Desperately Seeking Outtakes

Matt pointed me to an interview with former lontgtime Madonna collaborator Stephen Bray, the most interesting part of which is right here.

Being a massive Madonna fan myself, I feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask you at least one question about your fellow ASCAP member and Queen of Pop.  

 (Laughs) I said The Color Purple was maybe my favorite experience, but I could just as easily say that those early days – those ten years of working with Madonna – were some of the happiest musical times of my life because I was fortunate enough to have a partner where we finished each other’s musical sentences, and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten along quite as well with any other collaborator in terms of writing.  

So are there a lot of unreleased recordings from your days working and writing with her that the public has yet to hear?  

There are a couple of note that I can think of: There’s a theme song that we were writing to "Desperately Seeking Susan," and I have not heard that particular piece of music other than in the pile of cassettes that I have somewhere. Then I think we have a really cool song “First There’s a Kiss” that never saw the light of day.  

And do you think that they’ll ever see the light of day, or maybe get an official release?  

 I hope so!

A "Desperately Seeking Susan" theme song? OMG!

Read it all HERE.