Difference between revisions of "Do Yourself A Favor"
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+ | |song name = Do Yourself A Favor | ||
+ | |album image = [[File:1999_Deluxe.jpg|100px|link=Album: 1999 Deluxe]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: 1999 Deluxe|1999 ''Deluxe'']] </small> | ||
+ | |single image = [[File:Minneapolisgenius_album 1992.jpg|100px|link=Album: Minneapolis Genius]]<br><small> from the album [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius - featuring Prince]]</small> | ||
+ | |performer = [[94 East]] | ||
+ | |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 30|30 June 1992]] - [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius - featuring Prince]] album re-issue | ||
+ | |album(s) = [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius - Featuring Prince]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|Symbolic Beginning]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|The Legends Collection]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: 94 East Featuring Prince|94 East Featuring Prince]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: One Man Jam|One Man Jam]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: If You Feel Like Dancin'|If You Feel Like Dancin']]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: The Cookhouse Five|The Cookhouse Five]] | ||
+ | [[Album: 1999 Deluxe|1999 ''Deluxe'']]<br> | ||
+ | |writer(s) = [[Pepé Willie]] | ||
+ | |producer(s) = [[Pepé Willie]] and Tony Silvester | ||
+ | |previous song = [[If You Feel Like Dancin']] | ||
+ | |next song = [[In The Name Of Love]] | ||
+ | |introduction = '''Do Yourself A Favor''' a.k.a. '''If You See Me''') was first released without [[Prince]] input by [[Jesse Johnson]] (on ''Shockadelica'', 1986), but the first release containing input by [[Prince]], recorded much earlier as '''If You See Me''', was in two versions (instrumental and vocal) on a 1992 reissue of [[94 East]]'s first collection of studio recordings [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius]], featuring [[Prince]] on guitar. | ||
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+ | The track has featured on every subsequent collection of [[94 East]]'s early recordings. In 1995 both versions were included on [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|Symbolic Beginning]] (re-released in 1999 as [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|The Legends Collection]]). In 2000 the vocal version was included as the seventh track on [[Album: 94 East Featuring Prince|94 East Featuring Prince]]. | ||
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+ | Also in 2000, both versions of '''If You See Me''' were included on [[Album: One Man Jam|One Man Jam]]. In 2002, both versions were included on [[Album: If You Feel Like Dancin'|If You Feel Like Dancin']]. In 2011, a remixed version by [[Dr. Fink|Matt "Dr." Fink]] was included as the second track on the digital collection [[Album: The Cookhouse Five|The Cookhouse Five]]. | ||
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+ | Basic tracking of '''If You See Me''' took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December_4|4 December 1975]], at [[Cookhouse Studios]], Minneapolis, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as [[Games]], [[I'll Always Love You]], [[If We Don't]] and [[Better Than You Think]]), marking the earliest recording sessions featuring [[Prince]] to have been released. | ||
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+ | [[Pepé Willie]] later recounted that [[Prince]] was unhappy with his guitar playing at one part of the track and asked the next day if he could re-record a section of his part; [[Pepé Willie|Willie]] arranged with the studio for this to happen while [[Pepé Willie|Willie]] himself played golf. Due to a change in the recording equipment's EQ levels (which had been changed for another artist's recording session), [[Prince]]'s re-recorded guitar segment is audibly different than his guitar on the rest of the track. | ||
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+ | [[Dr. Fink|Matt "Dr." Fink]] remixed the track in June 2010, at StarVu Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with the other [[Cookhouse Studios]] tracks from the same session. | ||
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+ | Somewhere during the summer of 1982, [[Prince]] recorded an entirely new version of the track at his at [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, now titled '''Do Yourself A Favor'''; according to [[Pepé Willie]], [[Prince]] recorded it from memory and had not heard it for years. | ||
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+ | [[Jesse Johnson]] released a version, clearly inspired by [[Prince]]'s 1982 take, also titled '''Do Yourself A Favor''', on his album [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockadelica ''Shockadelica''], in 1986, but it misses [[Prince]]'s own lyrical contribution to the track, a humorous spoken section in his "[[Jamie Starr]]" voice, so his version is not considered to have any input by [[Prince]]. | ||
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+ | [[Prince]]'s 1982 version of '''Do Yourself A Favor''' was released in 2019 as a track on one of the bonus discs with the deluxe edition of the [[Album: 1999|1999]] album. | ||
+ | |recording info = | ||
+ | {{RecordingLine| | ||
+ | |date = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December_4|4 December 1975]] | ||
+ | |studio = [[Cookhouse Studios]], Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
+ | |additional info = Basic tracking ([[94 East]] version) (as '''If You See Me''') | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{RecordingLine| | ||
+ | |date = Early December 1975 (assumed) | ||
+ | |studio = [[Cookhouse Studios]], Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
+ | |additional info = Additional guitar recording by [[Prince]] (as '''If You See Me''') | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{RecordingLine| | ||
+ | |date = 1982 | ||
+ | |studio = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]], Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
+ | |additional info = Re-recording ([[Prince]] version, as '''If You See Me''') | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{RecordingLine| | ||
+ | |date = June 2010 | ||
+ | |studio = StarVu Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||
+ | |additional info = Remix of [[94 East]] version by [[Dr. Fink|Matt "Dr." Fink]] (as '''If You See Me''') | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |recording personnel = | ||
+ | '''If You See Me''' / 94 East version | ||
+ | *[[Pepé Willie]] - vocals and guitar | ||
+ | *Dale Alexander - drums | ||
+ | *Wendell Thomas - bass guitar | ||
+ | *[[Prince]] - guitar | ||
+ | *Marcy Ingvoldstad - vocals | ||
+ | *Kristie Lazenberry - vocals | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | '''Do Yourself A Favor''' | ||
+ | *[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments (assumed) | ||
+ | |released versions = | ||
+ | {{Songchart| | ||
+ | |line = | ||
+ | {{Songline| | ||
+ | |1= '''If You See Me''' | ||
+ | |2= 4:09 | ||
+ | |3= [http://www.discogs.com/94-East-If-You-See-Me-Games/release/5007273 If You See Me (single)] | ||
+ | |4= Studio | ||
+ | |5= additional info needed | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Songline| | ||
+ | |1= '''If You See Me''' | ||
+ | |2= 5:40 | ||
+ | |3= [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius - Featuring Prince]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|Symbolic Beginning]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|The Legends Collection]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: 94 East Featuring Prince|94 East Featuring Prince]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: One Man Jam|One Man Jam]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: If You Feel Like Dancin'|If You Feel Like Dancin']] | ||
+ | |4= Studio | ||
+ | |5= a.k.a. '''If You See Me (Vocal)''' | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Songline| | ||
+ | |1= '''If You See Me (Instr.)''' | ||
+ | |2= 5:40 | ||
+ | |3= [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius - Featuring Prince]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|Symbolic Beginning]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: Symbolic Beginning|The Legends Collection]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: One Man Jam|One Man Jam]]<br> | ||
+ | [[Album: If You Feel Like Dancin'|If You Feel Like Dancin']] | ||
+ | |4= Instrumental | ||
+ | |5= a.k.a. '''If You See Me (Instrumental Version)''' | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Songline| | ||
+ | |1= '''If You See Me''' | ||
+ | |2= 5:40 | ||
+ | |3= [[Album: The Cookhouse Five|The Cookhouse Five]] | ||
+ | |4= Remix | ||
+ | |5= Remix by [[Dr. Fink|Matt "Dr." Fink]] | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{Songline| | ||
+ | |1= ''' Do Yourself A Favor''' | ||
+ | |2= 9:01 | ||
+ | |3= [[Album: 1999 Deluxe|1999 ''Deluxe'']]<br> | ||
+ | |4= Studio | ||
+ | |5= 1982 solo [[Prince]] re-recording | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |unreleased versions = | ||
+ | {{SongUnreleased| | ||
+ | |unreleased versions = | ||
+ | {{Unreleased| | ||
+ | |line= | ||
+ | {{Unreleasedline| | ||
+ | |1= '''If You See Me''' | ||
+ | |2= Studio | ||
+ | |3= Initial 1975 recording before [[Prince]]'s additional guitar overdubs | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | |video versions = | ||
+ | |broadcasts, streaming = | ||
+ | |sampled in = | ||
+ | |first live appearance = This track is not believed to have been performed live by [[Prince]]. | ||
+ | |performed regularly on = none | ||
+ | |performed occasionally in = none | ||
+ | |trivia = This track, recorded in December 1975, marks a part of the earliest-recorded sessions featuring [[Prince]] to have been released. | ||
+ | |see also = [[Album: Minneapolis Genius|Minneapolis Genius - featuring Prince]] album re-issue | ||
+ | *[[94 East]] | ||
+ | |references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] '' | ||
+ | * ''Prince by Matt Thorne (2012)'' | ||
+ | |categories = [[Category:1975]] [[Category:1982]] [[Category:Songs (Associated Artists)]][[Category: Songs (Prince contribution)]][[Category:Recorded 1975]] [[Category:Recorded 1982]] | ||
+ | }} |
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