‘77 Hour Prince Marathon On VH-1 Soul This Weekend!
Ok, we are going to be on a purple cloud all weekend; There is a 77 Hour Prince Special on VH-1 Soul. It almost makes up for us missing Prince jamming with Stereofox. I said almost.
The Emperor of funk Prince will have 3 hour blocks of videos including “Sexuality”, “Controversy”, “Raspberry Beret” (w/a young Pat Smear of Nirvana fame backing him up in white and long hair), “Girls & Boys”, “Mountains”, “Alphabet St.”, “I Wish U Heaven”, “Glam Slam”, “Partyman”, “Scandalous”, “The Morning Papaers”, “Gold”, “The Most Beautiful Girl….”, “Somebody’s Somebody”, “The Holy River”, “My Name Is Prince”, “The Greatest Romance Ever Sold”, “U Make My Sun Shine”, “Musicology” and “Black Sweat”. Sometime later will be live versions “I Would Die 4 U”, “Alphabet St.”, and “America” along with more later this weekend.
If that is not enough, you will then have a 3 hour block of Prince Proteges, while some are associated with Prince, they did not eaxactly use videos for songs he helped out with. Nevertheless, you will get jams by Vanity 6, Sheena Easton, a three pack of Wendy & Lisa videos, Carmen Electra, Taja Sevelle, Jill Jones, a 6 pack of videos by Sheila E., 4 videos by The Time including “Ice Cream Castles” & “jerk Out”, Morris Day, Jesse Johnson, Chaka Khan, The Family, Rosie Gaines, and many more.
There will also be a Prince pop up video special, multiple airings of “The Prince of Paisley Park” and his Acadamy Award winning film, “Purple Rain”.
The special will be airing all weekend so if you miss it once, you will catch it again. Now, the Dr. knows the most creative man in music has enough videos of himself & his royal court to fill 77 hours without showing the same video twice.
Now, if it was up to us, Dr. Funkenberry would be your video DJ with no face making that happen and maybe perhaps playing some videos that have never seen the light of day on that special. Sound good to you? It sure sounds good to us. You may not be able to give the people what they want, but we sure would like to give them what they need. Can YOU hear me? Good. Enjoy the 77 hours of funk.-Dr.FB
August 30, 2008 at 5:39 am
I wish I could watch this *sad*
August 30, 2008 at 6:09 am
To bad I don’t have vh1 soul
August 30, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I have been in HEAVEN for the last 4 hours (after reading this story). I don’t watch the video channels too much, because they don’t play videos. At least, they don’t play the videos I would want to see. I have seen videos that I haven’t seen in years, and heard songs that bring back the best of memories!!! I just saw The Family, now I”m watching Rosie Gaines!!! This is the best weekend!! Thank you, so much, for telling us about it!!!!
~gb
August 30, 2008 at 4:50 pm
WOW…… I posted too soon……. the “Lovesign” video (with Nona Gaye) is on now……. HEAVEN I tell you!!!
August 31, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I have had Prince on all day, and I am in heaven…
September 1, 2008 at 10:13 pm
i cannot thank you enough for posting this
i was in such need of mental hygene as well as something for me to really enojy
and the idea that i could watch a little bit at a time all weekend long
when doing house stuff getting kids gear ready for the school year
when i got stressed putting together my total gym in the living room
that was sitting in the garage since january
43 and 20 extra pounds and how i can enjoy the whole prince thing again
so thankyou thank you thank you …..
September 2, 2008 at 9:01 am
It was a great weekend thanks to VH1 Soul having that Prince marathon on again. I hope they do this again before the year is out!
September 8, 2008 at 9:34 pm
anyone happen to record all of the prince special?