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"Delirious" is a song by American musician Prince, from his 1982 album, 1999. It was the album's third single, and Prince's second Top 10 hit, reaching No. 8 in the US during the fall of 1983. The success of the single was boosted by the runaway success of the previous single, "Little Red Corvette", and also because DJs often played the first three album tracks in sequence, which just happened to be the order of the singles released from the album.

"Delirious"
U.S. 7-inch single
Single by Prince
from the album 1999
B-side	"Horny Toad"
Released	August 17, 1983[1]
Recorded	May 9, 1982
Studio	Sunset Sound
Genre	Funk rock
Length	4:00 (album version) 2:39 (single version)
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Prince
Producer(s)	Prince
Prince singles chronology
"Little Red Corvette" (1983) "Delirious" (1983) "Let's Pretend We're Married" (1983)
Prince (AUS) singles chronology
"Little Red Corvette" (1983) "Delirious" (1983) "Automatic" (1983)

Background

"Delirious" is a standard 8-bar blues number that tells how Prince is being driven crazy by a beautiful woman. The song teases the listener with sexual metaphors, hidden enough[2] to avoid being censored. The track begins with a trademark Linn drum machine loop and a bit of synth bass before the keyboard hook introduces the song. A rubbery bass guitar gives the track a rockabilly feel, which Prince had experimented earlier on "Jack U Off" from Controversy. The track ends suddenly with the sound effect of a baby cooing. In live performances over the years, Prince would later add live horns to the song, making it into more of a swing number. The 7-inch single release of the song included a poster bag with a 1983 calendar and images of Prince.

Cash Box called it "a bona fide finger-popper."[3]

The B-side to the track is "Horny Toad", which is very similar in rockabilly style and instrumentation. Some of the sexually charged lyrics were interpreted as sadistic at the time and were the source of some controversy. The track was included on The Hits/The B-Sides in 1993 and 1999 Deluxe and Super Deluxe edition in 2019.

Appearances in other media

• The sound effect of a baby cooing is sampled from Jac Holzman's "Happy Baby",[4] and was also sampled in 1986's "Baby Love" by Regina and 1998's "Are You That Somebody?" by Aaliyah.
• The song was used in the 1983 Cheech and Chong film Still Smokin'.
• The song can heard at the beginning of MGM's 1991 film of the same name.
• The song is sampled in Girl Talk's 2010 album All Day.
• The instrumental parts of the song was used as the theme song to the Captain Kangaroo show-within-a-show, Hello America, in the 1980s.
• The sound effect of a baby cooing is featured in a techno song during the 2007 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire".

Charts

Chart (1983)	Peak position
New Zealand Singles Chart	33
Canadian Singles Chart	27
US Billboard Hot 100	8
US Billboard Hot Black Singles[5]	18

References

• Uptown: The Vault – The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince: Nilsen Publishing 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X

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[ru] Delirious (песня Принса)

«Delirious» — песня американского музыканта Принса из его альбома 1982 года 1999.[3] Она была выпущена третьим синглом с альбома и стала второй песней Принса, попавшей в десятку лучших песен, добравшись до 8-й позиции в хит-параде США в конце 1983 года. Успех сингла был подкреплён успехом предыдущего сингла «Little Red Corvette», а также тем, что диджеи часто проигрывали первые три песни альбома в связке, порядок которых совпал с хронологией выпуска синглов.

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