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"When You Were Mine" | |
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Promotional single by Prince | |
from the album Dirty Mind | |
B-side | "Gotta Broken Heart Again" " Uptown" |
Released | October 8, 1980 |
Recorded | May-June 1980 |
Genre | |
Length | 3:47 |
Label | Warner Bros. |
Songwriter(s) | Prince |
Producer(s) | Prince |
"When You Were Mine" is a song written and released by Prince on his 1980 album, Dirty Mind. [6] Though not released as a single, the song received a promotional 12" release (which included "Gotta Broken Heart Again" and " Uptown"). "When You Were Mine" was later the B-side for Prince's " Controversy" single in 1981.
A live recording was included on his 2002 live album, One Nite Alone... Live! The original studio version was also included on The Hits/The B-Sides in 1993. Prince said he was inspired to write the rock song while listening to John Lennon. The track includes a Farfisa-inspired organ sound played on an Oberheim OB-X.
Credits from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud [7] [8]
"When You Were Mine" | ||||
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Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||||
from the album She's So Unusual | ||||
B-side | "Yeah Yeah" "I'll Kiss You" | |||
Released | January 31, 1985 | |||
Recorded | July 1983 | |||
Studio | The Record Plant (New York City, New York) | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 5:06 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Prince | |||
Producer(s) | Rick Chertoff | |||
Cyndi Lauper singles chronology | ||||
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Cyndi Lauper's mid-tempo ballad cover version of "When You Were Mine" is also synthesizer-based for her 1983 debut album, She's So Unusual. [6] She performed the single at the 1985 American Music Awards. It was released exclusively as a promotional single in the United States and received a commercial release in Canada and Japan.
The song was used as the theme song to the second season of the American true crime anthology television series, " Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story". In Peru's premier radio station, Radio Panamericana, it was in the year end chart for 1986, in the Top 20.
Canada 7" single
Japan 7" single
Chart (1985) | Peak position |
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Canadian Singles Chart | 62 |