If You Feel Like Dancin’

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If You Feel Like Dancin’

from the album Minneapolis Genius single art for If You Feel Like Dancin’ Song details Performer: 94 East First Released: 12 February 1986 - Minneapolis Genius album Album(s): Minneapolis Genius Symbolic Beginning The Early Years One Man Jam 94 East Featuring Prince Dance To The Music Of The World Writer(s): Pepé Willie Producer(s): Pepé Willie and Tony Silvester Live Appearances First and last live appearance: This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince. Performed regularly on tour: none Performed occasionally in shows: none

If You Feel Like Dancin’ is the first track on 94 East’s first collection of studio recordings Minneapolis Genius, featuring Prince on guitar and synthesizer. Soon after the album’s release, If You Feel Like Dancin’ was released as the album’s second and final single. A preliminary version of the song was recorded in February 1978 at Sound Palace Studios in New York, during a day of sessions led by Pepé Willie intended for Tony Silvester, leader of the group The Main Ingredient to use as demos for Little Anthony and the Imperials, who he wanted to produce (the one-day session also produced One Man Jam). As with the other tracks included on Minneapolis Genius, additional recording was done by Pepé Willie at Blue Wave Recording Studio, St. Philip, Barbados. The original 1978 version remains unreleased. In 1995, it was included as the second track on the first disc of Symbolic Beginning (re-released in 1999 as The Early Years and in 2016 as 94 East Featuring Prince) and as the fifth track on One Man Jam released in 2000. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info February 1978 Sound Palace Studios, New York, NY, USA Tracking 1984 - 1985 Blue Wave Recording Studio, St. Philip, Barbados Additional recording by Pepé Willie 1985 - 1986 (assumed) Unknown studio Remixes for single release with additional vocals Recording Personnel Prince - guitar and synthesizer Pepé Willie - keyboards André Cymone - bass guitar Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey - drums Mark Sullivan - additional synthesizers Unidentified and uncredited vocalists on the Dance Versions Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info If You Feel Like Dancin’ 7:11 Minneapolis Genius Symbolic Beginning The Early Years One Man Jam Studio If You Feel Like Dancin’ (Dance Version) 6:55 If You Feel Like Dancin’ single Remix If You Feel Like Dancin’ (Dance Version) 6:33 If You Feel Like Dancin’ single Remix edit If You Feel Like Dancin’ (Radio Edit) 2:50 If You Feel Like Dancin’ single Edit If You Feel Like Dancin’ 7:08 94 East Featuring Prince Studio Remastered for a reissue of the Symbolic Beginning album (2016) If You Feel Like Dancin’ 7:08 Dance To The Music Of The World Studio Remastered for a reissue of the Minneapolis Genius album (2024) Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info If You Feel Like Dancin’ Studio Original 1978 version before overdubs

Additional Information See also Trivia Minneapolis Genius album Symbolic Beginning collection 94 East References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) If You See Me: My Six-Decade Journey in Rock and Roll, Pepé Willie (2021)

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