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A Place In Heaven is a track recorded on 15 March 1986 at Prince’s Galpin Blvd Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. a month after initial tracking Lisa Coleman recorded lead vocals for the track.
Lisa Coleman’s vocal version of the track was included as the tenth track on a late April 1986 configuration of the Dream Factory album. It was then included as the eighteenth track (sixteenth song) on the 3 June 1986 configuration (segueing directly from Movie Star, and includes the final line of dialogue from that track in its opening bars) and as the twelfth track on the 18 July 1986 configuration. It was dropped, however, when the Revolution disbanded and the project evolved into the Crystal Ball triple LP, which itself was pared down to become Sign O’ The Times.
Using the Lisa vocal track for the song played backwards, a version titled Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A (‘A Place In Heaven’ spelled backwards) was also created today.
Both the version with Prince’s and with Lisa’s lead vocal were released in September 2020 on two of the discs with previously unreleased tracks included with the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe (Prince’s vocal version as the thirteenth track of Vault Tracks part 1 and Lisa’s vocal version as the eleventh track of Vault Tracks part 3).
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Recording Information
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Recording Sessions
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Studio
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Additional info
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| 15 March 1986
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Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
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Tracking, overdubs, mix
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| 20 April 1986
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Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Overdubs, including Lisa Coleman vocal, mix
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| 4 or 5 June 1986
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Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Mix
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Recording Personnel
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Prince Vocal version
- Prince - all vocals and instruments
Lisa Vocal version
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Versions
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Released Versions
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Unreleased Versions
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Version
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Additional Info
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| A Place In Heaven
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Studio
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different intro with Prince talking about environmental records
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Additional Information
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See also
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Trivia
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- If it had been released as intended on Dream Factory, this would have marked the first released track to feature Lisa Coleman on lead vocals.
- The released mix of the Prince Vocal version was done by Niko Bolas specifically for the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition release. It was made to replicate an original mix from the time the song was initially tracked, as much as possible. So even when a slightly different mix of this track might exist (besides the one with a different intro listed above), the now released version is not considered a true alternate mix of the track.
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References
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