Prince allegedly penned 'I Feel for You' as a valentine to one of his crushes, jazz-funk queen Patrice Rushen, and included it on his 1979 self-titled album. Once I got started, though, the words came quickly … It was very percussive and it had a catchy melody, incorporating all the black keys on the piano so that it almost sounded like a nursery rhyme.' 'It started out as an instrumental, and I couldn't think of any lyrics for it at first. wrote in her 2014 memoir, The Beat Of My Own Drum. In fact, we weren't even going to include it on the album,' Sheila E. ''The Glamorous Life' was the last song we worked on.
('Oh, I know who you are,' he said to her after she introduced herself.) The coda, which showcases Sheila E.'s incredible prowess on the drums and a wild sax solo by jazzman Jarry Williams, was snipped from the radio edit, but became well-known because of its delirious virtuosity.
This funk-laced track about a woman who, despite having the outward trappings of 'happiness,' wants romantic love became the pop breakthrough for Sheila Escovedo, who met Prince in 1978.
