Has Prince ever written a song called "wally"?
Or am I just dreaming?

Karina said:

Yes, he recorded it twice.

The first time he erased it because he thought it was too personal.

I think it's a piece of music with speach over it where Prince asks his friend Wally if he could borrow some sunglases for a date. Then later he calls Wally up saying that he won't be needing them because he was no longer going to be going on his date.

I'm pretty sure that this one is still sealed away in the vault, I've never seen a bootleg that has it.

Sorry, posted twice edit
[This message was edited Wed Jun 18 12:01:34 PDT 2003 by CAMILLE4U]

CAMILLE4U said:

According to Turn It Up, the second recording was simply a reworking of the lyrics and music, layered on to the original track. So I guess neither exists after the command was given to erase it.

DarrenMawbey said:

hmmm... If that's true then your probably right.

Damn

DarrenMawbey said:

Turn It Up 2.0 recounts that, according to Susan Rogers, the first version was completely erased.

The second version was recorded the next day with altered lyrics. Eric Leeds and Matt Blistan added horns to this version.

Eric also believes that the first version was completely erased (the only time, he suspects, that Prince has done this) but not the second, according to TIU 2.0.

Susan said she had noticed that Prince had started 2 purposefully overdub unneeded instrumentation on top of this amazing song 2 the point where it was detrimental 2 caryy on without commenting.
Prince told her 2 put all the tracks on record, and 'wipe em' Susan stood her ground and simply point-blank refused 2 carry out his request 2 erase the tracks, so Prince did it himself.
Kudos 2 Susan 2 stick 2 her guns, regardless of the outcome.
I wish they would work 2gther again 4 sho...

So, does it exist or not?

Was the song about Wally Downes..?

bananacologne said:

and then susan was eventually fired, i think she's an Oceanographer now and left the music business

Finess said:

Did he fire her becoz of that? If not then why did she get fired?

I personaly think that Susan is a treasure, the woman know so much about just about everything and says too little YET the "enough" in4mation that u wanna know and she neva talks about what happen "between" so to speak, which is why I like her alot.

Harlepolis said:

she was just Let go,not for the wally incident,but she was just not needed anymore.

Finess said:

I see

mattj said:

Yeah, that's the guy Prince was talking to in the song?

Karina said:

The 2nd version probably still exsists, although no one other than those envolved in making it have heard it.

I thought I remember reading that she quit since she was totally burned out and Prince pleaded her to come back during his X trip and she said no and left for good.

Finess said:

Wally was re-recorded the next day with 'revised' lyrics. Susan left Prince's employ of her OWN accord I believe, post SOTT/pre-LoveseXy.
Im not so sure about Susan leaving the business, in recent years she has produced a couple of the TooL albums, and a number of up and coming bands...she's still around.

Really? Has she done some Tool albums? That's impressive.

When did he record this song?

Susan Rogers is alive & well and lives in Tennessee !

Karina said:

December 28th, 1986 according to Turn It Up 2.0.

http://www.uptown.se/2002/books.shtml