Face To Face

Release info:

Produced by: Shel Talmy
Release date: 21 Jan, 1983
Record label & catalog #: PRT SP20 5026
Country: Japan
Format: 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Release type: Reissue
Description/Notes: mono mix

Tracks:

Side 1
1. Party Line   mono mix (2:32), recorded Apr 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
2. Rosy Won't You Please Come Home   mono mix (2:30), recorded May 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
3. Dandy   mono mix (2:08), recorded probably Jan 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
4. Too Much On My Mind   mono mix (2:25), recorded Apr 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
5. Session Man   mono mix (2:15), recorded May 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
6. Rainy Day In June   mono mix (3:12), recorded May 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
7. House In The Country   mono mix (2:59), recorded Apr-May 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
   
Side 2
1. Holiday In Waikiki   mono mix (2:47), recorded May 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
2. Most Exclusive Residence For Sale   mono mix (2:49), recorded Apr 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
3. Fancy   mono mix (2:27), recorded 14 May, 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
4. Little Miss Queen Of Darkness   mono mix (3:13), recorded 21 Jun, 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
5. You're Looking Fine   mono mix (2:43), recorded 29 or 30 Dec, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
6. Sunny Afternoon   mono mix (3:31), recorded 13 May, 1966 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
7. I'll Remember   mono mix (2:25), recorded Oct 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London


Liner Notes:

It has been said by mercenary - minded persons that upon setting out along life's road the bread, the filthy lucre of W. Shakespeare of highly regarded memory would seem to be the thing to go for.

So if you accept the opinion of these aforesaid persons in the spirit in which it is given and get cracking you get the loot.

So what next?

So far on your passage through this vale of tears you have been a hick, a nothing and an unheralded nobody. To be a well respected man must be your next aim, and with the loot in your pocket and the wicked world being what it is,

You become a well respected personage ere you know it.

Then comes dedication to the dictates of fashion. The Carnaby Street. The striped natty suiting. Touches of velvet upon the collar. Touches of lace upon the underwear.

And of course ties of polka dot and Persian--originated Paisley pattern.

Next? Country house, yacht, powered by sail and/or steam, with the motor car in lurid colour and with white walls to its wheels smiling in the golden gravel drive.

Ladies of course. Ladies with long legs and little bosom, hair the colour of corn, very mini, very skinny dresses. Status symbol ladies with rich dark sheen in the depths of the skin.

Dwindling in the end to one lady, one Special who gets in among the soul.

The trouble being that the perfect woman becomes a bore, like having venus de Milo constantly upon one's hands.

So angry words are spoken, and she of golden hair and mini skirt, half woman, half thighs leaves. With car. Back to ma and pa. With tales of drunkeness and cruelty.

As if this is not enough, fate flings its last custard pie.

The taxman cometh.

And you are left with the glass of ice cold beer, and the sun on the uplands with dappled shadows and all, which is much better, as the poet has it than a poke up the nostril with a burnt stick.

(Now read on).

Raymond Douglas Davies, a musician, not forgetting David, his hith and kin.

Peter Quaife, bass guitar who once wrote a story about an embarrasing affliction from which Rays grandfather suffered for over forty years.

And Michael Avory, drummer and the possessor of four shoes, two for each foot,

have continued the story. And stories parallel to his sad one.

About the frustration of the telephone, About rainy days and sunny days, about sessions men and dark ladies, about P.V.C. grass skirts in Waikiki, about memories, and dandies, and most of all about the breadwinner who was in the beginning, who lost all, sold his most exclusive residence, and passes into the bosom of his fathers.

Frank Smyth, Autumn 1966


Related Releases:

Face To Face 28 Oct, 1966 UK Pye NPL 18149 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Face To Face 28 Oct, 1966 UK Pye NSPL 18149 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Face To Face 7 Dec, 1966 USA Reprise R 6228 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Face To Face 7 Dec, 1966 USA Reprise RS 6228 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Face To Face Dec 1986 UK PRT CDMP 8829 CD
Face To Face Jan 1988 Germany PRT/TELDEC 8.26673 ZR CD
Face To Face 18 Dec 1989 France PRT/Castle Communications CLACD 158 CD
Face To Face 30 Mar, 1998 UK Essential/Castle Communications ESM CD 479 CD
Face To Face 20 Aug, 2001 UK Castle Music/Sanctuary CMTCD302 CD
Face To Face 26 Apr, 2004 UK Sanctuary Midline SMRCD028 CD
Face To Face (Deluxe Edition) 20 Jun, 2011 UK Sanctuary Records/Universal Music 277 262-0 2 CD set


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