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[[File:Dance.jpg|right]] Originally created for the famous 1989 Batman film, this song was based around the Joker's famous catchphrase/question "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?". It was chosen to be included the the Batman album, after Batdance, but was ultimately removed because Prince felt it would have been to dark of a follow-up song.
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It was allegedly never "officially" released, but it was used as promotional material before the movie was released.
Originally created for the 1989 Tim Burton ''Batman'' film, '''"Dance with the Devil"''' was based around the Joker's famous catchphrase/question, "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?". It was chosen to be included in the film's soundtrack after "Batdance", but was ultimately removed because Prince felt it would have been too dark for the album, namely after that song.


It was also originally posted to YouTube and music sharing sites, but all traces of it were deleted with cease and desists from Warner.
While it was never officially released, it was used in some promo material for the film before its release. Due to Prince's high efforts to have none of his music on Youtube or other such sites, the song was generally very hard to find until he passed away in 2016. The song can now easily be found online.


'''EDIT''': Here is the song in question, found from the 2011 Prince bootleg collection, Work It!
==External Links==
 
*[https://mega.nz/#!mBcSVTIT!MmvlJVIoLMs_V0CXAT_tCvZDhR5qskgJ7foBhNiCUDU MEGA Mirror from 2011 bootleg Prince collection]
[https://mega.nz/#!mBcSVTIT!MmvlJVIoLMs_V0CXAT_tCvZDhR5qskgJ7foBhNiCUDU Dance With the Devil]
*[http://www.princevault.com/index.php/Dance_With_The_Devil PrinceVault page]
 
*Prince.org boards on the song: [http://prince.org/msg/7/152699 Board 1] and [http://prince.org/msg/7/263882 Board 2]
The quality is not the best, being in MP3 and sounding like it was recorded externally, but it is still very listenable though, way more than other bootlegs.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batdance Wikipedia page on Batdance]
==Sources:==
*[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/27/20-best-prince-songs-never-heard theguardian article on unreleased Prince songs, including this one]
*http://www.princevault.com/index.php/Dance_With_The_Devil
*http://prince.org/msg/7/152699
*http://prince.org/msg/7/263882
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batdance
*http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/27/20-best-prince-songs-never-heard


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Revision as of 19:22, 12 October 2016

Dance.jpg

Status: Found

Date found: Unknown

Found by: Unknown


Originally created for the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film, "Dance with the Devil" was based around the Joker's famous catchphrase/question, "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?". It was chosen to be included in the film's soundtrack after "Batdance", but was ultimately removed because Prince felt it would have been too dark for the album, namely after that song.

While it was never officially released, it was used in some promo material for the film before its release. Due to Prince's high efforts to have none of his music on Youtube or other such sites, the song was generally very hard to find until he passed away in 2016. The song can now easily be found online.

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