Difference between revisions of "Mountains"

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• 3 March 1986: First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
• 14 June 2015 (Show 2): Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA

• Parade Tour
• Welcome 2 Australia Tour (always in conjunction with The Dance Electric, played over the same beat)

• 1986, 2007 (clip only, during sampler set), 2009 (in medley with Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)), 2010 (in medley with Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)), 2011 (sometimes in medley with Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)), 2012, 2015

Mountains is the eighth track on Prince's eighth album Parade, the third to be credited to Prince and the Revolution, and, six weeks after the album's release, Mountains was released as the album's second single.

In 2009, a live version performed as a medley with The Jacksons' 1978 song Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground), which was recorded for a short radio performance in Paris, France, was released as an mp3 download on lotusflow3r.com, known as Mountains-Shake Your Body.

Basic tracking took place on 30 November 1985 (on the same day as An Honest Man), almost seven months after a first sequence of the Parade album was compiled. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed the music and recorded it at the Advision Studios,London, England, a few days after the shooting of the America video. Prince composed the lyrics, but claimed sole credit for the song upon its release.

Mountains is the only song on the album to showcase the extended Revolution band (featuring Miko Weaver and Atlanta Bliss) which would tour with Prince in 1986. It is also the earliest recorded Prince-related track to feature Atlanta Bliss.

Released version

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
  
• Lisa Coleman - keyboards and vocals
  
• Wendy Melvoin - guitars and vocals
  
• Bobby Z. - drums and percussion
  
• Brown Mark - bass and vocals
  
• Dr. Fink - keyboards
  
• Susannah Melvoin - background vocals
  
• Eric Leeds - horns
  
• Atlanta Bliss - trumpet
  
• Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar
  

Unreleased version

• Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
  
• Lisa Coleman - keyboards and vocals
  
• Wendy Melvoin - guitars and vocals
  
• Bobby Z. - drums and percussion
  
• Brown Mark - bass and vocals
  
• Dr. Fink - keyboards
  
• Susannah Melvoin - background vocals
  
• Eric Leeds - horns
  
• Atlanta Bliss - trumpet
  
• Miko Weaver - rhythm guitar
  

• Parade album
• Mountains single
• Mountains video

• This is the earliest Prince-related recording to feature Atlanta Bliss.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)
• Book: Prince - Dancemusicsexromance - The First Decade (Fire Fly)