Album: Playtime By Versace

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Playtime By Versace

Album details Intended Release Date: 1995 Label(s): NPG Records Studio(s): See also

Playtime By Versace is an unreleased album by , worked on in 1995. The album was likely made for a Versace fashion show or as Versace promotional tool, although the artwork dummy has space for a barcode, indicating a commercial release was possibly considered. Nothing was known about this project until a dummy of the artwork surfaced in 2017 during an RRauction auction from the collection of Michael Van Huffel, Prince's art director at the time of production. The album-dummy reads © 1995 and the project was likely conceived around the same time as the The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) cassette that was made in July 1995. The project contained 11 songs, including four of the five Sandra St. Victor collaboration songs Prince worked on. The album seems unrelated to the The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold), which also contained tracks recorded in 1994/1995, primarily, but focused on the upcoming The Gold Experience album as well as songs from an unreleased Madhouse album and New Power Generation songs. Recording process The album opens with the unreleased Playtime, which dates it earlier than it was believed to be recorded previously, and should be a version where Marva King is not singing lead as she didn't start working with Prince until 1997. The Good Life (Big City Remix) is likely the same version as was released on the The Good Life maxi-single. Soul Sanctuary, the first Sandra St. Victor song on this album, ended up on Emancipation, while 18 & Over was released on Crystal Ball in 1998. There version here was a different version, likely the version that was also used for the [[[Video: 18 & Over|18 & Over]] video. Next up is another Sandra St. Victor collaboration song Stone, which also remains unreleased, followed by I Like It There, that was released on Chaos & Disorder in 1996. Da Bang got its release on Crystal Ball in 1998, while the third Sandra St. Victor collaboration. I'll Never B Another Fool was ultimately released in a version with Chaka Khan singing lead as as 'll Never B Another Fool on her Come 2 My House album, also in 1998. The fourth and last Sandra St. Victor collaboration is next, Van Gogh, which is likely similar to the 1995 version that was released in NPG Music Club Edition # 6 as mp3 download, but has a different track-length. The penultimate song Poor Goo was released in a live-in-the-studio version on The Undertaker home video and as mp3 download in NPG Music Club Edition # 11. but the version here is a live recording, recorded in London, England, presumably at the Emporium on 23 March 1995 (am), the only time is was played live in 1995. The last track Dinner With Delores was previously believed to have been first recorded in April 1996, but its inclusion on the 1995 album shows it was recorded earlier or a different version was. Artwork The artwork by Michael Van Huffel shows the same Richard Avedon picture of Prince in a silver Versace top that was made for a GQ Magazine photoshoot in 1995, and also used on the P. Control promo cassette, but against a pink/magenta background. The only text reads "Playtime by Versace" and the . The CD itself has the text "Sex Clothes 4 The New Power Generation" written in black on pink magenta, in circles inside one another five times. That same image is printed on the inside of the inlay, seen behind thew transparent tray. The back has a close up of part of the picture and the titles printed next to it in white. Track listing CD Playtime The Good Life (Big City Remix) Soul Sanctuary 18 & Over Stone I Like It There Da Bang I'll Never B Another Fool Van Gogh Poor Goo Dinner With Delores © 1995 NPG Records Personnel Musicians Prince (as ) - all vocals and instruments (assumed) Other recording personnel (if any) not known. Production Prince (as ) - producer (assumed) Other production details unknown.

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1995 "Live"

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1995 New World