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This song is a psychedelic rock song written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, first recorded by their group, the Small Faces. The song reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967, #1 in Canada, and #16 in the US in 1968. The song was one of the first pop singles to use flanging, an effect that can be heard in the bridge section after each chorus. Although many devices were soon created that could produce the same effect by purely electronic means, the effect as used on "Itchycoo Park" was at that t...

This song is a psychedelic rock song written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, first recorded by their group, the Small Faces. The song reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967, #1 in Canada, and #16 in the US in 1968. The song was one of the first pop singles to use flanging, an effect that can be heard in the bridge section after each chorus. Although many devices were soon created that could produce the same effect by purely electronic means, the effect as used on "Itchycoo Park" was at that time an electro-mechanical studio process.
Marriott told Creem in 1975: "The thing about 'Itchycoo Park' was that the era was wrong, and the word 'high' freaked everybody out.