Difference between revisions of "Love Or $"

• 3 April 1986: The Metro, Boston, MA, USA
  
• 7 November 2015: Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA

• Parade Tour
• Jam Of The Year World Tour (hook-line interpolation in Sexy M.F.)

• 1986, 1987 (hook-line interpolation in It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night), 1997 (hook-line interpolation in Sexy M.F.), 1998 (hook-line interpolation in Sexy M.F.), 2015

♥ Or $ (a.k.a. Love Or $ or Love Or Money) was released as the b-side of Kiss, the first single from Prince's eighth album Parade, the third to be credited to Prince and the Revolution. It was one of only two b-sides from 1982-1989 not to be included on The B-Sides collection in 1993 (the other being Alexa De Paris), for unknown reasons.

Basic tracking took place on 9 July 1985 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota (the day before Neon Telephone).

♥ Or $ is the first studio track released by Prince (under his own name) to contain musical contributions by Eric Leeds who would become long-term musical collaborators (Eric Leeds had previously contributed to The Family side-project).

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Lisa Coleman - keyboards and vocals
• Wendy Melvoin - guitars and vocals
• Eric Leeds - saxophone
• Bobby Z. - drums and percussion (uncertain involvement)
• Brown Mark - bass and vocals (uncertain involvement)
• Dr. Fink - keyboards (uncertain involvement)
• Susannah Melvoin - background vocals (uncertain involvement)

• Kiss single

• ♥ Or $ is the earliest occurrence of Prince using a non-alphanumerical symbol in the title of a song, something which later became commonplace.
• Prince subsequently released songs entitled Love and $, although both are musically and lyrically unrelated to this song.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)