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Songs Covered by Small Faces
Baby Don't Do It A Holland/Dozier/Holland song sung by Marvin Gaye. Incidentally, the song is covered by Poets on the Best of Immediate CD release from 1997. The Small Faces' version is the only track where Jimmy Winston sings lead vocals. Contained on BBC Sessions. (Come Back and) Take This Hurt Off Me Written by Don Covay. Coming Home Baby The Small Faces version was released in the Decca Years boxed set. It was broadcast on the BBC Joe Loss radio show on 14 January 1966. Mel Tormé made this song popular with his version in 1962 although it had originally been released as an instrumental in 1961. The Small Faces' version is an instrumental with Ian McLagan's Hammond in the foreground. Two live versions are included on the Live 1966 album and CD. Every Little Bit Hurts A cover of the Motown ballad by Brenda Hollaway but make sure you check out the Spencer Davis Group version with Steve Winwood singing on their Autumn '66 album. The song was written by Ed Cobb who had also written Tainted Love.
Gisele Baxter notes that the song was included as an outtake from the Clash's Sandinista sessions. It was apparently one of Mick Jones' favourite songs and he used to sing it with Chrissie Hynde. Gisele: "I must give the Clash version, obviously unfinished as it is, my seal of approval: it's melancholy and soulful, with a very nice keyboard line throughout." If I Were A Carpenter The Four Tops sang this song written by Tim Hardin in 1968. Bobby Darin also covered the song as did Robert Plant, both on Now and Zen and in his Band of Joy days. There is a live version on The Autumn Stone and it is also available as part of the BBC recordings. Long Black Veil This was in the live set towards the end of the Small Faces' career. This is a country ballad written in 1959 by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin. It has been covered by many people, the biggest influence on Small Faces was probably the Band's version on Music from the Big Pink. Small Faces played the track at Alexandra Palace 31 December 1968 and it remained in the set as it can be heart on a bootleg recording from a 1969 Vienna gig. Steve Marriott plays keyboards on the track. Ooh Poo Pah Doo This was written and released by blues singer Jessie Hill in 1960 although a better-known version may be Ike & Tina Turner’s version from 1964. Incidentally, another London group, the High Numbers, also used to cover this track. The track appears on Live 1966 with Ronnie Lane belting out the lead vocals. Paperback Writer Friday the 11th August 1967 and Small Faces open their set at the 7th National Jazz, Pop and Blues Festival with Paperback Writer written by um, um..... A couple of songs later the plug is pulled as all music has to finish at midnight. Steve Marriott yelled "you bastards." The organisers were accused of making the band hang around after arrival. The officials blamed Small Faces for arriving late. The audience booed. The song may have been a regular in the set by now as it was reported to have been played at Woburn Abbey's Festival of the Flower Children in August 1967. Please Please Please This is the well-known James Brown track and a rare slow song from Small Faces in 1966. The song was written by Brown and Johnny Terry and released in March 1956. The track appears on Live 1966 with Steve Marriott's vocals that surely would have impressed James Brown. There was a version of the song on the Who's My Generation LP. Plum Nellie Originally by Booker T & The MGs. A live version is available on Live 1966. This becomes a medley with the inclusion of Baby Please Don't Go, Parchman Farm and Land of 1,000 Dances. Red Balloon Like If I Were A Carpenter, this was written by Tim Hardin. The quality of some of the Small Faces compilations is clear where this song is mistitled Red Ballroom! Runaway A hit for Del Shannon in 1961, reaching number one in the UK and USA. Del Shannon said the subject was running away from himself. The song was written at the Hi-Lo Club in Battle Creak, Michigan, in 1960. The Small Faces' version features then manager Don Arden doing his opera singing at the beginning. Shake Originally sung by Sam Cooke and popularised by Otis Redding. The Otis Redding version can be found on Otis Blue. Two other Sam Cooke numbers, Wonderful World and A Change is Gonna Come, are also on this album as well as covers of My Girl and Satisfaction. Otis Redding opened his Monterey set with this song. The Small Faces version of the song was sung by Ronnie Lane and was usually the opening to the live set. Listen to the storming version on BBC Sessions. The song also appears in a slower, "bluesier" form on Steve Marriott's Scrubbers CD. Strange This track was in the set in early 1966 and is available on the Live 1966 LP and CD. It was written by Larry Williams who is known for tracks such as Bonie Maroney, Dizzy Miss Lizzy and Slow Down. You've Really Got a Hold On Me Smokey Robinson & the Miracles did the original of course but look out for a version by some band called The Beatles (With the Beatles). What's a Matter Baby? Originally by Italian-American singer Timi Yuro. Be My Baby The Ronnette's song recorded during the Ogden's sessions but still unreleased. A version by Steve Marriott is available on the Scrubbers album. Miscellaneous Immediate's vaults are rumoured to include covers of The Supremes' Love is Here and Now You're Gone. Did Small Faces play Green Onions live? Which Muddy Waters tracks did they play live? |
