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The Small Faces arrived on the pop scene with a teenage nuclear blast of energy called What'Cha Gonna Do About It at the start of August 1965. The song blatantly stole the riff from Solomon Burke's Everybody Needs Somebody To Love which hadn't long been covered by The Rolling Stones and was in fact one of their stage
favourites.
What set the Small Faces disc apart was Steve Marriott's blistering vocal. He sang like his life depended on it.
The best version of Whatcha Gonna Do About It wasn't even released in the UK. A rougher take with a Pete
Townshend-styled feedback intro surfaced on a French EP. Decca decided this version was too wild for the British market.
What'Cha Gonna Do About It was actually recorded several times because the first version sounded too much like Come On Children, a Small Faces original.
The flip-side was a cover of Timi Yuro's American hit What's A Matter Baby. Great haunting vocals by Steve with the rest of the band adding some very
Beatle-ish backing vocals. Two versions also exist of this song.
When Decca released their Rock Roots Volume 5- The Small Faces LP in 1977, they released a maxi-single to promote the album comprising All or Nothing on the A side with What'Cha Gonna Do About It and Sha La La La Lee on the flip. Decca F13727
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