eswiley2 wrote: 
Don't know "who" but this is where:

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question27896.html

The Itchycoo Park in the song is actually University Parks in Oxford. The Small Faces were sent to stay in a hotel in Oxford to get them away from the London scene and supposedly concentrate on writing more songs. They got very stoned and wandered around the park on one particular day, and that's where the song came from. (From a 'Story Behind The Song' article in Mojo, and the accompanying book.) 

Who comes up with a name like Itchycoo Park??  :)

 oldviolin wrote: 

Just wanna go back to those times!!

Sounds Queen-ish at times... not necessarily in a good way

 BillG wrote: 
Quite correct. Became a Steve Marriott fan later on, during his Humble Pie days. 

 joelbb wrote: 
No Rod here. Ronnie Lane + Steve Marriott. 

 meadowwoods wrote: 
Me Too!!    

 vivakitty wrote: 
Of course—-it's even a cliche that one would speak those exact words "it's all too beautiful" when one was on acid. (I didn't get the good stuff back in the sixties, mind you.)

The original parental indignation tune.  Great if for nothing else than historical reasons.  Rod and Ron were teenagers.

One of many great like-minded tunes on this compilation...

Proclivities wrote: The concoction with Stewart and Wood joining the other three members was known as "(The) Faces".

Yes, I know.  I think they dropped the "Small" because they simply had big plans.  I actually prefer the stuff Rod Stewart did with Beck and The Faces to most of his solo work.  Stewart even re-teamed with Beck to cover People Get Ready and it is a great cover.  I think that was in the 80s.

When you could listen to AM radio

This song still brings a smile to my face :)

 fredriley wrote: 
That's funny. Back in the cradle of psychedelia, we looked on the sentiments expressed by "Itchycoo Park" as, well, quaint, a lot of paisley-adorned wannabes climbing on the peaceandloveandgetstoned bandwagon. Then you heard Small Faces live, and you knew they were one, tight rock'n'roll band. Other pretenders like Scott McKenzie ("San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)") and Eric Burdon ("San Franciscan Nights"), despite their pedigrees, fared less well—although Burdon's work with War played well live.

cuttin school, going to the park, and getting high. Beautiful back then...

 fredriley wrote:  
Cute poery in your question!  Thanks to Wikipedia:
Marriott and Small Faces manager Tony Calder came up with this well-known story when Marriott was told the BBC had banned the song for its overt drug references: "We scammed the story together, we told the BBC that Itchycoo Park was a piece of waste ground in the East End that the band had played on as kids - we put the story out at ten and by lunchtime we were told the ban was off."
 
Ronnie Lane on the true location of Itchycoo Park:  "It's a place we used to go to in Ilford years ago. Some bloke we know suggested it to us because it's full of nettles and you keep scratching."

 bachbeet wrote: 
When Marriott left to co-form Humble Pie, "The Small Faces" was essentially disbanded.  The concoction with Stewart and Wood joining the other three members was known as "(The) Faces".

We used to dance to this in h.s., looking forward to the day when we could get HI-IGH!

 DaveInVA wrote: 

Freudian slip?  LOL

 Cynaera wrote: 
Well I was alive when this effort came out, and thousands (no exaggeration) of exposures to it later over the decades and I'm sick to the back teeth with it. I could likely sing it from heart I've heard it so often on the radio. There's nothing intrinsically bad about the song or the group, but even a 10 can become a 1 after serious over-exposure. Where the feck is Itchycoo Park anyhoo?

Far out!  Always dug this tune man

 gigikent wrote: 
It's psychedelic, man.

Freddie Mercury was in another band before Queen?

What's with the horrible metallic sound? some precursor of house music?

 bachbeet wrote: 
I love the tune!  Takes me back...    Marriott went on to sing with Humble Pie.

nuttin' but net...

I like this song more now than I did then.  Rod Stewart joined them with Ron Wood after he left Jeff Beck and after Marriot left Faces.

 Businessgypsy wrote: 
Oooh, good zap. I love you.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Yep - and wow. I remember this song - and I keep thinking it ended up in a commercial... Still, so funky and fun... And to the naysayers who are bitching about the mix - it was about twenty years before you were born, so just shut up. Thank you.