TamTam Books' Tribute to Immediate Records (Andrew Loog Oldham's label)

Small Faces with P.P. Arnold


Small Faces "itcycoo Park"


Small Faces "All or Nothing"


Billy Nicholls "Girl From New York (Audio only but a fantastic song backed by the Small Faces)


P.P. Arnold "First Cut is the Deepest"


P.P. Arnold "If You Think You Are Groovy"


The Nice "America" (with David O'List, who was in early Roxy Music before Phil Manzanera)


Little Andrew Loog Oldham documentary


"All I Want is My Baby" Oldham/Richards song. Recorded by Bobby Jameson and Mick Jagger


A very early Nico song (a year before the Velvets) produced by Jimmy Page for Immediate Records


The Poets "Now We're Thru"

And this is one of my favorite film footages ever of Swingin' London"

My Favorite Albums for September 2007

This is a fantastic collection of music from Jean-Luc Godard's films. Where else can you get on one disk music by Martial Solal, Michel Legrand, Georges Delerue, Paul Misraki, Antoine Duhamel, Gabriel Yared, plus the great pop (and very rare) song from La Chinoise "Mao Mao" by Claude Channes? It's fascinating to hear this album all the way through. Godard hooked himself up with the great film composers of his era - and also included is a little booklet with interviews with the above composers commenting on what it was like working with Godard.


Billy Nicholls is a complete mystery to me, and somehow he made one of the best British albums in 1967. Signed to Andrew Loog Oldham's record label Immediate, Nicholls wrote some uber-fantastic psych-pop songs with the great Small Faces serving as his backup band with the additional help from John Paul Jones. Oldham produced this masterpiece in what I think maybe one of his great recordings. For sure it meets up with his Stones recordings. With respect to Nicholls, I have heard that he's a buddy of The Who, and to this day he still works for the band.


Roy Wood is a lunatic. For those who don't know, Wood was a member and main songwriter for the great British 60's band The Move, and then went on to form (and made only one album with them) Electric Light Orchestra. He left them and put together Wizzard (Phil Spector on speed), and then "Roy Wood Wizzo Band." This album reminds me of later-day Prince, if that's possible. Wood plays a zillion instruments and when you think it's going to be a regular groove thing, he throws in a sitar in the mix.