Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart)

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Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart)

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NPG Music Club video stream - no official artwork created

Song details
Performer: Jill Jones
First Released: 12 May 2006 - NPG Music Club video stream
Album(s): None
Writer(s): Prince (assumed)
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

Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) is a song by Jill Jones streamed as a video only in the 'Cyberclips' room of the NPG Music Club beginning 12 May 2006 (on the same day as the Fury video). No audio-only version of the track has been released.

The song was initially song recorded in Summer 1982 at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (along with several other tracks that would re-appear over the next several years). It was the first song Prince asked Jill Jones worked on, and he had her do a lead vocal on it.

The song was then shelved, but in November ’86 it was placed on an early configuration of the Jill Jones album, as the fifth track (following Rough and segueing into My Man), but it was left off the final configuration of the album.

In late 1987 / early 1988, Prince offered the track to Princess Stéphanie of Monaco who had a singing career at that time. She re-recorded the song in Los Angeles, California, most likely without Prince. Her version of Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) (or simply titled Boom, Boom) was announced in 1988 as the first single to be released from her second album but the whole project was canceled for unknown reason. Her version remains unreleased.

In the summer of 1989 the track was revamped completely with new instrumentation and Jill Jones re-cutting her vocals at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, for possible use on the proposed second album by Jill Jones (along with My Baby Knows, from the same sessions, Flesh And Blood and possibly Am I Without U?). The video clip produced for the song at this point, indicates that it may have been intended as the first single from the album. The project was abandoned as Prince and Jill Jones disagreed on the direction of the album, with Jill Jones wanting to sing more mature songs than Prince was providing.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
Summer 1982 Kiowa Trail Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Tracking
Late 1987 / Early 1988 Unknown studio,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
New lead vocal overdubs or re-recording by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
Summer 1989 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Revamp and new lead vocal overdubs by Jill Jones
Recording Personnel

Jill Jones versions

Stéphanie version

  • Stéphanie - vocals
  • other personnel, if any, unknown



Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) n/a n/a n/a There have been no audio-only releases of this track.
Video Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) 4:11 Promotional video Promo video shot in 1989-1990 See Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) video for more details
Broadcasts/streaming (only)
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) 4:11 Promotional video Promo video shot in 1989-1990 Streamed in the cyberclips room on NPGMC website in May 2006
Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) Studio Recorded Summer 1982
Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) Studio Jill Jones version; recorded 1986
Boom, Boom (Can’t U Feel The Beat Of My Heart) Studio Stéphanie version; recorded Late 1987/Early 1988
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia


References
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