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from the album Time Waits For No One from the album Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Song details Performer: Mavis Staples; Prince First Released: 24 May 1989 - Time Waits For No One album 25 September 2020 - Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition album (Prince version) Album(s): Time Waits For No One Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince; Mavis Staples, Al Bell, Homer Banks and Lester Snell (lead vocal producers) 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

Train is the fifth track on Mavis Staples' first Paisley Park Records album Time Waits For No One. In September 2020, Prince’s original version was released as the first track of Vault Tracks part 2, one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition. Basic tracking for Prince’s original version took place on 7 July 1986 at Prince’s Galpin Blvd Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (on the same day as Eggplant). Prince’s version was included as the third track on the 18 July 1986 configuration of the album Dream Factory. When Prince decided not to proceed with the album after disbanding the Revolution, and concentrated instead on Camille and Crystal Ball (both of which were also aborted), he decided not to include this song, even though it did not contain input from the Revolution. Prince revised the song in late June 1988, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as recording Time Waits For No One and revising Come Home and I Guess I’m Crazy). The song was then sent (along with Time Waits For No One, Come Home, I Guess I’m Crazy and Interesting) to Mavis Staples in Memphis, Tennessee, where she recorded lead vocal overdubs with producers Al Bell, Homer Banks and Lester Snell at Ardent Studios. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info 7 July 1986 Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA Tracking 8 July 1986 Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA Overdubs, horn overdubs, mix 9 July 1986 Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA Edit, mix, instrumental mix 19 July 1986 Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA Mix 27 June 1988 Paisley Park Studios (Studio A), Chanhassen, MN, USA Additional recording, mixing Summer 1988 (assumed) Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN, USA Vocal overdubs by Mavis Staples Recording Personnel Mavis Staples version Mavis Staples - vocals Prince - all instruments, except where noted Lester Snell - keyboards Eric Leeds - saxophone Atlanta Bliss - trumpet Homer Banks - backing vocals William Brown - backing vocals Prince version Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Eric Leeds - saxophone Atlanta Bliss - trumpet Eddie Miller - Engineer on 1988 session Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Train 4:27 Time Waits For No One Studio Train 4:22 Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Studio Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info Train (instrumental) Studio Instrumental mix Train Studio Version with Susannah Melvoin singing lead Train Studio Prince’s updated 1988 version after overdubs

Additional Information See also Trivia Time Waits For No One album Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition album Dream Factory unreleased album Crystal Ball unreleased album 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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