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{{song-3
|song name                 = Calabama
|single image              = [[File:Unreleasedsong.jpg|link=Unreleased Songs]]</small>
|performer                 = [[Prince]]
|writer(s)                 = [[Prince]] <small>(assumed)</small>
|producer(s)               = [[Prince]] <small>(assumed)</small>
|previous song             = [[By Alien Means]]
|next song                 = [[Calhoun Square]]
|introduction              = '''Calabama''' is an unreleased song which was supposedly the title track of an unreleased album Prince was working on before [[Album: Musicology|Musicology]]. '''Calabama''' was played before an audience of VIP ticket holders at [[Paisley Park Studios]] as part of the 2024 Celebration activities (along with [[Let’s Go Crazy| Let’s Go Crazy (Demo)]], [[Instrumentals-77|Fat Jazz]], [[However Much U Want|However Much U Want (Piano Demo)]], [[First Time I Saw U]], [[Friction]], [[All The King’s Horses]], [[No Changes]], [[And God Created Woman|And God Created Woman (Demo)]] and [[Purple Rain|Purple Rain (Piano demo)]]). During the playback a recording date of [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June_24|24 June 2003]] was mentioned. 

The upbeat song features a hook consisting of the lyrics of ‘all the pretty ladies clap your hands’. Eventually '''Calabama''' segues in a rap that is the base for [[Prince And The Band]]. With the majority of '''Calabama''' being an original song, it was given its own entry.

|recording info            =
{{RecordingLine
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June_24|24 June 2003]]
|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
|additional info           = Tracking
}}
|recording personnel       = 
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted (assumed)
|unreleased versions       = 
{{Unreleased
|line=
{{Unreleasedline
|1= '''Calabama'''
|2= Studio
|3= 2003 recording
}}
}}
|video versions            = 
|broadcasts, streaming     =
|sampled in                =
{{SongSampled
|sampled in                = 
{{Unreleased
|line=
{{Unreleasedline
|1= '''[[Prince And The Band]]'''
|2= Studio
|3= '''[[Prince And The Band]]''' supposedly originates from the last lines of '''Calabama'''
}}
}}
}}
|first live appearance     = This track is not believed to have been performed live by [[Prince]]
|performed regularly on    = none
|performed occasionally in = none
|trivia                    = 
|see also                  = [[Unreleased Songs]]
|references                = 
|categories                = [[Category:2003]][[Category:Recorded 2003]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Unreleased Songs]]
}}