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| | |introduction = '''Cindy C.''' is the second song on [[Prince]]'s sixteenth album [[Album: The Black Album|''"The Black Album"'']] (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no artist credit). | | |introduction = '''Cindy C.''' is the second song on [[Prince]]'s sixteenth album [[Album: The Black Album|''"The Black Album"'']] (originally planned for release as his tenth album, albeit with no artist credit). |
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| − | While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracks were recorded in March 1987 at [[Prince]]'s [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced [[Dead On It]] and [[Nine]]). After [[Album: The Black Album|''"The Black Album"'']] was initially canceled, the track was broadcast on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 9|9 December 1989]] as part of [[The New Power Generation Radio Show]], hosted by [[Prince]] (under the name [[Prince|Me, Myself and I]]) and [[Robin Power]], [[Ingrid Chavez]] and [[Levi Seacer, Jr.]]<br> | + | While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracks were recorded in March 1987 at [[Prince]]'s [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced [[Dead On It]] and [[Nine]]). After [[Album: The Black Album|''"The Black Album"'']] was initially canceled, the track was broadcast on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 9|9 December 1989]] as part of [[The New Power Generation Radio Show]], hosted by [[Prince]] (under the name [[Prince|Me, Myself and I]]) with [[Robin Power]], [[Ingrid Chavez]] and [[Levi Seacer, Jr.]]<br> |
| | The track's title refers to supermodel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Crawford Cindy Crawford]. [[Cat]]'s rap in the song (later reused in an unreleased version of [[Positivity]]), was taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_%22Silk%22_Hurley J.M. Silk]'s 1985 track ''Music Is The Key'', although [[Prince]] was unaware of this at the time (he removed it from [[Positivity]] when he found out, but it is included here as a quote from [[Cindy C.]] as [[Prince]] was unaware of its origins at the time of its use). | | The track's title refers to supermodel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Crawford Cindy Crawford]. [[Cat]]'s rap in the song (later reused in an unreleased version of [[Positivity]]), was taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_%22Silk%22_Hurley J.M. Silk]'s 1985 track ''Music Is The Key'', although [[Prince]] was unaware of this at the time (he removed it from [[Positivity]] when he found out, but it is included here as a quote from [[Cindy C.]] as [[Prince]] was unaware of its origins at the time of its use). |
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