Do Me, Baby
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| “Do Me, Baby” | |||||
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U.S. promotional 7" single
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| Single by Prince from the album Controversy |
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| B-side | "Private Joy" | ||||
| Released | 16 July 1982 | ||||
| Format | 7" promo single | ||||
| Recorded | Uptown, Sunset Sound, Hollywood Sound, 1981 | ||||
| Genre | Soul, Ballad | ||||
| Length | 7" edit: 3:57 Album: 7:47 |
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| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Prince | ||||
| Producer | Prince | ||||
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| "Let's Work" (1982) |
… | "1999" (1982) |
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"Do Me, Baby" is a classic Prince ballad, and the third and final U.S. single from his 1981 album, Controversy. With a running time of almost eight minutes, it is the longest track on the album. Sung in Prince's falsetto vocals, the soulful track has a distinctive bass guitar line, and is dominated by heavy keyboards and piano. The song is a seductive romp, and honed the artist's signature style with slow-burning numbers. The song features screams and yells of passion by Prince, and a spoken seduction at the end. It would become a standard of many tours and would often be extended to "tease" the audience. The B-side was fellow Controversy track, "Private Joy." Despite improving upon the hugely popular slow jam approach of Barry White, Teddy Pendergrass and others, the single didn't chart until a remake of the song by R&B singer Meli'sa Morgan went to No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1986. The main reason for Prince's version not charting is because it was a promotional airplay single and was not for sale; this was probably one the earliest examples of an airplay single, a kind of single that would prove very popular in the 1990s. "Do Me Baby" received moderate airplay on R&B stations, but since there were no airplay charts at the time, it was ineligible to chart.
The song was later used in the 2007 motion picture Rush Hour 3.
| Preceded by "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne & Friends |
Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number one single (Meli'sa Morgan version) February 15 - March 1, 1986 |
Succeeded by "How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston |
[edit] External links
- "Do Me, Baby" lyrics
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