"Let's Work"
Single by Prince
From the album Controversy
Single Released	1981
Single Format	7", 12"
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	Pop, Funk
Song Length	Album/7": X:XX 12" version: X:XX
Record label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Prince
Chart positions	#XX US
Prince single chronology
"Controversy" 1981	"Let's Work" 1981	"Do Me, Baby" 1981

"Let's Work" was the second single to the 1981's Controversy album by Prince. The song's originates from a dance the local kids were doing at the time in Minneapolis. Prince responded quickly with a track called "Let's Rock" and wished to quickly release it as a single. Warner Bros. refused and a disappointed Prince did not include the song on Controversy, saying the phase had past. The song was updated with new lyrics and possibly new music and became "Let's Work" — one of his most popular dance numbers to date. The song features a shouted title throughout the song and relies heavily on keyboards to create a sexy groove in the verses and quick solos for the choruses. The lyrics are a tease, equating "working" with having sex. The song was backed with "Ronnie, Talk To Russia", which precedes it on the Controversy album. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Prince changed his stage name into an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, but took up the name Prince again in 1999. ... Controversy is one of Princes early albums, and his songwriting had not fully blossomed, except on the title track, which is regarded as a classic. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A vinyl EP from Crop Circles. ... The 12-inch single gramophone record gained popularity with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music. ... Funk is a distinct style of music originated by African-Americans, e. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Prince changed his stage name into an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, but took up the name Prince again in 1999. ... A chart is a graphic whore of some data. ... Prince changed his stage name into an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, but took up the name Prince again in 1999. ... Controversy is a 1981 song by Prince, one of his most respected classic funk songs. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1980 in music, other events of 1981, 1982 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music Events January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadways Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14... Controversy is one of Princes early albums, and his songwriting had not fully blossomed, except on the title track, which is regarded as a classic. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... The Minneapolis Musicman - Prince Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a popular and influential singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... Warner Bros. ... Verse is a writing that uses meter as its primary organisational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses grammatical and discoursal units like sentences and paragraphs. ... In classical music a chorus is any substantial group of performers in a play, revue, musical or opera who act more or less as one. ... Look up Sex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A sex is one of two specimen categories of species that recombine their genetic material in order to reproduce, a process called genetic recombination. ...

The 12" is significant in several ways. First, it's Prince's first extended version of a song that goes beyond the album version. The extended remix features instrumental solos, samples from the album and extended lyrics. Prince performed the extended version in concert during the Controversy and 1999 tours. Secondly, this is the first Prince single to include a non-album B-side. "Gotta Stop Messin' About" was written on the Dirty Mind tour and is consistant with the minimalist demo-like quality of that album. Before the song was released on The Hits/The B-Sides in 1993, the single was extremely valuable on the collectors market, often fetching $100 or more. The 12-inch single gramophone record gained popularity with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. ... A remix is an alternate mix of a song different from the original version, made using the techniques of audio editing. ... In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording. ... 1999 (also known as Nineteen Ninety-Nine) is Princes fifth album, which was released in October 1982 (see 1982 in music). ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Dirty Mind is the third album by Prince, released October 1980. ... This article is about minimalism in art and design. ... Trivia The Hits 1 and The Hits 2 were also released separately. ... See also: 1992 in music, other events of 1993, 1994 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 8 - The U.S. Postal service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. ...