Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

by Small Faces

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 May 1968
  • Label: Immediate
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:58:10
  • Community rating: 4.39/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake' is a bifurcated work, presenting a first side of eclectic songs that span proto-hard rock, soulful ballads, and Cockney music hall singalongs. Its second side is a complete psychedelic fairy-tale suite about a character named Happiness Stan searching for the missing half of the moon. The conceptual narrative is uniquely held together by the surreal, nonsensical 'Unwinese' narration of comedian Stanley Unwin, cementing the album's place as a singular, whimsical touchstone of British psychedelia.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, british, narrative, classic, piano

Tracklist

  1. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (2:35)
  2. Afterglow of Your Love (3:30)
  3. Long Agos and Worlds Apart (2:36)
  4. Rene (4:02)
  5. Song of a Baker (3:13)
  6. Lazy Sunday (3:04)
  7. Happiness Stan (3:38)
  8. Rollin’ Over (2:14)
  9. The Hungry Intruder (2:15)
  10. The Journey (4:03)
  11. Mad John (4:20)
  12. Happydaystoytown (2:59)
  13. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (2:49)
  14. Afterglow of Your Love (3:03)
  15. Long Agos and Worlds Apart (2:36)
  16. Rene, The Dockers' delight (4:30)
  17. Song of a Baker (3:00)
  18. Lazy Sunday (3:06)
  19. Happiness Stan (2:38)
  20. Bun in the Oven (2:14)
  21. The Fly (2:03)
  22. Mad John (2:21)
  23. Happydaystoytown (4:19)
  24. Kamikhazi (2:17)
  25. Every Little Bit Hurts (3:57)
  26. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (2:26)
  27. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (2:28)
  28. Afterglow of Your Love (3:29)
  29. Long Agos and Worlds Apart (2:36)
  30. Rene (4:30)
  31. Song of a Baker (3:16)
  32. Lazy Sunday (3:07)
  33. Happiness Stan (3:33)
  34. Rollin’ Over (1:53)
  35. The Hungry Intruder (2:14)
  36. The Journey (4:12)
  37. Mad John (4:13)
  38. Happydaystoytown (2:51)

Credits

  • Steve Marriott - lead, harmony, and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica, piano on "happiness stan" and "every little bit hurts", hammond organ on "ogdens' nut gone flake", bass guitar on "the journey", co-lead vocals on "the hungry intruder" and "happydaysloytown", producer, vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
  • Ronnie Lane - harmony and backing vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar on "the journey", upright bass on "mad john", lead vocals on "song of a baker" and "the journey", co-lead vocals on "the hungry intruder" and "happydaysloytown", producer, bass
  • Ian McLagan - organ, piano, harpsichord, backing vocals, keyboards
  • Kenney Jones - drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • David McCallum Senior - string section leader, orchestra leader
  • Stanley Unwin - narration, voice [loony links]
  • Glyn Johns - recording engineer, engineer [knobs]
  • Small Faces - arranged by
  • Nick Tweddell - artwork, panel graphics
  • Pete Brown - artwork, panel graphics

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