Data Bank

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Data Bank

Pandemonium album.jpg
from the album Pandemonium
Song details
Performer: The Time
First Released: 10 July 1990 - Pandemonium album
Album(s): Pandemonium
Writer(s): Prince (credited to The Time)
Producer(s): Prince (credited to The Time)
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:
  • none

Data Bank is the thirteen track (tenth song) on The Time’s fourth album Pandemonium, and is written and produced by Prince (but credited to The Time).

Basic tracking took place on 17 June 1986 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Edina, Minnesota (in sequence before Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got and We Can Funk, the day before Girl O’ My Dreams). It was intended for an aborted musical tentatively titled Dream Factory.

The track was re-recorded with Morris Day on lead vocals in Summer 1989, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, when Prince and Morris Day worked on the projected fourth album by The Time, Corporate World, which later morphed into Pandemonium. Candy Dulfer added saxophone overdubs in August 1989, also at Paisley Park Studios (during the same set of sessions where she added saxophone overdubs to My Summertime Thang, Release It, Murph Drag, The Latest Fashion, Donald Trump (Black Version), Love Machine and My Baby Knows).


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
17 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Edina, MN, USA
Tracking
18 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Edina, MN, USA
Mix (Long version)
Summer 1989 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Re-recording
August 1989 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Saxophone overdubs by Candy Dulfer
Recording Personnel

Released version

  • Morris Day - lead vocals
  • Prince - all instruments except where noted
  • Candy Dulfer - saxophone (as "Candy")
  • Jellybean Johnson - drums and backing vocals (credited, but not involved)
  • Jesse Johnson - guitar, backing vocals (credited, but not involved)
  • Jimmy Jam - keyboards, backing vocals (credited, but not involved)
  • Monte Moir - keyboards, backing vocals (credited, but not involved)
  • Terry Lewis - bass guitar, backing vocals (credited, but not involved)
  • Jerome Benton - percussion, "mirror and holler" (credited, but not involved)


Unreleased version


Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Data Bank 5:35 Pandemonium Studio


Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Data Bank Studio 1986 recording
Data Bank Studio 1989 version, shorter than released, with heavier drums
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia

  • This song is listed (I’m Feeling Like I Wanna Put Ya In My) Data Bank on a handwritten tracklist for the Corporate World album.

References
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