Difference between revisions of "Love Sign"

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• 9 April 1994, Paramount Studios, Stage 30, Hollywood, CA, USA (lip synch); 12 July 1994 (mat.), The Today Show, NBC TV Studios, GE Building (Studio 1A), New York, NY, USA (live performance)
  
• 26 July 1994: Glam Slam, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• none

• 1994

Love Sign is the third track on the album 1-800 New Funk (a compilation of mostly-unreleased music largely written and produced by Prince/, recorded by other Paisley Park Records artists), and is credited to Nona Gaye and Prince (as ). Six weeks earlier, Love Sign was available as a promotional single in the USA and Germany, but Warner Bros. prevented a retail release of the single. In 1998, the Shock G.'s Silky Remix, one of the remixes planned for the single was included as the fifth track on the first disc of Prince's 20th album Crystal Ball (his fourth using the name ).

While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracking is believed to have taken place in early 1994 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Remixes were made in Spring 1994.

• Prince (as ) - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
• Nona Gaye - co-lead vocals
• Paul Peterson - bass guitar
• Ricky Peterson - keyboards
• New Power Generation - "featuring..." (unidentified musicians, although most likely all just Prince (as ))

• 1-800 New Funk album
• Love Sign single
• Love Sign video
• Crystal Ball album

• This is the only track to carry the artist credit "Nona Gaye & ", although Gaye also appears on We March and Girl 6.
• The track was cited in The Exodus Has Begun among other titles in the line "these are the names of the children of the sun / Pumpin' the love sign in the days of wild".

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)