Gorgeous P.P. Arnold was one of the Ikettes, the backing singers for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s, but during a visit to London, Mick Jagger, impressed by her powerful voice and stunning beauty—who wouldn’t be???—connected her with the Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who immediately signed her to his Immediate Records label, alongside acts like The Nice, Chris Farlowe (recognize this?), Rod Stewart and a pre-Velvet Underground Nico (who was then recording material that Bob Dylan had written for her along with session musicians like Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones). Another prominent group in the Immediate stable, the Small Faces, backed Arnold on a few of her songs, including “If You Think You’re Groovy,” which was written by Steve Marriott (who was briefly her boyfriend) and Ronnie Lane and could easily be seen as a Small Faces number—one of their very best, I might add—with her singing just as much as it could be a viewed as a “solo” P.P. Arnold single. It should be on every Small Faces compilation, too, if you take my point.
 

 
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