Gigolos Get Lonely Too

"Gigolos Get Lonely Too"
"Gigolos Get Lonely Too"
Single by the Time
from the album What Time Is It?
B-side	"I Don't Wanna Leave You"
Released	March 1983
Recorded	January 11, 1982
Studio	Sunset Sound, Los Angeles
Length	4:40 (album version); 3:45 (single version);
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Morris Day (Prince)
Producer(s)	Morris Day, Prince (as The Starr ★ Company)
The Time singles chronology

"Gigolos Get Lonely Too" is the fifth track from the Time's six-song album, What Time Is It?. One of the first songs recorded for the album, it was produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince with Morris Day later adding his lead vocals.

The song is the album's only ballad, featuring treated electronic drums, as well as live drums. Keyboards and bass make up the remaining instrumentation with an understated guitar. Day sang and played drums, Jesse Johnson played guitar, and Prince played everything else. The single was backed with the album's closing track "I Don't Wanna Leave You".

The single reached number 77 on the R&B charts.[1] A live recording of the song from 1998 was included on Morris Day's 2004 release, It's About Time.

A different mix of the song is heard on the posthumous Prince album Originals, released in 2019. This version has Prince on lead vocals and most instruments, Johnson on guitar and backing vocals, and Day on drums and backing vocals.[2]

Personnel

Credits sourced from Benoît Clerc and Duane Tudahl[3][4]

Morris Day – lead and backing vocals, drums
Prince – Oberheim OB-Xa, ARP Omni-2, Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, bass guitar, Pearl SY-1 Syncussion, finger snaps, backing vocals
Jesse Johnson – electric guitar, backing vocals

References

Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 581.
"Gigolos Get Lonely Too - Prince Vault".
Clerc, Benoît (October 2022). Prince: All the Songs. Octopus. ISBN 9781784728816.
Tudahl, Duane (2018). Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538116432.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 581.

[2] "Gigolos Get Lonely Too - Prince Vault".

[3] Clerc, Benoît (October 2022). Prince: All the Songs. Octopus. ISBN 9781784728816.

[4] Tudahl, Duane (2018). Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538116432.

The Time
Morris Day Jerome Benton Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis Jellybean Johnson Monte Moir Ricky "Freeze" Smith Stanley "Chance" Howard Torrell "Tory" Ruffin Jesse Johnson Paul Peterson Mark Cardenez Jerry Hubbard
Studio albums	The Time (1981) What Time Is It? (1982) Ice Cream Castle (1984) Pandemonium (1990) Condensate [as "The Original 7ven"] (2011)
Singles	"Get It Up" "Cool" "Girl" "777-9311" "The Walk" "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" "Ice Cream Castles" "Jungle Love" "The Bird" "Jerk Out" "Chocolate" "Shake!"