PRINCE produced Vanity 6 1982 debut album Excellent VG+ RARE OOP HTF Nice Copy

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Please read full description --  If you love the music of Prince, you will really treasure this one!  Also please check my current items for more rare Prince-related items from my personal collection.

This record is very rare and hard to find and out of print. It is notably produced by Prince, and is interesting to hear his style. No credit is given to Prince on the album credits.  Credit is given to the fictitious Starr Company which is basically a pseudonym given by Prince for his work.  His voice can be clearly identified on the song -- If a Girl Answers (Don't hang up).  In my opinion this is some really great music, even better than some contemporary work of his under his own name.

This is a great collectors copy!  This is very enjoyable music and notable of the 80s sound.

Please read information regarding details of the music on this album provided by Wikipedia below.

Cover is excellent  with original shrink wrap. Disc is excellent with very light spindle marks on the label. Visually and listen-tested for grading.   Side one plays excellent throughout.  There is a little surface noise at the beginning of the first track of side two making it VG+ and excellent throughout the rest of Side two.  Please see photos.  Comes with the original Warner Bros. inner poly-sleeve.Album is complete in the original shrink wrap and original inner sleeve.  Record sleeve is excellent condition without any spine separation or other impairments. Inner sleeves is excellent with the original with the Warner Bros. logo.

Record will be shipped with the desks carefully packaged using 3 mm probably sounds sleeves packaged separately from the inner paper sleeves.  I use sturdy professional cardboard shippers to ensure your product arrives in pristine condition.

Item has been stored in a smoke free pet free home.

Shipment will be via media mail with delivery confirmation.

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The following information detailing the music on this album was found on Wikipedia:

Vanity 6 is the 1982 self-titled debut studio album by American R&B/Pop vocal girl group Vanity 6 released on Warner Bros. Records. The group had been created by Prince as an outlet for his prolific song writing. All three women in the group (Vanity, Brenda Bennett, Susan Moonsie) shared lead and background vocals. As was typical for Prince's side projects, he obscured his virtually complete responsibility for the production, songwriting, and instrumental performances by arbitrarily attributing the credits to other members of his musical stable or the fictional "The Starr Company". "If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)" was co-written with The Time member Terry Lewis and "Bite the Beat" was co-written with Jesse Johnson.

"He's So Dull" was written by Dez Dickerson and can be heard briefly in the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation.[5] The "other woman" rap on the song "If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)" is performed by Prince in an affected voice whose resemblance to that of The Time's lead singer Morris Day has sometimes led to Day being misidentified as the performer.[5]

The album was originally released on August 11, 1982[6] by Warner Bros. Records on LP and cassette. A compact disc was issued in September 1988. All three formats are now out of print. Vinyl copies of the album were pressed with "Side 1" and "Side 6" on the label. Reviewing the album in The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote, "All eight of these dumb, dancy little synth tunes get me off when I let my guard down, and most of them are funny, hooky, and raunchy at the same time."[7] The album was later certified gold by the RIAA in 1983 a year after its release due in large part to the smash success of Prince's 1999. This would be the only album released by Vanity 6.