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The song is sung as a duet with Apollonia Kotero, and was originally intended to be performed by Vanity but shortly before filming began on the movie Purple Rain, Vanity famously chose to quit participation in the film altogether when she was offered what appeared to be a lucrative contract with Motown Records exec Berry Gordy and began filming The Last Dragon (An early demo of the song exists ...
Purple Rain is the sixth studio album by the American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Prince.It was released on June 25, 1984, by Warner Bros. Records as the soundtrack album to the 1984 film of the same name.
The song's album in question, The Gold Experience, was released the following year and hit the top 40 with the singles "I Hate U" (Prince's last original single to reach the United States top 40), "Gold", and "Endorphinmachine" (in Japan), while the promotional single "Purple Medley", a remix of his greatest hits, reached the top 20 worldwide.
In 2007, Stephanie Lenz, a writer and editor from Gallitzin, Pennsylvania made a home video of her 13-month-old son dancing to "Let's Go Crazy" and posted a 29-second video on the video-sharing site YouTube. Four months after the video was originally uploaded, Universal Music Group, which owned the copyrights to the song, ordered YouTube to ...
Prince was an extremely prolific artist, having released several hundred songs both under his own name and under pseudonyms and/or pen names, as well as writing songs which have been recorded by other artists. Estimates of the actual number of songs written by Prince (released and unreleased) range anywhere from five hundred to well over one ...
The two-disc set features 40 songs from Prince's tenure with Warner Bros. Records and features recordings from all of his albums between 1978's For You and 1993's The Hits/The B-Sides. It is the first Prince collection to include his number-one hit single " Batdance " from the soundtrack album to the 1989 film Batman .
In addition, it was Prince's seventh and final song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. [6] The music video for the song was directed by Randee St. Nicholas. "Gett Off" was ranked at number 97 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s". [7]
Nick DeRiso review of the song stated it includes repeated synth motifs combining parts of the main hook from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "3rd Stone from the Sun" (a.k.a. "Third Stone from the Sun", written by Jimi Hendrix, from the 1967 album Are You Experienced ), and Prince's own " Take Me with U ".