1983 - 1984: Chronological Prince and the Revolution recordings part 1

Credit where credit is due: This part of the Chronological Prince Recordings list
has been adjusted with information from Duane Tudahl's essential Purple Rain Era Sessions book. Buy a copy now and read all the exciting stories behind the music.

* = released version

Home Studio, early-mid January 1983
Lady Cab Driver/I Wanna Be Your Lover/Head/Little Red Corvette (Tour Demo) (7:00)* (19/1)
My Sex #1 - tentative placing

Stevie Nicks, Studio 55, Los Angeles, 8 February 1983
Stand Back (4:57) (Stevie Nicks) - Prince added synthesizer to Stevie's 29 January recording

1999 Tour, Universal Recording Corporation, Chicago, 1 March 1983
Katrina's Paper Dolls #3 (3:30)*

Home Studio, 14 March 1983 
The Time: The Bird #1 (6:29) (Prince/Morris Day/Jesse Johnson) 

The Time: Ice Cream Castle, Sunset Sound, 25-27 March 1983
Jungle Love #1 (3:04)* (25 or 26/3) (Prince/Morris Day/Jesse Johnson) – Prince vocal, based on 1982 demo (4:31) by Jesse Johnson 

Untitled instrumental (10 minutes)
My Summertime Thang #1 (26/3) 

Cloreen Bacon Skin #1 (15:37)* (27/3)
Cloreen Bacon Skin #2 (31/3) - 4 minutes edit of #1

The Time: Ice Cream Castle, Sunset Sound, 14-22 April 1983
My Summertime Thang #2 (14 & 17/4) - mix of #1 & overdubs
Chili Sauce (5:45)* (14-18/4) - originally entitled Proposition #17
If The Kid Can't Make You Come #1 (9:12) (16-17 & 20/4)
Chocolate #1 (17/4)
Velvet Kitty Cat #2 (previously “Mink Kitty Cat”) (19 or 20/4) (2:43)* - Prince on lead vocal

My Love Belongs To You (Instrumental) (7:03) (19 or 20/4) 

Sleazy (5:30) (20/4)
Chocolate #2 (5:49) (21/4) - Prince on lead vocal. Overdubs and background vocals by Jill Jones, Wendy & Lisa. Guitar solo by Wendy Melvoin

Chocolate #3 (22/4) - lead vocal by Morris Day

Home studio, spring – summer 1983
Vanity 6: May I Introduce My Sex To Yours? – mentioned by Jill Jones. Tentative placing

Vanity 6: Sex Shooter #1 (6:57) (30/4)
Promise To Be True #1 (30/4)
Darling Nikki #1 (4:15) (2/5) 

Dez Dickerson: Modernaire #1 (8:15)
Dez Dickerson: (I Want 2 B A) Modernaire #2 (4:02)* (May) - edit of #1
Dez Dickerson: Promise 2 B True #2 (2:49) (May) - previously titled Promise To Be True
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg (Eddie Holland/Norman Whitfield) (May) – cover of The Temptations

Let’s Get Crazy #1 (4:11) (18/5)
G-Spot #1 (5:13) (summer) - Prince on lead vocal
Unknown song (27/6) 
Release It #1 - from a session with David Coleman. Tentative placing

Home studio, summer 1983
Moonbeam Levels #2 (4:06)* – edit of #1

Divinity (Instrumental) (10:27) – recorded between May and late July. Thought to be Lust U Always #2

It’ll Take You Days To Find Her (feat. Stevie Nicks) (4:35) (16/7) – thought to be I Know What To Say To You

Vanity 6: Vibrator (Spoken Part) (1:17)
Vanity 6: Vibrator (7:14) – segues with
Vanity 6: G-Spot #2
Sex Shooter #2 – Prince vocal, tentative placing
Vanity 6: Sex Shooter #3 (5:06)
Instrumental (Bass Part) (4:11) – tentative placing, not mentioned in Duane Tudahl's book 
Instrumental (“Jamming ‘til The Dawn”/”Climax”) (4:50) – recorded between June and September
Vanity 6: Manic Monday #1 – mentioned by Brenda here: Brenda on Manic Monday

Prince And The Revolution rehearsal, July 1983
Billy/Strange Relationship (51:08)

Prince and The Revolution, 1st Avenue, 3 August 1983
Let’s Go Crazy (5:25) – previously “Let’s Get Crazy”
When You Were Mine (2:29)
A Case Of U (2:33) (Joni Mitchell)
Computer Blue (6:36)
Delirious (4:28)
Electric Intercourse #2 (5:27)
Automatic (6:46)
I Would Die 4 U #2 (2:09)
Baby I’m A Star #3 (4:54)
Little Red Corvette (3:12)
Speech by Loyce Houlton, artistic director of MDT (1:18)
Purple Rain #1 (15:32)
D.M.S.R. (8:01)

Prince and The Revolution, St. Louis Park Warehouse, August 1983
Let’s Go Crazy #2 (Special Dance Mix/Extended Version) (7:37)* (7/8)
Computer Blue #1 (Warehouse Version) (11:44) (8/8) (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin/John L. Nelson)
Brenda Bennett: 17 Days #1

Purple Rain, Sunset Sound, 15 August – 21 September 1983
Computer Blue #2 (13:29) (15-16/8) (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin/John L. Nelson) - no Wendy & Lisa talk
Purple Rain (Orchestration) (11:40) (15/8)
Purple Rain #2 (12:18) (15 & 18/8)
Computer Blue #3 (14:03) (17-19 & 21/8) (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin/John L. Nelson) - Wendy & Lisa talk
Baby I’m A Star #4 (18/8) - string overdubs
Computer Blue #4 (12:19)* (29-31/8) (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin/John L. Nelson) - Wendy & Lisa talk plus hallway speech
I Would Die 4 U #3 (3:17) (31/8-3/9)
I Would Die 4 U #4 (2:51)* - tentative placing
I Would Die 4 U #5 (7" Version) (2:58) - tentative placing
Baby I'm A Star #5 (4:54) (1-3/9) - with Prince spoken intro
Baby I'm A Star #6 (5-7/9) - with backwards intro
Untitled instrumental #1 (5:23) (7/9) – becomes I Am Five
I Am Five #2 (2:59) (8/9) – previously untitled instrumental from 7/9
Electric Intercourse #3 (4:57) (12/9) - overdubs & mix of #2
Purple Rain #3 (10:37) (13-15/9) - overdubs
Irresistible Bitch #4 (6:04) (15-18/9)
Irresistible Bitch #5 (4:11)* - edit of #3
G-Spot #3 (16/9) - overdubs
Darling Nikki #2 (18-19/9) – extended with backwards segment of “Hello, how r u?...”
Irresistible Bitch #6 (Instrumental) (6:49) (19/9)
The Beautiful Ones #1 (5:56) (20/9)
Baby I’m A Star #7 (4:20)* (9-12/9) - edit of #6
Baby I'm A Star (Edit) (2:55)*
Purple Rain #4 (8:45)* - edit of #3

The Time, 1st Avenue, 4 October 1983
The Bird #2 (7:28)
Jungle Love #2 (4:10)

Piano rehearsal, October 1983 – tentative placing
17 Days (6:23)*
Purple Rain (1:27)*
A Case Of You (1:41)* (Joni Mitchell)
Mary, Don’t You Weep (4:42) *(traditional)
Strange Relationship (2:39)*
International Lover (3:48)*
Wednesday #1 (2:00)*
Cold Coffee And Cocaine (5:13)*
Why The Butterflies (6:27)* - bootlegged as Mama

Purple Rain, home studio, mid October – November 1983 – test pressing of album 7 November 1983
Apollonia 6: Sex Shooter #4
Wednesday #2 (1:41) (23/10) - Prince on piano & Jill Jones on vocal
Jill Jones: Wednesday #3 (1:39) (24/10)
Father's Song #1 (24/10) (5:15) (John L. Nelson) - piano only
Sex Shooter #5 (Long Version) (7:00)* (6/11)
Jill Jones: Mia Bocca #2 (5:27) (early November)
Father’s Song #2 (5:31)* (20/11) - with overdubs
Father’s Song #3 – edit of #2

Purple Rain (Lisa and Wendy’s Movie Mix) (1:29) – played on cassette in the movie

Sunset Sound, 27 December 1983 - 9 January 1984
The Glamorous Life #1 (8:07) (27-28/12) - cello overdub: 6/1
Next Time Wipe The Lipstick Off Your Collar #1 (28/12)
Blue Love #1 (4:25) (28/12)
She's Always In My Hair #1 (6:28) (29/12)
We Can Fuck #1 (10:18)* (31/12 - 2/1) – with Wendy, Susannah & Jonathan Melvoin, Lisa & David Coleman
We Can Fuck #2 – 6 minutes edit of #1. Tentative placing

The Time: The Bird #3 (8:33) (4-5 & 10 & 18/1) (Prince/Morris Day/Jesse Johnson) - mix of #2 (Live)
Be My Hero #1 (5/1) (6:38) – instrumental, with Wendy and Lisa
Oliver’s House #1 (5-6 & 8/1)
Be My Hero #2 (6/1) – string overdubs added
The Dawn #1 (7-8/1) (14:51) - instrumental including elements from 17 Days, God (Instrumental) & The Question Of U
17 Days #2 (8/1)
Oliver's House #2 (9/1) - Sheila E. adds drums
Shortberry Strawcake #1 (9/1) - tentative placing
Apollonia 6: The Belle Of St. Mark #1 (5/1) – based on rhythm track by Jesse Johnson

The Time: Ice Cream Castle, Sunset Sound, 11-19 January 1984 - album compiled 19/1
My Drawers (4:04)* (11-12 & 15-16/1)
Tricky (3:12)* (12/1)
Untitled instrumental #1 (3:18) (12/1)
Untitled instrumental #2 (3:41) (12/1)
Ice Cream Castles #1 (Instrumental) (7:02) (13/1)
Ice Cream Castles #2 (7:33)* (14/1) (Prince/Morris Day)
Jungle Love #3 (5:29)* (15/1) (Prince/Morris Day/Jesse Johnson)

Sheena Easton, Sunset Sound, 20-21 January 1984
Sugar Walls #1 - Prince vocal
Jill Jones: Sugar Walls #2
Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls #3 (3:58)* (22/1)

Apollonia 6, Sunset Sound, 22 January - 6 February 1984 – 1st configuration compiled 6/2 & 2nd configuration assembled 29/2
Take Me With U (Duet with Apollonia) #1 (4:56) (22 & 27-31/1)

Velvet Kitty Cat #3 - tentative placing
Apollonia 6: Some Kind Of Lover (4:48)* (1-2/2)
A Million Miles (I Love You) #1 (3:12) (1/2) (Prince/Lisa Coleman) – recorded live by Prince with Sheila E, Wendy & Lisa
Apollonia 6: A Million Miles (I Love You) #2 (5:51)* (3/2)
Apollonia 6: In A Spanish Villa (2:12)* (3/2)
Manic Monday #2 (4/2) - Prince on lead vocal
Apollonia 6: Manic Monday #3 (2:50) (5/2)
Apollonia 6 album segues* (5/2)
Apollonia 6: Ooh She She Wa Wa (4:10)* (5/2)

Sunset Sound, 7 February – 26 March 1984 - Purple Rain album configuration without Take Me With U compiled 23/3 & 26/3
Father’s Song #4 (Movie Version) (1:12) (7/2) (John L. Nelson)
Lisa And Wendy's Purple Rain Instrumental
God (Love Theme From Purple Rain/Instrumental) (7:49)* (7/2)
Purple Piano Medley (Father's Song/Venus De Milo/Unknown/God/Raspberry Beret/You're My Love/Wednesday/Do Me, Baby/Moonbeam Levels) (15:01) (7/2)
The Glamorous Life #2 (8-9/2) - Sheila E drum overdub & mix
Backwards Woman (Moaning From Purple Rain Film) (8/2)
The Belle Of St. Mark #2 (10/2) - Prince on lead vocal
Shortberry Strawcake #2 (4:44)* (11/2)
Noon Rendezvous #1 (3:01)* (13/2) - Prince on lead vocal
Noon Rendezvous #2 – Prince lead vocal on final Sheila E version
Unused scores for at least four Purple Rain scenes (15/2)
Another Lonely Christmas (6:47)* (18-19/2)
Another Lonely Christmas (Edit #1) (4:54)* - tentative placing
Another Lonely Christmas (Edit) #2) (4:20) - tentative placing
Pop Life #1 (Extended) (9:10)* (19-20/2) – drums: Sheila E.
Pop Life #2 (3:42)* (20/2) – edit of #1
Wendy And Lisa: Duncan The Kitty (5:25) – probably no involvement from Prince
Traffic Jam (Instrumental) (4:25) (between 23 and 26/2) – funky drum machine groove, rock riff alternating on guitar & synth
Love And Sex #1 (27/2)
Traffic Jam (Disco Mix) (5:45) (27/2)
Love And Sex #2 (5:01)* (28/2) – background vocals by Wendy & Lisa and Jill Jones
When Doves Cry (5:52)* (1-3/3)
When Doves Cry (Instrumental) (3:49) (2/3)
When Doves Cry (Edit) (3:49)* (4-5/3)
Paisley Park (Instrumental) (4:12) (9/3)
Possessed #2 (7:56)* (17/3)
Blue Love #2 (17/3) – harp overdub
17 Days #3 (7:24) (18/3) - overdubs (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin)
17 Days #4 (3:54)* (21/3) - edit of #3
Darling Nikki #3 (4:15)* (21/3) - edit of #2
Possessed #3 (Instrumental) (7:44) (21/3)
Computer Blue #5 (7:30) (21/3) (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin/John L. Nelson) - edit of #4
Computer Blue #6 (7:23) (22/3) - segues with Darling Nikki
Apollonia 6: Sex Shooter #6 (3:39)* (22/3) - edit of #5
The Beautiful Ones #2 (5:15)* (22/3) – edit of #1
Let’s Go Crazy #3 (4:39)* (22/3) - edit of #1
Erotic City #1 (6:40) (25/3) - duet with Sheila E.

Sheila E. in The Glamorous Life, Sunset Sound, 28 March - 4 April 1984 – album completed
The Glamorous Life #3 (8:58)*
The Glamorous Life (Club Edit) (6:33)* - tentative placing
The Belle Of St. Mark #3 (5:08)*
Noon Rendezvous #3 (3:50)*
Oliver’s House #3 (6:20)*
Next Time Wipe The Lipstick Off Your Collar #2 (3:44) (1/4) - with drum beat
Next Time Wipe The Lipstick Off Your Collar #3 (3:50)* (2/4) - no drum beat
Erotic City #2 (6:52) (4/4) - tentative placing

The Time: Ice Cream Castle, Sunset Sound, 10 April 1984 - album completed
The Bird #4 (7:40)* - edit of #3
If The Kid Can’t Make You Come #2 (7:33)* - edit of #1
The Bird (Remix/Dance Mix) (6:25)* - tentative placing

Purple Rain, Sunset Sound, 14 April 1984 – album completed
Computer Blue #7 (3:59)* (Prince/Matt Fink/Lisa Coleman/Wendy Melvoin/John L. Nelson) - edit of #5
Take Me With U #2 (3:54)* - edit of #1, tentative placing
Take Me With U (Edit) (3:44)* - tentative placing

Apollonia 6, Sunset Sound, 15 April 1984
Blue Limousine (6:19)*
Blue Limousine (Edit) (3:22)* - tentative placing

Sunset Sound, 25 April 1984
Possessed #4 (Instrumental) (7:16) - edit of #3

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 1 - 21 May 1984
Roadhouse Garden #1
Our Destiny #1
Strange Relationship #2
Most Likely 2

Sunset Sound, 27 May 1984
Purple Rain End Credits Medley #1 (8:27) (27/5)
Purple Rain End Credits Medley (5:25) – edit of #1

Sunset Sound, 5 June 1984
Let's Go Crazy #4 (Edit) (3:46)*

Prince and The Revolution, 1st Avenue, 7 June 1984
17 Days (5:26)
Our Destiny #2 (3:11)/(3:08) – segued with
Roadhouse Garden #2 (4:46)/(4:55)
All Day, All Night #1 (5:41)
Free (4:38)
Noon Rendezvous (9:06)
Erotic City (7:54)
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) (10:08)
When Doves Cry (12:02)
The audience chants Happy Birthday (0:36)
Irresistible Bitch (5:48)
Possessed (5:41)

Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls remixes, Sunset Sound, 19-20 June 1984
Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls (Instrumental) (19/6) – mixed by Greg Mathieson
Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls (Dance Mix) (7:02)* (20/6) – remixed by Greg Mathieson & Rusty Garner
Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls (Long Roman Version) (6:38)* (20/6) – remixed by Greg Mathieson & Rusty Garner
Sheena Easton: Sugar Walls (Red Mix) (5:31)* (20/6) - remixed by Greg Mathieson & Rusty Garner

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 23 June - 2 July 1984
Susannah’s Pajamas #1 (23/6) – originally titled Mazerati and then BMW
100 MPH #1 (3:20) (24/6)
100 MPH #2 - tentative placing
High Fashion #1 (27/6)
Mutiny #1 (27/6)
Desire #1 (27-28/6) - originally titled Ecstasy
Slow Love #1 (1/7) (Prince/Carole Davis) – guitar: Wendy, backing vocals: Wendy & Lisa
High Fashion #2 (4:58) (2/7) - saxophone overdubs
Mutiny #2 (3:51) (2/7) - saxophone overdubs
Desire #2 (5:17) (2/7) - saxophone overdubs
Susannah’s Pajamas #2 (4:01) (2/7) – saxophone overdubs

Sunset Sound, 8 July, & home studio mid-July 1984
Erotic City #3 (7:24)*
Erotic City (Edit) (3:53)*

The Family, Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 15 July – 20 July 1984
Nothing Compares 2 U #1 (15/7)
Feline #1 (Instrumental) (4:07) (16/7) – bootlegged as Be Alive and Just 4 U
Nothing Compares 2 U #2 (4:34) (18/7) - saxophone overdubs

Feline #2 (3:55) (19/7) – tom-toms: Bobby Z. Rivkin & Jellybean Johnson, saxophone: Eric Leeds
The Family: Susannah’s Pajamas #3 (3:58)* (Prince/Eric Leeds) - tentative placing

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 23 July 1984
America #1 (21:42)* (23/7) – recorded live with The Revolution

Apollonia 6, Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 1-4 August 1984 – album completed
Happy Birthday, Mr. Christian (7:06)* (1/8)

The Family, Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 5 August 1984
The Family: River Run Dry #1 (5/8) (Bobby Z)
Yes #1 (7:02) (5/8) (Prince/Eric Leeds) – originally titled Lisa. Different from 2010 track Yes 

Sunset Sound, 5-9 August 1984
Jungle Love (Edit of #1) (3:26)* (5/8)
Purple Rain (Edit) (4:02)* (9/8)

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 10 August - 27 September 1984
The Family: Miss Understood (5:22) (10/8)
She's Always In My Hair #2 (15/8)
Around The World In A Day #1 (5:58) (16/8) – based on David Coleman’s June ’84 recording
The Dance Electric #1 (11:30)* (17/8)
The Screams Of Passion #1 (5:32) (18/8)
The Dance Electric #2 (11:42) (18/8) - background vocals: Wendy & Lisa
God (Vocal) #1 (3:59)* (19-20/8)
God #2 (Instrumental Mix) (4:09) (20/8) 
The Family: Mutiny #3 (3:57)* – between 20/8 and 7/9
The Family: The Screams Of Passion #2 – between 20/8 and 7/9
The Family: Nothing Compares 2 U #3 (4:43) – between 20/8 and 7/9
The Family: Desire #3 – between 20/8 and 7/9

Sheila E.: Too Sexy (23 & 30/8) – probably no involvement from Prince
Sheila E.: The Belle Of St. Mark (Dance Remix) (7:43)* (3/9)
Instrumental (3/9) (5:53) – listed as New Song, possibly entitled Sunday
Wonderful Ass #2 (6:24)* (7/9) - with Wendy & Lisa
Wonderful Ass (Single Edit) (9/9)
Paisley Park #1 (10/9) - strings added 12/9
She’s Always In My Hair #3 (New Mix) (6:38)* (11/9)
She’s Always In My Hair (Dance Mix) (Instrumental) (6:30) (11/9)
She’s Always In My Hair (Drums, bass, horns mix) (11/9)
Raspberry Beret #2 (New Mix) (12-13/9) – strings: Wendy & Lisa
Raspberry Beret #3 (3:31)* - edit of #2. Tentative placing

The Family: High Fashion #3 (14/9)
Around The World In A Day #2 (5:08) (16/9) – based on David Coleman’s June ’84 recording
Girl #3 – previously titled Boy. Tentative placing

Tambourine #1 (27/9)

Sunset Sound, 27 September - 2 October 1984
Our Destiny #3 (2:59) (27-28/9) – overdubbing by Wendy & Lisa, string part used as segue between Pop Life and The Ladder on Around The World In A Day
Roadhouse Garden #3 (3:33) (27/9) – overdubbing by Wendy & Lisa
All Day, All Night #2 (27/9) – overdubbing by Wendy & Lisa
Jill Jones: Our Destiny #4 (29/9)
The Dance Electric #3 (6:28) (2/10) 

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 3 October 1984
I'm So Confused #1 (1:59)
I'm So Confused #2 (1:06) - edit of #1, tentative placing, used as segue between Darling Nikki & The Beautiful Ones on the Purple Rain Tour

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 9 October 1984
The Family: Yes #2 (4:27)* - edit of #1

Sunset Sound, 9-11 October 1984
Condition Of The Heart (6:46)* (9-10/10)
Paisley Park #2 (4:41)* (11/10)

Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 14 October 1984
Around The World In A Day #3 (3:25)* - based on David Coleman’s June ’84 recording

Minneapolis Auditorium, 25 October 1984
I Would Die 4 U (12” version) #1 (30:41) - recorded live with The Revolution and Sheila E & her band

Prince and The Revolution, St. Paul Civic Center & Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, 31 October 1984
The Ladder #1 (7:10) - saxophone: Eddie Minnifield, background vocals: Susannah Melvoin & Taja Sevelle 

Prince And The Revolution, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, 4 November 1984
Baby I’m A Star (Video Version) #1 – with Sheila E and members of her band
Baby I’m A Star (Video Version) #2 (9:28) – edit of #1

Prince And The Revolution, Capital Centre, Maryland, 20 November 1984
I Would Die 4 U (Video Version) (4:31) – with Sheila E and members of her band

Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, 7 December 1984
Temptation #1 – sax: Eddie Minnifield
I Would Die 4 U (12” version) #2 (10:20)* – edit of #1, tentative placing

Around The World In A Day, mobile truck, 24 December 1984 – album completed
Temptation #2 (8:21)* - closing dialogue is added
Tambourine #2 (2:46)* - overdubs
The Ladder #2 (5:26)* - edit of #1