Difference between revisions of "Mr. Happy"
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|introduction = '''Mr. Happy''' is the eleventh track on the first disc of [[Prince]]’s 19th album [[Album: Emancipation|Emancipation]], the third album to be credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]. | |introduction = '''Mr. Happy''' is the eleventh track on the first disc of [[Prince]]’s 19th album [[Album: Emancipation|Emancipation]], the third album to be credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]. | ||
| − | While exact recording dates are not known, it is likely that basic tracking took place in March 1996, at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions where [[Scrap D.]] recorded raps for [[I Rock, Therefore I Am]] and [[Da, Da, Da]], and shouts for [[Style]]). It contains a repeated sample of "bought a house next to [[Prince]]", taken from ''What Can I Do?'' by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube Ice Cube] (written by Leon Ware, Arthur Ross, Ice Cube, Mychal-Kaye Simmons and Victor Nathan Taylor, from his 1993 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Injection_(album) Lethal Injection]). The studio version was premiered at a [[Paisley Park Studios]] party on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August_24|24 August 1996 (a.m.)]]. | + | While exact recording dates are not known, it is likely that basic tracking took place in early 1996 (the track was filed for copyright registration with [[Style]] on 3 March 1996), at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota<!--(during the same set of sessions where [[Scrap D.]] recorded raps for [[I Rock, Therefore I Am]] and [[Da, Da, Da]], and shouts for [[Style]])-->. |
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| + | It contains a repeated sample of "bought a house next to [[Prince]]", taken from ''What Can I Do?'' by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube Ice Cube] (written by Leon Ware, Arthur Ross, Ice Cube, Mychal-Kaye Simmons and Victor Nathan Taylor, from his 1993 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Injection_(album) Lethal Injection]). The studio version was premiered at a [[Paisley Park Studios]] party on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/August_24|24 August 1996 (a.m.)]]. | ||
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|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
|additional info = Tracking | |additional info = Tracking | ||
Revision as of 19:34, 27 August 2022
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| Mr. Goodnight < < < | All Songs | Unreleased Songs | > > > Mr. Nelson |
