If You Feel Like Dancin’

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If You Feel Like Dancin’

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from the album Minneapolis Genius
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single art for If You Feel Like Dancin’
Song details
Performer: 94 East
First Released: 12 February 1986 - Minneapolis Genius album
Album(s): Minneapolis Genius

Symbolic Beginning
The Early Years
One Man Jam
94 East Featuring Prince

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 You Feel Like Dancin’ is the first track on 94 East’s first collection of studio recordings Minneapolis Genius, featuring Prince on guitar and synthesizer. Soon after the album’s release, If You Feel Like Dancin’ was released as the album’s second and final single.

A preliminary version of the song was recorded in February 1978 at Sound Palace Studios in New York, during a day of sessions led by Pepé Willie intended for Tony Silvester, leader of the group The Main Ingredient to use as demos for Little Anthony and the Imperials, who he wanted to produce (the one-day session also produced One Man Jam). As with the other tracks included on Minneapolis Genius, additional recording was done by Pepé Willie at Blue Wave Recording Studio, St. Philip, Barbados. The original 1978 version remains unreleased.

In 1995, it was included as the second track on the first disc of Symbolic Beginning (re-released in 1999 as The Early Years and in 2020 as 94 East Featuring Prince) and as the fifth track on One Man Jam released in 2000.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
February 1978 Sound Palace Studios,
New York, NY, USA
Tracking
1984 - 1985 Blue Wave Recording Studio,
St. Philip, Barbados
Additional recording by Pepé Willie
1985 - 1986 (assumed) Unknown studio Remixes for single release with additional vocals
Recording Personnel

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
If You Feel Like Dancin’ 7:11 Minneapolis Genius

Symbolic Beginning
The Early Years
One Man Jam
94 East Featuring Prince

Studio
If You Feel Like Dancin’ (Dance Version) 6:55 If You Feel Like Dancin’ single Remix
If You Feel Like Dancin’ (Dance Version) 6:33 If You Feel Like Dancin’ single Remix edit
If You Feel Like Dancin’ (Radio Edit) 2:50 If You Feel Like Dancin’ single Edit


Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
If You Feel Like Dancin’ Studio Original 1978 version before overdubs
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia


References
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