The Small Faces - Song Of A Baker - "Colour Me Pop" (1968)

[StanKindly]

I can see where Michael Palin got his announcer bits...

[asakogumama]

marriot and lane!!! i miss them! great beautiful quarity. thank you!

[WoolwichHouseStudio]

So much effort in performance and precision to replicating what was essentially a mime of the original recording. Convinced me the first time I watched this.

[diskochimp]

This clip HAS to be one of the best TV performances from the 60s, right?

[LoveTheBeatlesSoMuch]

My first favorite Small Faces song :) thanks so much for posting this! I saw this video and instantly fell in love with Ronnie Lane. They`re such fantastic musicians, so brilliant. This is the kind of music that will never be forgotten

[themobianhat]

@Dogfuckedthepope Glad that's resolved, yeah my dad claims to have met them and he wouldn't ever joke about his idols! Only a sort of brief meet and greet, and a signing of Ogden's, which is his most prized posession! Thanks for the reccomendation, i shall have a gander :)

[MrMoggyman]

Bloody brilliant. A great tune and playing instruments........marvellous.­...true musicians! The Small Faces were a wonderful band. Thank God I was around in this time. The musical heros and sounds of the time pale all other eras into complete insignificance.

[commradedave]

Why don't the lot of you shut up and enjoy the tune? Jesus, what is this? Some sort of anorak wank piss-fest? Sort it out chumps.

[themobianhat]

@Dogfuckedthepope And P.S. The information I'm going on isn't my own, it's my Dad's, he was a big fan of the Small Faces (as am I), and he went to many of their live shows, even behind stage on a couple of occasions, he is, like me, a musician and drummer, and when watching their performances (in studio) realised they were miming, I'm not making things up on the spot, I do know my stuff believe it or not, discrimination due to age is silly and can make you look stupid, cool off a bit mate.

[themobianhat]

@Dogfuckedthepope What I'd like to know is 1. Why are you so bothered about this video. if you played drums for example you'd realise this is very obviously mimed, and if you're having a go at me for my age you must be quite a bit older than me, and if this is so then why are you going on internet rants? A bit immature. 2. Why are you looking through my stuff to find out how old i am anyway? Rather creepy...

[dreagin]

Ok, I don't want to start an argument here but the whole song is mimed. There are numerous times when the drum fills and cymbal crashes don't match. Also, near the end of the song they fade the lights as volume fades as well, because it's mimed. Regardless of what it is, it's a wonderful example of this band.

[themobianhat]

@dreagin I rest my case :)

[themobianhat]

@Dogfuckedthepope bloody hell its a youtube video calm down :L

[themobianhat]

@Dogfuckedthepope Miced? Really? Naah no one in these days did drumming live, if you played drums you'd realise that most of the drumming is poorly co-ordinated and wrong, hitting the hi-hat instead of a cymbal or vice-versa, and no, the leads may be plugged in but the amps aren't plugged into any mixer or P.A... or any power system, the only thing that's live is the singing, the microphones on the drums are just to create the illusion the drumming is real...looks like it worked...

[themobianhat]

@themobianhat In addition, if the drumming were live, the drummer would have to mute the cymbals with his hand, which he doesn't... Deary me, you need to pay attention.

[themobianhat]

worst drum miming ever! i love it!

[whoswhotribute]

If Kenney Jones played like this ten years later he's still be The Who's drummer. Awesome playing!

[MrTobytwirl]

My favourite band ever!

[deanprabhuji]

This is totally brilliant,original Brit pop.....wish i had a time machine!!

[uniformsmoker]

they understood rock as classical orchestra, and made it work on that level

[Jay3S2]

3:08 - 3:13 always sends shivers down my spine.  The finest 5 seconds of rock guitar EVER!

[freedomchild68]

damn they were good! Fricken raw energy comin from Steve, and that Ian could play some keyboard!

[pretorious700]

Steve was incredible-a fountain of potential energy always just about to explode. He was so tiny (look at that tele compared to him), but powerful.

[Muso57]

I just love that Hammond Organ sound!!!

[sbarr10]

God these guys were awesome - and so young!

[stepenwolf7]

So sad to think there is only two of them left now...God rest Steve and Ronnie

[bburnsey]

I had the eight track. Wore it out

[neilus]

Goddamnit what a wonderful story of the most awesome music ever produced we would have if shows like this had let the bands play live instead of miming...still cool as fuck...!

[colcho18]

Steve Marriott

the most underrated frontman ever

hell yeah

[666UFO666]

@colcho18 You got Right!!!!!!!!!!!!100%

[dmg555]

they were brilliant. Steve Marriott was the man

[powellallan]

I'm pretty sure the guitar work is hendrix, he lived in the same house at the time and attended the recording session so the story goes, who knows?

[velveteeendream]

jesus christ, steve makes love to that guitar. i am in love

[claudiofimiani]

Pa' que aprendan las nuevas banditas pedorras de ahora, ja! 1968!

[stoberto06]

why can't i find any live small faces?

[nancyzeetoo]

@stoberto06 There is some, but not too much. Some Beat Club stuff (Sha La La La Lee) and All or Nothing, (I think). Some good material from a German TV show - Whatca Gonna Do About It and Hey Girl. I Can't Make It and All or Nothing from the Morecomb and Wise show, and some amazing early footage of Marquee Club doing parts of Plum Nellie and You Need Lovin'.  I'm probably missing some, but these are what come straight to mind.

[atomzz907]

Now THAT'S how you play guitar!



[dolliegirlcat]

Another fav brilliant Faces song. They were so far advanced in '68. Ian can only be heard but not seen. Lousy camerawork!

[Reinisen]

... 3.13...

[Jerryberlin]

Ya man!

[guywalker29]

This is a good one.

[stueygill]

Are they miming?

[Mikemaniax]

Partially. They recorded the instrumental backing tracks and some vocals that afternoon before this taping, but the producers left their microphones on to capture some vocal adlibs and doubles etc.

[lynus111]

@stueygill yes.

[jatsar]

Remind me of Buffalo Springfield and LOL the red velvet pants....great post! Thanks!

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Not many people know the BBC were doing colour in '68 on BBC2, thanks to David Attenborough the bloke in charge at the time. It looks and sounds great and thankfully didn't get erased like too many other great music moments! I think the presenter wasn't quite ready for the Rock 'n' Roll style guests! I have the Stan Unwin 'Happydaystoytown' clip on video- great. IMDB seems to lack a lot of info this pre-cursor to the Old Grey Whistle Test- it doesn't even seem to know the presenter's name!

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Re: Making sense of the first sentence- I meant not many know that the BBC were doing colour in '68. Thanks to David Attenborough, colour came along earlier than it probably would have! (Youtube- how about the ability to edit a posted message?)

[harfarhs]

@IThinkYouLookLarvely - judging from the Wikipedia entry, I think the presenter is Denis Tuohy.

[harpo10]

Ocean Colour Scene did this song justice.