Editing Small Faces (section)

===Immediate label years (1967–69)===

==== "Here Come the Nice" and eponymous second album (1967) ====
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They were almost straight away offered a deal with the newly established [[Immediate Records|Immediate]] label, formed by ex-[[Rolling Stones]] manager [[Andrew Loog Oldham]].<ref name="allmusic" /> Given a virtual open account at [[Olympic Studios]] in [[Barnes, London]], the band progressed rapidly, working closely with engineer [[Glyn Johns]].<ref name="ianmclagan3">{{cite web|title=Small Faces Talk to You: The Story of the Small Faces in their own Words – Small Faces as Musicians|publisher=Ian McLagan Official Site|url=http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/musicians.htm|access-date=2011-02-02|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206130808/http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/musicians.htm|archive-date=6 February 2011}}</ref> Their first Immediate single was the daring "[[Here Come the Nice]]", which was clearly influenced by their drug use, and managed to escape censorship despite the fact that it openly referred to the dealer who sold drugs.<ref>{{cite book|author=Muise|page=92|year=2002|title=Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: their lives and music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI4LHXgz7YEC&q=%22Here+Come+the+Nice%22+Small+Faces&pg=PA92|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780634029561}}</ref> A second self-titled album, ''[[Small Faces (Immediate)|Small Faces]]'', followed, which, if not a major seller, was very highly regarded by other musicians and would exert a strong influence on a number of bands both at home and abroad.<ref name="bbc3" />

Three weeks before, their old label, Decca, released the album ''[[From the Beginning (Small Faces album)|From The Beginning]]'', combining old hits with a number of previously unreleased recordings.<ref name="allmusic5">{{cite web|title=From The Beginning Review|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18281/review|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2011-02-02}}</ref> It included earlier versions of songs they re-recorded for Immediate, including "[[My Way of Giving#Small Faces version|My Way of Giving]]", which they had demoed for [[Chris Farlowe]], and "[[(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?]]", which they had given to [[Apostolic Intervention]].<ref name="allmusic6">{{cite web|title=Apostolic Intervention Biography|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p385473/biography|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2011-02-04}}</ref><ref name="makingtime3">{{cite web|title=Immediate Mod Box Set|publisher=Making Time – Guide to British Music of the 1960s|url=http://www.makingtime.co.uk/cdrev32005.html|access-date=2011-02-04}}</ref> The album also featured their stage favourite "[[Baby Don't You Do It]]", featuring Jimmy Winston on lead vocals and guitar.<ref name="makingtime3"/>

==== "Itchycoo Park", ''There Are But Four Small Faces'' and "Lazy Sunday" (1967–68) ====
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[[File:Small Faces 1967.png|left|thumb|Small Faces in 1967. This photo was later used as the album cover for their US-only album ''[[There Are But Four Small Faces]]'']]
The band's following single "[[Itchycoo Park]]", released on 11 August 1967, was the first of the band's two charting singles in the United States, reaching No. 16 in January 1968. The single was a bigger hit in Britain, peaking at No. 3.<ref name="bib"/> "Itchycoo Park" was the first British single to use [[flanging]], the technique of playing two identical master tapes simultaneously but altering the speed of one of them very slightly by touching the "flange" of one tape reel, which yielded a distinctive comb-filtering effect.<ref>{{cite book|author1=B. Bartlett |author2=J. Bartlett |page=219|year=2008|title=Practical Recording Techniques: The Step-by-step Approach to Professional Audio Recording|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0uy8adetQoC&q=%22Itchycoo+Park%22+Small+Faces+flanging&pg=PA219|publisher=Focal Press|isbn=9780240811444 }}</ref> The effect had been applied by Olympic Studios engineer [[George Chkiantz]].<ref>{{cite book|author=McIntyre|page=53|year=2006|title=Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966–1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGiu7Typ4iQC&q=Itchycoo+Park+George+Chkiantz+1966&pg=PA53|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn=9781862546974}}</ref> "Itchycoo Park" was followed in December 1967 by "[[Tin Soldier (song)|Tin Soldier]]", written by Marriott.<ref name="ianmclagan4">{{cite web|title=Small Faces Talk to You: The Story of the Small Faces in their own Words – The Songs|publisher=Ian McLagan Official Site|url=http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/songs.htm|access-date=2011-02-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206173349/http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/songs.htm|archive-date=6 February 2011}}</ref> Also, the track features American singer [[P.&nbsp;P. Arnold]] on backing vocals.<ref name="makingtime4">{{cite web|title=Tin Soldier – The Steve Marriott Anthology|publisher=Making Time – Guide to British Music of the 1960s|url=http://www.makingtime.co.uk/rfr/cdtinsoldier.htm|access-date=2011-02-06}}</ref><ref name="makingtime5">{{cite web|title=PP Arnold – The First Cut|publisher=Making Time – Guide to British Music of the 1960s|url=http://www.makingtime.co.uk/cdrev1198.html|access-date=2011-02-06}}</ref><ref name="arnold">{{cite web|title=Interview by John Hellier|publisher=P.&nbsp;P. Arnold|url=http://www.pparnold.com/Articles/Interview-by-John-Hellier.html|access-date=2011-02-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129063018/http://www.pparnold.com/Articles/Interview-by-John-Hellier.html|archive-date=29 November 2010}}</ref> The song was quite a hit reaching No. 9 on the UK charts and No. 73 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart.<ref name="allmusic"/><ref name="bib"/> The Immediate ''Small Faces'' album was eventually released in the United States as ''[[There Are But Four Small Faces]]'', with a considerable track change, including singles "Here Come The Nice", "Itchycoo Park", and "Tin Soldier", but eliminating several UK album tracks. The next single [[Lazy Sunday (Small Faces song)|"Lazy Sunday"]], released in 1968, was an [[East End of London|East End]] [[music-hall]] style song released by Immediate against the band's wishes.<ref name="rough">{{cite book|author=Buckley|page=959|year=2003|title=The rough guide to rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haEfq-nKqjgC&q=Lazy+Sunday+Small+Faces&pg=PR7-IA905|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781572308268}}</ref> It was written by Marriott inspired by the feuds with his neighbours and recorded as a joke.<ref name="allmusic"/><ref name="bbc4">{{cite news|title=Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Review|work=[[BBC Online]]|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b3jw|access-date=2011-02-07}}</ref> The single reached No.&nbsp;2 in the UK charts.<ref name="bbc3"/> The final official single during the band's career was [[folk music|folksy]] sounding "[[The Universal (Small Faces song)|The Universal]]", released in the summer of 1968. The song was recorded by adding studio overdubs to a basic track that Marriott had cut live in his back garden in Essex with an acoustic guitar.<ref name="ianmclagan4"/> Taped on a home cassette recorder, Marriott's recording included his dogs' barking in the background.<ref name="ianmclagan4"/> The single's comparative lack of success in the charts (No. 16 on the UK chart) disappointed Marriott, who then stopped writing music.<ref name="humblepie">{{cite web|title=Small Faces – Why Steve Left|publisher=Humble-Pie.net|url=http://www.humble-pie.net/rockon/pie2/html/why_steve_left.html|access-date=2011-02-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723145834/http://www.humble-pie.net/rockon/pie2/html/why_steve_left.html|archive-date=23 July 2011}}</ref>

====''Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake'' (1968) ====
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At home in England, their career reached an all-time high after the release of their classic psychedelia-influenced album ''[[Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake]]'' on 24 May 1968.<ref name="allmusic7">{{cite web|title=Ogden's Nut Gone Flake|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18273/review|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2011-02-08}}</ref> It is widely regarded as a classic album, and featured an innovative round cover, the first of its kind, designed to resemble an antique tobacco tin. It stayed at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart for six weeks, but reached only No. 159 in the US.<ref name="allmusic7"/><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sexton |first=Paul|title=UK Rock Acts Fete Small Faces on Nice charity Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgcEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22UK+Rock+Acts+Fete+Small+Faces+on+Nice+charity+Set%22&pg=PA13|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|volume=108 |date=September 1996 |page=13}}</ref>

The two-act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical [[psychedelic music|psychedelic]] [[fairy tale]] on side two relating the adventures of "Happiness Stan" and his need to find out where the other half of the moon went when it waned. It was narrated by [[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Stanley Unwin]], after original plans to have [[Spike Milligan]] narrate the album went awry when he turned them down.<ref name="allmusic7"/><ref name="ianmclagan5">{{cite web|title=Small Faces Talk to You: The Story of the Small Faces in their own Words – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake|publisher=Ian McLagan Official Site|url=http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/ogdens.htm|access-date=2011-02-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206173338/http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/ogdens.htm|archive-date=6 February 2011}}</ref>

Critics were enthusiastic, and the album sold well, but the band were confronted by the practical problem that they had created a studio masterpiece which was virtually impossible to recreate on the road. ''Ogdens''' was performed as a whole just once, and memorably, live in the studio on the BBC television programme ''[[Colour Me Pop]]''.<ref name="ianmclagan5"/>

====Breakup and ''The Autumn Stone'' (1969)====
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Marriott officially quit the band at the end of 1968, walking off stage during a live New Year's Eve gig yelling "I quit".<ref name="rough"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Muise|page=95|year=2002|title=Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: their lives and music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI4LHXgz7YEC&q=New+Year%27s+Eve++Steve+Marriott&pg=PA95|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780634029561}}</ref> Citing frustration at their failure to break out of their pop image and their inability to reproduce the more sophisticated material properly on stage, Marriott was already looking ahead to a new band, [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]], with [[Peter Frampton]].<ref name="rough"/> On the subject of the group's breakup, [[Kenney Jones]], in an interview with John Hellier (2001), said:

{{blockquote|I wish we had been a little bit more grown up at the time.  If we had have [''sic''] played Ogdens' live it would have boosted our confidence so much.  We were labelled as a pop band, which definitely got up Steve's nose more than we realised.   I wish we had been more like The Who in the fact that when they have problems they stick together until they've overcome them.   Steve just thought well how do we top Ogdens' and he was off.  Ogdens' was a masterpiece if we had played it live we would have gone to even greater things.   I reckon we were on the verge of crossing the great divide and becoming a heavier band.<ref name="wapping">{{cite web|title=An interview with Kenney Jones|publisher=Wapping Wharf.com|url=http://www.wappingwharf.com/kenney.htm|access-date=2011-02-09}}</ref>}}

After fulfilling outstanding live performance commitments, including a European tour in January, Small Faces' dissolution was formally announced in March 1969, and Marriott and Frampton's plans to form a new group together were unveiled (although the band were already formed and had been rehearsing together since January).<ref>Hewitt, Paulo and Hellier, John. ''[[Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful...]]'' Helter Skelter (2005). {{ISBN|1-900924-44-7}}</ref> 

A posthumous album, ''[[The Autumn Stone (album)|The Autumn Stone]]'', was released later in 1969, and included the major Immediate recordings, a rare live concert performance, and a number of previously unreleased tracks recorded for their intended fourth LP, ''1862'', including the classic Swinging Sixties instrumental "Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall" and "Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass", co-written by Ian McLagan.<ref name="allmusic8">{{cite web|title=The Autumn Stone|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r711499/review|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2011-02-17}}</ref> The final single, "[[Afterglow (Of Your Love)]]", was released in 1969 after the band had ceased to exist and the single only reached No. 36 in the UK Singles Charts.<ref name="bib"/>