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Side A:
Ice Cream Castles 3:37
Side B:
Tricky 3:12
The Brief:
“Ice Cream Castles” is the opening track from The Time’s third album, ‘Ice Cream Castle’. It’s the first of three singles from the album released in 1984. It debuted on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart on June 30, 1984 and spent 15 weeks on the chart, getting as high as #11. It made it up to #106 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles but never broke in to the Hot 100. The B-Side, “Tricky” is a collaboration between Morris Day and Prince, it has never been available on CD. Songwriting credits are attributed to Morris Day on the record…
The Source:
Label: Warner Brothers Records
Catalog#: 7-29247
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45RPM
Country: US
Released: 1984
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
The Software:
Cool Edit Pro
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
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“The B-Side, “Grace” is a collaboration between Morris Day and Prince, it has never been available on CD”
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The B-Side apparently is ‘Tricky’…
dang, it took 19 months for someone to catch that and point it out to me. good eye!
I love “Tricky”!
Sadly, both sides have audible distortion. It’s especially bad in the spoken parts of “Tricky”. It sounds like a problem with the vinyl.
Thanks!!