"Incense and Peppermints" is a song and album by Strawberry Alarm Clock. The single was released in 1967 and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

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  • "Incense and Peppermints" is a song and album by Strawberry Alarm Clock. The single was released in 1967 and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Although the Strawberry Alarm Clock are considered a prototypical "one hit wonder," for this song, they don't fit the strict definition; follow-up single "Tomorrow" reached #23 on the Billboard chart in January 1968, as well as three minor hits; "Sit with the Guru" (#65) and "Barefoot in Baltimore" (#67), which, like "Incense and Peppermints," had lyrics that were foisted onto their music that the band cared little for, and "Good Morning Starshine" from Hair (#87). According to the liner notes of the CD release of the second album Strawberry Alarm Clock album, Wake Up... It's Tomorrow, Mark Weitz and Ed King wrote the music to "Incense and Peppermints" as an instrumental, Weitz writing the bulk of it and King writing the bridge, and songwriter John Carter surreptitiously sang his own vocal line and lyrics over his own performance of their music in a demo, and producer Frank Slay considered the song to have been written by Carter and Tim Gilbert. According to King, Slay denied King credit because King did not write the melody line, and because, he alleged, no more than two names would fit on the label. As such, the band recorded no more music by Carter until their third album. Carter laid low during the recording of the band's second album, but Slay put more of his music into the band's repertoire on the third. The band members cared so little for the lyrics that neither of the band's two singers, Lee Freeman and Mark Weitz, wanted to sing the lead vocal. This recalcitrance was due in large part to the lyrics, which had been written by a songwriter named John Carter, who was under contract to the song's producer Frank Slay. The band did not care for Carter's pseudo-psychedelic lyrics and were miffed that he—and therefore Slay—would get a share of the song's royalties. As a result, the band impulsively drafted a 16-year-old named Greg Munford, a friend of the band who happened to be at the recording session to add percussion, to sing lead. Munford was never officially a member of the Strawberry Alarm Clock and appears only on this recording; he was not even present for the single's B-side, "Birdman of Alkatrash". "Birdman of Alkatrash" was intended by the band to be the A-side, with Weitz and King's instrumental, "The Happy Whistler," which became "Incense and Peppermints," as the B-side. (en)
  • Incense and Peppermints, amerikanska gruppen Strawberry Alarm Clocks debutalbum, utgivet 1967. Bara av namnet på gruppen och en titt på omslaget till skivan kan man få en uppfattning om vad det är för musik det rör sig om. Titelspåret blev gruppens framgångsrikaste sång, och satte en sorts mall för gruppens sound och image. (sv)
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  • "Incense and Peppermints" is a song and album by Strawberry Alarm Clock. The single was released in 1967 and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. (en)
  • Incense and Peppermints, amerikanska gruppen Strawberry Alarm Clocks debutalbum, utgivet 1967. (sv)
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