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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 initial tracking took place in March 1996, at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (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 ( | + | While exact recording dates are not known, it is likely that initial tracking took place in March 1996, at [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (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.)]]. |
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− | |first live appearance = [[07_January 1997|7 January 1997, Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, USA]] | + | |first live appearance = [[07_January 1997|7 January 1997, Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, USA]]<br> |
+ | * [[31 May 1999-am|31 May 1999 (a.m.): Studio 54 @ MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA]] | ||
|performed regularly on =[[Love 4 One Another Charities Tour]] <small>(usually in medley with [[18 & Over]])</small> | |performed regularly on =[[Love 4 One Another Charities Tour]] <small>(usually in medley with [[18 & Over]])</small> | ||
*[[Jam Of The Year World Tour]] <small>(instrumental coda included in [[Take Me With U]] / [[Raspberry Beret]])</small> | *[[Jam Of The Year World Tour]] <small>(instrumental coda included in [[Take Me With U]] / [[Raspberry Beret]])</small> |
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