"Colour Me Pop" was the BBC's first serious attempt to make a TV show for rock concerts. About 50 episodes were aired in 1968 and 1969. This should be an incredible treasure trove of music, since most of the musical acts involved were never properly filmed, and many don't even have any decent live recordings. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the episodes were lost, since the BBC didn't bother keeping copies. Only about five full episodes have survived. Luckily for us, one of those is the Small Faces episode. That makes up the bulk of this album.
In case you're curious, you can see the list of "Colour Me Pop" episodes here. (It pains me to think of all the great music that was lost!)
At the time of this concert, the Small Faces had just released "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake," their most acclaimed studio album. Their "Colour Me Pop" episode almost entirely consisted of songs from this album. Unfortunately, it seems all the songs in it consisted of live vocals sung to the record versions. But I still think it's worthy due to those vocals, especially given the paucity of live recordings by this band. Also, the live vocals include the banter between songs by comedian Stanley Unwin, who talked in kind of a strange version of English that he invented. I suspect this is probably the only time the band performed these songs with him, as I highly doubt he went on tour with them.
The "Colour Me Pop" episode makes up tracks three through 17. I've added three more songs for two reasons. One, the album is rather short, and those give it a more reasonable length. But also, different versions of these songs were included on "Volume 2." I figure it's better to put them here, so one doesn't have two versions of the same song on one album. Unfortunately, these songs were also only live vocals added to the studio versions! So every single song on the album is like that.
Two of these three extra songs were from BBC TV shows. But the third, "Itchycoo Park," comes from a French TV show. The bonus track, "(If You Think You're) Groovy," also comes from that same French show. The reason it's a bonus track is because the lead vocals were by soul singer P.P. Arnold. However, the song was actually written by Small Faces lead vocalist Steve Marriott, who was romantically involved with Arnold around this time. And all the singing and playing was done by the Small Faces, other than Arnold's lead vocals. So it still is very relevant to this band, enough to justify bonus track status, at least.
Everything here is unreleased, I believe. The sound quality is excellent. The vocals were low for the two French TV show ones, but I fixed that using the MVSEP program.
This album is 34 minutes long.
01 Tin Soldier [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
02 Itchycoo Park [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
03 Song of a Baker [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
04 talk (Small Faces)
05 Happiness Stan [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
06 talk (Small Faces)
07 Rollin' Over [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
08 talk (Small Faces)
09 The Hungry Intruder [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
10 talk (Small Faces)
11 The Journey [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
12 talk (Small Faces)
13 Mad John [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
14 talk (Small Faces)
15 Happy Days Toy Town [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
16 talk (Small Faces)
17 Happy Days Toy Town [Reprise] [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
18 The Universal [Live Vocals Only] (Small Faces)
[If You Think You're] Groovy [Live Vocals Only] [Edit] (P. P. Arnold & the Small Faces)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/X3i4WNEA
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/cxX2VTOYrIznKFh/file
The cover image is a screenshot taken from the "Colour Me Pop" TV show.
Thanks for all the Small Faces posts. I will delete all the bits and pieces I have now and replace them with your collection.
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