The Small Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1965-1966 RE-BOOT | Albums That Should Exist

 

The Small Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1965-1966

Paul notes: Back in early 2021, I posted two BBC albums for the Small Faces. (Technically, they were just "Small Faces," but I can't help use the "the.") I have deleted those today, because I'm doing a complete overhaul, and turning two albums into three. Here's the first one.

This overhaul wouldn't have happened had it not been for Prof. Stoned and his music blog. I highly recommend you check it out, here:

Prof Stoned: Rare & Deleted 

He shares my interest in BBC recordings from the 1960s and early 1970s. An official BBC album has been released for this band, simply titled "The BBC Sessions." But Prof. Stoned has dug deep and found more and more that that album missed. Eventually, I noticed there was enough for this overhaul. So all the songs I'm adding for the first time are thanks to that blog.

As it so happens, the vast majority of the tracks on this first volume are from the official BBC album. The only exceptions are tracks 4 ("You Really Got a Hold on Me") and 14 ("My Mind's Eye"). Everything here is from BBC studio sessions, though the two unreleased tracks were performed before small audiences. (I've removed the crowd noise on those, using MVSEP.) As usual, you can look at the mp3 tags for each song for more details about where and when the songs were recorded.

If you look at the song list, you'll see several songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. That's due to the usual problem from that era of BBC DJs talking over the music. I always like removing that talking, using the UVR5 or MVSEP programs. But Prof. Stoned feels otherwise, so if you want hear the DJs, check out his Small Faces collection.

Since all but two songs are officially released, the sound quality is excellent. The sound quality is a bit rougher for those, but still acceptable. Also, one song here, "Jump Back," is also on the stray tracks album "Grow Your Own," because the only recording the band did of it is from one of their BBC sessions. 

This album is 37 minutes long.

01 Whatcha Gonna Do about It 
02 Jump Back 
03 Baby Don't You Do It [Don't Do It] 
04 You Really Got a Hold on Me [Edit] 
05 Shake [Edit]
06 Sha-La-La-La-Lee
07 You Need Love [You Need Loving] [Edit]
08 Hey Girl
09 E Too D [Edit]
10 One Night Stand [Edit] 
11 You Better Believe It [Edit] 
12 Understanding 
13 All or Nothing
14 My Mind's Eye 

The cover art photo comes from an appearance on the "Two of a Kind" TV show in 1967.