She Wears a Long Fur Coat of Mink

Today's Prince protege' scored a few big hits of her own in the 80's. If today's top 10 hit has a Prince feel to it, it's because Prince was the producer on the song. From 1984, here is the hot female drummer from Oakland known to all as Sheila E. with a song originally intended for the short lived girl group Vanity Six. Instead Sheila E. was the beneficiary of "The Glamorous Life"...




Lyrics | Sheila E. lyrics - Glamorous Life lyrics

"The Glamorous Life"

U.S. 7" single
Single by Sheila E.
from the album The Glamorous Life
B-side "The Glamorous Life" (Part II)
Released May 12, 1984
Format 7" single
12" single
Recorded March 1984
Genre Funk, dance-pop
Length 8:58 (Album)
3:41 (7" single)
6:33 (Club Edit)
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Prince
Producer Sheila E., Prince (as The Starr ★ Company)

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7

80's Movie Weekend - Feel the Krush

Thought this would be a fitting movie flashback since we are in a "LL Cool January" featuring the best of LL Cool J... from 1985, this is the movie based upon the early days of Def Jam recordings and the up and coming producer extraordinnaire, Russell Simmons... it is "Krush Groove"...


from "Krush Groove" here is LL and he can't live without his radio...

LL Cool J dans Krush Groove
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All You Can Eat by the Fat Boys... gonna stuff my face to a funky beat!



here are the Beastie Boys making an appearance with "She's On It"...



this song wasn't on the soundtrack, but was a big hit for Sheila E.... here is Run-DMC "discovering" Sheila E. as she performs "A Love Bizarre" with Prince on backing vocals...



probably the biggest hit from the Krush Groove Soundtrack included this pop hit from the doo wop group from New York known as The Force M.D.'s and "Tender Love"...

Song lyrics | Tender Love lyrics

Krush Groovin' with Fat Boys, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow and Sheila E. doing some rap...




"Krush Groove"

released in 1985
Warner Brothers

"Krush Groove Soundtrack"
released in 1985

Track listing
Chaka Khan - "(Krush Groove) Can't Stop The Street" (5:10)
LL Cool J - "I Can't Live Without My Radio" (4:25)
Kurtis Blow - "If I Ruled The World" (6:19)
Fat Boys - "All You Can Eat" (3:27)
Debbie Harry - "Feel The Spin" (4:01)
Sheila E. - "Holly Rock" (4:57)
Beastie Boys - "She's on It" (3:32)
Gap Band - "Love Triangle" (4:47)
Force MD's - "Tender Love" (3:55)
Krush Groove All-Stars - "Krush Groovin'" (5:05)

Other songs appeared in the film but were not on the album soundtrack included:

Autumn - "Kold Krush"
Run DMC - "King of Rock," "It's Like That", "Can You Rock it Like This," "You're Blind"
Fat Boys - "Don't You Dog Me," "Fat Boys," "Pump it Up (Let's Get Funky)"
Sheila E. & Prince- "A Love Bizarre"
UTFO - "Pick up the Pace" (released as a b-side of "All You Can Eat" on Warner Bros. Records)
Nayobe - "Please Don't Go"
New Edition - "My Secret"
Chad - "I Want You to be My Girl"