Gimme Your Love

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Gimme Your Love
Link= Single: Gimme Your Love
single art for Gimme Your Love 		Album: Through The Storm (Expanded Edition)
included on the 2014 reissue
(Expanded Edition) of Through The Storm
Song details
Performer: Aretha Franklin & James Brown
First Released: 18 September 1989 - Gimme Your Love single (in Prince-related version)
Album(s): Through The Storm (Expanded Edition)
Writer(s): Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen
Producer(s): Narada Michael Walden, additional production by Prince (as Paisley Park)
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
  • This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince
Performed regularly on tour:
  • none
Performed occasionally in shows:
  • none

Gimme Your Love is a song by Aretha Franklin and James Brown originally included on Through The Storm, the eighth Arista Records album by Aretha Franklin, with no input by Prince. Five months after the album’s release, Gimme Your Love was released as the album’s third and final single. It contained a remix by Prince (as Paisley Park), which was also included as various edits on different formats of the single. This is the only instance of Prince contributing to both Aretha Franklin and James Brown’s work, although he has long admired both artists and covered various songs by them live. The song itself was written by Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen, and originally produced by Narada Michael Walden.

Recording details for Prince’s remix session are not known, but it likely took place in 1989 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA. The Extended Remix (and The Purple Mix Part Two) contains an interpolation of James Brown’s Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (released as a single in 1969 and included on his 1970 album Ain’t It Funky).

In 2014, these remixes were included on the Expanded Edition of Aretha Franklin’s album Through The Storm.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
1989 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA 		Remix
Recording Personnel
  • Aretha Franklin - lead vocals
  • James Brown - lead vocals
  • Walter Afanasieff - keyboards and synth bass (on the original version)
  • Narada Michael Walden - electronic drums (on the original version)
  • Corrado Rustici – guitar (on the original version)
  • Marc Russo - saxophone (on the original version)
  • Ren Klyee - Synthesizer (on the original version)
  • Kitty Beethoven - background vocals (on the original version)
  • Liz Jackson - background vocals (on the original version)
  • Skyler Jett - background vocals (on the original version)
  • Prince - additional instruments and production (on the remixes listed below)
  • Atlanta Bliss - additional trumpet (uncredited - on the remixes listed below)
  • Eric Leeds - additional saxophone (uncredited - on the remixes listed below)

Versions
Released Versions

Only Prince-related versions are listed

Title Length Released Version Additional info
Gimme Your Love (Extended Remix) 10:43 Gimme Your Love single Remix A.k.a. Gimme Your Love (Parts One & Two) (Purple Mix) and Gimme Your Love (Extended Remix – Purple Mix); Remix by Prince.
Gimme Your Love (Part One) (Purple Mix) 5:51 Gimme Your Love single Remix edit Edit of remix above. A.k.a Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Part One).
Gimme Your Love (Part Two) (Purple Mix) 3:07 Gimme Your Love single Remix edit Edit of remix above. A.k.a Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Part Two).
Gimme Your Love (Edit Purple Mix) 4:49 Gimme Your Love promo Remix edit Edit of remix above. A.k.a Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Edit).
Gimme Your Love (Extended Remix – Purple Mix) 10:46 Through The Storm (Expanded Edition) Remix a.k.a. Gimme Your Love (Extended Remix) and Gimme Your Love (Parts One & Two) (Purple Mix); Remix by Prince. Remastered in 2014.
Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Part One) 5:55 Through The Storm (Expanded Edition) Remix edit A.k.a Gimme Your Love (Part One) (Purple Mix). Edit of remix above. Remastered in 2014.
Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Part Two) 3:11 Through The Storm (Expanded Edition) Remix edit A.k.a Gimme Your Love (Part Two) (Purple Mix). Edit of remix above. Remastered in 2014.
Gimme Your Love (The Purple Mix Edit) 4:49 Through The Storm (Expanded Edition) Remix edit A.k.a Gimme Your Love (Edit Purple Mix). Edit of remix above. Remastered in 2014.



 
Additional Information
See also Trivia
  • This is the only instance of Prince contributing to both Aretha Franklin and James Brown's work, although he has long admired both artists and covered various songs by them live.
References
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