Come Home

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Come Home

Timewaitsfornoone album.jpg
from the album Time Waits For No One
Song details
Performer: Mavis Staples
First Released: 24 May 1989 - Time Waits For No One album
Album(s): Time Waits For No One

The Voice (1995 re-issue)

Writer(s): Prince
Producer(s): Prince; Mavis Staples, Al Bell, Homer Banks and Lester Snell (lead vocal producers)
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
  • none
Performed occasionally in shows:
  • none

Come Home is the third track on Mavis Staples' first Paisley Park Records album Time Waits For No One. In 1994 it was included as the third and final track on a European version of The Voice, the first single from her second Paisley Park Records album The Voice. In 1995 it was included as the eighth track on a re-issue of the album The Voice (the only track to be added to the re-issue).

While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking for Prince’s original version took place in January 1987, at Prince’s Galpin Blvd Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as La, La, La, He, He, Hee and overdubs onto 77 Bleeker St.). The song was originally intended for African American R&B singer Meli’sa Morgan, but it is not known if Prince submitted the song to her for her use. Prince revised the song in late June 1988, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as recording Time Waits For No One and revising I Guess I’m Crazy and Train). The song was then sent (along with Time Waits For No One, I Guess I’m Crazy, Train and Interesting) to Mavis Staples in Memphis, Tennessee, where she recorded lead vocal overdubs with producers Al Bell, Homer Banks and Lester Snell at Ardent Studios.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
Mid January 1987 Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Tracking
Late June 1988 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Additional recording
Summer 1988 (assumed) Ardent Studios,
Memphis, TN, USA
Vocal overdubs by Mavis Staples
Recording Personnel

Released version

Unreleased version


Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Come Home 5:29 Time Waits For No One

The Voice single
The Voice re-issue

Studio


Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Come Home Studio Prince’s version, recorded January 1987
Come Home Studio Prince’s updated version after overdubs
 
Additional Information

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References
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