Episode 159: “Itchycoo Park”, by the Small Faces
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Immediate Records: A One-Stop Shop
Oldham and Colder were trying to follow the model of Motown and Stax. Immediate deserves to be talked about in the same terms as Motown or Stax when it comes to the quality of the singles it released. The only ones to do well on the charts in the first few months of the label's existence were Hang on Sloopy and an EP by Chris Farlow. It was Farlow who provided immediate records with its first home grown number one, a version of Out of Time produced by Mick Jagger.
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