Raspberry Beret, the Glossary
"Raspberry Beret" is a song written by American musician Prince and the lead single from Prince & the Revolution's 1985 album Around the World in a Day.[1]
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61 relations: A View to a Kill (song), A-side and B-side, Abbey Road, AllMusic, American Songwriter, Around the World in a Day, Beret, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1985, Cashbox (magazine), Cello, Colossal Pictures, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, Funk, Germs (band), Greg Tate, Harmonica, Hindu Love Gods (band), HipHopDX, Irish Recorded Music Association, Jackie Swanson, Kent Music Report, Late Night with David Letterman, Linn LM-1, Lisa Coleman (musician), Los Angeles, Middle East, Music video, Neo-psychedelia, Novi Novog, Official Finnish Charts, Organ (music), Paisley Park (song), Paisley Park Records, Paste (magazine), Pat Smear, Pop Life (Prince song), Pop music, Prince (musician), Prometheus Global Media, Psychedelic pop, Raspberry (color), Rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, RPM (magazine), Spin (magazine), String instrument, Susannah Melvoin, ... Expand index (11 more) »
- Berets
- Music videos directed by Prince (musician)
- Paisley Park Records singles
A View to a Kill (song)
"A View to a Kill" is a song by English rock band Duran Duran, released on 6 May 1985. Raspberry Beret and a View to a Kill (song) are 1985 singles and Cashbox number-one singles.
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A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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Abbey Road
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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American Songwriter
American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine covering songwriting.
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Around the World in a Day
Around the World in a Day is the seventh studio album by American recording artist Prince, and the second release on which his backing band the Revolution is billed.
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Beret
A beret (béret; txapel; boina) is a soft, round, flat-crowned cap, hand-knitted wool, crocheted cotton, wool felt, or acrylic fibre. Raspberry Beret and beret are berets.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1985
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1985.
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Cashbox (magazine)
Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.
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Cello
The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
Colossal Pictures
Colossal Pictures (also styled as (Colossal) Pictures or (C)P) was an American entertainment company that developed and produced television programming, advertising, network branding, and visual effects.
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Germs (band)
The Germs were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1976 to 1980.
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Greg Tate
Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957December 7, 2021) was an American writer, musician, and producer.
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Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock.
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Hindu Love Gods (band)
Hindu Love Gods was an American rock band that was, in essence, an occasional side project of members of R.E.M., with (at various times) Warren Zevon and Bryan Cook.
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HipHopDX
HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.
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Irish Recorded Music Association
The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to promote certain interests of the music industry in Ireland.
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Jackie Swanson
Jackie Swanson (born June 25, 1963) is an American actress.
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Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.
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Late Night with David Letterman
Late Night with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on NBC, the first iteration of the ''Late Night'' franchise.
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Linn LM-1
The Linn LM-1 Drum Computer is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics and released in 1980.
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Lisa Coleman (musician)
Lisa Coleman (born August 17, 1960) is an American musician and singer-songwriter, primarily on keyboards and piano.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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Music video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.
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Neo-psychedelia
Neo-psychedelia is a diverse genre of psychedelic music that draws inspiration from the sounds of 1960s psychedelia, either updating or copying the approaches from that era.
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Novi Novog
Novi Novog is an American viola player.
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Official Finnish Charts
The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista; Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
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Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.
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Paisley Park (song)
"Paisley Park" is a 1985 song by Prince and The Revolution. Raspberry Beret and Paisley Park (song) are 1985 singles, Paisley Park Records singles, Prince (musician) songs, song recordings produced by Prince (musician) and songs written by Prince (musician).
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Paisley Park Records
Paisley Park Records was an American record label founded by musician Prince in 1985, which was distributed by and funded in part by Warner Bros. Records.
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Paste (magazine)
Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.
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Pat Smear
Georg Albert Ruthenberg (born August 5, 1959), better known by his stage name Pat Smear, is an American musician.
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Pop Life (Prince song)
"Pop Life" is a song by Prince and the Revolution. Raspberry Beret and Pop Life (Prince song) are 1985 singles, Paisley Park Records singles, Prince (musician) songs, song recordings produced by Prince (musician) and songs written by Prince (musician).
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
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Prometheus Global Media was a New York City–based B2B media company.
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Psychedelic pop
Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) is pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music.
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Raspberry (color)
Raspberry is a color that resembles the color of raspberries.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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RPM (magazine)
RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.
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Spin (magazine)
Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Susannah Melvoin
Susannah Melvoin (born January 26, 1964) is an American vocalist and songwriter.
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Take Me with U
"Take Me with U" is a song by Prince and the Revolution, and the final US single released from their album, Purple Rain (1984). Raspberry Beret and Take Me with U are 1984 songs, 1985 singles, Prince (musician) songs, song recordings produced by Prince (musician) and songs written by Prince (musician).
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The Revolution (band)
The Revolution is an American band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979 by Prince, serving as his live band and later as his studio band.
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Twelve-inch single
The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12) is a type of vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a "single" or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Ultimate Prince
Ultimate Prince is a greatest hits album by American recording artist Prince.
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Warner Records
Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.
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Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer and songwriter.
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Wendy Melvoin
Wendy Ann Melvoin (born January 26, 1964) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Prince as part of his backing band the Revolution, and for her collaboration with Lisa Coleman as one half of the duo Wendy & Lisa.
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Yamaha CP-70
The Yamaha CP-70 is an electric piano manufactured by Yamaha Corporation between 1976 and 1985.
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Yamaha DX7
The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989.
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Zill
Zills or zils (from Turkish 'cymbals'), also called finger cymbals, are small metallic cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances.
See also
Berets
- Beret
- Black beret
- Blue beret
- Green beret
- Kangol
- Maroon beret
- Military beret
- Mohair berets
- Raspberry Beret
- Red beret
- Tan beret
- Uniform beret
Music videos directed by Prince (musician)
- Alphabet St.
- Betcha by Golly, Wow
- Get Wild
- Girls & Boys (Prince song)
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- Mountains (Prince song)
- New Power Generation (song)
- Raspberry Beret
- Round and Round (Tevin Campbell song)
- Somebody's Somebody
- The Holy River
- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Prince song)
- Thieves in the Temple
- When Doves Cry
Paisley Park Records singles
- 7 (Prince song)
- Alphabet St.
- America (Prince song)
- Anotherloverholenyohead
- Chocolate (The Time song)
- Cream (Prince song)
- Damn U
- Diamonds and Pearls (song)
- Erotic City
- Gett Off
- Girls & Boys (Prince song)
- Glam Slam
- Hold Me (Sheila E. song)
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- I Wish U Heaven
- If I Love U 2 Nite
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
- Insatiable (Prince song)
- Jerk Out
- Kiss (Prince song)
- Love Is Contagious
- Money Don't Matter 2 Night
- Mountains (Prince song)
- My Name Is Prince
- New Power Generation (song)
- Paisley Park (song)
- Peach (Prince song)
- Pink Cashmere
- Pop Life (Prince song)
- Raspberry Beret
- Sexy MF
- Sign o' the Times (song)
- Sister Fate
- The Morning Papers
- Thieves in the Temple
- Thunder (Prince song)
- U Got the Look
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Beret
Also known as Hello (Prince song), Old man johnson, She's Always in My Hair.
, Take Me with U, The Revolution (band), Twelve-inch single, UK singles chart, Ultimate Prince, Warner Records, Warren Zevon, Wendy Melvoin, Yamaha CP-70, Yamaha DX7, Zill.