THE SMALL FACES - Song of a Baker [BBC: 1968]

From their appearance on BBC 2's 'Colour Me Pop' (a spin-off from 'Late Night Line Up') - recorded 21 June 1968. A rather stiff introduction by Michael Dean (who appears to have been drafted in from the Colonial and Imperial affairs desk of the World Service!), describes the band’s cutting-edge new album ‘Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake’ as "idiosyncratic" (which was probably not meant as a compliment), but he was not to know, that two days after this broadcast and maybe partly because of it; the album went to Number 1 on the UK album chart for six weeks, which when you consider the competition in the Summer of 1968 is pretty impressive. This is taken from a recording of the whole set that appears on the bonus DVD attached to the 50th-anniversary box-set of the album released in 2018 by Sanctuary Records.

It's sad to reflect that with the exception of drummer Kenney Jones, none of the guys from this 'definitive' line up are still with us – Bassist, Ronnie Lane died far too young from the effects of long term MS and Guitarist Steve Marriott was even younger when, in 1991, he was burned to death trying to escape a horrific house fire, aged only 44.
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