Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawberry Alarm Clock was a psychedelic rock group in the mid- 1960s in Los Angeles, California was founded. She had her biggest success in 1967 with the million-seller Incense and Peppermints.
Band History
After the band had initially worked unsuccessfully under the name Thee Sixpence, their first single Incense and Peppermints 1967 a number - one hit on the Billboard charts. Overall, the single thought 16 weeks on the charts, including one week on the first rank. The recorded and released in connection eponymous album reached number 11 is particularly noteworthy in the context of the single is the fact that the lead singer was not from one of the band members, but with Greg Munford, a 16 -year-old friend of the band, which by chance Sessions was the present.
It was often in the sequence to new appointments in the band (at times were two bass players in the lineup ), while the second single from the album, Tomorrow reached in the spring of 1968, No. 23 Two more singles from this album made it into the Hot 100, and with the cover version Good Morning Starshine from the musical Hair in 1969 followed her last little chart success.
The band appeared in the late 1960s not only in various television shows, they also had appearances in the movies Psych - Out ( 1968) and Russ Meyer movie Valley of the Dolls (1970). The band broke up after quarrels with management and disputes over revenue investments in 1971, founding member and guitarist Ed King then moved to Lynyrd Skynyrd. In the 1980s, former band members gave several concerts under the old band name, in 2007 came to a seminar organized by Roger Ebert Film Festival to a concert in the original cast. As a result, the band played more concerts.