Around The World In A Day is the first track on Prince's seventh album Around The World In A Day, the second to be credited to Prince and the Revolution.
The track was first written and recorded by David Coleman (Lisa Coleman's brother) in June, 1984, when given two days of studio time at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA as a birthday gift from Prince. When Prince heard the resulting track, he loved it and wanted to include it on his next album. He re-recorded the track and made some musical and lyrical changes.
Basic tracks for Prince's version were recorded on 16 September, 1984 at Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA.
This is the only Prince-related track to give writing credit to David Coleman.
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Around The World In A Day
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Demo
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David Coleman's demo (no Prince involvement)
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Around The World In A Day
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Studio
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More conventional sound; contains more guitar / bass than released version
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Around The World In A Day
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Studio
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Longer version edited down to create album version
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