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− | |introduction = '''Letitgo''' is the ninth track on [[Prince]]'s fifteenth album [[Album: Come|Come]], and, a week before the album's release, [[Single: Letitgo|Letitgo]] was released as the album's first single, released worldwide | + | |introduction = '''Letitgo''' is the ninth track on [[Prince]]'s fifteenth album [[Album: Come|Come]], and, a week before the album's release, [[Single: Letitgo|Letitgo]] was released as the album's first single, released worldwide. |
− | Basic tracks were recorded on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 16|16 March 1994]] at [[Paisley Park Studios]] (hours before premiering studio versions of [[file:EyeBlue.png|link=Eye Hate U]][[Eye Hate U| Hate U]], [[Billy Jack Bitch]], [[Now]], [[Days Of Wild]] and a remix of [[Pope]] at a party at [[Club: Glam Slam|Glam Slam]], Minneapolis, MN, USA), five days after delivering the original configuration of the [[Album: Come|Come]] album to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Bros.] Although credited to [[Prince]] (along with the rest of the album, which was recorded prior to the name change), [[Letitgo]] was recorded eight months after [[Prince]] began using the name [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]. The album version's opening ("Ready or not, here I come") is sampled from the unreleased [[Vanity 6]] track [[Vibrator]], although actually extracted from [[Orgasm|Poem]], which was divided up throughout the album as segues (culminating in the final track, [[Orgasm]]). Recording dates and studio details are not known for the remixes, which did not contain any new input by [[Prince]]. The '''Caviar Radio Edit''' and its variants were remixed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones_III Q.D. III], son of famed producer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones Quincy Jones]. Of note, though, is that the '''Sherm Stick Edit''' and the '''(-) Sherm Stick Edit''' are both based around looped samples of [[The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker]] (uncredited), which can be heard throughout the song. | + | In 2001, a 1995 live version was released as part of [[NPG_Music_Club_Year_One_Releases#NPGMC_Edition_.23_2|NPG Music Club Edition # 2]]. |
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+ | In 2005, the same live version was included on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_26|Live From Paisley Park]] download EP. | ||
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+ | Basic tracks were recorded on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 16|16 March 1994]] at [[Paisley Park Studios]] (hours before premiering studio versions of [[file:EyeBlue.png|link=Eye Hate U]][[Eye Hate U| Hate U]], [[Billy Jack Bitch]], [[Now]], [[Days Of Wild]] and a remix of [[Pope]] at a party at [[Club: Glam Slam|Glam Slam]], Minneapolis, MN, USA), five days after delivering the original configuration of the [[Album: Come|Come]] album to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Bros.] | ||
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+ | Although credited to [[Prince]] (along with the rest of the album, which was recorded prior to the name change), [[Letitgo]] was recorded eight months after [[Prince]] began using the name [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]. | ||
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+ | The album version's opening ("Ready or not, here I come") is sampled from the unreleased [[Vanity 6]] track [[Vibrator]], although actually extracted from [[Orgasm|Poem]], which was divided up throughout the album as segues (culminating in the final track, [[Orgasm]]). | ||
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+ | Recording dates and studio details are not known for the remixes, which did not contain any new input by [[Prince]]. The '''Caviar Radio Edit''' and its variants were remixed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones_III Q.D. III], son of famed producer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones Quincy Jones]. | ||
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+ | Of note, though, is that the '''Sherm Stick Edit''' and the '''(-) Sherm Stick Edit''' are both based around looped samples of [[The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker]] (uncredited), which can be heard throughout the song. | ||
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