Nine is the first track on Madhouse’s second and final album 16. The Track was written and performed by Prince (credited as Madhouse), with saxophone by Eric Leeds.
Tracking took place in July or August on Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California. The rest of the album was recorded in late July and early August 1987.
The track contains interpolations of Euphemia Allen’s 1877 piano composition Chopsticks and Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1959 composition The Sound Of Music (originally from the stage musical The Sound Of Music, as well as opening with Sequential Circuits Prophet VS, FILMUSIC (patch 69) pre-set synth, previously used on U Got The Look and The Cocoa Boys.
The track Six And ½ was originally recorded as Nine, logically following the last recorded Madhouse track “Eight”, but when that was dubbed Six And ½ when utilized as b-side for the single 6. Prince (possibly with [Eric Leeds]] then recorded another song titled Nine, but that remains unreleased and is different from this song from the summer of 1987
Now vacant again the title Nine was subsequently used for this track.
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