Okay and review Little Tin Soldier Includes PP Arnold Black American backup vocals Along with Marriott’s voice no.3 in rock, she makes it their best Check out Steve’s follow up band Humble Pie which includes Peter Frampton
@petervandervlies64274 ай бұрын
If this doesn't cheer you up...nothing will. Thanks man, you just made my day. Cheers from the Netherlands 👍💪❤️😁
@BritIronRebel4 ай бұрын
Steve's Cockney accent here is a riot! Song Of A Baker is a great one from this same LP.
@johnniekight18794 ай бұрын
Gotta do "Itchycoo Park" & "Tin Soldier"
@KenPassey-hd2mc4 ай бұрын
It wasn't only a band, it was a culture . Here in Britain they were Mods , smartly dressed ,as opposed to the scruffy Rockers. I could right a book about those days. I'm 76 now, I better hurry 😂😂😂
@superchargenurse3 ай бұрын
But rockers adored Steve Marriott
@memorast4 ай бұрын
❤yes Ichycoo Park❤❤❤❤
@peterfields48014 ай бұрын
One of the best bands from the UK,sheer genius!
@kevinjones45594 ай бұрын
Annie Nightingale, a UK DJ who died recently , used to introduce her brilliant Sunday afternoon radio show with this track.
@dellafenton24174 ай бұрын
I absolutely love The Small Faces. Steve Marriott is in my humble (pie) opinion the greatest male vocalist the UK has produced. This album is probably my favourite album of all time. Check out the track Afterglow....
@douggraham27474 ай бұрын
The flip side of this album is the best ferry tale
@thomaskelley17184 ай бұрын
I really like this album. It's in the top ten on the list of most underrated concept albums of all time. For a long time only versions of this were terrible reissues. Eventually they got bought by a good label that remastered them, and what a great job. The sound quality is so much better.
@meistertynemouth5 күн бұрын
"Afterglow" great track from this album
@jasonmccluskey36234 ай бұрын
Great band!
@philodonoghue30624 ай бұрын
Beatles, Stones, Who, Small Faces, Fleetwood Mac Not in any particular order
@larsholzke847510 күн бұрын
And chicago and yes and Black sabbath too...😅 Dont forget them❤
@admiralbillom75594 ай бұрын
always a favourite - check out "little tin soldier". "happiness stan" on the other side is psychedelic genius.
@musicairplanes48844 ай бұрын
Surprised to see this album. I have had a copy for over 40 years.
@alansmith28754 ай бұрын
"Itchicoo Park " worth a listen.
@user-yj7iq6um8g4 ай бұрын
I don’t remember this song at all. But it was good, thank you Biz.
@cindyfalstrom72314 ай бұрын
You are correct Biz that they were VERY British. In an interview, Steve said he felt one of the resons Americans didn't appreciate them was because they were too British and they were more interested in bands like "Gary Pucket and the Union Gap !!" Anyone remember them?? Some music critics have also said that perhaps they were too British, whatever that means. I think the Kinks had the same problem as they often wrote in very Brtish terms (ie:Waterloo Sunset, so beautiful but not a huge hit over here). The SF's were not only British, they were working class East London Cockney, who have their own special accents and slang (which this song is full of). Steve learned to drop his accent while a student at theatrical school. However, when he went to visit one of his east end friends, her mother called him "Little Lord Fauntleroy" because he spoke so "posh", which embarassed Steve, so he went back to speaking with his natural accent.Also, he said he quit his acting career because it was boring and he didnt really act as he was typecast as the little smart assed cockney kid, which was really me playing myself!
@RevStickleback4 ай бұрын
The Kinks were also banned from the USA for four years, after problems on their first tour.
@cindyfalstrom72314 ай бұрын
@@RevStickleback That wouldn't help either....
@clairwalshe94683 ай бұрын
Steve Marriot went on to form Humble Pie with peter Frampton, the man had a phenomenal voice, unfortunately, he burned his own house down, and died.
@acehays4 ай бұрын
OK you have no idea what a trip you are about to go down if you play side two starting with Happiness Stan - it is an incredible musical fairy tale with incredible music but with some UK dude telling the story of Stan flying to the moon on a fly or something like that only in a language that he made up. Think piglatin on steroids, you can understand what he is saying but you have to listen hard. It is brilliant and a masterpiece that everyone should hear at least once.
@sharonsnail29544 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more. Side 2 is a must. That "UK dude" is Stanley Unwin. He has a Wikipedia page and had a single released in 1962 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7Bdi5uLvNScgGg.html , three years before the Small Faces first record 😃
@cindyfalstrom72314 ай бұрын
@@sharonsnail2954 Totaly agree, Stanley Unwin narrating this tale was a genius move. However, I own this album and must admit that after hearing it about a hundred times, Stanley grows tiresome after about a dozen times.. the music NEVER grows old though ✌
@maryellenazack44664 ай бұрын
❤ it!
@BobGeogeo4 ай бұрын
Never heard this before. The lyrics seem to have many themes and snippets from other songs of the era.
@cindyfalstrom72314 ай бұрын
This song shows the "chirpy chappie" side of the Small Faces. They loved to have fun and write happy, creative songs. This song was the result of Steve driving his neighbors crazy with his partying and also an argument with some one in the Hollies who claimed that Steve never sang in his natural "Cockney" voice. This was intended to be a joke song cut on side one of their new album. The designated "single" agreed upon was the beautiful power pop love song "Afterglow". However, when their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, a genius at marketing heard this he smelled a Hit and released it as the single instead of the agreed upon song without telling the band. Andrew was right as the single flew to the top of the single charts and stayed there. The band, however , were horrified and very angry as they were desperately trying to shed the teeny bopper tag and be taken seriously. Mac said that Steve was embarassed by the song and Kenney has written it was one of the final nails in the coffin that caused Steve to quit the band. The band grew to hate the song, and a few months later, Steve quit. Too bad, Andrew was right - it is a great classic British pop song and is one of their most popular.
@axelpenn21314 ай бұрын
Steve Marriott was considered for led Zeppelin before Robert Plant!
@cookmoore37364 ай бұрын
Itchicoo Park
@superchargenurse3 ай бұрын
This is England
@larsholzke847510 күн бұрын
No conventionalities on sunday let the Lifestyle just running. But why because the church is saying you have to do.
@mikesaunders47754 ай бұрын
It is not so much 'British' as London. The lyrics at the time would baffle many people from outside the metropolis. The Small Faces were the definitive London group.
@cindyfalstrom72314 ай бұрын
Not just London from what I understand, but East End London, which has a unique subculture than the "posher" areas. I once sat with the lyrics of this song and looked up the cockney words/phrases in a "British slang" dictionary - that was fun - for example "doing me crust in" means giving him a headache!