From the sublimely named LP Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (don’t take up smoking kids). As I recall it came in a circular cardboard sleeve (and when released as a CD years later in a cylindrical tin resembling those tobacco was once sold in.)*
The Small Faces: Song of a Baker
*Looking it up it seems that the very first release was also in a tin but quickly replaced by the circular cardboard as the tin was too expensive and rolled off record shelves!
Almax* recently featured this song on his blog – which for legal reasons (he’s a lawyer) is sadly restricted to only a few readers.
I was moved to comment that Tin Soldier surely has the single best musical intro to a pop song ever.
It deserves wider hearing. This version has the added benefit of P P Arnold on backing vocals, as did the recording.
As a result of his posting another of Alastair’s readers recommended this, Song Of A Baker, for which embedding is disabled. But you can follow the link.
*Almax’s The Defibrillator blog – on my sidebar – is open to all but he tends not to post new stuff there.
