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Song details Performer: Prince (assumed) Writer(s): Prince (assumed) and Fuzzy Haskins Producer(s): Prince (assumed) 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

Cookie Jar is an unreleased song recorded on 12 and worked on again on 13 November 1988, during two days off from the Lovesexy Tour (between shows in Oakland and Seattle), at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California. This song was long incorrectly attributed to be a straight-forward cover version of the 1976 track Cookie Jar by Fuzzy Haskins (from the 1976 album A Whole Nother Thang), but (like the Parlet cover of the song), it only re-uses the lyrics to the chorus I don’t know what He’ll do witcha when He getcha, Put you in his cookie jar, save you for a rainy day. Musically the song is different and the verses also seem to be original lyrics by Prince Prince sent the master tape of the song to George Clinton and asked for his input. Before the session began, the first minute of the recording was accidentally erased by Clinton’s engineer, when the two inch tape was striped with tones (which were often recorded at the beginning of analog tapes as part of a calibration process for the tape machine). After this embarrassing incident, George Clinton decided not to work on this song. It is unknown if, but unlikely that Prince re-recorded this first portion. It is not known if this song was intended for The Cinderella Theory, George Clinton’s first album on Paisley Park Records released in 1989 which ultimately contained no Prince input. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info 12 and 13 November 1988 Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA Tracking Recording Personnel Prince - all vocals and instruments (assumed) Versions Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info Cookie Jar Studio Recorded 12 and 13 November 1988 Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in... Title Length Released Version Additional info Way Up Unreleased version Studio Chorus of Cookie Jar included on an early and unreleased version of the song

Additional Information See also Trivia Unreleased Songs References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Podcast: ‎Questlove Supreme: George Clinton (Part 2) on Questlove Supreme (2 September 2020)

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