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.
Basic tracking took place on 27 June 1988, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (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, Train and Interesting) 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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27 June 1988
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Paisley Park Studios (Studio A), Chanhassen, MN, USA
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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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