released August 5, 1999

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Song Composed 1973 by RSM

This remake version all instruments by
Dave Gregory, Swindon UK, Apr/May 1999 (except Voice, some lead guitar, and Billy Anderson keyboards rec later in Nashville TN)

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9rtB1ehyY

more info
www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/dates.html
and
www.moorestevie.com/dates.html

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DATES

mrs. josianna smith, now now
can i have a kiss, now now
love you anyway, now now
can i spend today, now now
with you?

i took her to the liquor store
she smiled, she was asking
for the best i could get
so i gave her some promises

josianna come, now now
serve you little rum, now now, oh

mrs. deboreah jones, now now
call you on the phone, now now
love you anyway, now now
physically play, now now
with you?

i took her to the movie show
she smiled and she made me
lift her skirt to her head
so i made her some promises

deboreah please, now now
lemme see you tease, now now, oh

who is left to ask, now now
lemme make a pass, now now
love me anyway, now now
don't know what to say, now now
to you

bom dooby dooby wah
i need just a little bit more
close the door
i can't make no more promise
say me no promise
save me no promises now


©1973 r.stevie moore

as appears on
invites comparison (demo & version 1)
moore often (version 2)
live at the jetty
phonography cd (v.1; bonus track)
r. gregsy moore
live at the darress
live at maxwell's
hobbies galore
nevertheless optimistic

CAREER
HIGHLIGHT

All instruments &
background vocals
on basic track recorded by one
DAVE GREGORY (ex-XTC), April 1999 at Tonsiltown, West Swindon, Wiltshire U.K. on Fostex R8 1/4" 8-track reel-to-reel hooked up to a Mackie 8-Bus 16-channel console. Mixed to DAT @ 48kHz on a Sony DTC750 recorder via a BSS DPR402 stereo compressor. Drums programmed on Roland MC500 Mk.II sequencer from keyboard of Roland RD-250s digital piano (both 10 years old and still going strong); drum sample module is 18-bit Alessis DM5. Bass guitar: 1965 Fender Precision through Korg A2 digital signal processor. "Nigel" chord intro guitar: 1963 Gibson ES-335 All other guitars: 1996/7 Dennis Fano Satellite with Gretsch Filtertron pick-ups, all via Korg A2. Strings: D'Addario XL-115's. Jack lead: Monster cable with gold-plated plugs. Reverb unit: Lexicon LXP-1. Microphone: AKG C-414 via BSS compressor. Tonsils: model's own. DAT master tape processed for compact disc in Sound Forge Ver.4 by Terry Jackson.


R. STEVIE overdubbed double tracked lead vocals, handclaps and a 1971 Gibson Les Paul extra fuzz lead guitar (center) at Cumberland Recording Studio, Nashville TN Wed 19 May 1999.

Engineered and synthesizer orchestral strings (last verse) by Sir BILLY ANDERSON

Dedicated to Johna Read Lynn.