he could've done anything else in Miami or otherwise. And why they hell were they in Paris to begin with? Why go there? For what reason? Was there an exhibition at the Lourve?

The real civil war was between lust and love, as it always is with Prince. They both have four letters, but are entirely different words. At first, he wants to swindle women for money, including Mary who is a big ticket item. Then he falls in love with her. Yeah, Tricky sorta gets in the mix, but the real love battle is with CT and Mary. It wasn't Tricky who she was fuckin', it was CT.

taint

Strive said:

TrivialPursuit said:

leadline said:

the civil war between himself and tricky in the movie

LOL uh, I don't think so. They were bestiest. They weren't at war for a long time. Mary was a short period. CT was stuck in Paris with no way back to Miami (although why wasn't Tricky holding down a job?). I sorta believe it was just his struggle to not be a gigolo. The character probably never had aspirations to be a hooker in Paris when he could've done anything else in Miami or otherwise. And why they hell were they in Paris to begin with? Why go there? For what reason? Was there an exhibition at the Lourve?

The real civil war was between lust and love, as it always is with Prince. They both have four letters, but are entirely different words. At first, he wants to swindle women for money, including Mary who is a big ticket item. Then he falls in love with her. Yeah, Tricky sorta gets in the mix, but the real love battle is with CT and Mary. It wasn't Tricky who she was fuckin', it was CT.

I can see that side of it.

Strive said:

LILpoundCAKE said:

it was always called "Sometimes it Snows in April" or at the very least "Snow in April", i can't quite remember. there was a picture of it written down somewhere. was it in his biography? there has been so much information these past few years. but i'm certain that i had already seen information on this site about the bare bones of the song being late 70s.

Dez also tried to sell a cassette with it from 1978

"On side B, Prince had his work versions of 6 songs, which I left intact for, at that time, unknown reasons (obviously, we now know it preserved a piece of musical history)." The Side B, containing Prince's songs, opens with an early, acoustic version of "So Blue", followed by two unreleased love songs with bouncy, upbeat choruses and risque lyrics. Next is an early version of "Gotta Broken Heart Again", which later appeared on Prince's seminal "Dirty Mind" album. The fourth track features heavy guitar distortion and a chorus that include very candid sexual pleas from Prince. The tape ends with a very early, virtually unrecognizable version of "Sometimes it Snows in April", with only a couple of lines from the chorus making the final cut onto the later version of the song that's featured on the "Parade" album, released some eight years after this tape was created. The audio quality on the tape is very good, with Prince's voice very clear and the overall sound still quite sharp. Tape is offered as collector's piece only and does not come with rights for reproduction, manufacturing or distribution. Cassette is housed in its plastic cover with "Prince Worktape '78" handwritten on it by Dez. From the collection of Dez Dickerson."

wow, good information thank you

jfenster said:

And why hasn't this tape surfaced???

because it didn't come with rights to distribute or reproduce and the buyer is known, so it would be kind of stupid of that person to then rip it and upload it as they are the only source it could have come from and this have the estate sue them. i guess

TrivialPursuit said:

leadline said:

the civil war between himself and tricky in the movie

LOL uh, I don't think so. They were bestiest. They weren't at war for a long time. Mary was a short period. CT was stuck in Paris with no way back to Miami (although why wasn't Tricky holding down a job?). I sorta believe it was just his struggle to not be a gigolo. The character probably never had aspirations to be a hooker in Paris when he could've done anything else in Miami or otherwise. And why they hell were they in Paris to begin with? Why go there? For what reason? Was there an exhibition at the Lourve?

The real civil war was between lust and love, as it always is with Prince. They both have four letters, but are entirely different words. At first, he wants to swindle women for money, including Mary who is a big ticket item. Then he falls in love with her. Yeah, Tricky sorta gets in the mix, but the real love battle is with CT and Mary. It wasn't Tricky who she was fuckin', it was CT.

They were in Nice, Cote d'Azur region aka the French Riviera, many miles from Paris.

I don't remember any mention of Paris or any landmarks in the film.

[Edited 4/25/21 4:59am]

InThisBedIDream said:

They were in Nice, Cote d'Azur region aka the French Riviera, many miles from Paris.

I don't remember any mention of Paris or any landmarks in the film.

[Edited 4/25/21 4:59am]

....and they were there because Prince wanted to be there. He was in love with France.
At one time, maybe coincidentally with the film, he had an apartment in Paris.

laytonian said:

InThisBedIDream said:

They were in Nice, Cote d'Azur region aka the French Riviera, many miles from Paris.

I don't remember any mention of Paris or any landmarks in the film.

[Edited 4/25/21 4:59am]

....and they were there because Prince wanted to be there. He was in love with France.
At one time, maybe coincidentally with the film, he had an apartment in Paris.

I know he had a love for France, I can see why, it's a beautiful country.

I don't remember any dialogue in the film to suggest it's supposed to be set in Paris and surely Prince would've just filmed there if that were the case.

We have the lyrics re Versailles in Girls & Boys but other than that,,,,, I'll have to watch it again, maybe I blinked when the Eiffel Tower was on the screen.