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from the album Come single art for Letitgo Song details Performer: Prince First Released: 5 August 1994 (In Germany on Letitgo single) Album(s): Come Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince Live Appearances First and last live appearance: 25 November 1994 (a.m.): Tränenpalast, Berlin, Germany (interpolation in Dark) 12 December 1994: Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, USA 20 January 1996: Yokohama Arena (横浜アリーナ), Yokohama, Japan; 17 March 2007 (a.m.): 3121 @ Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (lyrics only) Performed regularly on tour: The Ultimate Live Experience Japan '96 Performed occasionally in shows: 1995

Letitgo is the ninth track on Prince’s fifteenth album Come. It was released as the lead single, a week before the album. In 2001, a 1995 live version was released as part of NPG Music Club Edition # 2. In 2005, the same live version was included on the Live From Paisley Park download EP. Basic tracks were recorded on 16 March 1994 at Paisley Park Studios (hours before premiering studio versions of Hate U, Billy Jack Bitch, Now, Days Of Wild and a remix of Pope at a party at Glam Slam in Minneapolis, Minnesota), five days after delivering the original configuration of the Come album to Warner Bros. Although credited to Prince (along with the rest of the album, which was recorded prior to the name change), Letitgo was recorded eight months after Prince began using the name . The album version’s opening ("Ready or not, here I come") is sampled from the unreleased Vanity 6 track Vibrator, although actually extracted from Poem, which was divided up throughout the album as segues (culminating in the final track, Orgasm). Recording dates and studio details are not known for the remixes, which did not contain any new input by Prince. For some unknown reason, the maxi-single contains two remixes with slightly different names and durations (Caviar Radio Edit and Cavi 'Street Edit), but these two versions are identical. The Caviar Radio Edit and its variants were remixed by Q.D. III, son of famed producer Quincy Jones. Interestingly, these remixes uses an instrumentation not too far removed from a remix Q.D. III did of Ice Cube song’s When I Get To Heaven, also released in 1994 on the compilation Bootleg & B-Sides. The When I Get To Heaven (Remix) also contains additional vocals by Cube, including the line "Microphone Check" later sampled by on The Good Life (Big City Remix) and Mr. Happy. The Sherm Stick Edit and the (-) Sherm Stick Edit are both based around looped uncredited samples of The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker and Grand Funk Railroad’s Nothing Is The Same (from their 1970 album Closer To Home), which can be heard throughout the song. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info 16 March 1994 Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA Tracking Spring - Fall 1994 Unknown studios (details needed) Remixes by various outside remixers Recording Personnel Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Kathleen Bradford - background vocals Eric Leeds - flute Ricky Peterson - keyboards Michael B. Nelson - trombone (credited as "New Power Generation Hornz") Steve Strand - trumpet (credited as "New Power Generation Hornz") Dave Jensen - trumpet (credited as "New Power Generation Hornz") Kathy J. - baritone saxophone (credited as "New Power Generation Hornz") Brian Gallagher - tenor saxophone (credited as "New Power Generation Hornz") Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Letitgo 5:33 Come Studio Fade-out segues into Orgasm Letitgo (Original Album Version) 5:35 Letitgo single Alternate mix Fades out fully Letitgo (Edit) 4:15 Letitgo single Edit a.k.a. Letitgo (Original Radio Edit); edited by Chronic Freeze Letitgo (Cavi' Street Edit) 5:04 Letitgo single Remix a.k.a Letitgo (Caviar Radio Edit). Remix by Q.D. III, rap by Young Soldier Of Time. Letitgo (Caviar Radio Edit / Short Version) 3:55 Letitgo single Remix edit Letitgo (Instrumental) 5:02 Letitgo single Come promo Remix a.k.a. Letitgo (Q.D. III Instrumental); instrumental of Letitgo (Cavi' Street Edit) (not of the album version); Remix by Q.D. III Letitgo (On The Cool-Out Tip Radio Edit) 4:34 Letitgo single Remix a.k.a. Letitgo (Gerald B. On The Cool-Out Tip Radio Edit); remix by Gerald "G Bomb" Baillergeau Letitgo (Sherm Stick Edit) 5:42 Letitgo single Remix Contains looped samples from The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker; contains samples of Nothing Is The Same by Grand Funk Railroad; remix by J-Sw!ft Letitgo ((-)Sherm Stick Edit) 5:42 Letitgo single Come promo Remix a.k.a. Letitgo (J. Swift #3 Instrumental); instrumental version of Letitgo (Sherm Stick Edit); contains looped samples from The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker; contains samples of Nothing Is The Same by Grand Funk Railroad; remix by J-Sw!ft Letitgo 3:44 NPG Music Club Edition # 2 mp3 download Live From Paisley Park download EP Live 22 October 1995 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA Video Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Letitgo 4:13 Promotional release only Studio See Letitgo video for details Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info Letitgo (J. Swift Extended Remix) Remix Unreleased remix Letitgo (Grand Jury Remix) Remix Unreleased remix Letitgo (Caviar 12" Extended Mix) Remix Unreleased remix Letitgo (On The Cool-Out Mix) Remix Unreleased remix

Additional Information See also Trivia Come album Letitgo single Letitgo video "Letitgo" is written as one word to match the "one-word" rule of the rest of the album; it is likely that the track was initially known as "Let It Go". References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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