The Small Faces are a band that does have an officially released BBC album, called "The BBC Sessions." It's a fine album, except for two things. As is usual for some albums, it includes songs where the BBC DJ talks over the intros to songs. But also, it missed a lot of material. For this album, I have very little to complain about. There's only one song that that album missed. But for the second BBC album, most of it is unreleased (and actual BBC material).
Re: the talking BBC DJs problem, as I usually do, I edited the talking out by using the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe out the talking and keep the underlying music. Only three out of the 13 songs here had that problem; those are marked with "[Edit]."
Since all but one song is officially released, the sound quality is excellent. That one exception is "You Really Got a Hold on Me." The sound quality is a bit rougher for that one, but still acceptable. Also, one song here, "Jump Back," is also on the stray tracks album "Grow Your Own," because the only recording the band did of it is from one of their BBC sessions.
This album is only 35 minutes long. It seems the band didn't perform for the BBC much, or at least not many of the recordings of their BBC sessions survived.
01 Whatcha Gonna Do about It (Small Faces)
02 Jump Back (Small Faces)
03 Baby Don't You Do It [Don't Do It] (Small Faces)
04 You Really Got a Hold on Me (Small Faces)
05 Shake [Edit] (Small Faces)
06 Sha-La-La-La-Lee (Small Faces)
07 You Need Love [You Need Loving] [Edit] (Small Faces)
08 Hey Girl (Small Faces)
09 E Too D (Small Faces)
10 One Night Stand (Small Faces)
11 You Better Believe It [Edit] (Small Faces)
12 Understanding (Small Faces)
13 All or Nothing (Small Faces)
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The cover art photo comes from an appearance on the "Two of a Kind" TV show in 1967.
Thanks for sharing. I don't know if you want to remove the 'The' from the cover, though.
ReplyDeleteUgh. They'll always be the Small Faces to me, just like the Faces will always be the Faces and the Eagles will always be the Eagles. But technically you're correct. So I just grudgingly updated the cover art for both albums.
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ReplyDeleteIt exists a CD "In Session - At The BBC 1965-1966" (DECCA Mono 572 820.7) that contains all of these songs (Saturday Club 1965 & 1966) except "You Really Got A Hold On Me" plus four songs of the Joe Loss Pop Show (January 1966). You can dowload it on the blog "https://beatsixties.blogspot.com".
For me, the talks of the DJ over the intros participate in the charm of these recordings.
it's true there is a little number of Small Faces BBC sessions published.
You say "it exists" - what exists? The songs you mention are all here already, aren't they? As for the Joe Loss show stuff, I'm aware of that. I plan on putting those on my Small Faces live album if and when I post that, because those were done in a concert setting.
DeleteI'm only saying that exists un official version of these recordings.
DeleteHi Paul - Please post a photo where Ronnie Lane isn't hidden.
ReplyDeleteHi Paul - Please post a photo where Ronnie Lane isn't hidden.
ReplyDeleteThat was the best photo I could find that fits the theme of appearing on a TV or radio show. If you can find a better one, I'll seriously consider replacing it.
DeleteLove The Small Faces - thanks so much
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