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|introduction = '''Release It''' is the third track on [[Prince]]'s twelfth album [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] (the first track on the album to be credited to [[The Time]]). The track is also featured in the movie [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. | |introduction = '''Release It''' is the third track on [[Prince]]'s twelfth album [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]] (the first track on the album to be credited to [[The Time]]). The track is also featured in the movie [[Film: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. | ||
− | While specific recording dates are not known, | + | While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place between June and early September 1989 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota for [[The Time]]'s [[Album: Corporate World|Corporate World]] album (during the same sessions that produced [[Murph Drag]], [[Nine Lives]], [[Donald Trump (Black Version)]], [[Love Machine]], [[Shake!]], [[Corporate World]] and [[The Latest Fashion]]). The song was included as the ninth track on the album in early September 1989, as planned for release in November 1989. The album was abandoned when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Bros.] wanted to involve the other original members of [[The Time]], but many of the tracks were saved for [[Album: Pandemonium|Pandemonium]] and [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]]. It was included as the third track on a late 1989 configuration of [[Album: Graffiti Bridge|Graffiti Bridge]], where it stayed on the 1990 configuration and on the final release. |
The song contains an uncredited sample of "Squib Cakes" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Power Tower Of Power] (written by Chester Thompson, from their 1974 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Oakland Back To Oakland]), which was later also sampled on [[Sleep Around]]; [[Prince]] sampled a brief portion of drums from that track and looped it to create the drum backing. | The song contains an uncredited sample of "Squib Cakes" by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Power Tower Of Power] (written by Chester Thompson, from their 1974 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Oakland Back To Oakland]), which was later also sampled on [[Sleep Around]]; [[Prince]] sampled a brief portion of drums from that track and looped it to create the drum backing. | ||
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|date = June - early September 1989 | |date = June - early September 1989 | ||
|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
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