Smile at You (Tusk Outtake 1978)

Kind of Woman · Stevie Nicks
Uncirculated Rumours
Released on: 1975

[@yuvaltaylor4145]

From Ken Caillat's definitive Making Rumours: "Stevie had a song, 'Smile at You,' that she had recorded with Tom Moncrieff, and she wanted the band to play it that day [May 16, 1976, during the rerecording of Rumours in LA]. Mick slid into his drum space, John his bass area. Christine sat with her back to us at her keys station, and Lindsey was over to the left, on the south wall, facing Mick. Stevie stood in the center of the studio, using a handheld microphone. Every member of the band was in transcension mode, significantly buzzed on his or her favorite substance. . . . When we finally got rolling on 'Smile at You,' Lindsey suddenly didn't want to play the song anymore. He was annoyed when he learned that Stevie had developed it with Tom Moncrieff. The more we worked on the song, the less enthusiastic Lindsey seemed to be about it. I loved the song and kept pushing him to record it. Yet Stevie knew that Lindsey's lack of interest meant 'Smile at You' was doomed as far as making it onto Rumours. The 'Smile at You' session just fizzled out." I personally think that this version dates from the Tusk sessions, and that neither the demo recorded with Moncrieff nor the Rumours version have surfaced. There are two other versions from the Mirage sessions and then there's the Say You Will version. My favorite: the "angry" version from the Mirage sessions.

[@kareneaton3318]

Thank you very much for sharing this interesting quote and information.

[@kareneaton3318]

Why did Lindsay not like Tom?

[@yuvaltaylor4145]

@@kareneaton3318 Lindsey and Tom were good friends and had played together a lot before Tom moved into Stevie's house to help her work on her songs. Then Lindsey seems to have become jealous from a professional standpoint. Lindsey viewed himself as the conduit for Stevie's art. "Smile at You" was the first instance of Stevie working with another man on one of her songs.

[@kareneaton3318]

@@yuvaltaylor4145 So maybe the line about you needed someone to depend on you and I couldn't be her was directed at Lindsey. That would explain him not liking the song

[@DraperStan23]

So decades later he decides to give it another go and completely ruins it…

[@sambrownsings]

The "angry version" is my favorite but this is a lovely demo too!

[@andysky4862]

yes

[@jayjay86443]

Anything is better than that wet fart Fleetwood released tbh. I love it when she goes all rock and roll up in here.

[@gracefulmess222]

that's my favorite version as well but yes this one is pretty good too! I don't know if I could even choose between them

[@rla1000]

Agree and agree

[@babsdolson]

here's my angry song kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2KqoqGYhNeGarc

[@DDowson284]

Lindsay Buckingham gets a lot of credit for tying the sound of FM over the years, and rightly so, but songs like this one and Brown Eyes on the Deluxe set for Tusk and others would just lift albums such as Tusk, Mirage to be rock classics.

[@tamihewitt6562]

One of Stevie's greatest.... and this is my favorite version. Off of Uncirculated Rumours, which I'm proud to own!

[@rachellaugherty4057]

Angry version is my favorite , classic Stevie! Such passion in her voice

[@buckosmack]

The best version. This and "She Still Loves Him" demos capture her sadness and beauty so succinctly.

[@suzengreer287]

so beautiful! STEVIE NICKS! Will love you - FOREVER!!!!!!

[@Tammy-d4p]

Beautiful beautiful song Stevie 🌹😍🌹🌹 your the best my favorite lady who was my teacher since 73🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@ctriamimgons]

Such a badass.

[@Bartcmh]

This song was going through my mind in 03 when my boyfriend at the time was breaking up with me. He came to the house to get his stuff and to “leave the key”.

[@Tammy-d4p]

Stevie I will love you forever💜💜💜💜

[@Tammy-d4p]

Thank you I do Love Stevie forever 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@bkswanson2461]

Hauntingly Gorgeous, as always Stevie is Perfection!!!

[@MichaelPerezdeRojas]

De acuerdo totalmente. ❤

[@bibbs6050]

Two versions of this song that I love very much!

[@babsdolson]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2KqoqGYhNeGarc

[@shannonclouse7824]

One of many great songs from Stevie Nick's, Go Stevie,love her

[@katc2354]

I'll never stop loving you my queen take me with you

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

This song, along w/ "Sorcerer", "The Dealer", "Castaway", and "You Won't Forget Me" would've SO improved the overall quality and listening experience of Tusk. Such a loss.

[@andrehferrari1987]

AnthonyKZbinFan I love all of her songs in tusk, so as Christine. I don't like Lyndsay's ones, though. that sure could have replaced Lyndsay's songs with those Stevie's O. :D

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

But, Andre, there would have REALLY BEEN PROBLEMS if Stevie had had 9 songs on the album: It would've really painted her, for the most part, as the main focus/centerpiece of the group, even though, she pretty much was by 1979, lol! I wish Tusk had been a triple-LP, cause these additional 4 songs, plus "Kiss And Run" and "Farmer's Daughter" could've found a great, memorable home. 48 minutes of Vinyl...go figure!

[@maxmustardman298]

or just put it equal parts for everyone..but surely someone had to step back then ;)

[@Mafia681]

The double LP was already expensive by '79 standards so a triple was out of question if they wished for anyone to actually buy the product

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

True. But, sometimes a group can have such a fertile period, it justifies it. The joke is, Tusk was supposed to just be a regular single LP follow-up to Rumours; yet, the amount of material brimming up from all of the 3 principle writers dictated that it be an album comprised of 20 songs...it really should/could have been 25 to 30...but, $$$

[@robertocontreras9143]

Oh Stevie no matter what you sing you're just awesome, gorgeous, bewitching, magical l can't more words to describe you

[@MichaelPerezdeRojas]

Va a transcurrir mucho mucho tiempo y no habrá kien la reemplaze. Unica!!!

[@gregoryjackson8018]

OMG, one of my all time faves! Thank you so much!

[@ryanparson4357]

Beautiful song girl.

[@shannonclouse7824]

Awesome song

[@1besieged]

This is as good as Sister of the Moon and Rhiannon, the angry version is great, and would this song be on any of Fleetwood Mac or Stevie Nick's CD's or albums? Does any fan know? thank you . Love this song

[@maxgrant3714]

1besieged its on Say You Will. Not my favorite version but still amazing

[@richardocchiuto8673]

Its on Mirage

[@focusedfreebird]

1besieged there is a very polished version on the SAY YOU Will cd......but i like this version better...

[@fundies2]

This version was actually recorded for the Mirage album. I'm not sure why it is referenced as a Tusk outtake. I remember Stevie talking about it (and how it was left off the Mirage album, replaced by Straight Back) in an interview for "BAM" magazine in support of the Mirage album. I got this version on a bootleg tape during the Mirage period as well.

[@dougbennett8592]

@@fundies2 Straight Back was a good song but Smile at You would have made Mirage that much better!

[@michellecourteau1343]

Angi Silver Angel. Miss u

[@shonarjoshi8058]

Hi. There were 3 volumes of Uncirculated Rumours. Do you have the others as well or do you know how to access those songs?

[@arlaabrell8658]

In so many ways, getting involved with Buckingham WAS the biggest mistake of her life, but in other ways it helped fulfill her real destiny, so I guess it was a necessary evil.

[@jrkennedy4891]

Dont we all have one of those loves

[@BS-dq1kz]

Yes but this song isn’t about Buckingham. It’s about the one after him. Henley I think I read? Then again, what do I know. None of us knew them personally.

[@audaciousred]

@@BS-dq1kz I heard the same thing, supposedly she had walked in on him with Cher"s sister in the act

[@FireMunki63]

Not about Buckingham. We would probably never have heard about her without him and his always pushing her to the excellence that he knew she could produce. Remember it was he who insisted on her coming with him into Fleetwood Mac. How ironic that it was she who pushed him out of it.

[@kristelpi652]

@@FireMunki63 fuck off 😂😂 that might be the stupidest, most reaching thing i’ve ever read about these two. Queen would have never written bohemian rhapsody if it wasn’t for me pushing them to do that in spirit, so really you can credit me for that music 😌😌 they would have never been famous without me 🤣

[@susanszabo7130]

My mistake was to invite you in my house JN. Cant get over you!!!!!!! 5/13/06. You love someone else!!!!!!

[@comfortgarden]

Pretty sure this is not a Fleetwood Mac recording, as it sounds like Waddy Watchtel on guitar. So, not truly a Tusk outtake.

[@ericjones4548]

It’s Lindsey

[@TesIaNews2024]

Eric Jones idk man I’m hearing more reverb and more of a tinny sound in the guitar. Doesn’t sound much like Lindsey’s picking style.

[@ericjones4548]

Katy Petree Stevie didn’t meet Watchel until she needed a band for Bella Donna. The only guitar player she had to experiment with was Buckingham. As far as I know, this song was being recorded for Mirage, was replaced by Straight Back; recorded for Tusk and once again replaced. The song was then again recorded for Say You Will. Lindsey is using the same chords he used for Rhiannon and Sisters of the Moon. At the end of this song, you can hear the chords from the guitar solo from Rhiannon-Live From Burbank 1976. Lindsey has a guitar solo before Stevie does her big “dreams unwind” climatic ending.

[@robfrombohemiahinkson7300]

@@ericjones4548 Waddy Watchel played guitar on Buckingham/Nicks 1973 Album. Stevie knew him from the beginning.

[@MsLiztube]

@@robfrombohemiahinkson7300 @Eic Jones True She said Waddy was ther "first friend" when moved to L.A. Waddy is a true blue friend and support to SN.