The Small Faces. One of the greatest of all the British bands. With one of the greatest 1960’s tunes.

Steve Marriott...one of best rock voices ever. What a tragedy to lose him in such an awful manner

Steve Marriott was my Dads Cousin.

From someone who saw the Beatles in 1964 (yes I was one of those screaming and crying young girls)....I was a sucker for the British Invasion. I was 17 when Itchycoo Park came out and I totally loved it!. I rediscovered it about a week ago. I love it as much now as I did then.

love Small Faces and LOVE this song. Brings back memories of the music of the British Invasion!

Itchycoo Park" is the nickname of Little Ilford Park in London.

Three of the members got together with Rod Stewart and added Ron Wood to form Rod Stewart & The Faces. Lead singer Steve Marriott went on to form Humble Pie (Peter Frampton was also a member of Humble Pie)

I love Steve Marriott's voice, his talent, his playing, and yeah, it's a fun song by someone who wasn't a big guy but had a big voice and a big talent!

I was about 9 years old when this song was released. I absolutely loved. Steve Marriott, the one who was singing lead vocals on it moved on to form the group, Humble Pie, which was a rock and blues band. The word "Itchycoo" was a nickname that children gave to a couple of local parks where nettles grew and irritated the skin. Steve Marriott and a friend of his use to play at one of the parks in his home town. He had many fond memories there.

Steve Marriott, the lead singer, played the role of the Artful Dodger in the original stage version of 'Oliver'. They were called 'The Small Faces' because they were all 5' 6 or under. A Small Faces track hasn't ended a feel-good film, but their base player Ronnie Lane's song 'Ooh La La' was used at the end of Wes Anderson's 'Rushmore' (which is definitely a feel-good film). Paul Weller (the modfather) chose The Small Faces 'Little Tin Soldier' as one of his eight 'Desert Island discs', and the one out of the eight he could not do without.

Steve Marriott. Greatest blue eyed soul singer in history. This song was used in the finale of last season's "Handmaid's Tale". It was not a scene for children though.

I discovered this band last year. I'm only 22 but when I discovered them I wondered why I never heard of them before. I listen to the song so much and watched that video because Steve Marriott was truly one of a kind. And we lost him to soon. Thank u for doing a react to it, made my day

I'm 70 yet Itchycoo Park remains a favorite from my youth. Steve Marriot delivers again. Maybe charged up on a gallon of Black Coffee.

This is the epitome of psychedelic music and foretold The Summer of Love... but the beautiful drugs took over and eventually destroyed everything that was great and Grand about the Psychedelic years. My older siblings turned me on to this song when I was very young and I always listen for Steve Marriott's voice on the radio because I really thought he captured the sound of that era.

I'm pretty old but I remember this when I was young long live psychedelic rock.

I'm 71 now. It was a Time of Pyseldelia, Good Music, Flower Children, Race Wars. And a terrible war in Viet Nam that affected us all in those Times. And a whole lot of Drugs. Thanks to Jesus, I made it through somewhat Normal.

The singer you're thinking of is Best Friend by Harry Nillson. The singer of the Small Faces later founded Humble Pie so you've done videos with him singing Black Coffee and Thirty Days in the Hole.

Now this takes me way back to my younger days.

"People let me tell you bout my best friend" was from the theme song for The Courtship Of Eddie's Father. It was song by Harry Nilsson

[Itchycoo idea] In an interview Steve Marriott stated that Itchycoo Park is Valentine's Park in Ilford. "We used to go there and get stung by wasps. It's what we used to call it." This was reiterated by actor Tony Robinson, a childhood friend of Marriott. The term "Itchycoo" also appears in the Scots language from around the 1950s. 'Wiki'

Hard to reconcile “30days in the hole” and “Black coffee”...what a versatile voice.

I love love love this, takes me right back to my youth, living the dream lol

This song came out in 1967. I forgot about it for 50 years until seeing it on KZfaq. According to the internet, Itchycoo Park is the nickname of Little Ilford Park in London. An "Itchycoo" is slang for a flower found in the park called a "Stinging Nettle," which can burn the skin if touched. Said Lane: "It's a place we used to go to in Ilford years ago".

I was about ten years old when this came out! One of the best summers of my life!

Steve Marriott RIP

I saw Marriott perform. his voice was amazing.

The Faces song Stay With Me has my favorite intro EVER! I grew up in the 70s so.....that says a lot!!! lol

I was old enough to remember this growingvup..we used to skip to this while listening to it on a transistor radio....

This song reminds me of being in,the backseat of my sisters car with the stereo blaring and us all singing. I grew up with 5 older siblings and my music taste is HUGE!! From stuff in the 50's to present. Little back history for my fellow MRMI'S Steve Marriott the lead singer left this group to go on to Humble Pie, Rod Stewart replaced him and they changed rhe name to Faces. Steve Marriott died in the 90's never to find the fame he so craved. It's just a very fun song that gets stuck in my head

TIME TRACT 1967 Lazy Sunday- small faces On A Carosel- hollies See Emily Play- pink floyd Like A Rainbow- rolling stones Strawberry Fields- beatles Dazed And Confused- yardbirds I Can See For Miles- who Incense And Peppermints- 🍓⏰strawberry alarmclock Hurdy Gurdy Man- donovan People Are Strange- doors I Don't Live Today- jimi hendrix Swlabr- cream A Bikers Tune- peacepipe Paranoid- black sabbath You Can't Win- iron butterfly ✌when I was 7 these newly released songs were played on the radio daily 🤘

The lead sing is Steve Marriott, who went on to form Humble Pie. One of their big songs has been already done, Black Coffee.

I had heard this song a few times over the years and always thought...Oh, what a nice hippy song....Came to learn a few years ago that Steve Marriott fronted Small Faces and it was a big shock to me because I only knew him from His BLOW YER FACE OFF blues based heavy rock band Humble Pie.They had some originals but most of their hits were covers of old blues songs but changed to the Humble Pie style. Why am I making this comment a term thesis? MRM ya need to explore Humble Pie and only their live versions are the very best...Thanks so much for posting this and stirring up great memories!!!!!

There are varying stories of the origins of the song title. One says that it comes from British towns where still in the 60's were empty lots after the bombings of WW2, growing nettles, obviously causing itch to children playing on "itchycoo park". One of the first if not THE first to use flanger effect done with two reel to reel tape recorders, delaying slightly the other and combining the signals.

“itchykoo” describes the feeling of coming up on an Acid trip.

I've known and liked this song since the late 80's even though it came out in 1967 and it's a semi psychedelic late sixties hippie song with great singing by Steve Marriott and I like to listen to it while driving in my car on a sunny Spring or Summer day and it sounds best then with the lyrics it's all too beautiful!

Stevie Marriot was an unbelievable singer/songwriter/guir player. I knew him. Fantastic.

Omg did you take me back with that one,thank you brought back lots of great memories

Loved Small Faces ... Steve Marriott had a great voice

Sir. I enjoy all your work and always look forward to seeing it. Just an FYI in case you didn't notice on this one. That lead singer is Steve Marriott. You know, the same guy that you reacted to about 4 months ago that sang "Black Coffee" (with the Blackberries) and Humble Pie. Just a FEW years apart...

That was one of the beginning of the psychedelic era , so cool !!

Part of the British invasion, brings me way back to my early teens. Wow, thanks for the memories. You have me reliving my youth with many of your reactions. I love going back to the simpler and sweeter days of music. Ty, your "vagisil" comment cracked me up...bad boy! LOL

You had me cracking up at the beginning..."vagisil"... hilarious! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Back in the day, Everyone was getting high. Parks were the place to go.

I used to love feeding the ducks when my granddad would take me to Peterson's Yacht Basin in the early 60s.

This song is about, TRIPPING on LSD. Getting HIGH I was 17 in high school. FREE WIIL was opened up with, LSD. Country Joe & the FISH do an LSD cheer. Joe was a veteran who came back from 'Nam, anti-war. Beautiful voice, guitar player, Janis Joplin was his destructive girlfriend. The late 1960s were rebellion years.

The song is about tripping on acid in the local park, Ty! Not really a little kids song!

The Small Faces come from the area I grew up in (Manor Park in East London) and Steve Marriott's sister was in the same year as my sister so this is a childhood related song. One park which is linked to the song is Little Ilford Park which had loads of stinging nettles. There's now a lane near the park called Ronnie Lane.

The song you were thinking of was the theme from the show "Courtship of Eddie's Father" which itself was written by Harry Nilsson. Nilsson had quite a few hits from 1966-1980 then later died in 1994 of a heart attack. His hits include "Everybody's Talking At Me", "Without You", "Jump into the Fire" and even the "Coconut" song.

The Small Faces were a bit before my time but I remember hearing Itchycoo Park on the radio. I stumbled upon their music about fifteen years ago when I was going through some bad times...too bad they never caught on in the US...possibly my very favorite band

I've always felt this was a really sad song. Or at least bittersweet.

One of my all time favorite songs in all the world!! Brings back brilliant memories of my younger days, before life got complicated for me. Dreaming of dating and going to college.

Great band...The Album “Ogdens Nut gone Flake” was classic with Stanley Unwin narrating throughout the album. Always loved “Happy Day toy town” ....it’s so English it’s brilliant, would make a very funny reaction...so sad how Steve Marriott died RIP.

This song just grabs me takes me for a ride with the rhythm that puts a smile on my face that feels like home. Love this song like many other.

Small faces a very British Band we are still so proud of, especialy odgens nut gone flake 1968 look it up full of joy.

Although I get why this was a hit I never understood why it was their only one in the States, there was so much more to this band, the likes of "All or nothing", "Tin Soldier" and" Afterglow" are amazing and still significant 50 years on. You could say I love this band.

ItchyCoo Park is actually Little Ilford Park near where Steve Marriott lived in Manor Park East London. He used to go down there as a kid and they called it Itchycoo Park because there were so many stinging nettles.

Some claim the song's name is derived from the nickname of Little Ilford Park, on Church Road in the London suburb of Manor Park, where Small Faces' singer and song-writer Steve Marriott grew up. The "itchycoo" nickname is, in turn, attributed to the stinging nettles (a plant which produces stinging hairs on its leaves) which grew there. Other sources cite nearby Wanstead Flats (Manor Park end) as the inspiration for the song.

I was a teen age schoolboy in Singapore during the Vietnam War in 67 and this song epitomised the sixties era and culture which was mainly driven by LSD. Being high in the song means going on an acid trip, which explains the chorus. This is my favorite song of that era and brings back memories of blue skies, tropical sun and military jet planes as our school was on the end of the runway at RAF Changi.

the song is a park where the singer played as a kid , a bombed out house in London had nails that cut kids open and the wounds would be itchycoo park /post WW 2 blitz

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He also did ~30 days in the Hole~ which you had back in November 2018 ... Always impressed which his voice and Levon Helm's Voice and drum player at the same time....

Itchycoo Park is the nickname of London's Little Ilford Park. It's slang for a flower found in Little Ilford called a "Stinging Nettle," which burns flesh if touched. Said the late Ronnie Lane of the band: "It's a place we used to go to in Ilford years ago." Lead singer & guitarist the late Steve Marriott went on to the rock band Humble Pie. The late Ronnie Lane went from The Small Faces to The Faces with Rod Stewart. Drummer Kenney Jones went on to Rod Stewart & the Faces and then The Who. A later member of The Faces, guitarist Ronnie Wood is now famous as one of The Rolling Stones. This little band had quite a history that started with a little psychedelic pop song with a silly name.

SInger Steve Marriot---you know, Black Coffee..

Ok I am on my 10 vid in a row of yours and all superb picks. You are obviously doing something right. Adore all these songs.

I was about 12 years old when I first heard this song and I fell in love the minute I heard it. My family were music lovers and they loved all genres so I grew up with rocknroll, country, opera, easy listening, ect. This was my aunt's 45 and she gave it to me. I love this song to this day.

The "courtship of eddies father" was a tv series in the late 1960. With the song i thin is called Best Friend. Lyrics = let me tell you something about my best friend. Hes a warm hearted person that loves you til the end. Etc.

Ty, this is the same guy, STEVE MARIOTT, who sang with Humble Pie later in life. He's the one who sang BLACK COFFEE that you loved, and also "30 Days in the Hole". In this song, you can only see a few glimpses of the singer Steve Mariott became. That video "Black Coffee" is one of my favorites. Although I wonder if I would have liked it so much without the interplay between Steve and the Blackberries (3 black girl back-up singers). In the times we are currently living through, I love seeing GOOD reactions between blacks and whites.

It's being the park getting high looking at the sky and shades of green it's all so beautiful

OMG, I got this 45 in high school, it was so cool, I don't care what the lyrics are, played it over and over. One of my fav songs. I loved the organ and how the drums did their thing, not sure how they did that. Young, free, wars we didn't need to be in, carefree kids.

Steve Marriott was the lead singer for Humble Pie who sang Black Coffee. Peter Frampton played guitar. When Steve left Small Faces he was Replaced by Rod Stewart

Used to wag school listening to this song.... We took the lyrics literally in Bendigo Australian town.... I'm 65 yeas old.... Thank you for choosing this song took me back to wonder memories cool.....

Way back in 1966, as a 15 year old, I had a Saturday job at Streatham Ice rink, UK. I told the entertainments manager there that he should book them for and evening session - and he did! I even got to meet them (albeit briefly as I was underage) in the Bali H'ai ( the nightclub above the rink). I also saw the Kinks at Silver Blades Steatham.

I saw these guys live when I was about 13 or 14 outside Detroit Mi. I understand the reference to Itchycoo is, after WW2 in the English cities they had lots of open land from bombed and destroyed buildings. There were piles of rubble from the buildings and weeds growing. As children, they played on these empty lots. The weed we call Stinging Nettles is weed they called Itchycoo.

The word high in this context almost got them band from the airways back then. It was considered a taboo word, meaning getting high on drugs. How far we've come. Still brings back great memories of the good old days. God bless you Ty! I love your channel!

To answer the question of what or where is Itchycoo park. Itchycoo's was another name for stinging nettles. Kenny, Ronnie and Steve were all from my area in East London and where they would bunk off school ( play hookey in America I think it's called) and chill in the parks. Probably Valentines park was the subject due to it having a lake( feed the ducks with a bun) Dreaming spires and bridge of sighs were nicked from a magazine that Ronnie had read in a hotel. If this is your first Small faces song you have heard, I recommend Tin soldier and the definite drug song Here come the nice.

Great song! Loved it when it came out and still do. I was 12 when I first heard it.

I was twelve, having my hair cut and this song came on the radio. I was fascinated by the instrumentation, especially the organ. This was 1967 and many songs ended with the “playing in a giant railway tunnel”effect...another favourite of mine, also from 1967, Pleasant Valley Sunday by The Monkees...check out the outdo to that !

Steve Marriott was thought to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones before Ron Wood but Jagger thought he had too powerful a voice for them. He did leave the Small Faces (little hipsters) to form Humble Pie and more powerful sounding group. The other three Small Faces joined Rod Stewart and became Rod Stewart and the Faces. Check out their remake of "I Know I'm Losing You" live. Marriott was a drunk and died drunk, smoking in bed and caught his house on fire.

The song you are talking about was the theme to a TV show, The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, I think. I’m not sure I was born when this song came out, but I’ve always heard it.

I miss this music so much. Thank god for KZfaq and Sirius XM radio.

That best friend song is from an old tv series called Family Affair ..it went like this.... People let me tell you bout my best friend, he’s a one boy , cuddly toy, my up my down my pride and my joy ...

The actual park was called Itchycoo because it had a lot of brambles that would get caught on people and make them itch.

14 years old, Reseda Park, CA sit-in's protesting the war. I started my political activism at a young age. I really think that's where I started to pay attention to the world as a whole, and not just centered on my own immediate needs and wants. :D That's where I remember it most from, interspersed with Bob Dylan, Joah Baez, Peter, Paul, and Mary and many of the great folk/protest songs of the time.

FWIW..... "A number of sources claim the song's name is derived from the nickname of Little Ilford Park, on Church Road in the London suburb of Manor Park, where Small Faces' singer and song-writer Steve Marriott grew up. The "itchycoo" nickname is, in turn, attributed to the stinging nettles which grew there." :)

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They called themselves the "Small Faces" because of their short stature, quite noticeable in the video.

Back then my sister was a Mod and would play The Faces and the Who to annoy my brother who was a rocker, I remember hearing this song a lot coming from her room and my brother banging on her bedroom wall telling her to turn it off lol!.

Hey Renaissance Man, this man singing Itchycoo Park is the same man singing Black Coffee.

Humble Pie-30 days in the hole! Steve Marriott was incredible

Some years ago, upon first hearing this song, I was convinced the lead singer of this group was a young Freddy Mercury.

I love watching your reaction to the old 1960's groups. It's great!

Steve Marriott - considered maybe the best rock and roll voice ever. He went on to Humble Pie with Peter Frampton. Steve died in a fire in 1991. Tragic. Itchycoo Park was part of my childhood!

Summer of '67 -- psychodelic/british pop/flowers in the rain/body paint. I was in high school, and it was on the radio ALL the time. A fun song to sing along with. But basically about an acid trip in the park, "feeding ducks with a bun." I looked up the term "itchycoo," and it appears it was a Scottish term for anything prickly or itchy. Children might put itchycoos down each others' backs. And Itchycoo Park had a lot of stinging nettles growing there.

This song takes me way back. I was eight years old when this came out and living in the projects in Detroit, when I would listen to this song I would let my Imagination take me to a better place for a few minutes. A good Humble Pie song to react to is I Don't Need No Doctor (Live). That was the last tour Peter Frampton did with the band.

Lead singer of Humble Pie. Peter Frampton was also in Humble Pie

Wow a black dude listening to Steve Marriot . Good on you ! Listen to " Tin Soldier " .

Dude that sang this song also did the song you liked, "Black Coffee." Steve Marriot, very awesome singer. I love this song a lot.

Steve Mariot went on to play with the greatest garage band ever HUMBLE PIE!!!

they said it was not pssable to play the electric drum sound live with the phazar and compressor connected to the drum kit, but they played it live with sparks comeing off the drum kit when it got wet ,

I can remember hearing that the idea to the music to this song is from the Hymn "God be in my head and in my understanding". that was then vamped up.