Sold Date: April 20, 2016
Start Date: April 13, 2016
Final Price: £52.00 (GBP)
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"SHA - LA - LA  - LA - LEE " (Kenny Lynch / Mort Shuman, 1966.)
 
Picked her up on a Friday night,
  Sha la la la lee, yeah.
  I knew everything gonna be alright,
  Sha - la - la - la - lee, yeh!
  Sha - la - la - la - lee.
 
  I asked her, "Where do you want to go?"
  Sha - la - la - la- lee, yeh!
  Well we went someplace, I don't know,
  Sha - la - la - la - lee, yeh!
  Sha - la - la - la - lee.
 
I held her close and I asked her,
  If she was gonna be my baby,
  It felt so good,
  When she answered me,
  Oh, yeh.... oh, yeh,
  Oh, yeh....oh, yeh....oh, yeh!
 
  She looked good and she moved so fine,
  Sha - la - la - la - lee, yeh!
  And all the guys knew she was mine,
  Sha - la - la - la - lee, yeh!
  Sha - la - la - la - lee.
 
  I held her close and I asked her again,
  If she was gonna be my baby.
  It felt so good when she answered me,
  Oh, yeh.... oh, yeh,
  Oh, yeh....oh, yeh....oh, yeh!
 
Want to know how my story ends?
Sha - la - la - la - lee, yeh!
  Well we invited just a few close friends,
Oh, yeh.... oh, yeh,
  Oh, yeh....oh, yeh....oh, yeh!
 
  Sha la - la - la - la - la - lee.
Sha la - la - la - la - la - lee.

  Sha la - la - la - la - la - lee.
Sha la - la - la - la - la - lee.
Sha la - la - la - la - la - lee.
BR> Sha la - la - la - la - la - la- la - la - la - lee.
Sha la - la - la - la - la - la- la - la - la - lee.
Sha la - la - la - la - la - la- la - la - la - lee.
SMALL FACES: "Sha-La -La -La-Lee" /  "Grow Your Own" UK 45 RPM, FIRST PRESSING 28th JANUARY, 1966.


  ON THE "Unboxed" DECCA LABEL:  F. 12317

MAITRIX:  XDR 37259 - T1 - 1C /   XDR 37260 - T1 - 1C.
The very first pressing made, you cannot get any lower than the last letters followed by '1' on both sides of any Decca single.
A huge selling single that reached No.3 in the UK charts, but try finding this 50 year old single in Mint condition!  I have been
trying for for 15 years on ebay and even longer when we traded at record fairs, meanwhile I sold several copies of the rarest
Small Faces Decca catalogue on ebay, "I've Got Mine" & "Puzzles" and Demo's.  The authentic first UK pressings in Mint are
extremely rare for "Sha-La -La -La-Lee"/ "Grow Your Own,"finally I have a once played, totally unmarked Mint- very first pressing
to offer.


ORIGINAL 1965 DECCA INNER SLEEVE, HARDLY USED USED AND UNSPLIT, JUST A RECORD IMPRESSION AND
RELATED LIGHT CREASES, AGEING FOR 1966 IS MODERATE TO AS MINIMAL AS IT GETS.   AUTHENTICITY IS
VERIFIED BY THE ABOVE SENTENCE,THE ORIGINAL SLEEVE THE RECORD WAS FIRST PLACED INSIDE 50 YEARS AGO.
IN EXCELLENT+++ / NEAR MINT CONDITION.


BOTH LABELS ARE IMMACULATE WITH THE SILVER PRINTING IN PERFECT CONDITION, WITH ONLY ONE SPINDLE
TRACES ON THE LABELS.  SO FAINT, IT COULD WELL BE JUST A NATURAL 'VEIN' IN THE TEXTURED MATT PAPER,
ONLY ONE TINY LINE ON THE RUN-IN GROOVES FROM A FINGER TO THE A-SIDE SUGGESTS ONE PLAY, BUT RECORDS 
LEFT THE PRESSING PLANT AND RECORD SHOPS WITH MUCH MORE THAN ONE TINT, NOT VISUALLY OBVIOUS LINE!
I'M SAYING ONE PLAY JUST IN CASE,  ADDING A MINUS I AM INDICATING ONE TINT HANDLING TRACE, I CAN'T
HELP SFEELING THE ABSURDITY AFTER REMAINING IN SUCH FANTASTIC CONDITION FOR 50 YEARS.  A MOD
CLASSIC SINGLE THAT I BOUGHT WHEN 13 YEARS OLD, I AM STILL IN AWE OF THIS ICONIC 1960's RECORD.
BEAUTIFUL DEEPLY GLOSSY VINYL, MIRACULOUSLY IN MINT- CONDITION.

 
Personal bias?  I can't hide my love of the Small Faces singles and so this is a description that can only be written...personally.
  Does it get any better than Steve Marriott singing powerfully, "Picked her up on a Friday night..." what a voice, what a record!
  The 1960's golden decade of musical innovations was based on singles and no group or solo artist graced the 45 RPM format or
  the 33 1/3rd format either, than the Small Faces.  Both sides of every single contained sensational and inspired music, this was
  no exception. I try my best to stay unbiased towards every record I sell, I usually fail miserably but there's no way I can remain
  neutral to the Small Faces singles, my problem lately is being unable to find them in top condition, the only way I will ever sell
   them  One good thing here is I do not not need to delve back for a background any further than 1965, I am sure everyone knows
  the Small Faces went from obscurity to overnight fame with their debut single "What'cha Gonna Do About It." That was the first
   time I heard the Small Faces, their unbelievable energy just leapt out of my radio,I had to quickly scrape the money together and
  rush down to my local record shop.  Luckily for me as a young teenager, the shop was within walking distance and from there on I
  collected every scrap of music they recorded as issued, including their second follow up single "I've Got Mine."  An astounding
   recording, so I expected to hear it on the radio regularly and see them performing it or badly miming on the UK "Top of the Pops"
  TV charts show. That never happened and for an inexplicable reason it totally bombed out and didn't even sell enough copies to
  make the lowest possible chart position.  Considering "What'cha Gonna Do About It" made No.14 on the 14th September, 1965 and
  by then they had actually written and recorded "I've Got Mine" and the superb B-side, "It's Too Late. The November '65 release
  date was hot on it's heels and should have at least made it into the Top 50, often new mid-60's r&b groups were fated to become
  'one hit wonders,' they did not have the charismatic and staggering vocal abilities of the Small Faces front man, Steve Marriott.
   The band were filmed performing, well miming "I've Got Mine" for an obscure 1965 film, "Dateline Diamonds", a 'B' film with a low
  budget, planned by their manager Don Arden to be a promotional boost to their new single.  The film had a weak plot and instead of
  being shown in November,1965, a long delay held back the release until April, 1966, not that was the sole reason for not selling.
  B-rated films would hardly promote a single, the blow set the band back and they found themselves having to re-climb the ladder.
   At this point their original 1965 line-up included Jimmy Winston playing keyboards, he was experienced and formerly had been in
  'Boz And The Boz People.'  During the same November, Ian McClagan was recruited, it had nothing to do with "I've Got Mine" being
  a failed single, nor was it just about Mac's very obvious musical ability.  Jimmy Winston had never quite fitted in with their insane,
  wild sense of fun and outrageous behaviour, Mac also looked the part of a Mod and instantly settled into the band.  The talent they
  had to write their own superb material can be heard on both sides of this 1966 single but they had no choice other than to go back
  to the beginning and re-build their following the hardest way, performing live on stage, a place Marriott was born to tread.
 
  Their main venue was in London's West End Cavern Club and there the new line-up's reputation gave them the foundation to release
  further singles, an album was not even on the horizon for their record company Decca,if anything their very short career was now
really on the line.  The next chapter of the story began, the Small Faces were now into the New Year of 1966,  Decca's confidence
in their ability to write another song capable of re-scaling the heights of success "What'cha Gonna Do About It" reached, was no
longer there.   They felt the needed breakthrough required a proven songwriter, Kenny Lynch was brought in to compose their next
single, but they were far from impressed by the song Kenny Lynch & Mort Shuman presented to them.  They were not in the slightest
bit interested in "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" because they were bursting with confidence and believed Steve & Ronnie could write a song
to restore their chart presence.    Between Don Arden and Decca, the management and record company pressures forced them to record
it.  As it turned out the song was ideal for them, they underestimated their own musical charisma instantly transferring into the
  grooves of a 45 RPM record.  The might not have like the  non lyrical chorus, but Steve gave it all he had and that was something
so magical and special, there was not another vocalist capable of turning "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" into a masterpiece. Suddenly Steve
dug into the whole ethos of the weekend beginning on Friday night, the very opening of the UK's "Ready Steady Go" TV show and  
he sung in his unique r&b / blues saturated style. The sheer effervescence of the whole  band's performance gave the song all the
necessary ingredients to become a a No.3 UK single.  From here on nobody else would ever wrote another track for the Small Faces,
only the main songwriting partnership of Marriott and Lane with the odd Ian McClagan and Kenney Jones contribution, they would
create a stream of amazing hit  singles and albums right up to their demise in 1969.


  The B-side was indeed self written and all four were credited, they picked up a fantastic Memphis/ Otis Redding feel and groove
and rocked out to "Home Grown".  Yes, there was a cannabis connection but the title was double barreled because the band wrote
it and they had made their point.  To think in such a short period of time, they would record  a psychedelic masterpiece of an
album, the glorious "Ogdens Nut Gone Flake."  With such immaculate labels and no obvious spindle traces, my earlier play was pure
enjoyment to hear "Sha - La - La - La - Lee" & "Grow Your Own" in such perfect sound quality.  As "Grow Your Own" is a wonderful  
instrumental and I'm never keen to describe instrumentals, but I love them!   "Sha-La -La -La-Lee" does not require anything else
said about and with my in-built bias to this and every Small faces record, I will conclude on that note.  
{Roy}
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