independent and unofficial
Prince fan community
Welcome! Sign up or enter username and password to remember me
Forum jump
Forums > Prince: Music and More > Background vox on ICNTTPOYM 1979
« Previous topic  Next topic »
  New topic   Printable     (Log in to 'subscribe' to this topic)
Author

Tweet     Share

Message
Thread started 08/14/21 6:30am

AvocadosMax

Background vox on ICNTTPOYM 1979

If you’re listening with good headphones, and you reeeeeaaallly listen for if, you can hear the many background vocals/layered vocal tracks in “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)”

I particularly love the background vocals during the lines
“He left her with a baby and another one on the way
She couldn’t stop crying ‘cause she knew he was gon’ to stay…”

The falsettos in the background…. Just amazing. I don’t think this harmony was used on the SOTT version or any live version (maybe i’m wrong, idk) but yeah the harmony hear is just so beautiful. Young, soulful, falsetto Prince is my favorite because although he wasn’t as skilled a singer as he got later on, you could feel the words more in my opinion


I wish the estate would release the stems/multi tracks so i can make my own mix(es) with the other vocals more present, that’s how obsessed i am lol
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #1 posted 08/14/21 7:23am

funkbabyandthe
babysitters
Still think this should be on the dirty mind SDE and not the SOTT one
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #2 posted 08/14/21 7:36am

deanm

AvocadosMax said:

If you’re listening with good headphones, and you reeeeeaaallly listen for if, you can hear the many background vocals/layered vocal tracks in “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version)” I particularly love the background vocals during the lines “He left her with a baby and another one on the way She couldn’t stop crying ‘cause she knew he was gon’ to stay…” The falsettos in the background…. Just amazing. I don’t think this harmony was used on the SOTT version or any live version (maybe i’m wrong, idk) but yeah the harmony hear is just so beautiful. Young, soulful, falsetto Prince is my favorite because although he wasn’t as skilled a singer as he got later on, you could feel the words more in my opinion I wish the estate would release the stems/multi tracks so i can make my own mix(es) with the other vocals more present, that’s how obsessed i am lol

Absolutely stunning track

  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #3 posted 08/14/21 9:57am

rudeboy4711

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Still think this should be on the dirty mind SDE and not the SOTT one


If anything it wouldn’t be on the Dirty Mind SDE but on the Prince SDE since the original version of the song was recorded during that album’s recording sessions.
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #4 posted 08/14/21 5:43pm

TrivialPursuit

avatar

The estate is never going to release stems. There won't be a new Sampling Series. How "Let's Go Crazy" stems leaks, I don't know. And don't get me wrong - I'd love to have the stems to "When Doves Cry" or "Computer Blue" or - frankly - "Something In The Water."

And let's assume it was Prince on the harmonies.

Princevault says in 1986 that the 1979 version was reworked with additional recording. So, was it fully re-recorded for SOTT, or does the SOTT version include some of the 1979 tracks including possibly those harmonies?

QUESTIONS!

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #5 posted 08/15/21 6:34am

RODSERLING

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Still think this should be on the dirty mind SDE and not the SOTT one


Dirty Mind SDE has been released? When and where?
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #6 posted 08/15/21 5:30pm

TrivialPursuit

avatar

RODSERLING said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:
Still think this should be on the dirty mind SDE and not the SOTT one
Dirty Mind SDE has been released? When and where?


It hasn't. But it has been remastered a few years ago. Bernie Grundman confirmed doing it. I have the vinyl - sounds a bit more smoothed out, but still raw and demo-y.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
Reply #7 posted 08/16/21 8:58am

steakfinger

TrivialPursuit said:

The estate is never going to release stems. There won't be a new Sampling Series. How "Let's Go Crazy" stems leaks, I don't know. And don't get me wrong - I'd love to have the stems to "When Doves Cry" or "Computer Blue" or - frankly - "Something In The Water."

And let's assume it was Prince on the harmonies.

Princevault says in 1986 that the 1979 version was reworked with additional recording. So, was it fully re-recorded for SOTT, or does the SOTT version include some of the 1979 tracks including possibly those harmonies?

QUESTIONS!


It was completely re-recorded. Prince famously did not track his drums to a click so his tempo would fluctuate in ways that the drum machine (or Fairlight on the SOTT version) wouldn’t. The tracks simply wouldn’t line up. These days you could digitally alter the speed to match whatever, but Prince used tape till the end for drums and vocals.
  - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator
  New topic   Printable     (Log in to 'subscribe' to this topic)
« Previous topic  Next topic »
Forums > Prince: Music and More > Background vox on ICNTTPOYM 1979