Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Itchycoo Park (Small Faces, 1967). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-09-12. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Itchycoo Park ," written by Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott, was Small Faces' first entry and highest entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart rising to no. 16 in 1967 (Whitburn, 2013) and no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart (Lyrics, 1999). According to songfacts (2022), "'Itchycoo Park' is the nickname of Little Ilford Park in London. An 'Itchycoo' is slang for a flower found in the park called a 'Stinging Nettle,' which can burn the skin if touched." When the song was released it was initially banded by the BBC for the drug references, "What did you do there? - I got high" and "I feel inclined to blow my mind" (songfacts, 2022). However, "The group insisted the 'we’ll get high' references were perfectly innocent, and simply about playing truant from school (P. Sexton, udiscovermusic, Aug. 9, 2022). The song was one of the first to use phase-shifting to alter the sound of the recording. "Two synchronised tape copies of a finished recording were played simultaneously into a third master recorder, and by manually retarding the rotation of one of the two tape reels by pressing on the flanges, a skilled engineer could subtly manipulate the phase difference between the two sources, creating the lush 'swooshing' phase effect that sweeps up and down the frequency range (wikipedia, 2022).

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Lyrics:

Over Bridge of Sighs
To rest my eyes in shades of green
Under dreaming spires
To Itchycoo Park. That's where I've been.

(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you feel there?)
Well, I cried...
(But why the tears then?)
Tell you why...

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful

I feel inclined to blow my mind,
Get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun.
They all come out to groove about
Be nice and have fun in the sun.

I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'd like to go there now with you,
You can miss out school.
Why go to learn the words of fools?

(What did you do there?)
I got high...
(What did you feel there?)
Well, I cried...
(But why the tears then?)
Tell you why...

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful

I feel inclined to blow my mind,
Get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun.
They all come out to groove about
Be nice and have fun in the sun.

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
Ha

It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful