Prince Unreleased Love Symbol Segues (1992)

These were recorded for but not included on the “Love Symbol” album . These match-up with the included segues for "Love Symbol" album (1992) and the movie - music video 3 Chains O’ Gold (1994).

00:00 . album intro
01:39 . segue 1
02:40 . segue 3
03:21 . segue 4
03:36 . segue 5

According to Prince Vault website (I edited it some):
3 Chains O’ Gold is collection of videos of songs from the "Love Symbol" album, loosely following the story told in the albums segues, even though they were shortened and some album segues omitted, which made the storyline less clear to follow (these are those removed segues). With these posted here segues added to the ones released on Love Symbol, collectively they would have made more sense and been easier to follow.

Segue 2 is not included because that was released on the Love Symbol album and gets blocked by copyright.

Recording Sessions //
• Date: Early 1992 | Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (Prince and NPG vocals) || Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, USA (unverified) (Kirstie Alley vocals)

In March 1992, and May 1992, configurations of the album contained nine segues, and a late-Summer, 1992, configuration contained eight; most of these were removed from the album prior to release to make room for Wanna Melt With U, which was recorded in July 1992.

// Album Intro //
Intended to open the album, the intro (with an unidentified male speaking) sets the time and place as Minneapolis in 1997.

A boy called Michael digs in some dirt and finds a box containing the "three chains of Turin" (which, as shown on the 3 Chains O’ Gold home video, together make up the Prince symbol). He takes them to show his mother, the "Egyptian princess" Mayte, but is distracted by TV reporter Vanessa Bartholomew, who is reporting that Prince and the New Power Generation are embarking on "a series of concerts in which they perform an opera of entirely new music".
Michael then shows the chains to his mother, who remembers back five years to 1992, at which point My Name Is Prince begins. This segue contains a string sample lifted from Violet The Organ Grinder.
The track was included as the first track on the March,1992, the May, 1992, and the late-Summer, 1992, configurations of , but was removed for the final release.

// Segue 1 //
Intended to fit between Sexy M.F. and Love 2 The 9’s, the segue consists of a man (possibly Tommy Barbarella) handing a tape to Prince on behalf of Mayte. The man says that she’s gone and he couldn’t stop her as she had seven goons with her. The tape contains a message by Mayte over a synth sound that was also used for the intro of The Max. Starting by "Hello darling, so finally we meet", Mayte says that she went back to Egypt. She announces him that he now has in his possession the three chains of Turin and ask him to keep them safe because they are all she has in this world, besides him.

Mayte’s videotaped message was included in full in the 3 Chains O’ Gold home video between My Name Is Prince and Sexy M.F.

// Segue 3 //
Intended to fit between Sweet Baby and The Continental, the segue consists of Kirk Johnson telling Prince to cheer up and to hang out with the band.

Prince then hears Mayte saying "they’re all I have in the world", referring to the chains of Turin, before a choir says "3 chains o’ gold" (lifted from the song).

// Segue 4 //
Intended to fit between 7 and And God Created Woman, the segue consists of Mayte saying to Prince "Look now into the mirror. If you are the beginning, I am the end, and all things in between are reflected therein..."

// * Segue 5* //
Intended to fit between 3 Chains O’ Gold and The Sacrifice Of Victor, the segue consists of Prince and Mayte on an airplane on their way to Minneapolis, where they live and have a child (Michael, from the Album Intro). It features the same (unidentified) narrator from the Album intro and Vanessa Bartholomew asking why don’t you tell me the truth? from Segue [2]. (duane.Note: this version posted seems to have been edited to remove the narrator & son reference, makes me wonder was it edited after their son died in real life?)

Recording Personnel //
Prince - all vocals and sound effects, except as noted
Kirstie Alley - "Vanessa Bartholomew"
Mayte - vocals
Kirk Johnson – vocals
Tommy Barbarella – vocals (assumed)
Clare Fischer - string arrangements (sampled)
Unidentified male - narrator
Unidentified – Party noise

Above from Prince Vault website


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