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THE NEW SOCIETY
buttermilk / do not ask for love 
RCA VICTOR - PROMO DJ COPY
VG+ vinyl 
How's this for an odd little slice of Nez. This single is from April of 1966 and was the first of three records The New Society did for RCA. But this one has a distinct difference from the others. Then they were turning in their finished recording of "Do No Ask For Love" they needed another song, and for some reason instead of cutting something new, the submitted a two year old tape of an earlier version of the group, singing a song called "Buttermilk." 

This 1964 recording featured Bill Chadwick and Mike Nesmith, among others, doing a silly hootenanny type folk song. The New Society also contained Michael Martin Murphey, the future cosmic-cowboy, Texas folk-country artist. In fact, it is Murphy who is credited with writing the topside of the record, a song called "(I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love." 

This would be one of the earliest known vocals by Nez on record and is virtually unknown among record collectors, except those well inside the Mike Nesmith bubble. Through the Monkees career, Bill Chadwick would cross paths again with Monkees when he wrote several songs for them and even did some in 1969 with Davey Jones