Difference between revisions of "Good Love"

Crystal Ball

• This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince, excepts for some of its lyrics quoted in a jam during It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night on 03 October 1988 (a.m.): Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY, USA.

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Good Love was the first track on the Bright Lights, Big City soundtrack album, released to coincide with the Bright Lights, Big City movie. This marked the first time that Prince had contributed a previously-unreleased song to a movie soundtrack. In 1998, a different edit of the song (editing out some parts, but including a longer ending), was included as the ninth track on the second disc of Prince’s 20th album Crystal Ball (his fourth using the name ). The album is not clearly divided between Prince tracks and tracks, but the liner notes' discussion of this track refer to "Prince" making this track, which is consistent with the original release.

Basic tracks for the studio version were recorded on 30 October 1986 at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California (two days after Rebirth Of The Flesh and Rockhard In A Funky Place, three days before If I Was Your Girlfriend). The track was included as the sixth track on the 5 November 1986 configuration of the Camille album (credited to the pseudonym Camille), which was later aborted. A few weeks later, it was included as the second track on the third disc as the album developed into the triple-album Crystal Ball on the 30 November 1986 configuration. On both albums, the track followed directly after Shockadelica. Both tracks were removed when the album was eventually pared down and became Sign O’ The Times.

• Prince - all vocals and instruments
• Jill Jones - backing vox (uncredited)
• Susannah Melvoin - backing vox (uncredited)

• Bright Lights, Big City soundtrack
• Crystal Ball album
• Camille unreleased album
• Camille
• Crystal Ball 1986 album

• Prince’s handwritten label of the Camille album shows the title written as Goodlove.
• Over the time, this song has been included in unreleased projects or released albums released under 3 different aliases: Camille for the Camille album and the 1986 version of Crystal Ball, Prince on the Bright Lights, Big City soundtrack, and on Crystal Ball (although still attributed to Prince on the latter).

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)
• Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)