Video: Little Red Corvette

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Little Red Corvette

Music Video details First aired: March 1983 Producer(s): Beth Broday Director: Bryan Greenberg Related home video/DVD: The Hits Collection First (Commercially) Released: 14 September 1993 Awards Date Institution, Country Award This music video has not received any awards in the USA

Little Red Corvette is a Prince video released for broadcast and to promote the single. Directed by Brian Greenberg, this video was shot during the final week of rehearsals for the 1983 leg of the 1999 Tour at the Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida. Little Red Corvette is one of the first videos by African-American artists to be played regularly on MTV (with Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean). This exposure of the song helped Prince to reach the Billboard’s Top Ten for the first time. It also expanded his audience enormously and crossed him over to a large white audience. During the 1999 Tour, The Time’s Monte Moir noted that audiences were "90 per cent black until Little Red Corvette came out. All of a sudden it shifted, drastically. It got to be half and half, if not 60-40 white." The video was included on The Hits Collection in 1993. Shooting Information Shooting Sessions Date Location Additional info Late January 1983 Civic Center, Lakeland, FL, USA Cast Prince Bobby Z. Brownmark Dez Dickerson Matt Fink Lisa Coleman Crew Beth Broday - producer Bryan Greenberg - director More information needed Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Little Red Corvette 3:10 The Story So Far... (1986) The Hits Collection (1993) Prince streaming video platforms (2017) Released for sale as separate track on iTunes (2017)

Additional Information See Also Quotation & triva Little Red Corvette Little Red Corvette (single) A video for Vanity 6’s Drive Me Wild was also shot the same week. Footage of Little Red Corvette was later included in the Nothing Compares 2 U and Purple Medley videos. References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)

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