Ice Cream Castle

Ice Cream Castle
Studio album by The Time
Released	July 2, 1984
Recorded	March 26, 1983–January 1984
Genre	Funk, R&B, pop
Length	38:19
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Prince (as The Starr ★ Company), Morris Day, Jesse Johnson
The Time chronology
What Time Is It? (1982) Ice Cream Castle (1984) Pandemonium (1990)

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Ice Cream Castle is a 1984 album by The Time. Similar to their previous two albums, this album consists of six tracks in the funk-pop or ballad genre and it was produced and arranged by Prince as "The Starr ★ Company".

The album's two biggest hits, "Jungle Love" and "The Bird", were featured in the film Purple Rain and this, along with Day's performance in the movie, catapulted the album up the charts and to a crossover audience. Unfortunately, the band didn't have time to enjoy the success, as they had disbanded by the time the movie was released.

Ice Cream Castle produced three singles: "Ice Cream Castles", "Jungle Love", and "The Bird".

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Prince, except where noted. 

Personnel

• Prince: Guitars, Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Percussion
• Morris Day: Lead & Backing Vocals
• Sharon Hughes: Additional Vocals
• Jesse Johnson: Guitars, Backing Vocals
• Mark Cardenas, Paul Peterson: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Jerry Reed Hubbard: Bass, Backing Vocals
• Novi Novog: Violin
• Jerome Benton: Percussion, Backing Vocals
• Jellybean Johnson: Drums

Production

• Produced By Prince, Morris Day & Jesse Johnson
• Recording, Engineers: David Leonard, Peggy Mac, Terry Christian
• Mastering: Bernie Grundman

Reception

"The men from Minneapolis form the tightest funk outfit I've heard for ages," marveled Fred Dellar in Hi-Fi News & Record Review, "the heat generated on 'Jungle Love' being awesome. 'The Bird' is only fractionally less hot and 'If the Kid Can't Make You Come' an amiable street-trot, albeit a lascivious one. And if 'Chili Sauce' acts purely as a playlet in which Day can indulge in a kind of on-vinyl test for some forthcoming blue movie, then even this can be forgiven in view of The Time's other assets."^[1]

Singles and chart placings

• "Ice Cream Castles" (#11 R&B, #106 Pop)

1. "Ice Cream Castles"
2. "Tricky" (non-album track)
3. "Get It Up" – 12" single

• "Jungle Love" (#6 R&B, #20 Pop)

1. "Jungle Love"
2. "Oh, Baby" – 7" single
3. "Tricky" (non-album track) – NL 7" single, German 12" single
4. "The Bird" – 7" back-to-back single

• "The Bird" (#33 R&B, #36 Pop)

1. "The Bird"
2. "My Drawers"

External links

• "Ice Cream Castle" at discogs

References

1. ↑ Hi-Fi News & Record Review, October 1984