Can't Stop This Feeling I Got

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Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got

from the album Graffiti Bridge from the album 1999 Super Deluxe Edition single art for Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got Song details Performer: Prince First Released: 20 August 1990 - Graffiti Bridge album Album(s): Graffiti Bridge 1999 Super Deluxe Edition Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince Live Appearances First and last live appearance: 26 August 1993 (a.m.), Technisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (only known performance; interpolation during When You Were Mine / Bambi) Performed regularly on tour: none Performed occasionally in shows: 1993 (interpolation during When You Were Mine / Bambi)

Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got is the first track on Prince’s twelfth album Graffiti Bridge, and, in late 1990, was released as the album’s third Prince single (in the Philippines only) and sixth single overall (a single by Tevin Campbell, one by Mavis Staples, and another by The Time were also released). An altered version of the track can be heard in the movie Graffiti Bridge. Basic tracking took place in Spring 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. The track was re-recorded on 17 June 1986 at the Washington Avenue Warehouse in Edina, Minnesota (in sequence after Data Bank and before We Can Funk, the day before recording Girl O’ My Dreams). These recordings were intended for an aborted musical tentatively titled Dream Factory. This version of Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got was later sent to Three O’Clock for consideration along with Neon Telephone, Girl O’ My Dreams, We Can Funk and Teacher, Teacher, but the band decided to use only Neon Telephone. Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got was re-recorded in 1989 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, and was included as the first track on a late 1989 configuration of Graffiti Bridge, where it remained for a 1990 configuration and the final release. The original 1982 version was released in 2019 as the seventh track on the Vault Tracks part 2 disc of a Super Deluxe Edition edition of the 1999 album. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info Spring 1982 Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA Tracking 3 May 1985 Sunset Sound - Studio 3 Hollywood, CA, USA possible mixing 3 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse, Edina, MN, USA string overdubs, mix 17 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse, Edina, MN, USA Re-recording 18 June 1986 Washington Avenue Warehouse, Edina, MN, USA Mix 1989 Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA Re-recording Recording Personnel 1990 Released version Prince - all vocals and instruments 1982 Version Prince - all vocals and instruments ’86 Updated ’82 version Prince - all vocals and instruments Novi Novog - violin /viola Suzie Katayama - cello Unreleased 1986 version Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted Bobby Z. - drums and percussion Brown Mark - bass guitar and vocals Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar Lisa Coleman - keyboards and vocals Wendy Melvoin - guitars and vocals Dr. Fink - keyboards Susannah Melvoin - background vocals Eric Leeds - saxophone Atlanta Bliss - trumpet Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got 4:24 Graffiti Bridge Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got single Studio Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got 2:40 1999 Super Deluxe Edition Studio Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in... Title Length Released Version Additional info Soul Psychodelicide Studio Unreleased 1989 track Graffiti Bridge Cue 2:28 Graffiti Bridge DVD Studio Music heard in the background at the beginning of the movie mixed with lyrics from Seven Corners Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got Studio 1982 version with 1986 overdubs Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got Studio 1986 re-recording

Additional Information See also Trivia Graffiti Bridge album 1999 Super Deluxe Edition album Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got single Graffiti Bridge movie The released mix of the 1982 version was done by Niko Bolas specifically for the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition release. It was made to replicate the original mix from the time the song was initially tracked, as much as possible. So even when a slightly different mix of this track might exist, the now released version is not considered a true alternate mix of the track. In a notebook where Prince wrote his (undated) synopsis for what would become the movie Purple Rain and included in The Beautiful Ones book (released posthumously in 2019), I Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got is listed as one of the songs to be included in the film (along with Baby I’m A Star, I Would Die 4 U, Moonbeam Levels, Too Tough, Wouldn’t U Love To Love Me, I Just Wanna Be Rich, Bold Generation). References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) The Beautiful Ones (2019) Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)

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