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Small Faces - Small Faces Album (1966)

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Small Faces is the debut album of the Small Faces, released in May 1966 by Decca Records.
It includes the hit singles "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" and "Sha-La-La-La-Lee".
The album was well received by music critics and was popular with the public,
rising to number 3 on the UK album chart, remaining at the top for several weeks.[3][4]

Small Faces - Small Faces (1966) Band Line-Up

Steve Marriott – lead guitar, lead (all but 1) and backing vocals
Ronnie Lane – bass, backing and lead (1) vocals
Kenney Jones – drums, percussion
Ian McLagan - (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12)
keyboards, backing vocals
Jimmy Winston - (2, 4, 6, 10, 11)
keyboards, backing vocals, rhythm guitar
Kenny Lynch - (3, 7, 12) - backing vocals

Small Faces with Jimmy Winston 1965

Small Faces - Small Faces Debut Album 1966

Small Faces 1966 Decca Vinyl LP Mono LK 4790 album signed to back cover by four members including Ronnie Lane (Luv! Plonk)

link to signed album back cover

Small Faces - Small Faces 1966 Album
Small Faces' debut album
Released: May 11, 1966 on Decca Records
Recorded: June 1965 – February 1966
Recorded at: IBC Studios (Portland Place, London, England)
Produced by Ian Samwell, Kenny Lynch, Don Arden

Small Faces - Small Faces (1966) Album Track Listing
Length 32:47

Side one
1. "Shake" 2:55 Sam Cooke
2. "Come on Children" 4:20
Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott,
Jimmy Winston
3. "You'd Better Believe It" 2:19
Kenny Lynch, Jerry Ragovoy
4. "It's Too Late" 2:37
Jones, Lane, Marriott, Winston
5. "One Night Stand" 1:50
Lane, Marriott
6. "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" 1:59 Ian Samwell, Brian Potter

Side two
7. "Sorry She's Mine" 2:48
Lynch
8. "Own Up Time" 1:47
Jones, Lane, Marriott, Ian McLagan
9. "You Need Loving" 3:59
Lane, Marriott (Willie Dixon)
10. "Don't Stop What You're Doing" 1:55
Jones, Lane, Marriott, Winston
11. "E Too D" 3:02
Lane, Marriott
12. "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" 2:56
Lynch, Mort Shuman

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Small Faces 1966 Decca Vinyl LP Mono LK 4790 album front cover

Small Faces - Small Faces 1966 LP Side 1

Small Faces - Small Faces 1966 LP Side 2

Small Faces worked
a heavy R&B groove on their 1966 debut...

"Just when the first-generation British Invasion bands galloped ahead into pop art in 1966, the Small Faces worked a heavy R&B groove on their 1966 debut. That's not to say that this pack of four sharp-suited mods were unaware of the times. If anything, no other British band of the mid-'60s was so keenly tuned into fashion, the four Small Faces capturing the style and sound of dancing pilled-up mods better even than the Who, possibly because the group could carry a groove better than the Who, as this tightly propulsive debut amply illustrates.

Like many '60s debuts, the Small Faces is split between covers, songs the label pushed on the band, and originals, some clearly interpolations of songs they'd been covering in clubs. "Come on Children" echoes James Brown's "Think," and "You Need Loving" is based on Willie Dixon's "You Need Love." Later, Led Zeppelin would rework the Small Faces' "You Need Loving" into "Whole Lotta Love," and while it's easy to hear how Steve Marriott's raw-throated howl influenced Robert Plant as much as Marriott's heavy shards of guitar influenced Jimmy Page, what's striking about the Small Faces is that there is very little blues or rock & roll here: it's all hard-charging, driving R&B and soul, the emphasis all on the groove.

By stressing the beat, the Small Faces carry themselves over some slight songwriting -- the band's energetic interplay carries them over the rough spots between "It's Too Late," "What'Cha Gonna Do About It," and "Sha La La La Lee," and that concentration even pushes them into trailblazing territory, as on the lean, ominous pulse of "E Too D." Such moments keep the Small Faces sounding fearless and fresh even when by other respects it is very much a record of its time."
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Small Faces "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" Single Billboard Magazine Advert Oct 10, 1965, pg. 35

Record Mirror - Small Faces, May 26th 1966

Small Faces - Small Faces Album (1966)

The album was recorded at IBC Studios, Portland Place, London between June 1965 and February 1966.

Glyn Johns was the studio engineer.

In 1966, the Small Faces became the eleventh biggest selling artists of the year.

Jimmy Winston was asked to leave after the band's second single "I've Got Mine", released on 5 November 1965, failed to make the charts. He still appears on many tracks on this album, including joint writing contributions to "It's Too Late" and providing keyboards and vocals on various tracks. Winston's replacement, Ian McLagan, appears on the album cover and plays on various tracks as well.

Small Faces Rave Magazine 1966

Three of the tracks had been released prior to the album. These are the two aforementioned singles "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" and "Sha-La-La-La-Lee", along with the track "It's Too Late" which was issued as the B-side of "I've Got Mine", the group's second single, released in 1965. The band's fourth single "Hey Girl" was released around the same time as the album; ultimately it was not included and can instead be found on their 1967 compilation album From the Beginning.

In 1962, Muddy Waters recorded "You Need Love", written for him by peer Willie Dixon. "You Need Loving" is a thinly veiled cover of "You Need Love". The Small Faces were never sued by Dixon, even though "You Need Loving" only credits Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott as writers. "Own Up Time" was incorrectly titled "Own Up" on initial pressings from 1966, on newer issues of the album the initial name has been reinstated. Guitarist Jimmy Page (initially of The Yardbirds and later of Led Zeppelin fame) used the Small Faces' arrangement of "You Need Loving" as the basis for Led Zeppelin's hit song "Whole Lotta Love" in 1969

Singles from Small Faces - Small Faces (1966)

"Whatcha Gonna Do About It"
Released: 6 August 1965
"Sha-La-La-La-Lee"
Released: 28 January 1966

Additional releases of Small Faces - Small Faces 1966 debut album (not complete)

The Album was first released on CD in 1988 by London Records. This edition included four bonus tracks taken from three singles B-sides and one A-side; "What's A Matter Baby", "I Got Mine", "Grow Your Own" and "Almost Grown". 15 of this CD's 16 tracks were in mono, the exception being a stereo mix of "Sha La La La Lee".
It was first remastered for CD in 1997 by Deram Records, and this time the bonus tracks were alternative versions of "Shake", "Come on Children", "What'cha Gonna Do About It", "Own Up Time" and "E Too D".

In 2006 a "40th anniversary edition" with 23 tracks was released by Decca. Included were the Singles A-Sides and Singles B-Sides from that period, "What's A Matter Baby", I've Got Mine", "Grow Your Own", "Hey Girl" and "Almost Grown".

In 2012, a 2-disc Deluxe Edition was released featuring outtakes, non-album singles and alternate versions and mixes, and the remastering and overall reissue was overseen by surviving band members Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones.

Small Faces' Small Faces (1966) Deluxe Edition has 14 extra, stunning tracks:

-Come On Children [Alternate Version]
-Shake [Alternate Version]
-You Better Believe It [Alternate Version]
-It's Too Late [Alternate Mix]
-Sorry She's Mine [Alternate Mix]
-Own Up Time [Alternate Version]
-E Too D [Alternate Version]
-I've Got Mine [Alternate Mix]
-Grow Your Own [Alternate Mix]
-Sha La La La Lee [Stereo Version]
-Don't Stop What You're Doing [Alternate Version]
-What's a Matter Baby [Alternate Mix]
-What'cha Gonna Do About It [Alternate Version]
https://www.oldies.com/product-view/37116O.html

Further Small Faces - Small Faces 1966 bonus tracks information:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/releases-prior-to-small-faces-deluxe-sets.388745/

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Small Faces live on German TV 1966

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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Faces_(1966_album)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/small-faces-decca-mw0000653037
Small Faces – 11th biggest selling artists in 1966 – Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful Biography, p. 111.
https://www.discogs.com/Small-Faces-The-Small-Faces/master/304383
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artists/small-faces/