First Step

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A1	Wicked Messenger Written-By – Dylan*	4:00
A2	Devotion Written-By – Lane*	4:48
A3	Shake, Shudder, Shiver Written-By – Wood*, Lane*	3:09
A4	Stone Written-By – Lane*	5:33
A5	Around The Plynth Written-By – Stewart*, Wood*	5:45
B1	Flying Written-By – Stewart*, Wood*, Lane*	4:10
B2	Pineapple And The Monkey Written-By – Wood*	4:23
B3	Nobody Knows Written-By – Wood*, Lane*	4:04
B4	Looking Out The Window Written-By – McLagan*, Jones*	5:00
B5	Three Button Hand Me Down Written-By – McLagan*, Stewart*	5:30

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
• Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Credits

• Banjo – Rod Stewart (tracks: A4)
• Bass – Ron Wood (tracks: B5), Ronnie Lane
• Drums – Kenny Jones
• Engineer – Martin Birch
• Guitar – Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane (tracks: A4)
• Harmonica [Harp] – Ron Wood (tracks: A4)
• Organ, Piano – Ian McLagan
• Photography By [The Camera] – Martin Cook
• Producer – The Small Faces*
• Voice – Rod Stewart

Notes

Original Santa Maria Pressing variant of this Terre Haute press by same catalog #.

Originally released by the record company insisting the band retain their more familiar name, "Small Faces."
Subsequent releases showed the band's new branding as simply "Faces."

Title on spine, "First Step," comes from the 'guitar lesson' book Ron Wood is holding on front cover, "First Step."
Title on center labels reads "The First Step"

1st catalog #: labels; 2nd: cover/liner/spine

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (A Side Label): S39662
• Matrix / Runout (B Side Label): S39663
• Matrix / Runout (A Side Etch): 39662 WS 1851 A-1B S 1
• Matrix / Runout (B Side Etch): S1 39663 WS 1851 B-1G

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
WS 3000	Faces	The First Step ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	WS 3000	UK	1970
90.171	Faces	The First Step ‎(LP, RE)	Warner Bros. Records	90.171	Spain	1979
1851-2	Small Faces*	First Step ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Warner Bros. Records, Warner Archives	1851-2	US	1993
WPCR-13839, WPCR 13839	Faces	First Step ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Car)	Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. Records	WPCR-13839, WPCR 13839	Japan	2010
P-8229W	Faces	The First Step ‎(LP, Album)	Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Warner Bros. Records	P-8229W	Japan	1972

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