Video: I Wanna Be Your Lover

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1979: Video: Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
I Wanna Be Your Lover

I Wanna Be Your Lover music video selected snapshots

Music Video details


First aired:  ?
Producer(s):  ?
Director:  ?
Related home video/DVD: The Hits Video Collection
First (Commercially) Released: 14 September, 1993

Awards


Date Institution, Country Award
This music video has not received any awards in the USA

I Wanna Be Your Lover is the first Prince video to have been broadcast as no videos were made for either of the two previous singles Soft And Wet and Just As Long As We're Together.

The video show Prince singing, playing various instruments: keyboards, drums, guitar and bass. He is also seen dancing and playing with a red scarf attached to his mic. The video looks to have been interpreted as a attempt to market Prince as a wonderkid multi-instrumentalist (a potential new Stevie Wonder).

Another video was shot shortly after with Prince's band but it was never aired and remains unreleased. The videos are two separate run-throughs of the song and neither contains any shots also present in the other.


Shooting Information
Shooting Sessions
Date Location Additional info
August 1979 Leeds Rehearsal Facility, North Hollywood, CA, USA (assumed) solo version
Cast
Crew
  • More information needed

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
I Wanna Be Your Lover 2:55 The Hits Video Collection solo version


 
Additional Information

See Also Quotation & triva

  • Of note, the video features Prince playing an Orr bass, (named after its luthier Charley Orr), an instrument Prince used to record almost all the basslines in For You album. The bass has seldom been seen (if never) or cited in credits since 1978.
  • Prince also uses a Gibson L6-S Deluxe guitar (customed with red blinking lights), an instrument he will stop using after having heavily customizing it, until he definitively opts for the Hohner Telecaster guitar.

References
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Music Videos (Prince) Music Videos (Related Artists) 1979
Video: Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?