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Revision as of 14:03, 8 May 2024

If You Were A Sailboat   < < < Non-Prince Songs All Prince Songs Unreleased Songs > > >   If You Feel Like Dancin’
If We Don’t
Symbolicbeginning album.jpg
from the album Symbolic Beginning
If We Don’t / I’ll Always Love You
single art for If We Don’t / I’ll Always Love You 		Thecookhousefive album.jpg
from the album The Cookhouse Five
Song details
Performer: 94 East
First Released: 16 May 1995 - Symbolic Beginning collection
Album(s): Symbolic Beginning

The Early Years
One Man Jam
94 East Featuring Prince
The Cookhouse Five

Writer(s): Pepé Willie
Producer(s): Pepé Willie and Tony Silvester
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
  • This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince.
Performed regularly on tour:
  • none
Performed occasionally in shows:
  • none

If We Don’t is the fifth track on the second disc of 94 East’ second collection of studio recordings Symbolic Beginning, featuring Prince on guitar.

Basic tracking took place on 4 December 1975, at Cookhouse Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as Games, I’ll Always Love You, Better Than You Think and If You See Me), marking the earliest recording sessions featuring Prince to have been released. Matt "Dr." Fink remixed the track in June 2010, at StarVu Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with the other Cookhouse Studios tracks from the same session.

If We Don’t was included on every reissues of 94 East’ Symbolic Beginning (The Early Years in 1999, One Man Jam in 2000 and 94 East Featuring Prince in 2020). The song was released on a double A-Side single in 2022 (with I’ll Always Love You).

In 2011, the remixed version by Matt "Dr." Fink was included as the first track on the digital collection The Cookhouse Five.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
4 December 1975 Cookhouse Studios,
Minneapolis, MN, USA 		Tracking
June 2010 StarVu Studios,
Minneapolis, MN, USA 		Remix by Matt "Dr." Fink
Recording Personnel
  • Pepé Willie - vocals and guitar
  • Dale Alexander - drums
  • Wendell Thomas - bass guitar
  • Prince - guitar
  • Pierre Lewis - keyboards
  • Marcy Ingvoldstad - vocals
  • Kristie Lazenberry - vocals

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
If We Don’t 4:09 Symbolic Beginning

The Early Years
One Man Jam
If We Don’t / I’ll Always Love You single

Studio
If We Don’t 4:07 The Cookhouse Five Remix Remix by Matt "Dr." Fink
If We Don’t (Instrumental) 4:07 The Cookhouse Five Remix Remix by Matt "Dr." Fink
If We Don’t 4:09 94 East Featuring Prince Studio Remastered for a reissue of the Symbolic Beginning album (2016)



 
Additional Information
See also Trivia
  • This track, recorded in December 1975, marks a part of the earliest-recorded sessions featuring Prince to have been released.
References
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