The Other Side Of The Pillow

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The Other Side Of The Pillow

Thetruth album.jpg
from the album The Truth
Song details
Performer: SymbolSmallerBlue.png
First Released: 29 January 1998 - The Truth album
Album(s): The Truth

One Nite Alone... Live!

Writer(s): Prince (as SymbolSmallerBlue.png)
Producer(s): Prince (as SymbolSmallerBlue.png)
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:

The Other Side Of The Pillow is the eighth track on Prince’s 21st album The Truth (his fifth using the name SymbolSmallerBlue.png). In 2002, a live version was also included as the seventh track on the first disc of One Nite Alone... Live!, Prince’s first live album (along with Muse 2 The Pharaoh, Mellow and Strange Relationship from the same show), and a slightly edited version had been included seven months earlier as the fourth track on the One Nite Alone... Live EP promotional CD.

Specific recording dates are not known, but was recorded in the winter of 1996 / 1997 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, when sessions for the album took place. The song was performed on the One Nite Alone... Tour in 2002. Prince re-recorded The Other Side Of The Pillow with Maceo Parker (who was a band member on the One Nite Alone... Tour) in studio that year but, according to Parker, they never got to finish it. He re-recorded the track (as Other Side Of The Pillow) after Prince’s passing and included it on his album Soul Food: Cooking With Maceo released in 2020. As his new version contains no Prince input, it is not listed below.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
December 1996 - March 1997 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
2002 Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Re-recording with Maceo Parker
Recording Personnel

Studio version

  • Prince (as SymbolSmallerBlue.png) - all vocals and instruments


Live version


Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
The Other Side Of The Pillow 3:20 The Truth Studio
The Other Side Of The Pillow 4:43 One Nite Alone... Live EP promo Live 11 March 2002, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA; slight edit of full track below
The Other Side Of The Pillow 4:45 One Nite Alone... Live! Live 11 March 2002, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA; full version


Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
The Other Side Of The Pillow Studio Unfinished 2002 re-recording with Maceo Parker
 
Additional Information

See also Trivia


References
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