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| |album image = [[File:come.jpg|100px|link=Album: Come]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: Come|Come]] </small> | | |album image = [[File:come.jpg|100px|link=Album: Come]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: Come|Come]] </small> |
| |performer = [[Prince]] | | |performer = [[Prince]] |
− | |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 9|9 August 1994]] - [[Single: Letitgo|Letitgo]] single | + | |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August 5|5 August 1994]] (In Germany on [[Single: Letitgo|Letitgo]] single) |
| |album(s) = [[Album: Come|Come]] | | |album(s) = [[Album: Come|Come]] |
| |writer(s) = [[Prince]] | | |writer(s) = [[Prince]] |
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| |previous song = [[Let Me Touch You]] | | |previous song = [[Let Me Touch You]] |
| |next song = [[Let’s Go Crazy]] | | |next song = [[Let’s Go Crazy]] |
− | |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]]. It was released as the lead single, a week before the album. |
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| 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]]. | | 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]]. |
Letitgo is the ninth track on Prince’s fifteenth album Come. It was released as the lead single, a week before the album.
In 2001, a 1995 live version was released as part of NPG Music Club Edition # 2.
In 2005, the same live version was included on the Live From Paisley Park download EP.
Basic tracks were recorded on 16 March 1994 at Paisley Park Studios (hours before premiering studio versions of Hate U, Billy Jack Bitch, Now, Days Of Wild and a remix of Pope at a party at Glam Slam in Minneapolis, Minnesota), five days after delivering the original configuration of the Come album to 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 .
The album version’s opening ("Ready or not, here I come") is sampled from the unreleased Vanity 6 track Vibrator, although actually extracted from 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. For some unknown reason, the maxi-single contains two remixes with slightly different names and durations (Caviar Radio Edit and Cavi 'Street Edit), but these two versions are identical. The Caviar Radio Edit and its variants were remixed by Q.D. III, son of famed producer 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.
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Recording Information
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Recording Sessions
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Date
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Studio
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Additional info
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16 March 1994
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Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Basic tracking
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Spring - Fall 1994
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Unknown studios (details needed)
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Remixes by various outside remixers
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Recording Personnel
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Versions
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Released Versions
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Video Versions
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Title
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Length
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Released
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Version
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Additional info
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Letitgo
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4:13
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Promotional release only
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Studio
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See Letitgo video for details
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Unreleased Versions
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Title
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Version
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Additional Info
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Letitgo (J. Swift Extended Remix)
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Remix
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Unreleased remix
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Letitgo (Grand Jury Remix)
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Remix
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Unreleased remix
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Letitgo (Caviar 12" Extended Mix)
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Remix
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Unreleased remix
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Letitgo (On The Cool-Out Mix)
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Remix
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Unreleased remix
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