If anyone out there has Bernedette Cooper's cd "Drama According To Bernedette" can you check to see if Price wrote the song "The Agency Sent Me." I know she thanks him several times in the insert but I was just told he wrote that song...I just wanna verify. Thx in advance~

according 2 my resources she was INFLUENCED by Prince but he didn't write anything with her or 4 her...

Library of Congress copyright office:

'The Agency Sent Me' by Bernadette Cooper.

from 'Drama According To Bernadette Cooper'

MCA Records MCAD-10058 compact disc.

Created: 1990
Published: 1 Sep 1990
Registered: 15 July 1991

Music: Michael Hightower;
Words: Bernadette Cooper.

I think I still have 'Madame X' by 'Madame X' on vinyl from the 80's.

I remember thinking that both the sound and the concept of a 3 girl group (with someone else behind the project) seemed Prince-influenced.

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I have that too & I agree, I particularly love 'Not that type of Girl' which was my reason for buying it in the first place.

I think this kind of mistake shows the depth of Prince's influence on funk. Nearly every artist that was doing funk and dance oriented R&B was getting something from the Minneapolis Sound: the keyboard sound driving traditional horn lines, the drum machine, or the nasty rythym guitar.

Bernadaette was buddies with Teena Marie at the time - who is on that album. I have a tape of her with Teena on the old Video Soul show when punk ass Dinnie Simpson was the host.

Shoot... I had made a tape of Madame X from someone back in the day...and the tape was like a little bit sped up so I got used to hearing it that way.

I even had a poster of Madame X in my dorm room!

I've been trying to find that on CD for a long time...I love that album... and Bernadette Cooper rocks!

I was born to be fierce...

born to be happy...

born to be free..

::are you from the agency?::

lady would you help me?