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SMALL FACES - RAREST RECORDINGS, LIVE SONGS
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1. Ain't that Peculiar
The SF's played this Marvin Gaye song live (confirmed for example at the Marquee '66)
2. Baby Please Don't Go
Recently discovered. Played live at the Marquee Club in London, February 1966 and filmed by Belgian Television
3. Baby What You Want Me to Do
Jimmy Reed song featured in early Small Faces setlists
4. Barefootin
During a very early Small Faces gig at the Mojo Club in Sheffield, Steve and Ronnie demanded that the audience all take off their shoes and socks off while the band played the Bobby Parker sould classic
5. Be My Baby
No, not the version on Steve Marriott's Scrubbers LP. The Ronettes classic. Still in the Immediate vaults allegedly. Some say it was recorded for the Autumn Stone album. However, in the run up to the Ogdens release Marriott said that because of a lack of booked studio time there was no time to finish some tracks. They would release "Be My Baby" and "If You Think You're Groovy" which were already in the can. It was mooted for track 6 on side 1 of Ogdens....though Ronnie Lane's comment was "we recorded it for a giggle one day in the studio"
6. Comin' Home Baby
Played on the Joe Loss Show in January 1966, the third of four numbers, and then taped for the BBC in March 1966 we fourth of four after Shake, You Need Loving, You Really Got a Hold of Me and broadcast on the BBC Light Programme
7. Do You See Me
This appears on an LP called Small Faces on French A/Z label. It is the most well known example of something which became quite common....strange sounding titles to Small Faces songs, which upon exploring turn out to be outtakes and rare alternative versions of released tracks.
It also extended to several Rod Stewart LPs, particularly on the American Springboard label, which actually contained Small Faces tracks under strange names, and supposedly Rod Stewart. This particular one turns out to be "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" with a different ending
8. Get Ready
Instrumental version of the Motown classic, and modelled on Booker T & the MG's, which was performed for BBC's Top Gear
9. I Feel Alright
Unrecorded Ronnie Lane track. Ronnie sang vocals. The Small Faces used it as an opener on their Scandanavian tour of November '66. Appears on the "Stockholm" bootleg
10. If You Think You're Groovy
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SMALL FACES - RAREST OUTAKES & ALT VERSIONS
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1. You'd Better Believe It
Extended Version. Appears on the original French EP.
2. I'm Only Dreaming
One of the Alternative versions that has a different vocal line. Was re-released in 2001 on the CD "Absolutely the Best"
3. Here Comes the Nice
The Olympic acetate. A bit of a holy grail in which Ronnie Lane sings "money. money, money" in one place.
4. The Hungry Intruder
Completely different backing track version. Different flute part and different ending. Found on the DOJO CD "Quite Naturally Rare".
5. Mad John
The extended version, as per the single release in US and Australia. It has an extra verse.
6. Lazy Sunday
Top of the Pops, as appears on the LP "There are Only Three".
7. Autumn Stone
This version has the flute different and higher in the mix than other versions.
Can be found on the "Rod Stewart & the Faces" album on Springboard.
8. How Can I Tell Her
Actually, the Small Faces doing "I've Got Mine" from the soundtrack of the film "Dateline Diamonds". Can be found on the LP "It's a Mod Mod World".
9. Have You Ever Seen Me (version 5)
Yes, there are five versions of this track. This one has a completely different vocal line, and can be found on Astan's "Golden Hits" and on the New World "Small Faces" LP.
10. I Can't Make It
Longer stereo take, with different vocal line. Found on the Small Faces Repertiore Box Set.
11. Just Passing
"one and a two and a three anD a four and a......"
Repertoire call it an alternative take. Charly calls it the stereo version, and Castle calls it rare!
12. Tin Soldier
Rare track from the TV show "Twice in a fortnight". It's a backing track which was recorded for TV appearances, with a live Marriott vocal on top
Can be found on the album "There are but Three".
13. Things Can Only Get Better
The one with the Walt Disney-like whistling. Can be found on the Repertoire box set.
14. What's a Matter baby
Opposite Gender version. Sung to a guy, with references to "her", rather than sung to a girl with references to "him".
15. If I Were a Carpenter
From BBC's Top of the Pops, live in the studio. Can be found on the album "There are but Three".
16. Hey Girl
Alternative version found on original French EPs. Different from the Decca re-release version which claims to be from the French EP.
17. The Universal
Different drums, and much higher in the mix. Can be found on the Rod Stewart LP "Riding High" on the Joker label
18. Something I Want to Tell You
There are a couple of key alternatives, one which appears on the Repertoire box set. Another - which is only instrumental and backing vocals - appears on a Sampler tape from a French Company "Orange" who intended to release an anthology
19. E too D
This version, with a natural ending, i.e., not with a fade out. Appears on the album "By Appointment" on the US label Accord
20. Red Ballon
Completely different version, appears on a 1998 Rod Stewart CD entitled "Mind's Eye" on the US label ARM (Association of Recorded Music).
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