Wednesday September 7, 2022 “When Doves Cry” Prince
In addition to writing and composing the track, Prince played all the instruments on "When Doves Cry".
Peggy McCreary who was the recording engineer on “When Doves Cry” recalled Prince's exhausting recording process: "He would run through [a song] with just a piano and a vocal. And sometimes he'd do the drums and then the bass... The room was always set up and you had to be ready to do whatever he felt like doing. It was real spontaneous. You had to be there with him, which was the hard part and the exciting part. But when you're exhausted, it's hard to be excited. It was the longest I ever worked with anybody in my life. I worked around the clock, 24 hours. He said sometimes the only reason he went home was so I could sleep."
Prince's Paisley Park complex where he lived in Minneapolis was shrouded in secrecy, but visitors reported that he kept doves, and that they could get quite loud. Entertainment Weekly reporter Leah Greenblatt wrote: "Yes, he keeps doves. Yes, they cry."
Stay safe and well…and now you know what it sounds like when doves cry…or maybe it’s another parable like Animal Farm, “At the Zoo” and “The Snake”