SMALL FACES 12" VINYL LP SIGNED BY 4 C/W COA
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Description
The Small Faces’ ‘Sha La La La Lee’ signed by Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones. The vinyl and label are in excellent condition as is the sleeve. This signed LP comes complete with a COA.
The Small Faces are one of those Great British Secrets. As some describe them, they were ‘the best English band never to hit it big in America’. Although The Who are seen by the general public as having been the main standard-bearers of the peculiar youth subculture that is the Modmovement, Mods both past and present continue to insist that the Small Faces were the ultimate Mod band. Their lead singer, Steve Marriott, is still regarded as one of the greatest white voices of all time, and they brought style and an irresistible sense of fun to popular music in the mid-1960s.
Sha-La-La-La-Lee" was the third song released by English R&B influenced group Small Faces on January 28, 1966 reaching number three in the UK Singles Chart. Due to the UK Chart failure of the group's previous song release, the Marriott/Lane composition "I've Got Mine" Don Arden decided to bring in well-known songwriters Kenny Lynch and Mort Shuman to make sure the group's next single was a success, determined that Small Faces not be one hit wonders.
The highly commercial sounding song proved a big hit and reached number three in the UK singles chart. Despite the success of "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" the band never really liked the song and felt it did not represent their sound, which was more blues and soul oriented. The song was seen by some as the beginning of the end for the Small Faces; it was following the release of this song that the group became often viewed in the music press as just another teenybopper band, who should not be taken as seriously as some of their contemporaries, such as The Who and Rolling Stones. Whereas previously their fans tended to be music-mad mods, their following now included young teenage girls who were more interested in the good looks of the young male musicians than in their music. At many of their concerts, the band could not even be heard above the girl fans' loud and constant screaming. This situation would ultimately end in Marriott becoming so disenchanted that he would finally leave The Small Faces in a bid to be seen as a serious musician and form his next group, the heavier rock and blues-sounding Humble Pie.
Small Faces performed "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" live for the Dick Clark show in the United States, telerecorded from the UK.
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