Prince's Ballad of Dorothy Parker for the millionth time, this time after reading the new Rolling Stone article celebrating Sign 'O' The Times' 30th.
In March 1986, Prince inaugurated his new state-of-the-art home studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, with "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker," an avant-garde slow jam with stuttering electro beats and vocals that flash like fractals, with different effects and voice tones, as Prince plays the roles of both Ms. Parker and himself, singing a bit of Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" and even voicing the ring of a telephone. "Prince had this dream where he thought of this song the dream of the bathtub and all that and he came downstairs and told me, 'Let's go. Let's record,'" says Susan Rogers, Prince's staff engineer and production right hand on Sign 'O' the Times. "The console hadn't been tested yet, so while we were doing 'Dorothy Parker' I'm thinking, 'God, this is awful,' because there was no high end. But I couldn't test it because he was working. Typical of Prince, our session lasted roughly 24 hours. We didn't get out of there until the next day. And he was totally happy. The seed of the song came in a dream anyway, so he used that artistically he just let the whole thing be kind of muffled."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-princes-groundbreaking-sign-o-the-times-w474150
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Prince/SOTTcoverpicheart.jpg