Label: Immediate Records (U.S.), AK 47895
Style: Rock, Mod
Country: London, England
Time: 35:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 209 Mb
There Are But Four Small Faces is a studio album by British rock group
Small Faces, released on 17 March 1968 through Immediate Records and
distributed by CBS Records. It was the band's first album release in the
United States, and acts as an alternative version for overseas release
of the Immediate album Small Faces, which came out earlier the same
year. There Are was issued around the same time as the group's single
"Lazy Sunday".
The album omitted "Something I Want to Tell You",
"Feeling Lonely", "Happy Boys Happy", "Things Are Going to Get Better",
"Become Like You", "All Our Yesterdays" and "Eddie's Dreaming", which
were all found on the Small Faces album in the United Kingdom. Since
these tracks weren't featured on another album issued in the US at the
time, they became rare collectibles until Sire Records issued a double
album titled The Immediate Story in 1975. On CD, these tracks were
issued on deluxe editions of Small Faces in the 1980s.
These tracks
were substituted by the singles "Here Come the Nice", "Itchycoo Park"
and "Tin Soldier", all of which had seen releases as singles in both the
US and the UK to various success. The album also features the B-Sides
"I'm Only Dreaming" and "I Feel Much Better", which backed "Itchycoo
Park" and "Tin Soldier" respectively.
There Are remains the sole
Small Faces album that was released exclusively in North America; the
follow-up Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake remains the same as the UK issue,
although with lacking sound quality. Faces' debut album First Step is
credited to Small Faces on its USA release, but credited to Faces in the
UK; however, the track listings on both these releases are the same
(although there are brief edits to two tracks on the USA version).
Upon
its initial release, the record failed to reach the charts; however, it
charted very briefly after the song "Itchycoo Park" was a top 20 hit on
the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1968. The album consequently became a
moderate success, managed to reach the Billboard 200 for three weeks,
and peaked at number 178 in March 1968. It was the first of two Small
Faces albums to chart in the US; the other one was Ogdens' Nut Gone
Flake which reached number 159.
During the success of "Itchycoo
Park", stickers stating 'Includes Itchycoo Park' were added to the album
sleeve, something that hadn't been present on earlier pressings. The
album was published in Venezuela in the year 1968 on the Odeon label.
This version had a remarkably different running order than the versions
released in the US, most notably the inclusion of "Lazy Sunday", a
single released in April 1968.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Are_But_Four_Small_Faces)
01. Itchycoo Park (02:48)
02. Talk To You (02:06)
03. Up the Wooden Hills (to Bedf (02:02)
04. My Way of Giving (01:57)
05. I'm Only Dreaming (02:23)
06. I Feel Much Better (03:55)
07. Tin Soldier (03:21)
08. Get Yourself Together (02:13)
09. Show Me The Way (02:06)
10. Here Come The Nice (03:00)
11. Green Circles (02:45)
12. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen (02:13)
13. Green Circles (Alternate) (02:32)
14. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen (02:04)
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