I’ll Always Love You

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I’ll Always Love You


from the album Symbolic Beginning
If We Don’t / I’ll Always Love You
single art for If We Don’t / I’ll Always Love You

from the album The Cookhouse Five
Song details
Performer: 94 East
First Released: 16 May 1995 - Symbolic Beginning collection
Album(s): Symbolic Beginning

The Early Years
One Man Jam
94 East Featuring Prince
The Cookhouse Five
Dance To The Music Of The World Expanded CD Edition

Writer(s): Pepé Willie
Producer(s): Pepé Willie and Tony Silvester
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

I’ll Always Love You is the third track on the second disc of 94 East’s second collection of studio recordings Symbolic Beginning, featuring Prince on guitar.

Basic tracking took place on 4 December 1975, at Cookhouse Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as Games, If We Don’t, Better Than You Think and If You See Me), marking the earliest recording sessions featuring Prince to have been released. Matt "Dr." Fink remixed the track in June 2010, at StarVu Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with the other Cookhouse Studios tracks from the same session.

I’ll Always Love You was included on every reissue of 94 East’s Symbolic Beginning (The Early Years in 1999, One Man Jam in 2000, 94 East Featuring Prince in 2016 and the Expanded CD edition of Dance To The Music Of The World). The song was released on a double A-Side single in 2022 (with If We Don’t).

In 2011, the remixed version by Matt "Dr." Fink was included as the third track on the digital collection The Cookhouse Five.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
4 December 1975 Cookhouse Studios,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Tracking
June 2010 StarVu Studios,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Remix by Matt "Dr." Fink
Recording Personnel
  • Pepé Willie - vocals and guitar
  • Dale Alexander - drums
  • Wendell Thomas - bass guitar
  • Prince - guitar
  • Pierre Lewis - keyboards
  • Marcy Ingvoldstad - vocals
  • Kristie Lazenberry - vocals

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
I’ll Always Love You 3:52 Symbolic Beginning

The Early Years
One Man Jam
If We Don’t / I’ll Always Love You single

Studio
I’ll Always Love You 3:49 The Cookhouse Five Remix Remix by Matt "Dr." Fink
I’ll Always Love You (Instrumental) 3:49 The Cookhouse Five Remix Remix by Matt "Dr." Fink
I’ll Always Love You 3:52 94 East Featuring Prince

Dance To The Music Of The World Expanded CD Edition

Studio Remastered in 2016



 
Additional Information

See also Trivia

  • This track, recorded in December 1975, marks a part of the earliest-recorded sessions featuring Prince to have been released.

References
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