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All The King’s Horses is an unreleased song that was recorded in November 2001 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Clare Fischer recorded an orchestral part in September 2002, the song was subsequently finished in early 2003. The November 2001 recording of the song was logged as All The King’s Horses, the version that included the orchestral parts was titled All The King’s Men on the tape box.
In 2008, the song (as All The King’s Horses) was included as the eleventh and last track on the first volume of the Songwriter project.
The song is one of the unreleased track played for VIP attendees of the Celebration event held at Paisley Park Studios in June 2023 (without orchestral overdubs and along with The Rain And You, 7 (In E Flat), Everything Could Be So Fine, The Rock That Keeps Rolling, I Believe I Love U, U’re Such A Tease, Don’t Play With Love, Della Blackheart and All A Share Together Now) and again in June 2024 (with orchestral overdubs, along with Let’s Go Crazy (Demo), Fat Jazz, However Much U Want (Piano Demo), First Time I Saw U, Friction, Calabama, No Changes, And God Created Woman (Demo) and Purple Rain (Piano demo)).
All The King’s Horses was mistakenly attributed to be a cover of Aretha Franklin’s song All The King’s Horses (from her 1972 album Young, Gifted and Black), as the songs share only their title and a small lyrical part of the chorus. Mostly there is no lyrical or musical connection between the two songs. Both songs derive their shared title from the line “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men / Couldn’t put Humpty together again” from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty (a phrase that has also been widely reused by various artists as a song title or quoted within lyrics).
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