Mary Joanna Explained

Mary Joanna
Type:ep
Artist:The Stairs
Cover:The Stairs - Mary Joanna.jpg
Released:1992
Genre:Rock
Label:Go! Discs
Producer:Peg Majoly/The Stairs
Prev Title:Woman Gone and Say Goodbye
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:Last Time Around
Next Year:1992

Mary Joanna is an ep released in 1992 by The Stairs. As with other Stairs releases, it was issued in several formats: CD single, 7" vinyl, and 12" vinyl. The 7" vinyl release came with Stairtex Record Cleaner enclosed, supposedly a cd cleaner on one side, and a vinyl record cleaner on the other. The cleaner was actually a piece of sandpaper, the coarse side of which was supposed to be used to 'clean' cds.

Songs

I Can Only Give You Everything is a song originally performed by Them on their Them Again album and released in 1966. It was written by Phil Coulter (who also wrote the winning song from the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, Puppet on a String performed by Sandie Shaw) and Tommy Scott, musician and producer.

Squashed Tomato Stomp is actually a cover of the Bo Diddley 1961 instrumental track Bo's Bounce.

UK 7" - Go!Disc 7" - GOD 79Side A
  1. Mary Joanna

Side B

  1. I Can Only Give You Everything
  2. Squashed Tomato Stomp
UK 12" - Go!Disc 12" - GODX 79Side A
  1. Mary Joanna
  2. Mad Song

Side B

  1. I Can Only Give You Everything
  2. Squashed Tomato Stomp
UK CD - Go!Disc CDS - GODCD 79
  1. Mary Joanna
  2. Mad Song
  3. I Can Only Give You Everything
  4. Squashed Tomato Stomp