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|introduction = '''I Need A Man''' is a track released posthumously as the sixth track of ''Vault Tracks part 3'', one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]. A week earlier, it was released as the album’s sixth and final pre-release download. | |introduction = '''I Need A Man''' is a track released posthumously as the sixth track of ''Vault Tracks part 3'', one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]. A week earlier, it was released as the album’s sixth and final pre-release download. | ||
− | While the released version is from 1987, the song was originally recorded in August 1981 ( | + | While the released version is from 1987, the song was originally recorded in August 1981 (likely around the same time as [[Drive Me Wild]], [[Jealous Girl]], [[Pizza]], [[Make-Up]] and [[Wet Dream]]) at [[Prince]]’s [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The track contained lead vocals by [[Jamie Shoop]], and was intended for an album by [[Album: The Hookers (1982)|The Hookers]], but was abandoned when [[Vanity 6|The Hookers]] developed into [[Vanity 6]]. While reflecting about this project’s history in an interview in 2023, [[susan Moonsie]] stated that '''I Need A Man''' was the first song recorded for the band. |
The track was then re-recorded on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January_22|22 January 1987]] at [[Prince]]’s [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, when it was revamped to be offered to American blues singer-songwriter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt Bonnie Raitt]. The track was worked on further in 1987 with horn overdubs by [[Eric Leeds]] and [[Atlanta Bliss]] recorded on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January_22|22 January 1987]] at [[Prince]]’s [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. [[Prince]] approached her about recording some songs together and signing to his [[Paisley Park Records]] label in December 1986 after seeing her perform at The Beverly Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He offered four songs to work on ([[I Need A Man]], [[Jealous Girl]], [[Promise To Be True]] and [[There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool]]). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt Raitt] recorded her vocals on only two of them ([[I Need A Man]] and [[There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool]]). | The track was then re-recorded on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January_22|22 January 1987]] at [[Prince]]’s [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota, when it was revamped to be offered to American blues singer-songwriter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt Bonnie Raitt]. The track was worked on further in 1987 with horn overdubs by [[Eric Leeds]] and [[Atlanta Bliss]] recorded on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/January_22|22 January 1987]] at [[Prince]]’s [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. [[Prince]] approached her about recording some songs together and signing to his [[Paisley Park Records]] label in December 1986 after seeing her perform at The Beverly Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He offered four songs to work on ([[I Need A Man]], [[Jealous Girl]], [[Promise To Be True]] and [[There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool]]). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt Raitt] recorded her vocals on only two of them ([[I Need A Man]] and [[There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool]]). | ||
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|references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]]'' | |references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]]'' | ||
*[https://www.startribune.com/bonnie-raitt-returns-to-minnesota-a-place-she-considers-her-second-home/392031191/ '''Bonnie Raitt returns to Minnesota, a place she considers her ’second home''' by Jon Bream'' (Star Tribune - 1 September 2016)] | *[https://www.startribune.com/bonnie-raitt-returns-to-minnesota-a-place-she-considers-her-second-home/392031191/ '''Bonnie Raitt returns to Minnesota, a place she considers her ’second home''' by Jon Bream'' (Star Tribune - 1 September 2016)] | ||
+ | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2vWwo9FgI '''Apollonia 6 Reunited- pt. 1''' by ''Apollonia Studio 6'' (Youtube: 20 February 2023)] | ||
|categories = [[Category:2020]][[Category:Recorded 1981]][[Category:Recorded 1987]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Posthumously-released Songs]] | |categories = [[Category:2020]][[Category:Recorded 1981]][[Category:Recorded 1987]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Posthumously-released Songs]] | ||
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