Small Faces (1967 album)

Small Faces
Studio album by Small Faces
Released June 1967
Recorded 1967
Olympic Studios, London
Genre British Invasion, mod, psychedelic rock
Length 30:24
Label Immediate
Small Faces chronology
From the Beginning
(1967)		 Small Faces
(1967)		 Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
(1968)
Alternative cover
Cover of the US version entitled There are but Four Small Faces.
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Small Faces is the second studio album by the English rhythm and blues band Small Faces released via Immediate Records in June 1967. It peaked at number 12 in the UK Album Chart[3] and was their first LP for Immediate in 1967. Confusingly, their previous debut album released on Decca in 1966 is also entitled Small Faces.

Contents

Album profile

At the time of the release of this album, an unofficial compilation From the Beginning was released by Decca. Small Faces had transferred to the Immediate label headed by Andrew Loog Oldham. At the beginning of "All Our Yesterdays" Steve Marriott can be heard in an exaggerated cockney voice announcing "And now for your delight, the darling of Wapping Wharf launderette, Ronald the 'Leafy' Lane!!!". An alternative version of the Immediate Small Faces, entitled There are But Four Small Faces, was released in the United States somewhat belatedly through Columbia Records distribution.[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by Marriott/Lane, unless otherwise noted.

UK version: Small Faces

Side one
  1. "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me" – 2:16
  2. "Something I Want to Tell You" – 2:10
  3. "Feeling Lonely" – 1:35
  4. "Happy Boys Happy" – 1:36
  5. "Things Are Going to Get Better" – 2:39
  6. "My Way of Giving" – 1:59
  7. "Green Circles" (Marriott/Lane/O'Sullivan) – 2:46
Side two
  1. "Become Like You" – 1:58
  2. "Get Yourself Together" – 2:16
  3. "All Our Yesterdays" – 1:53
  4. "Talk to You" – 2:09
  5. "Show Me the Way" – 2:08
  6. "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire" (McLagan) – 2:05
  7. "Eddie's Dreaming" (Marriott/Lane/McLagan) – 2:54

USA version: There Are but Four Small Faces

  1. "Itchycoo Park" – 2:50
  2. "Talk To You" – 2:08
  3. "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire" (McLagan) – 2:04
  4. "My Way of Giving" – 1:58
  5. "I'm Only Dreaming" – 2:25
  6. "I Feel Much Better" (Marriott/Lane/McLagan) – 3:57
  7. "Tin Soldier" – 3:23
  8. "Get Yourself Together" – 2:15
  9. "Show Me the Way" – 2:08
  10. "Here Come the Nice" – 3:03
  11. "Green Circles" – 2:51
  12. "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me" – 2:14

Combined version: Small Faces

Castle Communications released a combined version of the two albums on CD in 1997, it retained the original UK track listing, with the five USA tracks added at the end.

  1. "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me"
  2. "Something I Want to Tell You"
  3. "Feeling Lonely"
  4. "Happy Boys Happy"
  5. "Things Are Going to Get Better"
  6. "My Way of Giving"
  7. "Green Circles" (Marriott/Lane/O'Sullivan)
  8. "Become Like You"
  9. "Get Yourself Together"
  10. "All Our Yesterdays"
  11. "Talk to You"
  12. "Show Me the Way"
  13. "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire" (McLagan)
  14. "Eddie's Dreaming" (Marriott/Lane/McLagan)
  15. "Here Come the Nice"
  16. "Itchycoo Park"
  17. "I'm Only Dreaming"
  18. "Tin Soldier"
  19. "I Feel Much Better" (Marriott/Lane/McLagan)

See also

References

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Review: Small Faces (Immediate) - The Small Faces". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r459955. Retrieved 17 July 2009. 
  2. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Review: There Are But Four Small Faces - The Small Faces". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r18274. Retrieved 17 July 2009. 
  3. ^ Hewitt, Paulo; Hellier, John. Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter. pp. 149. ISBN 1-900924-44-7. 
  4. ^ "Small Faces There Are But Four Small Faces". Artistdirect. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,164560,00.html. Retrieved 2007-08-17. 

Further reading

External links

Small Faces
Studio albums
Small Faces (1966)  • Small Faces (1967) • Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968)  • Playmates (1977) • 78 in the Shade (1978)
Compilation albums
Live albums
The BBC Sessions (1999)  • Nice (2001)
Singles
"Whatcha Gonna Do About It" (1965) • "I've Got Mine" (1965) • "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" (1966) • "Hey Girl" (1966) • "All or Nothing" (1966) • "My Mind's Eye" (1966) • "I Can't Make It" (1967) • "Patterns" (1967) • "Here Come the Nice" (1967) • "Itchycoo Park" (1967) • "Tin Soldier" (1967) • "Lazy Sunday" (1968) • "The Universal" (1968) • "Afterglow of Your Love" (1969) • "Itchycoo Park" (rerelease) (1975) • "Lazy Sunday" (rerelease) (1976)
Related articles
Discography • Faces • Don Arden • Andrew Loog Oldham • Immediate Records • Tony Calder