If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. We were looking at this design on a tin which said ‘Ogdens’ Nut Brown Flake’, and Steve suddenly went: ‘Nut brown – nut gone! "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" – even now - the name makes me weak at the knees. "We didn't want to release [it] as a single even though we virtually knew it would be a hit," Marriott recalled in Marriott and Lane added narration between two songs to move along their story, enlisting eccentric British actor Stanley Unwin for the gig. It was an indication that the band’s best interests were not always at the top of the managerial agenda.‘We were not progressing in any way because we were constantly gigging and we weren’t spending enough time in the studio,’ said Jones. The end was nigh when Marriott threw down his guitar and walked off stage at London’s Alexandra Palace on New Year’s Eve 1968. For SMALL FACES fans - the British mod band’s 1968 masterpiece (a Number 1 album in the UK) will be the jewel in a very tasty set of 4 DELUXE EDITION crowns released by Universal in May of 2012. Lazy Sunday Lyrics: 5. Looking back on it he was right, of course, but at the time it didn’t do anything for the image we were trying to put across as serious musicians – not when we doing heavier rock songs like Song Of A Baker or Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am.
"It made us laugh," remembered Marriott. The song was released as a single before the album came out and made it to No. ‘We thought Andrew was managing us but he wasn’t really,’ said Jones. ‘I’d taken over the finances because it was impossible to tell who wasn’t stealing from us at that point.’By the time they played their final gig, Marriott was already setting up Humble Pie with his mate Peter Frampton. None of this mattered if you were stoned, but the majority of record retailers were pretty straight.Nevertheless, when it was released at the end of May 1968, after a nine-month gestation period, the album became The Small Faces’ biggest success. They had no problem switching from the mournful Feeling Lonely to the rowdy Cockney knees-up All Of Our Yesterdays, via the LSD-tinged Green Circles. The band were unhappy that it had been released as a single, believing it enhanced their image of lightweight pop stars at a time when they wanted to be regarded as serious musicians. But Marriott, already plotting his move out of the band, shot down the idea. It wasn’t easy to rack, it was flimsy, and the record kept falling out. And despite the complex nature of the recordings, drummer Kenney Jones envisioned taking the album to the stage, complete with Unwin to narrate.

Oldham was happy to let the band continue their studio adventures, and McLagan stressed that their manager was never involved in the creative process. The Journey Lyrics: 9. Happiness Stan Lyrics: 7.

They put him on a throne and stuck a crown on his head. Though the band's legend has grown over the years, between 1965 and 1969, its recorded output was relatively small: a run of great singles, three albums and they were gone. This opens the door for "Afterglow of Your Love," a beautifully soulful tracks that packs a triumphant chorus. Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is the third studio album, and first concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Unwin was not the Small Faces’ first choice of narrator. He wasn’t anything to do with what we were doing.’Nevertheless, when the band hit a creative block while they were recording songs for what would become the Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake album, it was Oldham who despatched them off on a boating weekend on the River Thames.

‘You couldn’t play an acoustic guitar as the front instrument with a band. It was fun and it was a part of what we were, but afterwards it was like: ‘How do we get out of this?’ Now we were getting screaming girls at our gigs and we couldn’t hear ourselves play. ‘We’d just done the record for fun, but Andrew took it upon himself to release it as a single without telling us. 2 on the U.K. chart. Instead they opted for a circular something up their sleeve: the original circular Ogdens’… album cover cardboard fold-out sleeve – which was almost as impractical when it came to shop displays. McLagan reckoned it was the only time they saw any money as a band. ‘There were no acoustic guitar pickups. There was no phasing, either. ‘It was like a breath of fresh air.

Their catalog holds up, especially The LP was issued in a round sleeve made to look like a tobacco tin, which opened up in four folds (at the time, tobacco tins were often used to store other, less legal substances). Happy Days Toy Town Lyrics: 3. The distinct packaging reflected the exciting music it contained. Drummer Kenny (now Kenney) Jones and keyboardist Ian McLagan, along with guitarist and lead singer Steve Marriott and bassist Ronnie Lane, had shot to the forefront of the Swinging London scene, sharp-dressed mods with a sound to match.


But they did manage to get Stanley Unwin to reprise his narrator’s role. Published By – CBS Songs Ltd. Then there's "Song of a Baker," written by Side one ends with the campy music hall-inspired "Lazy Sunday," featuring Marriott in an exaggerated cockney accent.