The Sex Of It: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
|previous song = [[Sex Me Sex Me Not]] | |previous song = [[Sex Me Sex Me Not]] | ||
|next song = [[Sex Shooter]] | |next song = [[Sex Shooter]] | ||
|introduction = '''The Sex Of It''' is the third track on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Creole_and_the_Coconuts Kid Creole and the Coconuts] | |introduction = '''The Sex Of It''' is the third track on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Creole_and_the_Coconuts Kid Creole and the Coconuts]’ eighth album [[Album: Private Waters In The Great Divide|Private Waters In The Great Divide]] (their third album on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records Columbia Records]), and, a few weeks before the album’s release, [[Single: The Sex Of It|The Sex Of It]] was released as the album’s first single. In 2003, it was included as the sixth and final track on the third and final disc on the compilation album ''The Ultimate Collection''. | ||
Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July_29|29 July 1987]], at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, a few weeks after the studios opened for recordings (the day before [[Eleven]], [[Fifteen]], [[Ten]], [[Ten And ½]], and three other instrumentals later named [[Night Owl]], [[Overnight, Every Night]] and [[Andorra]]). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Darnell August Darnell] (a.k.a. Kid Creole) recorded his own vocals over the basic tracks in late 1989 or early 1990 (studio information is needed for his recording). | Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July_29|29 July 1987]], at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, a few weeks after the studios opened for recordings (the day before [[Eleven]], [[Fifteen]], [[Ten]], [[Ten And ½]], and three other instrumentals later named [[Night Owl]], [[Overnight, Every Night]] and [[Andorra]]). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Darnell August Darnell] (a.k.a. Kid Creole) recorded his own vocals over the basic tracks in late 1989 or early 1990 (studio information is needed for his recording). | ||
The album was completed and scheduled for release when [[Prince]] submitted the song in late 1989 (which he had promised when meeting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Darnell Darnell] in Europe during the [[Lovesexy Tour]]), and the record company delayed the release to include the song. | The album was completed and scheduled for release when [[Prince]] submitted the song in late 1989 (which he had promised when meeting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Darnell Darnell] in Europe during the [[Lovesexy Tour]]), and the record company delayed the release to include the song. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Darnell August Darnell] reluctantly agreed to include this song on [[Album: Private Waters In The Great Divide|the album]] at the insistence of his record company and ex-wife [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Kaegi Adriana Kaegi]. | ||
A handwritten tracklist for [[The Time]]’s [[Album: Corporate World (1989)|Corporate World]] on which [[Prince]] and [[Morris Day]] worked on in Summer 1989 shows that [[The Sex Of It]] was, at one point, also considered for that album. But it is not known if an actual recording with [[Morris Day]]’s vocals took place. | A handwritten tracklist for [[The Time]]’s [[Album: Corporate World (1989)|Corporate World]] on which [[Prince]] and [[Morris Day]] worked on in Summer 1989 shows that [[The Sex Of It]] was, at one point, also considered for that album. But it is not known if an actual recording with [[Morris Day]]’s vocals took place. |
Revision as of 15:50, 26 March 2022
Sex Me Sex Me Not < < < | Non-Prince Songs | All Prince Songs | Unreleased Songs | > > > Sex Shooter |
The Sex Of It |
|
|
|
Additional Information
|
Sex Me Sex Me Not < < < | All Songs | Unreleased Songs | > > > Sex Shooter |