Incense and Peppermints (album)

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Incense and Peppermints
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ReleasedOctober 1967 (1967-10)
Recorded1966–1967
StudioOriginal Sound Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length32:17
Label Uni/Sundazed
Producer Frank Slay, Bill Holmes
Strawberry Alarm Clock chronology
Incense and Peppermints
(1967)
Wake Up...It's Tomorrow
(1968)
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Incense and Peppermints is the debut album by psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock. Released in October 1967, it reached No. 11 on the Billboard 200 album charts during a 24-week run [2] [3] and included the band's No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit [4] "Incense and Peppermints".

Contents

Background

In addition to the band's six official members, the album features the flute playing of Steve Bartek, who co-wrote four of the album's songs with bass player George Bunnell. [2]

The tracks "The World's on Fire", "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow", and "Incense and Peppermints" were all featured in the motion picture Psych-Out , along with a new song, "Pretty Song from Psych-Out", which later appeared on the band's second album, Wake Up...It's Tomorrow .

A compilation album of the same name (albeit spelled with an ampersand) was released by MCA in 1990. The album has been released on CD in Japan and (more recently) on Sundazed Music.

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "The World's on Fire" (S.A. Clock) – 8:21
  2. "Birds in My Tree" (George Bunnell, Steve Bartek) – 1:53
  3. "Lose to Live" (Mark Weitz, S.A. Clock) – 3:13
  4. "Strawberries Mean Love" (Bunnell, Bartek) – 3:01

Side 2

  1. "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" (Bunnell, Bartek) – 3:05
  2. "Paxton's Back Street Carnival" (Bunnell, Bartek) – 2:01
  3. "Hummin' Happy" (Bunnell, Randy Seol) – 2:25
  4. "Pass Time with the SAC" [Instrumental] (S.A. Clock) – 1:21
  5. "Incense and Peppermints" (John S. Carter, Tim Gilbert) (uncredited: Mark Weitz, Ed King) – 2:47
  6. "Unwind with the Clock" (Lee Freeman, Ed King) – 4:10

Japanese CD bonus track

  1. "The Birdman of Alkatrash" (Weitz)

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 http://www.edking.net Archived 2009-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Billboard Top LPs". April 13, 1968. p. 77.
  4. Whitburn, Joel. (2008). Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Record Research Inc. p. 814. ISBN   978-0-89820-172-7.