Was U got the Look or any other single off Sign 'o' the Times released on cd. I just want that extended version with the cool intro so much on cd!!!!! Thanks!

player said:

no .. first cd-single is Alphabet St.

There are some promo cd-singles from the SOTT era ... but I don't know which ones, and I doubt if they're genuine ... there almost impossible to find anyway.

Alphabet St. was the first commercially released CD Single.
The first promo CD single made was for If I Was Your Girlfriend
None of the other singles prior to Alphabet St. had CD promos made for them.

I've got the cassette Maxi Singles of 'Sign O' The Times', 'If I Was Your Girlfriend' and 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man'.

Well, when I was younger, whenever I bought a cassette, I'd only play it to make a copy onto another tape - so that I didn't wear out the original. So each tape was played maybe three times maximum.

When I realised I could connect my tape deck to my PC using a Line In, input, I archived:

'La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Full Length)';
'Shockadelica (Full Length)';
'Hot Thing (Edit)';
'Hot Thing (Extended Remix)';
'Hot Thing (Dub Remix)'.

Better yet, I isolated whatever hiss there was (very, very little) and removed it digitally.

I'm not shitting you, but those WAV files I made sound better than the actual Sign O' The Times CDs.

Unfortunately, I never had the money to buy the 'U Got The Look' cassette Maxi Single.

BinaryJustin said:

I burned all my vinyls (extended version and B-sides) on cd .... that means: all extended version and B-sides from the 80's

The quality of vinyl exceeds the cassette easily.
But there is an easier way .... boots!!

Prince 12" Archive v2.0 (6cdr, SaTim Records)

Disc 1: Just Another Sucker (Dance Mix) / If You Feel Like Dancin' (Dance Version) / If You Feel Like Dancin' (Radio Edit) / Just As Long As We're Together (Disco Mix) / Soft And Wet (Disco Mix) / Sexy Dancer (Long Version) / Gotta Stop (Messin' About) / Let's Work (Dance Remix Long Version) / How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? / Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix) / Horny Toad / Irresistible Bitch

Disc 2: 17 Days / Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) / Erotic City (Make Love Not War...) / God (Instrumental) / God (Vocal) / I Would Die 4 U (Extended) / Another Lonely Christmas

Disc 3: Paisley Park (Remix) / Raspberry Beret (New Mix) / She's Always In My Hair (New Mix) / Pop Life (Extended Version) / Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) / Hello / Hello (Fresh Dance Mix) / America (Extended) / Girl (Extended)

Disc 4: Kiss (Extended) / Love Or $ (Extended) / Mountains (Extended) / Alexa de Paris (Extended) / Anotherloverholenyohead (Extended) / La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive Mix) / Shockadelica (Extended) / U Got The Look (Long Look) / Housequake (7 Minute Mo' Quake)

Disc 5: Hot Thing (Extended Remix) / Hot Thing (Dub) / Alphabet Street (This Is Not Music.....) / Glam Slam (Remix) / Escape (Free Yo Mind...) / I Wish U Heaven (Parts 1,2,3) / Scarlet Pussy / Scarlet Pussy (Extended) / Feel U Up (Long Stroke) / If I Love U 2Nite

Disc 6: Gett Off (Damn Near 10 Minutes) Gett Off (Thrust Mix) / Gett Off (Rosie's Dub) / 7 (After 6 Long Version) / Pope (Remix) / Pink Cashmere (Remix) / The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Beautiful Extended Club Mix) / Beautiful Beats / The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Brian's Mix) / Face Down (A Capella) / Face Down (Instrumental Money Mix) / Face Down (X-Tended Rap Money Mix) / The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Jason Nevin's Romance Beats)

The earliest cd single I have seen was "I could never take the place of your man". I saw it at a record fair years ago. It was in a long box format ( probably a 3" cd ) with the same tracks as the 12".

pacey68 said:

That was a longbox cassingle ...

Anyone interested in rare a promo cassettes e-mail me or org note me at ivdf@arrakis I'm selling my whole Prince collection.