On this day in history (October 8, 1980), Prince released his 3rd studio album Dirty Mind on Warner Bros Records. This album featured the singles Uptown, Dirty Mind and Do It All Night. However, one of the more popular tracks is When You Were Mine which was later covered by Cyndi Lauper and Mitch Ryder.

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For this album, Prince was still mostly performing it by himself. However, the album credits Lisa with background vocals on Head and Dr Fink for synths on Dirty Mind and Head. Morris Day is also credited as a co-writer on Partyup.

Performances

Here is a performance of the track Party Up, as it appeared on SNL in February 1981

Here is the official video for the title track, Dirty Mind

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