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Hide The Bone is the sixth track on the first disc of Prince’s 20th album Crystal Ball (his fourth using the name  ). While the album is credited to , the album includes tracks credited to Prince and , but the liner notes' discussion of this track say "Recorded by The NPG", so it is credited to the band in this entry.
While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in mid-November 1993 at Guillaume Tell, Suresnes, France.
The original lyrics by Brenda Lee Eager and Hilliard Wilson were developed after Eager gave the lyrics to Somebody’s Somebody to her friend Mavis Staples (presumably when she was working on her second album The Voice in 1992). Prince liked the lyrics and put music to it and then asked Eager for more material, which yielded Hide The Bone.
In 1994, a live version of the track was included on a planned “Live” single which was not released.
Hide The Bone contains a sample of Expression by Salt-N-Pepa (from their album Blacks’ Magic and also released as a single in 1990) and a moan from the track X-Rated included on Polestar Magnetics’ The X-Static Goldmine samples and sound effects compilation released in 1991. This moan sample was also used in Shy, recorded the previous month.
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