Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Reaction
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- In this video we're listening to another one from Small Faces. We've gotten nothing but fantastic from this band since we've started putting them on our channel. We're really excited to hear this one. Also - another song about lazing on a Sunday. Just a thing British people like to do? We can't wait. Enjoy!
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The story behind this song is that Steve Marriot read an interview with The Hollies in which they remarked that Steve always sang in an overtly American accent rather than a British one, so as a response to that Steve wrote this song and sang it in an exaggerated London/Artful Dodger type of way.
A cockney accent 😉
Which he dropped to the end of song I guess to emphasize what you’re saying
Great info , I didn't know that. Great fun song and yes it's sounds like something from a musical.
Love small faces.
This track is from the album 'Ogdons nut gone flake'
You should listen to it ALL.
FANTASTIC.
The line 'I'll sit on the karzi (toilet) while you sus out the moon' is a reference to the other side of the ALBUM, where its a concept piece, a story of 6 songs about someone looking for the other half of the moon!
Go listen..
It is whimsical.... A lot of 60s were, especially Syd Barret and his albums 'The madcap laughs' and 'Barrett'
Oh yes.. and I go along with the suggestion David Bowie and the laughing gnome..
This was a great band. Steve Marriot did some great things even after he moved on.
I saw the lead singer live. He had a very powerful voice. Died tragically though.
I'm Happy saw him one time live and spoke some words with him. He was a little vulcan.
Monty Python influence? Not exactly, since this was a year before the TV show began, but Idle, Jones and Palin were in a show called Do Not Adjust Your Set which had a cult following, and it also heavily featured the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - there's certainly a bit of a Bonzos vibe here.
And, it's got Steve Marriott's wildly flexible voice and phrasing. Fantastic!
I also love his dialect! 😀 I wonder if the singer from the Toy Dolls was influenced by this!? 😄
@@mightyV444 Urban legend says that the Hollies criticized Steve for only singing in "proper English" and never in his native Cockney.
this was his response. Don't know if this is true....
Poor chap died penniless after being ripped off by manager. Shame
It has just taken me back to my childhood,....reminds me of lazy Sunday afternoons doing not a lot as a kid after a morning of playing football ⚽️...Great stuff
Afterglow of your love is a great one by them 👍
Thank you once again for another great reaction to my favorite band (behind Beatles).This band was so brilliant and were constantly changing up their style to keep things fresh. "Lazy Sunday" was beloved by most people (it went straight up the charts to #1). However, the band all hated it as it was (as Kenney Jones described it), "one more nail in the coffin" that led Steve Marriott to quit the band and form Humble Pie. Steve wrote this ditty as a reaction to his neighbors who were constantly complaining about him. He wrote it as a joke song to be an album cut on Ogden's. The song they chose to be the released single was the beautiful power pop love song "After glow". However, when their manager heard Lazy Sunday, he smelled "hit" and substituted it for Afterglow without telling the boys. Steve was distraught and according to Mac "very embarrassed". He felt no one would ever take him seriously as a musician and he would never lose the "teen idol" tag he was stuck with.
I also love their soulful R&B - Try You Need Lovin (you will be shocked to recognize it from a later band), or for more WONDERFUL whimsy Please try "Donkey Rides a Penney a Glass", "I Feel Much Better", or "Rene (the dockers delight)" they are LOVELY AND SO CLEVER !
I often confuse this song with The Kinks' 'Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon' (which I'd watched on this channel recently, too), but I actually prefer this one's atmosphere 😊
Definitely do Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.
Small Faces ?? great! Check out Humble Pie
I am really enjoying your reaction videos. Thank you.
If you want whimsical give David Bowie's 1967 track "The Laughing Gnome" a spin.
The Small Faces are under rated & mostly forgotten but were so very important in finding new directions to take music in at the tail end of the 60's. Love the channel, keep up the good work. Love & Kisses from the UK.
Beware of mad John!
Fantastic Album from one of the greatest bands of the 60's
Deep joy!
I think another influence on this song was Consider Yourself from Lionel Bart’s Oliver.
It won’t come as much of a surprise when you know that Steve Marriott was one of the original Artful Dodgers in the stage version in London West End when the show first opened in the early sixties.
Lionel Bart, who wrote the stage production "Oliver" has said that Steve Marriott was his FAVORITE Artful Dodger (1960) as he was the only young singer who was a true cockney from the East End. The others spoke 'proper English" and had to fake a cockney accent. Here is the official recording from the stage show with Steve 14/15 singing "Consider Yourself" th-cam.com/video/NNRuASgNV6Q/w-d-xo.html . Even as a kid, Steve's voice was amazing.
You missed the kazoo/paper & comb nod to the Stones 'Satisfaction'. 😊
Classic Small Faces , if you're gonna do a full album review/reaction its' surely got to be Ogdens Nut Gone Flake 😁
It was before Penny Lane.
Weirdly I was listening to this yesterday. This band were big. The move form Cockney to FauxAmerican is nice
Until fairly recently* I'd only been up close to rock band stars twice in my life, and both times it was Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones. The 2nd time was finding myself stood next to him on the bus a Gatwick Airport, going to the car park, but at least I knew who he was them. The first time was in a pub one lunchtime, about 25 years ago, and I didn't know who he was. This was unfortunate as he was quite drunk, and asked me to guess who he was. When I gave up, he eventually said "I used to be the drummer in The Who!" as he did indeed replace Keith Moon for a few years, and seemed very proud to have done so. Surprisingly you don't have any songs by them in your reactions - maybe you know them already - but if not "Baba O'Reilly" is not a bad place to start th-cam.com/video/Gu9HhYv0C7E/w-d-xo.html
* some might say chatting to tiny Korean female punk band Rumkicks on the UK tour last year isn't quite the same, but when you meet a band you like, it doesn't matter of they've sold 100 records or 100 million
True enough. If you like them, it's always great to meet them. We know Baba O'Reilly. I don't think we have any Who suggestions on our list. If you can give us one we don't know, we'd be happy to check it out.
The band, The Hollies, teased the Small Faces that they couldn't sing without doing it in American accents. So, Steve Marriot did this song in a cockney accent.
Another suggestion. Would love to see you guys reaction to Wolf Alice - Don't delete the kisses!!
The Small Faces were 'the band' of mid 60's London R&B mod scene, Steve Marriott at barely 5'2" ( non of them were more 5'6" high hence the band name ) had an amazing voice and stage music hall upbringing (playing the artful dodger in the original theatre production of Oliver). So the band output swayed from heavy rhythm and blues to soul to Psychedelic rock mixed up with East End Cockney Music Hall. Totally unique and fresh sounding still today.
The group never played the US, first tour was cancelled after a drug bust in 1965 then due to 'drug references' in their song Itchycoo Park which meant they couldn't tour to back the US success of the song.
The lead vocalist was an actor before he moved into pop. He played the Artful Dodger at an East End theatre in the early sixties.
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I first heard this n the 70's, on a Sunday afternoon, on Radio 1 in the UK...
The DJ was Annie Nightingale, my mum hated the show, of course, I loved it
Annie passed away a few weeks ago, I dedicate this to her. RIP Annie
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was one of the legion of concept albums made as a reaction to Sgt Pepper (he Pepper is cool!) and very unique. This is the album to react to because one whole side is the Happiness Stan suite (Python before Python). Steve Marriott was a famous child actor who made his name in Oliver! on stage as the Artful Dodger, and he never changed...
When Steve Marriott left, the remaining three band members joined with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood to form another great band 'The Faces'
Doing my crust in - doing my head in. The khazi is a toilet. All cockney slang and Marriott sings with a strong Cockney accent. This was a great song from that period. I am a Londoner from that era - when London was the place to be (unlike now - a place you don’t want to be)
It starts with the Cockney style "Alwight Guvnor?" then that eases off. Great song from great days.
Class 🇬🇧
The whole album is fantastic. It has the English psychedelic style (similar to Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd). The second half of this album has a fantasy story theme with brilliant contributions from the humour and genius of Prof. Stanley Unwin.
Love Small Faces. There's a tribute band to them in the UK called Small Fakers which I go to see whenever they're playing locally.
On the untimely death of lead singer Steve Marriott, the band changed their name to The Faces and recruited Rod Stewart on Vocals and Ronnie Wood on guitar from The Jeff Beck group. They had a huge hit with 'Stay with me' and 'Cindy, Incidently'.
The name change came after Steve left to Form Humble Pie in 1969, He died in 1991
I saw the Small Fakers in late 2014 just before I moved overseas, I was glad I did as I love the Small Faces, but I wasn’t around when they were!
Such a British song, full of Brit idiosyncrasies and humour.
The Move, Flowers in the rain, would be good. The move had both Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne within the band.
Flowers in the rain was the very first song to be played on radio 1, back in the day.. by Tony Blackburn.. Woof woof says Arnold 😂
@@GutsGrizzle Arnold is legendary
@@colrhodes377 😂 yes. As is Arnold Layne!
Please go back and listen to the not-quite-noise-off asides at the end of verse one - there is a directive towards the neighbours. Really fun song, loved it when I was a callow youth (and now).
And sung in a Cockney accent. How did you find listening to that ?
This is a great song.
Ogdens is a great fun album from one of the best bands of all time
This song and the album its from, gets listened to often.
Yup! Get that whole album into listened to...
Guys!!! You missed the little joke.
In the ‘rooty doody doo’ ‘leprechaun’ bit...listen to the kazoo....It’s playing the riff from The Stones ‘Satisfaction.’
❤ from UK.
Here's another whimsical by Syd Barret (founder and past member of Pink Floyd)
The Gnome
👇
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Reminds me of an England long since past.
Love all the Small Faces you play, but how about some more soul/blues from their legendary singer/guitarist Steve Marriott. I love his soulful singing. Here are a couple requests:
"You've Really Got A Hold On Me" Small Faces
"I Wonder" Humble Pie
"Help Me Through the Day" Steve Marriott - solo
Whole album is great and mad too😜
Love the cockney accents of the band
Lazy Sunday was the first Small Faces tune I heard back when I was a teen in the mid 70s. Had to find the rest of their music for my record collection afterwards. Love Steve Marriott's voice and the way the band could play. Thanks for playing that one. 😎👍
I’ve always loved this song. Love their cockney/London accents.
These are the English Sundays I remember
Rumour had it that Steve Marriot was at one time considered as a guitarist for The Rolling Stones, but was vetoed by Mick Jagger who thought he might be outshone
I like you two and I have just subscribed. PLEASE now do a reaction to Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon by Queen.
That is one of our favourites. We put that on in the house once a month just in case we missed it earlier! LOL! You can forget A Night At The Opera all together. We know it front to back.
Great band, my brother was a friend of Steve Marriits when they were young.
Song is called "lazy Sunday afternoon"and it is wonderful
Here's a couple of song suggestions which I'd love to hear someone react to back to back and to hear particularly what you think of the guitar intro to both songs :- Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman (1967) and Island by Renaissance ( 1970/71 I think). I'm asking because I think I may be going mad, I think you'll like both songs.
My favourite band back in the day.
This was stealing more from the Kinks Ray Davies playbook. Compare to Autumn Almanac
Wow, what a musical delight. Written and produced by Steve Marriot and Ronnie Lane under the tutelidge of a certain Mr Martin (of Beatles fame of course). The background apparently was George put them in a posh flat in an exclusive area of London and their noise and antics annoyed the sensibilities of their priviledged naighbours. Hence the manic mix of exuberance with the delightful peace of church bells peeling on a sunday afternoon. Another cracker Haniers.
Small Faces tracks hold up very well and have a tremendous freshness about them. Occasionally, you catch one playing in the background somewhere and they really cut through. Lazy Sunday Afternoon is, in its way, perfect. It shows what could be done with the single as a form. It is going to be intriguing and delighting generations long after we are all gone, I bet.
ONE OF MY FAV GROUPS EVER, WHEN THEY SPLIT UP STEVIE LEFT AND WENT TO PLAY WITH ROD STEWART, GOOD ONE BY THEM IS WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT, , BRILL TO SINGALONG
Steve was not happy the label released this as a single. Months later he left the band, seeking a more progressive, harder sound, this led to Humble Pie
Ogdens nut gone flake is a great album
Can you do The Universal by Small Faces😊
Too much like Hermans Hermits
Try 'Tin Soldier', 'All or Nothing' or 'Rene' off the album. Whimsical yes, but this pre-dated Monty Python by a few years
We have done Tin Soldier and All Or Nothing. Please have a look. We will add Rene to our list
@@hanierfamily I've probably seen them and forgot
@@btj-oo8xc Perhaps you can use it as an excuse to watch the videos again...
@@hanierfamily Indeed
The album I was on about is here.
The concept side is from track 7 onwards in the video.
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Well worth a separate listen is the gobbledegook of the adventures of Happiness Stan (tracks 1-6): are you sitting foursquare comfortably on your fundermost? Then I'll begin.
play the other side of the album through - "happiness stan" - genius!
We reviewed the entire album on our Patreon channel. Members only for albums. Sorry.
Try Tin Soldier by the small faces great song. And if you want whimsical play the b side I feel much better released December 1967
We did a reaction to Tin Soldier. Please go have a look. We will add the other one to the list.
Talk about whimsical! "I Feel Much Better" is one of my favorites.
He is condamned to inaction because it is sunday. This is a funny protest song. And they sing IT in London's east end Slang.
Till Dawn by T.REX is worth a listen
Is somebody scaping plates?
It's true, you don't get nothing like this nowadays, I was born in the 90s and I have had no interest in the music from the era I was born and beyond, started vinyl collecting a while back and all the music I have in order of my favourites, John Lennon, David Bowie, The Who, rolling stones, stone roses, the beatles, Paul weller, liam gallagher, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, heard this song the other day I need some small faces
Steve Marriott's music ventures were all great. He moved on to Humble Pie after this. Small Faces became Faces after he left, with Rod Stewart on lead vocals and Ron Wood on guitar.
@Hanier Family Thanks, I'm gonna have a look and listen to some Steve marriott and more small faces, Rod Stewart can stick with his solo stuff 😆
That kind of optipistic "fun music" hasn't been recorded in the last 50 years 😅 If it's stealing something it's stealing from "Satisfaction" 😅😅
Complete with the F-word!
Debatable who recorded the first heavy rock/heavy metal song, but one of the main contenders has to be, Wham Bam Thank You Mam, by The Small Faces. They weren't Beatles copiers, they were more Beatles contemporaries. Very original in their sound/creativity. And much of their music was a bit heavier, riffier than most Beatles stuff. However, like The Kinks, they never really broke America. As I understand it, management issues and Mafia involvement (Gotti family). They got taken to the cleaners (as did a lot of 60's band's) by a crook of a manager. Although they did later 'break' America as The Faces, with Ronnie Wood (later of The Rolling Stones) and Rod Stewart. Unfortunately by then Steve Marriott (lead singer/songwriter) had gone his own way and formed, Humble Pie, out of which came Peter Frampton.
Well said. I agree , they were contemporaries of the Beatles and loved Sgt Peppers album which was released as they were in the studio coming up with Ogden's. " Wham Bam" was sadly indicative of why they broke up Marriott and Lane, the two main songwriters had different visions of where they wanted to go - classic creative differences. Steve wanted a heavier sound and wanted to add Peter Frampton to the band to fatten up their sound. The others said no, and Ronnie Lane wanted a softer, folky sound. A huge fight broke out in the studio while making "Wham Bam", Mac walked out and quit, but came back the next day. Tensions were growing...
You are also correct about bad management and being ripped off, however, the mafia involvement came later with Humble Pie.
My Fav Small Faces Song.