Small Faces - 1967 UK Immediate label 1st Pressing 14-track Stereo LP

1967 UK Immediate label 14-track stereo LP - East London mod-quartets 3rd album - and their first one on the Immediate label.

Allmusics Stephen Thomas Erlewine out word on it: '... sharply cut and precisely tailored, with no wasted moments", "... bright, colorful, and concentrated, its very brevity playing like snappy pop art." summing up til album: "...still grounded in hard-grooving soul and pointing the way toward the richly textured Ogden's Nut Gone Flake..."

Vinyl has the lilac and black printed company labels. Vinyl has machine stamped matrix information:

Side 1: IMSP 008 - 1Y, mother/stamper 1 R
Side 2: IMSP 008 - 2Y, mother/stamper 1 R
stressing that this issue is produced from the first set bof master matrices, the first set of mothers and the second stamper for both Side 1 and 2 - an extremely early pressed copy.

Side 2 label has embossed "KT" tax code in centrering.

Vinyl is held in front laminated Garrod & Lofthouse picture cover with top and bottom extension flips glued on top of spine extension flip - all glued on top of the back cover.


Condition: VG+(+) (Vinyl and Labels)/VG+ (Cover):
Vinyl is overall superbright. Both sides have only faint signs of play or handling - a touch of sleeve wear combined with few very light inaudible surface marks.
Labels are in close to near mint condition, only very light spindle traces are detected on both labels and vinyl is overall graded close to near mint/excellent condition.

Cover has three thumbnail laminate wrinkles and a handful of light laminate wrinkles from the spine and seams - light rubbing to all four corners, upper left corner has a light degree of laminate shelling - lower left corner has light laminate lifting and a more pronounced wrinkle caused by a corner bend - lower right corner has some rubbing to the opening and a more pronounced corner bend - opening has only very light rubbing - the colours are very clean and bright.

Back is remarkable clean with just a little age discolouration and very light wear along back opening.

Cover has light rubbing to all four corners - upper and lower flipbacks has a couple of light laminate wrinkles - the pinched spine is fully intact and clearly readable, otherwise in very nice condition - a simply very copy of a Small Faces rock classic.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me 2:15
2. Something I Want To Tell You 2:06
3. Feeling Lonely 1:30
4. Happy Boys Happy 1:35
5. Things Are Going To Get Better 2:36
6. My Way Of Giving 1:52
7. Green Circles (Marriott, Lane, Michael O'Sullivan) 2:34

Side 2:
1. Become Like You 1:55
2. Get Yourself Together 2:17
3. All Of Our Yesterdays 1:47
4. Talk To You 2:05
5. Show Me The Way 2:05
6. Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire 2:00
7. Eddie's Dreaming 2:50

All tracks written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, unless otherwise noted.

Recorded October 1966 ? April 1967 at Olympic Studios, London

Credits:

Small Faces:
Steve Marriott - lead, harmony, and backing vocals, guitars, piano on "Things Are Going to Get Better", "Show Me the Way", and "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire"
Ronnie Lane - lead, harmony, and backing vocals, bass guitar
Kenney Jones - drums, percussion
Ian McLagan - lead, harmony, and backing vocals, keyboards, bass guitar on "Show Me the Way" and "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire", guitar on "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire"

Technical Credits:
Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott - Arrangements, Production


Artwork:
Stephen Hill - Cover Design
Stephen Bobroff - Photography