Our Destiny is an unreleased track, initially recorded during Prince and the Revolution's concert on 7 June 1984 at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN, USA, during the same show where the basic tracks for Roadhouse Garden and All Day, All Night were also recorded. When working on this further, it is unclear if, but plausible that they used the basic tracks recorded at First Avenue on 7 June, but ended up overdubbing almost every part.
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman worked on the track further for three days, from 27-29 September 1984 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (during the same sessions where they recorded string overdubs for Pop Life). Sessions with horn players and strings were organized and both Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones added a lead vocal to the track, replacing Prince's vocals. Prince was not present for these sessions. Part of the strings that were recorded were later re-used for the opening of The Ladder.
Our Destiny is not known to have been considered for inclusion on Prince's next album, Around The World In A Day, or any other project at the time. It is likely that it was planned for inclusion on the Prince and the Revolution album Roadhouse Garden album worked on in 1998-9, but that album remained unreleased.
In 2017 the version with Lisa Coleman's lead vocal was released on Purple Rain Deluxe combined with Roadhouse Garden as Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden. Of note is that this is the earliest recorded track to feature Lisa Coleman on lead vocals.
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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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late May or early June 1984 (assumed)
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Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
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Initial tracking of Prince solo version (assumed)
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7 June 1984
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First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Live recording
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27 September 1984
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Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA
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brass overdubs
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28 September 1984
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Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA
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string overdubs, Lisa Coleman lead vocal and mixing
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29 September 1984
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Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA
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Jill Jones lead vocal and mixing
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Recording Personnel
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initial live recording
- Prince - lead vocals and guitar
- Bobby Z. - drums (unclear if audible on released version)
- Brown Mark - bass guitar (unclear if audible on released version)
- Wendy Melvoin - guitar (unclear if audible on released version) and background vocals
- Lisa Coleman - keyboards (unclear if audible on released version) vocals
- Dr. Fink - keyboards and background vocals (unclear if audible on released version)
additional recording
- Orchestral Players:
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Versions
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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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Our Destiny
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Studio, Prince solo
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May, June, Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Our Destiny
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Live
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7 June 1984, First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA, before overdubs
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Our Destiny
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Studio (likely based on live rec.)
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Studio version with Lisa Coleman vocal and horn & string overdubs
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Our Destiny
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Studio (likely based on live rec.)
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Studio version with Jill Jones vocal and horn & string overdubs
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