Feel U Up was released as the b-side of Partyman, the second single from Prince’s eleventh album Batman. In 1993, it was included as the sixth track on The B-Sides compilation (included as the third and final disc on The Hits / The B-Sides).
In 2019, the original 1981 recording (mixed together with Irresistible Bitch) was released as the first track on the Vault Tracks part 1 disc of a Super Deluxe Edition edition of the 1999 album.
While specific recording dates are not known, Feel U Up was initially recorded around the same time but in a different session from Irresistible Bitch in November 1981 (estimate) at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA.
The song was then completely re-recorded on 27 October 1986 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (the day after overdubs on Housequake, the day before Rebirth Of The Flesh and Rockhard In A Funky Place), as the earliest recorded song that ended up on the scrapped Camille album. This new version was included as the fourth track on the 5 November 1986 configuration of the album Camille, but it was discarded when that album evolved into the Crystal Ball triple-album.
The 1986 version as slated for the Camille, now dubbed Feel U Up (Long Stroke) was subsequently released when it was included on the Partyman single in 1989, as well as a shorter edit from 1986, now dubbed Feel U Up (Short Stroke), but not previously slated for any specific release. The song was now simply credited to Prince, rather than the pseudonym Camille as it would have been in 1986.
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