When You Were Mine (Prince song)
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| "When You Were Mine" | |
|---|---|
| Promotional single by Prince | |
| from the album Dirty Mind | |
| B-side | "Gotta Broken Heart Again" "Uptown" |
| Released | October 8, 1980 |
| Recorded | May–June 1980 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:47 |
| Label | Warner Bros. |
| Songwriter(s) | Prince |
| Producer(s) | Prince |
"When You Were Mine" is a song written and released by Prince on his 1980 album, Dirty Mind.[6] Though not released as a single, the song received a promotional 12" release (which included "Gotta Broken Heart Again" and "Uptown"). "When You Were Mine" was later the B-side for Prince's "Controversy" single in 1981.
A live recording was included on his 2002 live album, One Nite Alone... Live! The original studio version was also included on The Hits/The B-Sides in 1993. Prince said he was inspired to write the rock song while listening to John Lennon. The track includes a Farfisa-inspired organ sound played on an Oberheim OB-X.
Personnel
[edit]Credits from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud[7][8]
- Prince – lead and backing vocals, Oberheim OB-X, ARP Omni, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
Mitch Ryder version
[edit]In 1983, Mitch Ryder released a version of the song on the John Mellencamp-produced album Never Kick a Sleeping Dog. The song peaked at number 87 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 during the week ending July 30, 1983, the highest charting position of any recording of this song in the U.S., according to the book, Joel Whitburn's Billboard Hot 100 Charts. Ryder's version was also featured in the soundtrack of the film Hot Dog…The Movie (1983).
Cyndi Lauper version
[edit]| "When You Were Mine" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||||
| from the album She's So Unusual | ||||
| B-side | "Yeah Yeah" "I'll Kiss You" | |||
| Released | April 21, 1984[9] | |||
| Recorded | July 1983 | |||
| Studio | The Record Plant (New York City, New York) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 5:06 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Prince | |||
| Producer(s) | Rick Chertoff | |||
| Cyndi Lauper singles chronology | ||||
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Cyndi Lauper's mid-tempo ballad cover version of "When You Were Mine" is also synthesizer-based for her 1983 debut album, She's So Unusual.[6] She performed the single at the 1985 American Music Awards. It was released exclusively as a promotional single in the United States and received a commercial release in Canada and Japan.
The single debuted on the RPM Top 100 singles chart dated April 27, 1985 at number 91.[12] It peaked at number 62 in its sixth week on the chart.[13] The single spent a total of nine weeks on the chart.[14]
The song was used as the theme song to the second season of the American true crime anthology television series, Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story.[citation needed]
Track listing
[edit]Canada 7" single
- "When You Were Mine" (single version) – 4:00
- "Yeah Yeah" – 3:17
Japan 7" single
- "When You Were Mine"
- "I'll Kiss You"
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1985) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Singles Chart | 62 |
References
[edit]- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Dirty Mind – Prince". AllMusic. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
- ^ Partridge, Kenneth (October 8, 2015). "Prince's 'Dirty Mind' at 35: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- ^ Shoup, Brad (April 21, 2017). "Prince Albums Ranked". Stereogum. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
- ^ "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s". Pitchfork. August 24, 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2022.
- ^ Molanphy, Chris (October 30, 2017). "Le Petty Prince Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved July 9, 2023.
- ^ a b Grow, Kory (April 21, 2016). "Prince Dead at 57". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
- ^ Clerc, Benoît (October 2022). Prince: All the Songs. Octopus. ISBN 9781784728816.
- ^ "Dirty Mind". guitarcloud.org. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
- ^ When You Were Mine (Media notes). Cyndi Lauper. Japan: Portrait. 1985. 07・5P-345.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ Breihan, Tom (November 15, 2022). "Prince - "When Doves Cry". The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. New York: Hachette Book Group. p. 170.
- ^ Evans, Paul (2004). "Cyndi Lauper". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 476. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ "RPM 100 Singles April 27, 1985" (PDF). RPM.
- ^ "RPM 100 Singles June 1, 1985" (PDF). RPM.
- ^ "RPM 100 Singles June 22, 1985" (PDF). RPM.
