Songoftheday 1/16/18 - This is it it's time for you to go to the wire, you will hit 'cause you got the burnin' desire...
from the album Diamonds and Pearls (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 16
Today's song of the day comes from Prince, who had led off his Diamonds and Pearls with the salacious single "Gett Off". Even though that barrel of funk succeeded on R&B stations, reaching the top ten, "mainstream" radio was totally reticent, where it didn't even reach the top 50 on the pop airplay chart. So as the album was released, stations grabbed onto another track from the set which was rush released, "Cream". Written and produced by Prince, the song was lascivious in its mid-tempo "strutting" arrangement, but much more subtle...
"Cream" climbed all the way to the top of the American pop chart for two weeks in November of 1991. It would be his fifth and final time he would go to #1 on the chart in the U.S. Internationally, the song would reach the top ten in Canada (#2), Australia (#2), Switzerland (#3), Norway (#3), Austria (#4), France (#5), New Zealand (#5), Sweden (#6), and the Netherlands (#7). Over in the UK, where "Gett Off" did relatively well at #4, "Cream" peaked down at #15.
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Here's the extended cut of the music video...
The "B-side" to the 12" remix single was "Gangster Glam", a take-off of "Gett Off", and it even had its own music video...
Finally, here's Prince on his Art of Musicology tour performing an acoustic version of "Cream"...
Up tomorrow: Dirty rockers want you to be glad.
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