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|introduction = '''Sweet Thing''' is a cover version of the track by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_(band) Rufus featuring Chaka Khan] (from the 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_featuring_Chaka_Khan_(album) Rufus featuring Chaka Khan], also released as a single in 1975). [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] released a live version of the track, featuring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan Chaka Khan] on lead vocals, on the 1999 [[Home Video: Beautiful Strange|Beautiful Strange]] home video (which had been broadcast in full almost a year earlier, however, on the UK TV channel Channel 4). | |introduction = '''Sweet Thing''' is a cover version of the track by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_(band) Rufus featuring Chaka Khan] (from the 1975 album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_featuring_Chaka_Khan_(album) Rufus featuring Chaka Khan], also released as a single in 1975). [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] released a live version of the track, featuring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan Chaka Khan] on lead vocals, on the 1999 [[Home Video: Beautiful Strange|Beautiful Strange]] home video (which had been broadcast in full almost a year earlier, however, on the UK TV channel Channel 4). | ||
− | [[Prince]] had, however, recorded a studio version of the track, as a home recording, in early-to-mid 1976 (within months of the | + | [[Prince]] had, however, recorded a studio version of the track, as a home recording, in early-to-mid 1976 (within months of the song’s initial release), at the [[Russell Ave, Anderson house]], Minneapolis, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as [[Don’t You Wanna Ride?]], [[Hey Lover]], [[I Spend My Time Loving You]], nine untitled [[Instrumentals-76|''Instrumentals'']], [[Leaving For New York]], [[Nightingale]] and [[Rock Me, Lover]]). |
The home recording of the song remains unreleased, but [[Prince]] has performed the song live many times, including on some TV broadcasts. | The home recording of the song remains unreleased, but [[Prince]] has performed the song live many times, including on some TV broadcasts. | ||
− | In 2004 [[Prince]] performed a live version of this song on [[TV Film: The Art Of Musicology|The Art Of Musicology]] TV special, and in 2012 as a guest appearance with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J._Blige Mary J. Blige], who had released her own version of the song on her 1992 debut album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_411%3F | + | In 2004 [[Prince]] performed a live version of this song on [[TV Film: The Art Of Musicology|The Art Of Musicology]] TV special, and in 2012 as a guest appearance with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J._Blige Mary J. Blige], who had released her own version of the song on her 1992 debut album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_411%3F What’s The 411?] (also released as a single in 1993). |
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