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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; The Time (From left) Terry Lewis, Jimmy Jam, Jerome Benton, Morris Day, Monte Moir, and Jesse Johnson performing as Morris Day and the Time on American Bandstand, January 1983.

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Jam and Lewis’s emergence as major record producers was kick-started by Prince’s pique. Keyboard player Jimmy Jam (James Harris III) and bassist Terry Lewis played together in local Minneapolis bands while in high school, graduating to Flyte Tyme, which evolved into Prince’s backing band, the Time, in 1981. When Jam and Lewis produced the SOS Band’s hit “Just Be Good to Me” in 1983, they broke Prince’s rule that no member of the Time do outside work, and he fired them. They then set up an alternative Minneapolis production powerhouse, Flyte Tyme studios, where they crafted hits for Force MDs, ...(100 of 241 words)

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