boyajian@akov68.DEC (05/07/85)
> From: hou2a!9222wl (Diane Wilkerson) > 1. The Strawberry Alarm Clock had (what I consider the) definitive pychedelic/ > pop song of the 60's, "Incense and Peppermints". That was their only > "hit". I don't know any album names, but someone out there does. SAC had 5 albums, not including a "Best of..." If I can remember correctly, they *did* have a second hit song, "Barefoot in Baltimore" (I even remember a "video" of that being shown on LAUGH IN. I don't think they had any other hits, though. Though "Incense and Peppermints" was a great pyschedelic 60's song, I don't consider it the *definitive* one. In my humble opinion, the definitive one was "Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by The First Edition. Oh! wasn't that a time when Kenny Rogers sang rock'n'roll instead of this pop country nonsense? "I put my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I found my mind in a brown paper bag within I tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in" --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
brown@nic_vax.UUCP (05/09/85)
> > From: hou2a!9222wl (Diane Wilkerson) > > > 1. The Strawberry Alarm Clock had (what I consider the) definitive pychedelic/ > > pop song of the 60's, "Incense and Peppermints". That was their only > > "hit". I don't know any album names, but someone out there does. > > SAC had 5 albums, not including a "Best of..." If I can remember correctly, > they *did* have a second hit song, "Barefoot in Baltimore" (I even remember > a "video" of that being shown on LAUGH IN. I don't think they had any other > hits, though. Here is the information about Strawberry Alarm Clock as retrieved from Joel Whitburn's Top Pop 1955-1982. 9/30/67 1 16 Incense And Peppermints 12/30/67 23 10 Tomorrow 3/16/68 65 5 Sit With The Guru 8/31/68 67 4 Barefoot In Baltimore 5/24/69 87 2 Good Morning Starshine First column: date entered chart; 2nd column: highest position; 3rd: number of weeks on Hot 100 Billboard charts and then 4th: the title. As far as albums are concerned, only 'Incense And Pepermints' made the Billboard Top LP's charts, which contains 200 titles every week. -- |------------| | |-------| o| JVC HRD725U Mr. Video | | | o| |--------------| | | | | | |----| o o o | | |-------| O| |--------------| |------------| VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go) (!ihnp4!uwvax!astroatc!nic_vax!brown)
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey) (05/09/85)
>>From: hou2a!9222wl (Diane Wilkerson) >>1. The Strawberry Alarm Clock had (what I consider the) definitive pychedelic/ >> pop song of the 60's, "Incense and Peppermints". That was their only >> "hit". I don't know any album names, but someone out there does. Yes fans might note that the final chord sequence at the very end of "Incense and Peppermints" was later used by Yes on the "Going for the One" as the end of their token extended piece on that album "Awaken". (E, D/F#, E/G#, D/A, E/B, D/D ...) Just another useless piece of trivia. -- "Wait a minute. '*WE*' decided??? *MY* best interests????" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr