Album: Precious
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Precious
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Released: | 9 June, 1992 (Europe) 22 June, 1993 (USA) |
Length: | 54:35 (original release) 50:27 (1993 US re-issue) |
Label(s): | Lana Lane |
Studio(s): | Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA |
Precious is the third studio album by Dutch pop duo Loïs Lane (who are known in the USA as "Loïs L." due to legal issues with the Superman character Lois Lane), and was released in June, 1992.
The album contained two tracks with writing input by Prince, Qualified (co-written by Kirk Johnson) and a new version of Sex (co-written by Levi Seacer, Jr.), which had previously been released by Prince on The Scandalous Sex Suite EP. Both songs feature Prince as a musician also. In addition, Prince appears, uncredited, as a musican on the tracks I Oh I and Crying, and for the 1993 USA re-release, he provided a remix of I Wanna Be (a track from their previous album Fortune Fairytales).
The album produced two singles, Qualified and Sex but failed to chart in the USA. It reached number 13 on their home country album chart, however.
Prince met the band Loïs Lane when they opened for some shows on the Nude Tour, and they later asked him to contribute songs to their next album. Prince obliged, and some of the album's tracks were recorded by Kirk Johnson at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA, in early 1992.
Track listing
Details given for Prince-related tracks only
CD
(NDL: 513 418-2)
(JAP: AVCD-11202)
(PHL: 920 730-2)
- I Oh I (4:03) *
- Qualified (4:45) #
- The Singer
- Loneliness
- Precious
- Need A Little Space
- I Love A Woman
- She Came By
- Forever
- Crying (4:05) ^
- Sex (5:46) +
- Make Way
(USA/CAN: 519 255-2)
- Qualified (4:45) #
- I Wanna Be (4:16) **
- Sex (5:46) +
- I Love A Woman
- I Oh I (4:03) *
- Forever
- Need A Little Space
- Crying (4:05) ^
- Precious
- She Came By
- Make Way
* Written by A. Van Dongen and Monique Klemann
# Written by Prince and Kirk Johnson
^ Written by J. Doornik and Suzanne Klemann
+ Written by Prince and Levi Seacer, Jr.
** Written by Evert K. Abbing
Personnel
Musicians
- Monique Klemann – vocals
- Suzanne Klemann– vocals
- Prince - unidentified instruments on I Oh I, Qualified, Crying and I Wanna Be (uncredited), all instruments on Sex
- Kirk Johnson - unidentified instruments on I Oh I, Qualified, Crying (uncredited)
- Kathleen Johnson - background vocals on I Oh I
- Nard Berings - guitar on I Wanna Be
- Dimitri Veldkamp - bass guitar on I Wanna Be
- Cees ten Dam - saxophone on I Wanna Be
Production
- Kirk Johnson - producer on I Oh I, Crying, co-producer on Qualified and I Wanna Be, arranger on I Oh I, Crying, co-arranger on Qualified, mixing engineer on Qualified, Crying
- Prince - co-producer and co-arranger on Qualified and Sex, co-producer on I Wanna Be, executive producer on Crying
- Keith "KC" Cohen - additional production on I Oh I and Sex, additional mixing on I Oh I, mixing on Sex
- Ray Hahnfeldt - recording engineer on I Oh I
- Frans Hendrix - additional recording engineer on I Oh I
- Tom Garneau - mixing engineer on Qualified and Crying
- Michael Koppelman - recording engineer on Qualified and Sex
- J.P. Exalto - vocal recording engineer on Crying
Singles released
Charts
Entry Date | Chart, Country | Peak Position | Weeks In Chart |
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Albums Mega Top 100 (The Netherlands) | 20 Jun. 1992 | 13 | 19 |
Releases
Variants, special editions and re-releases
- See USA 1993 re-issue tracklist above.
- 1993 USA re-issue cover:
Album promotion
Time-of-release
- Information needed.
Awards, nominations, and certifications
- Information needed.
Quotations and trivia
- None.
References
- The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)
- http://www.discogs.com/Lo%C3%AFs-Lane-Precious
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