Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake Colour Me Pop Performance 1968 

it's June 2023 and i'm watching this for the first time! as a 71 year old. i feel like a time traveller. what a band, up there with the Who and the Kinks. top mods too. genius. bought their records as soon as they came out.....

Small Faces were a small part of my transition from the naivety of childhood to the awareness of early adulthood. Teenager? Melbourne, Australia winter of 1968 Saturday afternoon ABC TV Hit Parade or Hit Scene with Dick Williams. Dick who was an older guy attired in a paisley shirt played 'Lazy Sunday' no video just stills of the band. What a revelation! -Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours? But they make it very clear, they've got no room for ravers They stop me from groovin', they bang on me wall. Well that eras clearly over but what fun it was!

There was nothing SMALL about this band. I still listen to their music to lift me up. It's like a genuine dose of honesty from some real mods who just wanted to be heard and be happy...and stoned. So cool to be a young musician back then. I think we should all stay simple and just groove in life. No worries...it's a short show folks! Thankyou SMALL FACES for loving music! Shame on you Don for being bad to these young lads. No body can take their legacy away! Love you guys always!!! 😋

I have fond memories of seeing them in Leeds c '74. I was sitting on my own in the side bar of the City Varieties. I knew they were in concert but couldn't afford a ticket. A friend came in for a pint before going to work. He was surprised I'd not gone. When I explained, he passed me his ticket. I got there just in time for Lazy Sunday Afternoon. I'd only missed about 10 minutes. What a blast. Later, I saw Focus and Home for 40p

Song of a Baker, like a mystic Sufi poem, an absolute masterpiece, one of the greatest rock songs ever written.

All their music, autumn stone another masterpiece, pig trotters etc

They'll never age their music will be as good in another 50yrs 😮 xx.

Talented talented talented.... What a musical desert we now live in..............

When you consider how young they were its even more astonishing!

Only about my 369th time I’ve come back to watch this fucking amazing band !!!

Fantastic, what a loss to music Ronnie and Steve live on forever

I saw them at Woban abbey when the the stage was set on fire by the crowd throwing sparklers handed out to them if I remember rightly the Coventry mods got the blame ,until that happened it had been a great week end loved the small faces

I used to play Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake over and over again when I was in my early teens (late sixties / early seventies). I loved the big circular tobacco tin that the LP came in and the beautifully designed cover. I also loved Professor Stanley Unwin's nutty bits between the songs.

Ronnie Lane was great, he got overshadowed by Marriott, but a great writer and musician in his own right

Bought this record in 1968 and it will always be a psychedelic classic!

WOW. Just...WOW. Who'd have imagined that 52 YEARS LATER (and nearly 23 years after Lane's tragic passing), we'd be given the incredible gift, of rare, previously unseen footage of a baby-faced, 22 year old Ronnie, along with the incredible 'Small Faces', recording their 3rd and final studio album!! I AM IN HEAVEN!! Thanks so much for posting this, I LOVE IT!

So brilliant and pure joy!

They definitely don't make 'em like this anymore! Discovered the Small Faces in the 90's whilst at school, this album has a special place in my heart. RIP Ronnie, Steve and Ian XXX

This is priceless in so many ways. And I know very little about these brilliant guys. In Brasil they are inexistente. Thanks to internet I’ve been discovering so wonderful stuff thanks for sharing

Steve Marriott got screwed over by management in Small Faces and Humble Pie. Another tragic case of the artists getting robbed so suits could cash in.

What a glorious sound! Now I have to do some research and find out what I’ve been missing all these years.

These guys are like 21 years old and they totally rock. They really are the best 60s English band.

Rather watch this or Newsnight? Another BBC disgrace that most Colour Me Pop episodes are lost. This is brilliant 👍

That was my Telecaster Steve's playing here, and he used it on this legendary album. Played the same gig in Rome 1967 (I think), he loved the beaten up look of it and swapped his Pink LP Special for it..... said he just had to have it. God bless him.👍🇬🇧

When music ment something I still get goosebumps listening to this album pure class what a band ✌️💚😎🇮🇪

Brilliant performance

So good.

Amazing stuff. Well done, wish I knew even one person half as good as these guys!

fan tastic... this album arrived in the only record store in New Plymouth, New Zealand, while I was starting to buy records with after school pocket money. The store suddenly had a sound proof booth with headphones and this was one of the very first stereo records to land. I loved and still love Steve Mariott and he was among my favourite teenage rock gurus. I never saw video of him for many years until RU-vid. Thanx

When music was fun and so enjoyable! Thank god this didn’t get ‘lost’

I always adored the Small Faces, particularly Steve. Saw him a few times , in my local pub. Best live act ever!

The British band that gives me the most pleasure by far. The energy, especially Steve Marriotts's, and originality. Rock 'n Roll giants that remained ordinary blokes.

Bought this record in 1968 and it will always be a psychedelic classic!

I can't believe this video has so few views

Early MTV . The British humor is legendary. Learning to play music and an instrument young develops genius level musicians. Music is fundamental, just like reading .

Ogden's B-side is one of the best achievements in music and art's history. Tese guys were geniuses.

So much talent in one band.

Small faces still phenomenal still fantastic 😍 out of this world still love them to bits❤ always

Look at em they're havin' a ball . Its a crying shame that they were doing all this brilliant shit at the same time as the beatles , Stones , cream , kinks Zep , The Nice etc , etc . Were doing theirs . We're talking about the most fertile musical decade in popular music history bar none . T .SF's just got swallowed up got absorbed by London's vibrant music scene , fucked over by the usual suspects ie. Management , contractual shit etc . It is to their eternal credit that their musical and lyrical excellence still shines brightly in these uncertain times . God bless all four of them x

What a tonic makes today's scene seem so dull

Bought this album when it was released in '68. One of the best albums, in my opinion. Steve Mariott and Ronnie Lane were incredible, and Kenny Jones and Ian MacLagan were the best. I was 16 and little did I know how this music would shape my life.

"Song Of A Baker" There's wheat in the field And water in the stream And salt in the mine And an aching in me I can no longer stand and wonder 'Cause I'm driven by this hunger So I'll jug some water, bake some flour Store some salt and wait the hour When thinking of love Love is thinking for me And the baker will come And the baker I'll be I'm depending on my labour The texture and the flavour Hey I can no longer stand and wonder 'Cause I'm driven by this hunger So I'll jug some water, bake some flour Store some salt and wait the hour ''His Ever Changing Dirt'' Although He'd said; I Change Not ! Still: every living thing, and it's seed Comes from, and returns back into ''His Ever Changing Dirt'' Yet: in between those two times Are they not fashioned by His Will, His Light, and His Life Giving Waters ? ~Just another one, of those many one's of... ''We His Believers'' Who's patiently waiting, and watching for '.' His✝Just⚖Return🪃'.'

I love the Small Faces❤❤❤❤

Just another musical icon, superb. Stvie M !

I've lived my life with that dictum to rule Life is a Bowl of Albran !! Happy days Toytown newspaper smile 😮 xx.

This is so good.

'Colour Me Pop' looked like a really good show. Such a shame that only this, along with the 'Moody Blues'& 'The Move's' appearances, plus a couple of performances from acts personally unfamiliar to me, one of which didn't get broadcast still exist in their complete original format out of the fifty-odd episodes made. What the BBC should have done was transfer all the acts onto cine film. Whilst the quality wouldn't have been as good it would have been more than something, & today's technology would have much improved the quality of those performances more or less back to what they were when originally broadcast.

Omg Steve Marriott is INCREDIBLE here!!

Listen to this every now and again, to remember what magic British working class were capable of.

I still love this album. Way,way, way ahead of its time. Idiosyncratic? Groundbreaking. Everyone wanted to make 'concept albums' after this. Wouldn't be a Tommy without this.

Don't we all love some NutGone! This is above awesome really, for its time and ever after. Refreshing too, to hear English as she is sung - albeit the story about Lazy Sunday is that Steve is doing an OT voice after being stirred abt never singing in his own accent by that absolutely fake US accent band the Hollies. O the ironing. Stanley seems to do a little bit of a Kurt Schwitters thing every so often. You can see where Kenneth Williams got his influence for the cordwangler Rambling Syd Rumpo. So good to hear this live version.

I'm looking at my original foldout album,still in good condition hehehe

Pure pop songs just don't get much better than Sunday Afternoon.

Released on 24 May 1968, the LP peaked at number one on the UK Album Charts on 29 June

They don’t make front men like that anymore

The BBC ought to do a DVD of this series, a la OGWT

Love how well the 2 singers work so well together.

Idio-lip-syncratic 😊 awesomeness

60s and 70s music is the best

Saw them way back Colsten Hall Bristol, was amazed when Stve turned off his Mic and the vol didnt fade ! Heck of a voice !

Marriot didn't make music, he bloody well attacked it, slapped it around until he got it into the shape he wanted and then thrust it at you like a hot pie. And it was all the better for it.

Still got this album on vinyl in the round sleeve. Brilliant-y-bode!!

Steve hanging that telecaster low. Very cool.

Mind bending music. 😎🎶🎸

Pure quality even now. Steve marriott was amazing and the band so talented

Once you are into it you can't go wrong.....close your eyes and drift away into Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake!

Always loved Small Faces and always will, a group of friends, who were so very talented musicians and Marriott was such a character.

Ogdens flake. Ideal pipe tobacco to fill your bowl with, mixed with the weed of course. A real psychedelic classic album. "Song of a Baker" would've made an excellent further single A-side. Bought the 45s "Lazy Sunday" and "The Universal" at the time" both on the fawny coloured Immediate label. In 1969 got a copy of the double A-side "Afterglow of your Love"/ "Wham, Bam, Thank you Man", my first on the pink Immediate label. My wife saw Small Faces at Newcastle City Hall when and where the live tracks on "The Autumn Stone" were recorded and we saw Steve Marriott's Packet of Three at The Buddle Farm Arts Centre, Wallsend, circa mid-1980's. Happy daze indeed.

Still love listening to them ... what a loss to music one of the best bands of the era without doubt.

I think I watched this...and bought the album as a result...brilliant

60’s British Band The Small Faces 👍

Ich war 16 als ich mir Odgens Nut Gone Flake kaufte.Jetzt bin ich71 und lege die Platte immer noch auf den Plattenteller.Freunde,wie doch die Zeit vergeht.

Steve Marriott so talented and his vocals underated including his phrasing while singing

Wow, that was really cool. I’ve been listening to small faces for a while, but I didn’t know about this.

I wouldn’t want to be Steve’s guitar!

Quite a ballsy tune this one.

This is when guys could actually play music and good music at that 👌

This LP (their third and last) reached number 1 in the UK in April 1968 and remained at the top for 6 weeks; I'm just wonder if they were still on 20 quid a week each at this time?

En España tuvieron un cierto exito,pero yo siempre los admire desde que empezaron

Love that line doing me crust in,

I only rediscovered these guys. I had forgotten how friggin fantastic they really were.

Lysergic acid diethylamide

Should have been bigger in the states

I would love to see a really clean and clear film image. I love this album so much. I bought a British import of this album in the early 70’s. I have a couple of nice imports by them Autumn Almanac and something else but I don’t have their earliest albums.

This is one of my favorite albums from that era! While Lane, Marriot & McLagan, get props all the time (And, they certainly deserve it!). In my humble opinion, Kenny Jones is underrated and his drumming on this record is some of the best Rock n Roll drumming that you're ever going to hear. Wow! finally able to say that after all this time!

ABSOLUTELY EPIC 🔥

Mushrooms 😮 and Lysergic acid plus Ogdens Nutt Gone Flake what a recipe xx.

thanks for all the great uploads

I like the album but I tend to skip the Stanley Unwin bits.

My twin brother and i bought this album

Be interesting to see this expanded into a yellow submarine type film.

The band beautiful. Steve marriot wow and Ronnie Lane and lan amazing sadly left us way too early. We've only got Kenny left xxxx

Am I the only person who actually did clap twice, lean back and twist for a while?

they wanted Spike Milligan to narrate but he laughed & said No. so they asked stanley, he hang around the boys for a few days & picked up phrases to play with like Blow Your cool, & like most final results , you cant think of anyone else who couldve done it.

Steve was a session guitarist before the Faces formed so apart from all the fun he, in fact the whole band, were pretty good musicians.

It was the old story in the end..too many chiefs and no Indians...!!!!!

Such a nicely tight sound so balanced a real treasure in guys who enjoy playing together and great talent must have something to do with it

They were an excellent band and still listen to there music today.

WOW is Write and Bless Ken Jones for still Rockin with The Who.

Sad Kenny Jones is the only guy left from this foursome of greatness.