Blanche

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Blanche

from the album Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Song details Performer: Prince First Released: 25 September 2020 - Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition album Album(s): Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince 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

Blanche is a song recorded by Prince on 15 July 1986 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California (at the end of the one-day session that produced Sign O’ The Times). While sessions in July concentrated on material for the aborted Dream Factory, the track is not known to have been placed on any configuration of that album, or any other project. The lyrics mention “a girl named Blanche and a dude named Stanley”, incidentally both characters from A Streetcar Named Desire, just like Stella in Stella And Charles, a song Prince created in May 1985. The song was released in September 2020 as the fifth track of Vault Tracks part 2, one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info 15 July 1986 Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA Tracking Recording Personnel Prince - all vocal and instruments Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Blanche 5:36 Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Studio

Additional Information See also Trivia Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition album Tracking was following that of Sign O’ The Times, possibly on the 16th in the a.m. References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)

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