The Autumn Stone

The Autumn Stone
The Autumn Stone
Compilation album by Small Faces
Released	14 November 1969
Recorded	1965–1968, London, England
Genre	Rock; rhythm and blues; psychedelic rock; psychedelic pop; hard rock; beat;
Length	65:59
Label	Immediate
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)^[2]
Uncut	^[3]

The Autumn Stone is a posthumous retrospective double album, and the second compilation album released in the UK by Small Faces in 1969 on the Immediate label.

Album profile

The double album contains most of the Small Faces' Immediate and Decca original 7" single releases, together with live recordings from a concert at Newcastle City Hall and previously unreleased material, some of which was possibly intended for the band's projected but unrealised fourth LP, 1862.

Alongside the title track, the album contained an alternative version of "Afterglow Of Your Love" (which had been released as the Small Faces' final single earlier in the year), covers of two Tim Hardin songs ("If I Were A Carpenter" and "Red Balloon") and the instrumentals "Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall" and "Collibosher" (both of which are claimed to be unfinished backing tracks by the compilers of the Here Comes The Nice: The Immediate Years box set). "Collibosher" was recorded during the sessions for the band's 1968 "Ogden's Nutgone Flake" album. "Call It Something Nice" is the earliest previously unreleased track included, having been recorded in October 1967.

The title track "The Autumn Stone" and "Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am" (its correct title, according to composer Steve Marriott – 'Wham Bam Thank You Man', as it was titled on the Afterglow single where the song first found release in March 1969, was apparently a label misprint) had both originally been recorded on 11 September 1968 as the A and B sides of a projected (but ultimately unreleased) single. This recording session proved to be the band's final studio work together aside from some session work in Paris with Peter Frampton for a Johnny Hallyday album in December.

Release

The Autumn Stone album was released by Immediate Records founder Andrew Loog Oldham in November 1969, more than six months after the band had officially announced their break up, and three months after Steve Marriott's new band Humble Pie had released their own debut LP. In Germany, a single LP version with only the 'new' material was released under the title In Memoriam. On some later repressings of the LP the live version of All Or Nothing is replaced with the 1966 studio version, and the 1969 single version of "Afterglow" is replaced with an edit of the 1968 album version from Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

A 3LP/2CD 'definitive expanded deluxe edition' of the album, remastered from original sources and including extra material, is scheduled for release at a (so far unspecified) future date.

Track listing

All tracks written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane unless otherwise noted. All lead vocals by Marriott, except where noted. Recording dates for the unreleased tracks are as listed in the recording notes included with the "Here Come The Nice: The Immediate Years" box set.

Side One
No.	Title	Original release	Length
1.	"Here Come The Nice" (Written and sung by Steve Marriott with Ronnie Lane)	There Are But Four Small Faces	2:57
2.	"The Autumn Stone" (Written and sung by Marriott)	Previously unreleased (recorded September 1968)	4:00
3.	"Collibosher" (Instrumental)	Previously unreleased (recorded April 1968)	3:12
4.	"All Or Nothing"	From the Beginning	3:03
5.	"Red Balloon" (Timothy Hardin)	Previously unreleased (recorded May 1968)	4:12
6.	"Lazy Sunday"	Ogden's Nut Gone Flake	3:06
Total length:			20:30

Side Two
No.	Title	Original release	Length
7.	"Call It Something Nice" (vocals: Marriott and Lane)	Previously unreleased (recorded October 1967)	2:05
8.	"I Can't Make It"	1967 single	3:06
9.	"Afterglow (Of Your Love) (Single mix)"	Ogden's Nut Gone Flake	3:24
10.	"Sha-La-La-La-Lee" (Kenny Lynch, Mort Shuman)	Small Faces (1966)	2:56
11.	"The Universal"	1968 single	2:42
Total length:			14:13

Side Three
No.	Title	Original release	Length
12.	"Rollin' Over (Live)"	In Memoriam	2:31
13.	"If I Were A Carpenter (Live)" (Hardin)	In Memoriam	2:32
14.	"Every Little Bit Hurts (Live)" (Edward Cobb)	In Memoriam	6:20
15.	"My Mind's Eye"	From the Beginning	2:04
16.	"Tin Soldier"	There Are But Four Small Faces	3:21
17.	"Just Passing" (vocals: Lane)	B-side of "I Can't Make It"	1:13
Total length:			18:01

Side Four
No.	Title	Original release	Length
18.	"Itchycoo Park"	There Are But Four Small Faces	2:50
19.	"Hey Girl"	From the Beginning	2:18
20.	"Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall" (Instrumental)	Previously unreleased (recorded June 1968)	2:47
21.	"Whatcha Gonna Do About It" (Brian Potter, Ian Samwell)	Small Faces (1966)	1:57
22.	"Wham Bam, Thank You Mam"	B-side of "Afterglow (Of Your Love)" (recorded September 1968)	3:18
Total length:			13:10

Note: The 'previously unreleased' tracks and the live tracks (from November 1968 at Newcastle City Hall) were also released separately as "In Memoriam" and included two bonus live tracks, "All Or Nothing" and "Tin Soldier".

Personnel

Steve Marriott - vocals, guitar, harmonica

Ronnie Lane - vocals, guitar, bass guitar

Kenney Jones - drums

Ian McLagan - keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, vocals

Jimmy Winston - vocals, keyboards

References/Notes

Notes:

^ Allmusic Rating link
^ Frith, Simon (7 March 1970). "Records". Rolling Stone (53). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.: 46. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ Staunton, Terry (June 1997). "The Small Faces: The Small Faces/Ogden's Nut Gone Flake/The Autumn Stone". Uncut. No. 1. p. 113.

References:

Paolo Hewitt John Hellier (2004). Steve Marriott - All Too Beautiful.... Helter Skelter Publishing ISBN 1-900924-44-7.
Paolo Hewitt/Kenney Jones (1995) small faces the young mods' forgotten story - Acid Jazz ISBN 0-9523935-0-6

External links

[1] Allmusic Rating link

[2] Frith, Simon (7 March 1970). "Records". Rolling Stone (53). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.: 46. Retrieved 29 July 2017.

[3] Staunton, Terry (June 1997). "The Small Faces: The Small Faces/Ogden's Nut Gone Flake/The Autumn Stone". Uncut. No. 1. p. 113.

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v t e Small Faces
Kenney Jones Ronnie Lane Steve Marriott Ian McLagan Jimmy Winston Rick Wills Jimmy McCulloch
Studio albums	Small Faces (1966) Small Faces (1967) There Are But Four Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Playmates 78 in the Shade
Compilation albums	From the Beginning In Memoriam The Autumn Stone The BBC Sessions
Singles	"Whatcha Gonna Do About It" "I've Got Mine" "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" "Hey Girl" "All or Nothing" "My Mind's Eye" "I Can't Make It" "Patterns" "Here Come the Nice" "Itchycoo Park" "Tin Soldier" "Lazy Sunday" "The Universal" "Afterglow of Your Love"
Songs	"Shake" "You Need Loving" "Runaway" "My Way of Giving" "(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me?" "Baby Don't You Do It" "Plum Nellie" "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" "Talk to You" "Green Circles" "Get Yourself Together" "Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire" "Every Little Bit Hurts" "If I Were a Carpenter"
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