![]() Chris Callis - photography (back cover).Jurgen Reisch - photography (front cover). ![]() George Chacon - album design (RIA Images).Lynn Barron - album design (RIA Images).Prince - producer, arranger, remixer, album cover concept.André Cymone - vocal harmony on Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? (uncredited).Prince - all vocals and instruments, except where noted.The vinyl long play format is the initial release. When We’re Dancing Close And Slow (5:18).The compact disc version is a reissue from the LP. It was certified platinum by the RIAA, indicating 1,000,000 copies shipped in the USA. The album reached number 22 on the US Billboard Top LP’s & Tapes, and number 3 on the Billboard Soul LPs Chart. Prince engaged in his first tour in the USA to support the album on the Prince Tour in November and December 1979, and February 1980, usually playing every song from the album. The album produced five singles, I Wanna Be Your Lover (which preceded the album), Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?, Still Waiting, Sexy Dancer (released in the UK & Japan only) and Bambi (released in Belgium and the Netherlands only). and André Cymone were listed in the credits as "heaven-sent helpers" leading to some questioning of their involvement, and Prince has confirmed that André Cymone adds some vocal harmony to Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? I Wanna Be Your Lover and I Feel For You were initially written for Patrice Rushen who was recording her fifth album Pizzazz at the same time (and released only four days after Prince’s album).Īs with his first album, Prince played all instruments on all tracks. However, allegedly when the costs of it started to be an issue, his manager Perry Jones got a 16-track Soundcraft series 200B board and had it shipped it to Prince’s home on North Arm Drive in Orono, Minnesota, where the album was mixed further. some overdubs and mixing initially took place at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in late May and early June. It was released worldwide in October 1979, eighteen months after his first album, For You.Īlbum sessions took place from late April to 13 June 1979 at Alpha Studios, Burbank, CA, USA. Prince is the second full-length studio album by Prince. When We’re Dancing Close And Slow (4:30).This album has not received any awards in the USA R indicates re-entry of an album that had already charted. Alpha Studios, Burbank, CA, USA Hollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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