Jealous Girl

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Jealous Girl

Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition
from the album
Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition
Song details
Performer: Prince; The Hookers
First Released: 25 September 2020 - Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition album
Album(s): Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition
Writer(s): Prince
Producer(s): Prince
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

Jealous Girl is a song originally recorded in Summer 1981, (Likely around the same time as Drive Me Wild, I Need A Man, Pizza, Make-Up and Wet Dream) at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The track was intended for an album by The Hookers, but was abandoned when The Hookers developed into Vanity 6.

In 1985 the track was offered to The Bangles alongside Manic Monday. The Bangles recorded the latter, but did not think Jealous girl was the right fit for them.

The box of the master tape containing this recording (together with Don’t Let Him Fool Ya and Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got) has the date 6 May 1985 written under the track. A mix of it was likely done a few days before, readying it for The Bangles. The date 28 June 1985 is written on the box, too (under Don’t Let Him Fool Ya). This was likely because the band rehearsed Jealous Girl from the tape in the warehouse on this day.

For a short-lived collaboration with American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, the track was reworked by Prince on 26 January 1987 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Edina, Minnesota, with saxophone overdubs by Eric Leeds recorded a few days later at the Galpin Blvd Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Prince had approached Raitt about recording some songs together and signing to his Paisley Park Records label in December 1986 after seeing her perform at The Beverly Theater, Los Angeles, Ca lifornia. He offered four songs to work on (I Need A Man, Jealous Girl, Promise To Be True and There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool). Raitt recorded her vocals on only two of them (I Need A Man and There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool).

No further work was done as Prince was busy preparing for his next tour (Sign O’ The Times Tour). Bonnie Raitt commented on the tracks by saying "I appreciated the enthusiasm, but they were not in my key. The topics were not things I was comfortable singing.". Bonnie Raitt also wanted to cut tie with Warner Bros. after the failure of her 1986 album Nine Lives. None of the songs offered by Prince ended up on her 1989 acclaimed album Nick Of Time, released on Capitol Records. Prince would later cover I Can’t Make U Love Me (from Raitt’s 1991 album Luck Of The Draw).

Prince’s version of the song was released in 2020 as the eighth track of Vault Tracks part 3, one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition. The track is listed as Jealous Girl (Version 2) but the Version 1 remains unreleased.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
Summer 1981 Kiowa Trail Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Tracking (Prince vocal, but intended for The Hookers)
Summer 1981 Kiowa Trail Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Tracking (The Hookers version)
6 May 1985 Sunset Sound - Studio 3,
Hollywood, CA, USA
Possible mix
26 January 1987 Washington Avenue Warehouse,
Edina, MN, USA
Re-recorded version (intended for overdubs by Bonnie Raitt)
5 February 1987 Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Saxophone overdubs by Eric Leeds
Recording Personnel

The Hookers version


Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Jealous Girl 4:52 Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Studio 1987 version, listed as Jealous Girl (Version 2)


Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Jealous Girl Studio 1981; Prince version
Jealous Girl Studio Recorded 1981; The Hookers version
Jealous Girl Studio Re-recording for Bonnie Raitt before saxophone overdubs
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia

  • The horn arrangement is not too far removed from the main synth riff of Traffic Jam.

References
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