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"Do Me, Baby" is a 1981 ballad performed by Prince, from his fourth album, Controversy. Although Prince is credited as the sole writer for the song, his former bassist and childhood friend André Cymone claimed to have written it. [3] It was released as the third and final US single from the album.
"Private Joy" is a song by American musician Prince from his 1981 album Controversy, released as the B-side of the single "Do Me, Baby". The song describes how Prince will never reveal the identity of his secret lover. This is the first time Prince used the LM-1 machine, which he would use throughout his career.
"Do Me, Baby" is an "extended bump-n-grind" ballad with explicitly sexual lyrics, and "Ronnie, Talk to Russia" is a politically charged plea to President Ronald Reagan. "Private Joy" is a bouncy bubblegum pop-funk tune, "showing off Prince's lighter side", followed by "Annie Christian", which lists historical events such as the murder of ...
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Prince in 1986. Prince was well known in the entertainment industry for having a vast body of work that remains unreleased. It has been said that his vault contains multiple unreleased albums and more than 50 fully produced music videos that have never been released, along with albums and other media.
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.
As a solo artist, she topped the R&B chart with her cover version of Prince's "Do Me, Baby" for 3 weeks, [5] (the title track from her debut album) which also became her only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at number 46 in 1986. [6] She also had a top 5 R&B single with "Do You Still Love Me" from her debut album. [6]
Estimates of the actual number of songs written by Prince (released and unreleased) range anywhere from five hundred to well over one thousand. Prince has sold over 150 million records worldwide, [ 1 ] including 39.5 million certified units in the United States, 4.7 million in France and over 10 million records in the United Kingdom.