Can't Stop This Feeling I Got

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Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got

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from the album Graffiti Bridge
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from the album 1999 Super Deluxe Edition
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single art for Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got

Song details
Performer: Prince
First Released: 20 August 1990 - Graffiti Bridge album
Album(s): Graffiti Bridge

1999 Super Deluxe Edition

Writer(s): Prince
Producer(s): Prince
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
  • none
Performed occasionally in shows:

Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got is the first track on Prince’s twelfth album Graffiti Bridge, and, in late 1990, was released as the album’s third Prince single (in the Philippines only) and sixth single overall (a single by Tevin Campbell, one by Mavis Staples, and another by The Time were also released). An altered version of the track can be heard in the movie Graffiti Bridge.

Basic tracking took place in Spring 1982 at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, along with several other tracks that would re-appear over the next several years. The track was re-recorded on 17 June 1986 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Edina, Minnesota (in sequence after Data Bank and before We Can Funk, the day before recording Girl O’ My Dreams). These recordings were intended for an aborted musical tentatively titled Dream Factory. This version of Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got was later sent to Three O’Clock for consideration along with Neon Telephone, Girl O’ My Dreams, We Can Funk and Teacher, Teacher, but the band decided to use only Neon Telephone.

Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got was re-recorded in 1989 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, and was included as the first track on a late 1989 configuration of Graffiti Bridge, where it remained for a 1990 configuration and the final release.

The original 1982 version was released in 2019 as the seventh track on the Vault Tracks part 2 disc of a Super Deluxe Edition edition of the 1999 album.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
Spring 1982 Kiowa Trail Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Tracking
3 May 1985 Sunset Sound - Studio 3
Hollywood, CA, USA
possible mixing
3 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Edina, MN, USA
string overdubs, mix
17 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Edina, MN, USA
Re-recording
18 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Edina, MN, USA
Mix
1989 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Re-recording
Recording Personnel

1990 Released version

  • Prince - all vocals and instruments


1982 Version

  • Prince - all vocals and instruments


’86 Updated ’82 version

  • Prince - all vocals and instruments
  • Novi Novog - violin /viola
  • Suzie Katayama]] - cello


Unreleased 1986 version


Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got 4:24 Graffiti Bridge

Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got single

Studio
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got 2:40 1999 Super Deluxe Edition
Studio


Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in...
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Soul Psychodelicide Studio Unreleased 1989 track
Graffiti Bridge Cue 2:28 Graffiti Bridge DVD Studio Music heard in the background at the beginning of the movie mixed with lyrics from Seven Corners
Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got Studio 1982 version with 1986 overdubs
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got Studio 1986 re-recording
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia

  • The released mix of the 1982 version was done by Niko Bolas specifically for the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition release. It was made to replicate the original mix from the time the song was initially tracked, as much as possible. So even when a slightly different mix of this track might exist, the now released version is not considered a true alternate mix of the track.
  • In the notebook, where Prince wrote his (undated) synopsis for what would become the movie Purple Rain, I Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got is listed as one of the songs to be included in the film.

References
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