with some of the biggest acts of the day, but poor management and dissention among the members started to tear it apart.
In the Summer of 1967, The Strawberry Alarm Clock contributed music to the film Psych-Out, as well as appearing in it. Despite this success, Munford never actually joined the group in their prime.īefore recording their full-length debut album, the band added a second bass guitarist, George Bunnell, an accomplished songwriter who's contributions enhanced a style that coupled hippie trappings with enchanting melodies and some imaginative instrumentation.
He was not even a regular band member, but ended up singing a tune that would rocket to number one in the United States and sell over a million copies. The recording was initially intended as a B-side and the lead vocal is actually that of a friend of the band, 16-year-old Greg Munford, who was just hanging around during the session. The story of the song "Incense and Peppermints" is a fascinating one. Formerly known as The Sixpence, this California based group was originally made up of Ed King (lead guitar), Lee Freeman (rhythm guitar), Gary Lovetro (bass), Mark Weitz (organ), and Randy Seol (drums). Lee Freeman died of cancer on February 14, 2010.At the height of the Flower Power era of Psychedelic music in the mid-sixties, Strawberry Alarm Clock gave us one of classic rock's most memorable songs, 1967's, "Incense and Peppermints". The band performed at various other gigs throughout the United States. More recently the Strawberry Alarm Clock reunited for a one-hour set at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois on Apfor Roger Ebert's ninth annual Overlooked Film Festival, where Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) was screened prior to the Strawberry Alarm Clock's performance. However, the band got back together in 1987 and performed at various oldies concerts.
("Incense and Peppermints" was also featured on the soundtracks to "Riding the Bullet," "Recess: School's Out," and "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.") Alas, the group went through several line-up changes and failed to produce any subsequent hit songs. The group appeared as themselves in the nifty hippie exploitation winner "Psych-Out" and Russ Meyer's delightfully outrageous cult camp classic "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." They perform their signature tune "Incense and Peppermints" in both pictures.
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The follow-up song "Tomorrow" was the band's only other recording that cracked the Top 40 it went to #23 on the Billboard pop charts in early 1968. The group went on tour in the second half of 1967 and most of 1968 they shared billing with such artists as the Beach Boys, the Who, Buffalo Springfield, Jimi Hendrix, and Country Joe and the Fish. Their debut album "Incense and Peppermints" likewiseĭid well and reached #11 on the album charts. The group signed with the Uni record label in 1967 and scored a massive smash success with the insanely catchy and groovy "Incense and Peppermints," which peaked at #1 on the Billboard pop charts in 1967.
The original band members are: Ed King (vocals), Mark Weitz (keyboards), Lee Freeman (rhythm guitar died February 14, 2010), Gary Lovetro (bass), and Randy Seol (drums). They initially did for the most part covers of popular songs. The band formed in 1965 and called themselves Thee Sixpence. The Strawberry Alarm Clock are a psychedelic rock group from Glendale, California.
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