Ice Cream Castle

Warner Bros. Records

‘What’ is the password.

The Time’s third album, which again saw all tracks written by Prince (as Jamie Starr) – done during the 1999 Tour – but credited to Morris Day. Ice Cream Castle is the band’s first album to contain a song (The Bird) actually performed by The Time itself, hitherto all instruments were in the main performed by Prince himself. The album accompanied Prince’s own soundtrack to the movie Purple Rain in which The Time is portrayed as The Kid’s (Prince) musical foil. Ice Cream Castle reached number 24 March 1985, on the US Billboard album charts, and is certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Although a studio version of The Bird was recorded, Prince asked The Time to perform it live for that to be the version on the album.

Morris Day left The Time following an acrimonious fallout with Prince, with this and other disagreements, The Time disbanded. A spin-off Prince project named The Family with three of The Time’s band members was created in replacement. Prince’s production credit for Ice Cream Castle under the name of Jamie Starr (The Starr ★ Company).

In 2019, Prince’s original demo version of Jungle Love, with his vocals, was released by Warner Brothers on Originals.

Key Performers

All Instruments

Prince

Vocals

Morris Day

Drums

Jellybean Johnson ^{The Bird}

Guitar

Jesse Johnson ^{My Drawers & If The Kid Can’t Make You Come}

Bass Guitar

Jerry Hubbard ^{The Bird}

Keyboards

Mark Cardenas ^{The Bird}

Paul “St. Paul” Peterson ^{The Bird}

Persussion

Jerome Benton ^{The Bird}

The Time

Vocals

Morris Day

Drums

Jellybean Johnson

Guitar

Jesse Johnson

Bass Guitar

Jerry Hubbard

Keyboards

Mark Cardenas

Keyboards

Paul "St. Paul" Peterson

Persussion

Jerome Benton

Data

Producer

The Starr ★ Company (Prince)

Label

Warner Bros. Records

Distribution

Warner Bros. Records

Released

36 years, 2 months ago on 2 July 1984

Running Time

38:16

US Chart Peak

24

UK Chart Peak

-

Orig. Formats

Tracklist

1. Ice Cream Castles (7:33) ¹
2. My Drawers (4:04)
3. Chili Sauce (5:45)
4. Jungle Love (5:29) ¹
5. If The Kid Can't Make You Come (7:33)
6. The Bird (7:40) ¹

¹ Co-written by Prince and Morris Day; released as singles

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