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| |producer(s) = [[Prince]] (assumed) | | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] (assumed) |
| |previous song = [[S.T.]] | | |previous song = [[S.T.]] |
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| |introduction = '''Send In The Clowns''' is an unreleased cover version of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim Stephen Sondheim] song from the 1973 musical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music A Little Night Music] (incorrectly attributed by [[Prince]] as being written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Collins Judy Collins], whose version he was probably familiar with. The track is believed to have been recorded in 1977 at an unknown studio. [[Prince]]'s handwritten notes as used in [[Book:_The_Beautiful_Ones|The Beautiful Ones]] book released posthumously in 2019 revealed the previously-unknown cover version as the ninth and final track on an early configuration of his debut album [[Album: For You|For You]]. It has not been confirmed that the song was fully recorded in a professional studio, though, nor that the album was ever actually compiled in this form; it is certainly possible that [[Prince]] was simply working through ideas using songs he had written when compiling this tracklist. | | |introduction = '''Send In The Clowns''' is an unreleased cover version of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim Stephen Sondheim] song from the 1973 musical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music A Little Night Music] (incorrectly attributed by [[Prince]] as being written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Collins Judy Collins], whose version he was probably familiar with. The track is believed to have been recorded in 1977 at an unknown studio. [[Prince]]'s handwritten notes as used in [[Book:_The_Beautiful_Ones|The Beautiful Ones]] book released posthumously in 2019 revealed the previously-unknown cover version as the ninth and final track on an early configuration of his debut album [[Album: For You|For You]]. It has not been confirmed that the song was fully recorded in a professional studio, though, nor that the album was ever actually compiled in this form; it is certainly possible that [[Prince]] was simply working through ideas using songs he had written when compiling this tracklist. |
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