Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces
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Description
UK original 1st stereo press with lilac label original in eight folded cover.
Lilac Immediate labels with the writing credits separate from the track titles.
Released in a circular sleeve that folds open into five panels.
Label: Immediate ?– IMSP 012
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: 1968
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is the third studio album and first concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968, the LP peaked at number one on the UK Album Charts on 29 June, where it remained for a total of six weeks. The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogden's Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco that was produced in Liverpool from 1899 onwards by Thomas Ogden.
Side one of the album is a mix of early heavy rock, with "Song of a Baker"; psychedelic cockney knees-up songs "Lazy Sunday" and "Rene", the opening instrumental title track (which resembles their second single "I've Got Mine", which was a flop in 1965), and the soul-influenced ballad "Afterglow",[3] as it is called on the LP, but is titled "Afterglow of Your Love" on the subsequent single and some compilations.
Side two is based on an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, narrated in his unique "Unwinese" gobbledegook by Stanley Unwin, who picked up modern slang from the band and incorporated it into the surreal narrative.
The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin, inside which was a poster created with five connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and not successful as the tins tended to roll off of shelves and it was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover.
Credits
Engineer [Knobs] – Glyn Johns
Producer – Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott
Voice [Loony Links] – Stan (The Man) Unwin*
Written-By – McLagan* (tracks: A1, A3, B4, B6), Jones* (tracks: A1, B6), Lane* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B6), Marriott* (tracks: A1, A4 to B6), Marriot* (tracks: A2)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Run-out info [machine-stamped] side A): IMSP 012 1Y
Matrix / Runout (Run-out info [machine-stamped] side B): IMSP 012 2Y
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