Time Waits For No One is the eighth and final track on Mavis Staples' first Paisley Park Records album Time Waits For No One, and, in 1989, Time Waits For No One was released as the album's second single.
While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in the final week of June, 1988, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions where he revised Come Home, I Guess I'm Crazy and Train). The song was then sent (along with Come Home, I Guess I'm Crazy and Train) to Mavis Staples in Memphis, TN, USA, where she recorded lead vocal overdubs with producers Al Bell, Homer Banks and Lester Snell at Ardent Studios. Writing credit is shared with Staples as the song is based on a demo she had brought to Prince.
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Recording Information
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Recording Sessions
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Date
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Studio
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Additional info
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Late June, 1988
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Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Initial tracking
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Summer 1988 (assumed)
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Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN, USA
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Vocal overdubs by Mavis Staples
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Recording Personnel
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Released version
- Mavis Staples - vocals
- Prince - background vocals and all instruments, except where noted
- Sheila E. - drums and background vocals (credited for "co-lead vocals")
- Boni Boyer - background vocals
Unreleased early version
- Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted
- Sheila E. - drums and background vocals
- Boni Boyer - background vocals
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Versions
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Released Versions
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Video Versions
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Title
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Length
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Released
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Version
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Additional info
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Time Waits For No One
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4:38
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Promotional release only
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Promo video
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See Time Waits For No One video for more details
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Unreleased Versions
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Title
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Version
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Additional Info
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Time Waits For No One
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Studio
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Mavis Staples' original demo (no Prince input)
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Time Waits For No One
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Studio
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Prince version, recorded late June, 1988
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