Album: Come 2 My House

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Come 2 My House


Come 2 My House (Front Cover)

Album details

Released: 29 September, 1998 (USA)
29 March, 1999 (UK)
Length: 59:51
Label(s): NPG Records
Studio(s): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA

Come 2 My House is the tenth solo studio album by Chaka Khan, and her first to be released by NPG Records. The album was largely co-written and produced by Prince (as ). It was released in the USA in September 1998, with a UK release six months later.

The album produced only one commercially-released single, Don't Talk 2 Strangers (available in the UK only, where it preceded the album's release), although Spoon was available as promotional single, and a promo sampler for the album was also available in the UK. The album reached number 49 on the US Billboard R&B Album Chart.

Chaka Khan toured extensively with Prince (as ) on the New Power Soul Tour and the New Power Soul Festival Tour, which was designed to promote this album and the 'companion' albums, the New Power Generation's Newpower Soul and Graham Central Station's GCS 2000, but Chaka Khan's set focused on her catalogue of hit songs rather than this album. She toured independently following the release of the album, but not primarily in support of this album.

The album was recorded between November, 1997, and June, 1998, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. Don't Talk 2 Strangers was originally recorded in 1992, however, while Journey 2 The Center Of Your Heart and 'll Never B Another Fool (under it's original title I'll Never Open My Legs Again) were originally recorded in 1995.

Additionally, Hair was a cover of the Graham Central Station song from their 1973 album Graham Central Station (often played live by Prince (as ) in a medley with Days Of Wild). Chaka Khan wrote lyrics to the newer songs on the album, with Prince (as ) contributing music. He appeared as a musician throughout the album, although his specific contributions are uncredited.

An early configuration of the album, missing the track Democrazy which had not yet been recorded, was compiled in February, 1998, and the album was set for release in July, 1998, before being delayed for unknown reasons.

Track listing

CD

  1. Come 2 My House (4:45) *
  2. Intro (0:31) +
  3. This Crazy Life Of Mine (2:33) +
  4. Betcha (4:30) ^
  5. Spoon (3:49) **
  6. Pop My Clutch (4:47) ++
  7. Journey 2 The Center Of Your Heart (4:15) ^^
  8. 'll Never B Another Fool (4:12) ***
  9. Democrazy (6:07) +
  10. Remember U (4:16) +++
  11. Reconsider (U Betta) (4:23) +
  12. Don't Talk 2 Strangers (3:15) ^^
  13. Hair (5:45) ^^^
  14. The Drama (6:35) ****


* Written by Chaka Khan, Prince (as ), Robert D. Palmer & Howard McCrary
+ Written by Chaka Khan and [[[Prince]] (as )
^ Written by Chaka Khan, Prince (as ) and Mark Stevens
** Written by Chaka Khan, Howard McCrary & Robert D. Palmer
++ Written by Chaka Khan, and Kirk Johnson
^^ written by Prince (as )
*** written by Prince (as ), Sandra St. Victor, Chaka Khan, T. Hammer (uncredited) and Vince Reid (uncredited)
+++ Written by Chaka Khan, Prince (as ) and Larry Graham
^^^ Written by Larry Graham
**** Written by Kirk Johnson

Personnel

Musicians


Production


Singles released

  

Charts

Entry Date Chart, Country Peak Position Weeks In Chart
Billboard R&B Album Chart 17 Oct. 1998+ 49 15

Releases


Variants, special editions and re-releases


Album promotion

Time-of-release

  • A four-track promotional CD sampler was sent out to radio DJs in the UK containing the following tracks:
  1. Spoon (3:49)
  2. Reconsider (U Betta) (4:23)
  3. Don't Talk 2 Strangers (3:15)
  4. Betcha (4:30)
  • A separate 4-track 12" sampler was also sent out to radio DJs in the UK containing the following tracks:
A1. Reconsider (U Betta) (4:23)
A2. Spoon (3:49)
B1. Betcha (4:30)
B2. Come 2 My House (4:45)



Awards, nominations, and certifications

  • None.

Quotations and trivia

  • An earlier configuration of the album, sequenced in February, 1998, and missing the track Democrazy, is known, listed below:

February, 1998, configuration

  1. Come 2 My House
  2. Am Happy? (released as Spoon)
  3. This Crazy Life Of Mine
  4. Remember U
  5. 'll Never B Another Fool
  6. Betcha
  7. Don't Talk 2 Strangers
  8. Journey 2 The Center Of Your Heart
  9. The Drama
  10. Hair
  11. Pop My Clutch
  12. Reconsider (U Betta)


References

1997
Living Single 		All Albums All Related Artists Albums 1998
Van Gogh
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