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|song name                 = Cloreen Bacon Skin
|single image              = [[File:Crystalball_album.png|100px|link= Album: Crystal Ball]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] </small> 
|performer                 = [[Prince]]
|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January 29|29 January 1998]] - [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] album
|album(s)                  = [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]]
|writer(s)                 = [[Prince]]
|producer(s)               = [[Prince]]
|previous song             = [[Clockin’ The Jizz (Instrumental)]]
|next song                 = [[Closer 2 My Heart]]
|introduction              = '''Cloreen Bacon Skin''' is the eighth track on the second disc of [[Prince]]’s 20th album [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] (his fourth using the name [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]). 

The album is not clearly divided between [[Prince]] tracks and [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] tracks, but the liner notes' discussion of this track discuss "[[Prince]]" making this track, so it is credited to [[Prince]] in this entry.

Basic tracking took place at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_27|27 March 1983]] (the day after [[Jungle Love]], and the same day as [[My Summertime Thang]], during a two-day break from the [[1999 Tour]]).

The liner notes in [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] state that only [[Prince]] (bass guitar and vocals) and [[Morris Day]] (drums) appear on the improvised track (it incorrectly states, however, that the track was recorded during sessions for [[The Time]]’s second album [[Album: What Time Is It?|What Time Is It?]], which was released the previous year). 

While the track was created spontaneously, [[Prince]] used a similar emphasis on bass and drums on some later tracks, such as [[Irresistible Bitch]], and music from [[Cloreen Bacon Skin]] was sampled (or simply quoted) in both [[Tricky]] and [[Soul Psychodelicide-2|Soul Psychodelicide]], before its own release many years later.
|recording info            =
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_27|27 March 1983]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]]- Studio 2,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|additional info           = Tracking
}}
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_31|31 March 1983]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]] - Studio 3,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|additional info           = Mixing
}}
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 20|20 April 1985]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]]- Studio 3<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|additional info           = Mix
}}
|recording personnel       = 
*[[Prince]] - vocals and bass guitar
*[[Morris Day]] - drums
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*[[Peggy McCreary]] - assistant engineer 
|released versions         =
{{Songchart|
|line =
{{Songline|
|1= '''Cloreen Bacon Skin'''
|2= 15:36
|3= [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]]
|4= Studio
|5= 
}}
}}
|sampled in                =
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|sampled in                = 
{{Songchart|
|line =
{{Songline|
|1= '''[[Tricky]] '''
|2= 3:12
|3= [[Single: Ice Cream Castles|Ice Cream Castles]] single<br>
[[Single: Jungle Love|Jungle Love]] single
|4= Studio
|5= 
}}
{{Songline|
|1= '''[[Soul Psychodelicide-2|Soul Psychodelicide]] '''
|2=
|3=
|4= Studio
|5= Unreleased 1989 track
}}
}}
}}
|unreleased versions       = 
|video versions            = 
|broadcasts, streaming     = 
|first live appearance     = [[16 May 1983-2|16 May 1983: First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota]]<br>
* [[30 December 2010-am|30 December 2010 (a.m.): Butter, New York, NY, USA]] 
|performed regularly on    = none
|performed occasionally in = [[All Concerts#1983|1983]], [[All Concerts#1985|1985]],[[All Concerts#1997|1997]] <small>(lyrics incorporated into [[There Was A Time]])</small>, [[All Concerts#2005|2005]], [[All Concerts#2010|2010]]
|trivia                    = 
|see also                  = [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] album
|references                = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]]''
* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Purple-Rain-Studio-Sessions/dp/1538114623/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)]''
* ''[https://www.duanetudahl.com/prince-book Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)]''
|categories                = [[Category:1998]][[Category:Recorded 1983]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]]
}}