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{{song|
 
{{song|
 
|song name                = Shhh
 
|song name                = Shhh
|album image              = [[File:Imready_album.jpg|100px|link=Album: I'm Ready]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]] </small><br>
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|album image              = [[File:Imready_album.jpg|100px|link=Album: I’m Ready]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]] </small><br>
 
[[File:Thegoldexperience.jpg|100px|link=Album: The Gold Experience]]<br><small> from the album [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]] </small>
 
[[File:Thegoldexperience.jpg|100px|link=Album: The Gold Experience]]<br><small> from the album [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]] </small>
|single image              = [[File:Shhh single.jpg|100px|link=Single: Shhh]] <br><small> promo single art for [[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] </small>
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|single image              = [[File:Shhh single.jpg|100px|link=Single: Shhh]] <br><small> promo single art for [[Single: Shhh|Shhh]]
 
|performer                = [[Tevin Campbell]]; [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]
 
|performer                = [[Tevin Campbell]]; [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]
|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 26|26 October 1993]] - [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]] album ([[Tevin Campbell]] version)<br>
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|first released            = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 26|26 October 1993]] - [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]] album ([[Tevin Campbell]] version)<br>
 
[[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/September 26|26 September 1995]] - [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]] album ([[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] version)
 
[[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/September 26|26 September 1995]] - [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]] album ([[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] version)
|album(s)                  = [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]]<br>
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|album(s)                  = [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]]<br>
[[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]]<br><br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Tevin_Campbell The Best Of Tevin Campbell]
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[[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]]<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Tevin_Campbell The Best Of Tevin Campbell]<br>
|writer(s)                = [[Prince]] (credited as [[Alias: Paisley Park|Paisley Park]] on [[Tevin Campbell]] release; as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) on [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]]
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[[Sampler:_The_Versace_Experience_(Prelude_2_Gold)|The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)]]
|producer(s)              = [[Prince]] (credited as [[Alias: Paisley Park|Paisley Park]] on [[Tevin Campbell]] release; as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) on [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]]
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|writer(s)                = [[Prince]] (credited as [[Alias: Paisley Park|Paisley Park]] on [[Tevin Campbell]] release; as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] on [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]])
|previous song            = [[She's Just A Baby]]
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|producer(s)              = [[Prince]] (credited as [[Alias: Paisley Park|Paisley Park]] on [[Tevin Campbell]] release; as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] on [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]])
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|previous song            = [[She’s Just A Baby]]
 
|next song                = [[Shine Your Light/Red Zone]]
 
|next song                = [[Shine Your Light/Red Zone]]
|introduction              = '''Shhh''' is the twelfth track (ninth song) on [[Tevin Campbell]]'s second album [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]], and around the same time as the album's release, [[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] was available as a promotional single in the USA (with no commercial release).  
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|introduction              = '''Shhh''' is the twelfth track (ninth song) on [[Tevin Campbell]]’s second album [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]], and around the same time as the album’s release, [[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] was available as a promotional single in the USA (with no commercial release).  
  
The song was written and produced by [[Prince]] under the pseudonym [[Prince|Paisley Park]]. [[Tevin Campbell]]'s version was also included as the third track on the 2001 compilation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Tevin_Campbell The Best Of Tevin Campbell] and as the third track on the 2005 ''Rhino Hi-Five: Tevin Campbell'' EP.  
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The song was written and produced by [[Prince]] under the pseudonym [[Prince|Paisley Park]]. [[Tevin Campbell]]’s version was also included as the third track on the 2001 compilation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Tevin_Campbell The Best Of Tevin Campbell] and as the third track on the 2005 ''Rhino Hi-Five: Tevin Campbell'' EP.  
  
 
[[Prince]] (as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) played the song live in 1994 in a very different arrangement, and reclaimed the song by including it as the fourth track (third song) on his 17th album [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]], the first album to be credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]].
 
[[Prince]] (as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) played the song live in 1994 in a very different arrangement, and reclaimed the song by including it as the fourth track (third song) on his 17th album [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]], the first album to be credited to [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]].
  
Basic tracking took place as a live recording in mid-late June 1992 at [[Olympic Studios]], London, England, while in London for the [[Diamonds And Pearls Tour]].  
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Basic tracking took place as a live recording between 14-25 June 1992 at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Studios Olympic Studios], London, England, while in London for the [[Diamonds And Pearls Tour]].  
  
When [[Prince]] became involved in [[Tevin Campbell]]'s album [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]] in September 1992, this song was re-vamped (along with recording [[Tevin Campbell: Down|Down]], [[Baby Don't Care|Holly Don't Care]], [[The P]], [[The Halls Of Desire]], [[Paris 1798430]] and [[Uncle Sam]]), and [[Tevin Campbell]]'s vocals were added.  
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When [[Prince]] became involved in [[Tevin Campbell]]’s album [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]] in September 1992, this song was re-vamped (along with recording [[Tevin Campbell: Down|Down]], [[Baby Don’t Care|Holly Don’t Care]], [[The P]], [[The Halls Of Desire]], [[Paris 1798430]] and [[Uncle Sam]]), and [[Tevin Campbell]]’s vocals were added.  
  
[[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]'s version was a new version recorded in early 1994 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as [[file:EyeBlue.png|link=Eye Hate U]][[Eye Hate U| Hate U]], [[Days Of Wild]], and new versions of [[The Most Beautiful Girl In The World]]).
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[[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]’s version was a new version recorded in early 1994 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as [[file:EyeBlue.png|link=Eye Hate U]][[Eye Hate U| Hate U]], [[Days Of Wild]], and new versions of [[The Most Beautiful Girl In The World]]).
  
It is possible that [[Prince]] also recorded the 0:09 '''Interlude''' which introduces the [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]] album version of this song (the album's interludes, common in [[Prince]]'s projects at the time, preceded [[Prince]]'s tracks only), but this is unconfirmed, so it is not included here.
 
 
|recording info            =
 
|recording info            =
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Mid-late June 1992
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|date                      = 14-25 June 1992 (exact date uncertain)
|studio                    = [[Olympic Studios]], London, England
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|studio                    = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Studios Olympic Studios],<br>London, England
|additional info          = Basic tracking
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|additional info          = Tracking
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
|date                      = September 1992
 
|date                      = September 1992
|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]]
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|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
 
|additional info          = Re-working and [[Tevin Campbell]] vocal overdubs
 
|additional info          = Re-working and [[Tevin Campbell]] vocal overdubs
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}}
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{{RecordingLine|
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|date                      = 1992-1993
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|studio                    = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Plant Record Plant],<br>Los Angeles, CA, USA
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|additional info          = Additional recording (for [[Tevin Campbell]] version)
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
|date                      = Early 1994
 
|date                      = Early 1994
|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]]
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|studio                    = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
 
|additional info          = Re-recording
 
|additional info          = Re-recording
 
}}
 
}}
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
{{RecordingLine|
 
|date                      = 2006 (assumed)
 
|date                      = 2006 (assumed)
|studio                  = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
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|studio                  = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
|additional info          = Basic tracking of 'Versace Experience' version
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|additional info          = Tracking of 'Versace Experience' version
 
}}
 
}}
 
|recording personnel      =  
 
|recording personnel      =  
 
'''Tevin Campbell version'''
 
'''Tevin Campbell version'''
 
*[[Tevin Campbell]] - vocals
 
*[[Tevin Campbell]] - vocals
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted (uncredited)
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*[[Prince]] - background vocals and all instruments, except where noted (uncredited)
 
*[[Michael B.]] - drums
 
*[[Michael B.]] - drums
 
*[[Sonny T.]] - bass guitar
 
*[[Sonny T.]] - bass guitar
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*[[Atlanta Bliss]] - trumpet (credited as 'hornz')
 
*[[Atlanta Bliss]] - trumpet (credited as 'hornz')
 
*[[Kathleen Johnson]] - background vocals
 
*[[Kathleen Johnson]] - background vocals
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*[[Clare Fischer]] - possible string arrangements (uncredited)
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
'''[[Image: SymbolSmaller.png]] version'''
 
'''[[Image: SymbolSmaller.png]] version'''
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*[[Mayte]] - background vocals
 
*[[Mayte]] - background vocals
 
<br>
 
<br>
''' 'Versace Experience' version'''
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'''2006 'Versace Experience' version'''
 
*[[Prince]] - all vocal and instruments (assumed)
 
*[[Prince]] - all vocal and instruments (assumed)
  
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|1= '''Shhh'''
 
|1= '''Shhh'''
 
|2= 4:55
 
|2= 4:55
|3= [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]]<br>
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|3= [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]]<br>
 
[[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] promo<br>
 
[[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] promo<br>
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[[Single: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]] single<br>
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Tevin_Campbell The Best Of Tevin Campbell]<br>
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Tevin_Campbell The Best Of Tevin Campbell]<br>
Rhino Hi-Five: Tevin Campbell EP
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Rhino Hi-Five: Tevin Campbell EP<br>
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[https://www.discogs.com/Various-Club-Promotions-Back-To-Back-Album-Sampler-No-3/release/3434039 Various ‎– Club Promotions Back To Back Album Sampler No. 3]
 
|4= Studio
 
|4= Studio
 
|5=  
 
|5=  
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|3= [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]]
 
|3= [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]]
 
|4= Studio
 
|4= Studio
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|5=
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}}
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{{Songline|
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|1= '''Shhh (X-cerpt)'''
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|2= 3:55
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|3= [[Sampler:_The_Versace_Experience_(Prelude_2_Gold)|The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)]]
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[[ Single:_My_Computer|My Computer]] (2019 cover mount single)
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|4= Edit
 
|5=  
 
|5=  
 
}}
 
}}
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|4= Live
 
|4= Live
 
|5= [[13_February 1994-am|13 February 1994 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA]]; see [[Video: Shhh|Shhh]] video for details
 
|5= [[13_February 1994-am|13 February 1994 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA]]; see [[Video: Shhh|Shhh]] video for details
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}}
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{{Songline|
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|1= '''Shhh'''
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|2= ?:??
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|3= [[Album:_Welcome_2_America|Welcome 2 America]] Deluxe edition
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|4= Live
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|5= [[28 April 2011|28 April 2011, The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA]]
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
 
}}
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{{Songchart|
 
{{Songchart|
 
|line =
 
|line =
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{{Songline|
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|1= '''Shhh'''
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|2= ?:??
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|3= Delayed live recording radio broadcast. Debuted on Spanish radio [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_40 Los 40 Principales] on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 3|3 March 1994]]
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|4= Live
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|5= [[13 February 1994-am|13 February 1994 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA]]
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}}
 
{{Songline|
 
{{Songline|
 
|1= '''Shhh'''
 
|1= '''Shhh'''
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* [[Welcome 2 Canada Tour]]
 
* [[Welcome 2 Canada Tour]]
 
|performed occasionally in = [[All_Concerts#1994|1994]], [[All_Concerts#1995|1995]], [[All_Concerts#1996|1996]], [[All_Concerts#2003|2003]], [[All_Concerts#2004|2004]], [[All_Concerts#2006|2006]], [[All_Concerts#2007|2007]], [[All_Concerts#2008|2008]], [[All_Concerts#2009|2009]], [[All Concerts#2011|2011]], [[All Concerts#2011|2011]]
 
|performed occasionally in = [[All_Concerts#1994|1994]], [[All_Concerts#1995|1995]], [[All_Concerts#1996|1996]], [[All_Concerts#2003|2003]], [[All_Concerts#2004|2004]], [[All_Concerts#2006|2006]], [[All_Concerts#2007|2007]], [[All_Concerts#2008|2008]], [[All_Concerts#2009|2009]], [[All Concerts#2011|2011]], [[All Concerts#2011|2011]]
|trivia                    = "'''Shhh'''" was the only wording shown on the cover of a promo cassette for [[Carmen Electra]]'s single [[Single: Fun|Fun]] in 1992. The same artwork was also used for a 12" promo of [[Carmen Electra]]'s [[Go Go Dancer]]. Neither track is related, although the artwork was likely created at around the time [[Prince]] first recorded [[Shhh]].
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|trivia                    = "'''Shhh'''" was the only wording shown on the cover of a promo cassette for [[Carmen Electra]]’s single [[Single: Fun|Fun]] in 1992. The same artwork was also used for a 12" promo of [[Carmen Electra]]’s [[Go Go Dancer]]. Neither track is related, although the artwork was likely created at around the time [[Prince]] first recorded [[Shhh]].
|see also                  = [[Album: I'm Ready|I'm Ready]] album<br>
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*[[Shhh]] was supposed to be sung with [[Tevin Campbell]] on stage on [[13_February 1994-am|13 February 1994 (a.m.) at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA]]. Campbell let [[Prince]] know during the rehearsals for that show that he wanted to sing his new single [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_We_Talk Can We Talk] (written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babyface_(musician) Babyface], also from [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]]) instead. [[Prince]] didn’t want to play a song he did not write for Campbell, and since [[The NPG]] has already rehearsed heavily on [[Shhh]] (and didn’t know [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_We_Talk Can We Talk]), [[Prince]] chose to sing [[Shhh]] himself. That performance was included on [[TV Film: The Beautiful Experience|The Beautiful Experience]] TV-special and led to the re-recording of the song in studio and its inclusion on [[Album: The Gold Experience|The Gold Experience]].
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|see also                  = [[Album: I’m Ready|I’m Ready]] album<br>
 
* [[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] promo
 
* [[Single: Shhh|Shhh]] promo
 
* [[Tevin Campbell]]
 
* [[Tevin Campbell]]

Revision as of 09:28, 3 October 2021

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Shhh

Imready album.jpg
from the album I’m Ready

Thegoldexperience.jpg
from the album The Gold Experience

Shhh single.jpg
promo single art for Shhh
Song details
Performer: Tevin Campbell; SymbolSmallerBlue.png
First Released: 26 October 1993 - I’m Ready album (Tevin Campbell version)

26 September 1995 - The Gold Experience album (SymbolSmallerBlue.png version)

Album(s): I’m Ready

The Gold Experience
The Best Of Tevin Campbell
The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)

Writer(s): Prince (credited as Paisley Park on Tevin Campbell release; as SymbolSmallerBlue.png on The Gold Experience)
Producer(s): Prince (credited as Paisley Park on Tevin Campbell release; as SymbolSmallerBlue.png on The Gold Experience)
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:

Shhh is the twelfth track (ninth song) on Tevin Campbell’s second album I’m Ready, and around the same time as the album’s release, Shhh was available as a promotional single in the USA (with no commercial release).

The song was written and produced by Prince under the pseudonym Paisley Park. Tevin Campbell’s version was also included as the third track on the 2001 compilation The Best Of Tevin Campbell and as the third track on the 2005 Rhino Hi-Five: Tevin Campbell EP.

Prince (as SymbolSmallerBlue.png) played the song live in 1994 in a very different arrangement, and reclaimed the song by including it as the fourth track (third song) on his 17th album The Gold Experience, the first album to be credited to SymbolSmallerBlue.png.

Basic tracking took place as a live recording between 14-25 June 1992 at Olympic Studios, London, England, while in London for the Diamonds And Pearls Tour.

When Prince became involved in Tevin Campbell’s album I’m Ready in September 1992, this song was re-vamped (along with recording Down, Holly Don’t Care, The P, The Halls Of Desire, Paris 1798430 and Uncle Sam), and Tevin Campbell’s vocals were added.

SymbolSmallerBlue.png’s version was a new version recorded in early 1994 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during the same set of sessions as EyeBlue.png Hate U, Days Of Wild, and new versions of The Most Beautiful Girl In The World).


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
14-25 June 1992 (exact date uncertain) Olympic Studios,
London, England
Tracking
September 1992 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Re-working and Tevin Campbell vocal overdubs
1992-1993 Record Plant,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Additional recording (for Tevin Campbell version)
Early 1994 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Re-recording
2006 (assumed) Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
Tracking of 'Versace Experience' version
Recording Personnel

Tevin Campbell version


SymbolSmaller.png version


2006 'Versace Experience' version

  • Prince - all vocal and instruments (assumed)

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Shhh 4:55 I’m Ready

Shhh promo
I’m Ready single
The Best Of Tevin Campbell
Rhino Hi-Five: Tevin Campbell EP
Various ‎– Club Promotions Back To Back Album Sampler No. 3

Studio
Shhh (Edit) 4:14 Shhh promo Edit
Shhh 7:18 The Gold Experience Studio
Shhh (X-cerpt) 3:55 The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)

My Computer (2019 cover mount single)

Edit
Video Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Shhh ?:?? Promotional release only Live 13 February 1994 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA; see Shhh video for details
Shhh ?:?? Welcome 2 America Deluxe edition Live 28 April 2011, The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA
Broadcasts/streaming (only)
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Shhh ?:?? Delayed live recording radio broadcast. Debuted on Spanish radio Los 40 Principales on 3 March 1994 Live 13 February 1994 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA
Shhh ?:?? Delayed live concert film Live 13 February 1994 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA; same as video version above; see The Beautiful Experience for details
Shhh ?:?? Delayed concert TV broadcast Live 17 October 2003, Tamar Site, Admiralty, Hong Kong
Shhh 7:29 Lotusflow3r.com video stream Live 26 April 2008, Coachella Music Festival, Empire Polo Field, Indio, CA, USA
Shhh ?:?? Live performance TV broadcast / online stream Live 27 June 2011, Le Grand Journal, Studios Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Shhh Studio Original 1992 version with Prince vocals
Shhh (The Versace Experience) re-created for fashion show remix used in a 2006 Versace fashion show
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia


References
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