It's Smoke Time

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It's Smoke Time
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Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedMay − November 1966
Genre Garage rock, psychedelic pop, beat, freakbeat, sunshine pop
Length29:16
Label Metronome
Producer The Smoke, Monty Babson
Singles from It's Smoke Time
  1. "My Friend Jack"
    Released: 10 February 1967
  2. "High in a Room / If the Weather's Sunny"
    Released: August 1967
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It's Smoke Time is the only studio album by the British psychedelic pop band The Smoke, released in early 1967, originally by Swedish label Metronome Records only in Germany.

Contents

It features the hit single “My Friend Jack”, number two on the German charts.

Track listing

All songs written by The Smoke, except where indicated:

LP Side A

  1. "My Friend Jack" - 3:03
  2. "Waterfall" - 2:41
  3. "You Can't Catch Me" - 3:17
  4. "High in a Room" - 3:00
  5. "Wake Up Cherylina" - 2:19
  6. "Don't Lead Me On" (Jerry Reno, Terry Brown) - 2:17

LP Side B

  1. We Can Take It - 2:43
  2. "If the Weather's Sunny" - 2:50
  3. "I Wanna Make It with You" - 3:10
  4. "It's Getting Closer" - 2:33
  5. "It's Just Your Way of Lovin'" - 2:25
  6. "I Would If I Could But I Can't" - 2:14

Bonus tracks (only CD release)

  1. "Have Some More Tea (Greg Ridley) - 2:13
  2. "Victor Henry's Cool Book" - 2:28
  3. "Sydney Gill" - 3:32
  4. "It Could Be Wonderful" (Jimmy Miller) - 2:18
  5. "Keep a Hold of What You've Got" (A. Maldon) - 2:06
  6. "She's a Liar" (A. Maldon) - 2:21
  7. "I Am Only Dreaming" - 1:59
  8. "Universal Vagrant" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer, Wes Farrell) - 2:53
  9. "Dreams of Dreams" (Chapman, Vaughan, Williams) - 2:31
  10. "My Birth" (Francis) - 2:41
  11. "Jack Is Back" (Danny Beckerman) - 3:18
  12. "That's What I Want" (Wil Malone) - 2:25
  13. "Playing with Magic" (W. Malone) - 3:07
  14. "My Friend Jack (Alternate Take)" - 3:10

Personnel

The Smoke

Additional personnel

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References

  1. Richie Unterberger. "It's Smoke Time". Allmusic . Retrieved 11 March 2012.