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from the album For You Song details Performer: Prince First Released: 7 April 1978 - For You album Album(s): For You Writer(s): Prince Producer(s): Prince Live Appearances First and last live appearance: 5 January 1979, Capri Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota Performed regularly on tour: Prince Tour Performed occasionally in shows: 1979

So Blue is the eighth track on the album For You, and, two months after the album’s release, the track was included as the b-side of the album’s first single Soft And Wet, the album’s first single (and the first single release of Prince’s career). Recording dates for the song itself are not known, but the album was recorded at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, from 1 October 1977 to 22 December 1977, before overdubs and mixing took place, in early January 1978 at Sound Labs in Los Angeles, California. Recording Information Recording Sessions Date Studio Additional info October - December 1977 Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, USA Tracking Early January 1978 Sound Labs, Los Angeles, CA, USA Overdubs and mixing Recording Personnel Prince - all vocals and instruments Versions Released Versions Title Length Released Version Additional info So Blue 4:26 For You Soft And Wet single Studio Unreleased Versions Title Version Additional Info So Blue Studio 1977 Record Plant version before Sound Labs Overdubs and mixing

Additional Information See also Trivia For You album According to André Cymone, So Blue was inspired by Joni Mitchell’s album Hejira released in November 1976 while Prince was working on his first album, and specifically the song Blue Motel Room which Prince has covered during the Nude Tour in 1990. The cover of Hejira can also be seen briefly during a scene in Under The Cherry Moon. This album has also been mentioned as one of the six records bought during the 2016 edition of the Record Store Day at the Electric Fetus along with a volume of Swan Silvertones' Inspirational Gospel Classics, The Chambers Brothers' The Time Has Come (1967), Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book (released in 1972), a 1987 Best Of Missing Persons and Santana’s Santana IV (the latter being released on 15 April 2016, the day before the Record Store Day and a few days before Prince’s passing). References The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)

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