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The A Side:
Pink Cashmere (Vocal Version) 3:56
The B Side:
Pink Cashmere (Guitar Version) 3:58
Pink Cashmere (Album Version) 6:12
The Brief:
In 1993 “Pink Cashmere” was released as the first single from Prince‘s first compilation album ‘The Hits 1’ or the first disc of ‘The Hits/The B-Sides’. It also appeared in 1996 as a track on the Girl 6 soundtrack. This promo 12” features two edits labeled “Vocal Version” and “Guitar Version” along with the original “Album Version”.
Well, that wraps up the Prince posts for the month, for the rest of the month we will visit with some Paisley Park artists as the month long Paisley June continues…
But wait! There’s more! A loyal blog reader, Andee, has provided some interesting material that he wanted to share with everyone during Paisley June: Sheila E.’s ‘Glamourous Club EP’ from Japanese vinyl in FLAC with a bonus of the Japanese 7″ edit “Love On a Blue Train”. You can grab that here: Glamorous Club. Everyone be sure and express your appreciation to Andee.
The Billboard Charts:
| Chart | Debuted | Debut Pos. | Peak Pos. | Wks on Chart |
| Hot 100 | 9/18/93 | 88 | 50 | 9 |
| Hot Black Singles | 9/18/93 | 14 | 15 |
The Source:
Label: Paisley Park Records
Catalog#: PRO-A-5993
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 1/3 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1993
The Equipment:
Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable
Audio Technica AT440MLa Phono Cartridge
Yamaha RX-Z1 A/V Receiver
Sony PCM-R300 DAT Deck
Turtle Beach Catalina sound card
Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Scanner
Spin Clean Record Washer MKII
The Software:
Cool Edit Pro
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
Microsoft ICE
The Links:
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password is: funwithvinyl
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<3 <3 <3 2 U both. =)
You’re welcome Marty
Thanks Richie!
Thanks Andee!
Paisley Park is in our hearts!
You’re welcome Ric
Thanks Andee.
Thanks so much Rich and Andee!
you’re welcome Sean
Welcome guys
Okay I’m a bit confused. I had some old MP3s of the Glamorous Life EP, and there was a special message from Sheila, as well as megamix track. The one linked in this post doesn’t have that. Are these two different issues? Just need clarification to appease my OCDPrince brain.
You must have gotten a “custom compilation” instead of the original configuration of the ‘Glamorous Club EP’. Here’s the info and track listing of the CD release on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/Sheila-E-The-Glamorous-Club-Dance-EP-/release/1773033 A special message from Sheila E may have came from the Japanese “Prince Syndicate” 45 of “Another Lonely Christmas” that had several spoken word messages from Sheila, Apollonia and Prince?
Who knows with the misinformation out there. I never knew messages to be on ALC single, but then again I don’t live overseas. haha I just love that longer version of “Blue Train”, although some of the better production is left out of it.
This one: http://www.discogs.com/Prince-The-Revolution-Another-Lonely-Christmas/release/3301131 I have been trying to get an original mint copy of it for years. I have a copy of it from a friend’s vinyl copy that we put together back in the late 90′s. Nothing groundbreaking about it other than the novelty of hearing the spoken messages from each of them.
Rich
Any chance you could mail me a copy of the jap ALC 7″ with spoken bits?????
Also, wasn’t there a reggae version, listed as “promo version”, of “Pink Cashmere”?
This one I am not aware of.
Well I have it. I remember folks on the Org talkin’ about it. Same length as the 6:12 minute version, but there is extra instrumentation, & a reggae guy on it chanting throughout.
I’ll be the first to admit, there’s a lot I don’t know about Prince records/releases. From your description, I have mixed feelings on whether I would want to hear that or not, LOL
It’s a 50/50 shot with even me! haha
First, thanks to both Andee and Richie for the Glamorous Life Japanese EP – never even knew that one existed! In fact it sounds incredible, right there with the usual greatness of FunWithVinyl stuff.
One question – why are all the tracks in mono? The original vinyl lists the tracks as being stereo. Still sounds great – and in fact, mono tends to highlight the percussion and bass, so it’s a thumpier iteration for sure. Just curious.
They are not mono. Not only can I hear L and R differences, but opening up the WAV in Cool Edit Pro, the differences are visibly clear. The song doesn’t necessarily have a “wide open” type of mix, meaning it’s not airy, or tingly, or whatever term one uses for that type of thing. It’s much more muffled in some ways; muted, compressed, etc. But it is stereo.
LOL no pleasing some
Just to be clear, I’m not talking about the Pink Cashmere single, but the Glamorous Club EP in the link here:
http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/20155847/file.html
There are 5 songs in the zip file at that link, and opening them in Sound Forge reveals they are all 1-channel (mono). And the filesize also proves that – the 5 tracks combined total 32:03 in length. One minute of 44,100 16-bit mono is roughly 5 MB. One minute of 44,100 16-bit stereo is ~10 MB.
So with a total run length of 32:03 in mono, that’s 161 MB. Compressed at about 70% in FLAC, that brings the file size down to 113 MB.
Whereas if it *were* stereo, 32 minutes of audio would be 323 MB total. And compressed in FLAC at 70%, it’d be ~226 MB.
But the link above is 114 MB…because the tracks are only 1 channel, not 2. And again, I was curious to know if the vinyl was either a mono press, or if it was digitized in mono for a particular reason.
And finally, no offense is intended. I’m thankful to have such nice-sounding copies of such a rare find, mono or stereo.
You are correct; Andee’s rip is mono, just 1 channel. It’s not even the left & right mixed together; it’s just the left channel (assuming djrichiep’s rip of ‘The Belle of Saint Mark’ posted a year ago has the channels correct).
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