UU-BRU Internet Radio For Week Ending August 6, 1983

[prenatt1166]

In 1983, Prince was involved with the Top 2 singles on my chart.

UU-BRU Internet Radio
For Week Ending August 6, 1983

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

01 02 Stevie Nicks - Stand Back featuring Prince on keyboards
02 03 Mitch Ryder - When You Were Mine written by Prince
03 04 David Bowie - China Girl
04 01 Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
05 08 Rick Springfield - Human Touch
06 06 Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money
07 10 Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
08 05 Human League - Fascination
09 14 Shalamar - Dead Giveaway
10 13 Michael Jackson - Human Nature

This was probably the first indicator (to me anyhow) that Prince was going to be a major influence for years to come.

Earlier in 1983, he spent 5 weeks at #1 with "Little Red Corvette". I did not chart "1999" during the summer of 1983 when it was re-released as a single. "1999" peaked at #17 in December 1982.

In addition to LRC, "Batdance" and "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" also hit #1 on my chart. Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" went to #1 in 1990.

:)

[reception]

I like 'When You Were Mine' and 'Stand Back'.

[620 Soul Train]

I heard that Prince also wrote "Stand Back" is that true?

[prenatt1166]

This quote is from VH1 Storytellers with Stevie Nicks on "Stand Back".

All right, well, the story of "Stand Back." Uh, many years ago, like in the beginning of the 1980's , um I got married. And my husband Kim and I were driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara for like a honeymoon. (Stevie smiles then laughs) And we heard this incredible Prince song called "Little Red Corvette". And we were like so knocked out at this song. So, we were like (Stevie dances a little) all the way, so we pulled over and we got it. And I just kind of hummed this song along to it. It's very, very different, you'll, you'll try it, you'll all go home and try this. But it's, you'll have to find where it fits in, but it was very, it was perfectly in there and we got to the , to the, hotel or wherever we went and we recorded it, and like it was a song, it was done. And, also to add that when I went in to record it, we were in the middle of recording it and I thought well, you know what? I could just call Prince and tell him this. And somebody got me his number, and that's not an easy thing to do, (audience laughs) and, and we contacted him. I was at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. We contacted him and he called me back, he called me right back and I kinda told him the story. I said I kinda hummed along this song and I'm at Sunset Sound, and how do you feel about that. And twenty minutes later her roared into the parking lot (Stevie makes a little driving motion with her hands and audience laughs) and uh, came in, listened to the song you know, very cool, very quiet. And he said, "Okay", and I said, "Do you hate it?", and he said "No, I, it's okay, it's cool" and he uh, they set up an OB8 for him and he played the "doo doo doo doo doo" the 1/16 note thing and then, he did it like one time. And then he went to the middle part where it goes "deedat deedat deedat deedat", he did that, he finished it, he said good bye and he kinda walked out of my life. (audience laughs) So that's my Prince story and it's also my story of "Stand Back".

[cartman2002]

Stand Back reached #5 in 1983 Stevie Nicks while While When You Were Mine only reached #87 in 1983 for Mitch Ryder.