are these song samples really on the single to U Make My Sun Shine/When Will We B Paid?

i read this tracklist at CDnow:

Track Listings
1. U Make My Sun Shine
2. When Will We B Paid?
3. Throw Dat Leg Up [snippet]
4. Sweet Punanny [snippet]

...just wondering!

I have to check that !!
Get back to you later

Too overtly sexual titles for that period... sounds fake to me,
but I am definately interested in any facts considering this item.

yes and the Deluxe version has

Hey Hannigan
R U Horny

betta go find that 2..

nayroo2002 said:

I bought this single over here in the UK. It's an official NPG single, but the last two tracks aren't Prince or the NPG. I can't remember which artist(s) it is as I'm currently at work, but you're definitely not missing anything. I think it was just the European distributor of the single promoting another of their acts.

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[This message was edited Fri Feb 27 5:18:36 2004 by Haystack]

deMatthijs said:

my sentiments exactly.

but why would this be listed on a huge web music distributer if it was fake?

i only have the UMMSS single with The Work Pt.1

can NE1 w/this other single confirm it's content?

THANKS, HAYSTACK!
now i can sleep better

Now this one is kind of difficult to explain, as the manner of release of this single is, shall we
say, unusual. A good way of describing it would be to call it an officially sanctioned bootleg.

R U Horny is "Seamore Funk". And I bet the other tracks too.
Has nothing to do with Prince!

BorisFishpaw said:

wait a minute, i'm not sleepy anymore.
i understand that this was a downloadable single with artwork n all
i've got that somewhere, too
but, then someone added two extra tracks from other artists and
distributed it on a small time label???
is that the story?

vc40 said:

no duhhhhh..

OK here ya go...

Prince posted the two tracks "U Make My Sun Shine" and "When Will We B Paid?" on his
website, complete with artwork so that anyone could download it and create their own single.
He also invited anyone who wanted to, to 'do the work' and distibute the single if they wanted.
With no obligation to pay him royalties or otherwise pay him or NPG Records any money,
leaving it completely up to our own concience as to if or how much to send him.

A small label called 'Wingspan' took him up on the offer and pressed up a number of these
singles for distribution in the UK. When they pressed them however, they decided to add a
couple of snippets of tracks by their own acts (plus an advert for them in the artwork). They
got a distribution deal for it through one of the small independant UK distributors and hence
got the single onto the shelves in the major highstreet retailers in the UK.

So there you have it, it's not exactly an 'official' release, but it's not a bootleg either.



However, there IS a genuine 'official' pressing of this single that NPG Records made themselves
and sold through 1-800-NEW-FUNK and at concerts on the hit 'n' run tour. This version is housed
in a card sleeve (like the other hit 'n' run singles) with no copyright or other writing on the sleeve
(other than the song titles on the cover). It only contains the two Prince tracks, and the CD
itself has a plain purple printed background, with the type showing through in silver.

Thanks, Boris (Stimpy!)

as a side note...
i was checking the rest of CDnow/amizon
and they had also listed a slew of old 12" singles on cd without images nor prices
was there to be a re-release of these singles (ie,sexy dancer, let's work, etc)
sometime in the 90's? the release dates were said to be in 1997

would be nice if it materialized!!!

TheRealFiness said:

Except for U make my sun shine and When will we b paid of course!

BorisFishpaw said:

The act was 'Track Squad', a three-member rap group from South Carolina (as detailed on Wingspan Records' website).