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Strawberry Alarm Clock 8-track and 4-track tapes
Each of Strawberry Alarm Clock’s four studio albums were released as 8-track tapes, as were the compilations Best Of Strawberry Alarm Clock (1970) and Changes (1971). Also released on 8-track were the two movie soundtracks the band contributed to, Psych-Out and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls.
Crystal Circus and Strawberry SAC: Strawberry Alarm Clock offshoots
In 1968, a band calling itself Strawberry SAC, featuring Greg Munford (who’d sung lead on Strawberry Alarm Clock‘s “Incense And Peppermints”) recorded twelve songs for a planned album on All-American. Two songs (“In Relation” and “Merry Go Round”) were pressed onto a rare promo DJ 7″, but the rest of the recordings were only released … Read more
Thee Sixpence, the pre-Strawberry Alarm Clock band
About Thee Sixpence, an obscure psych band that released several singles in 1966 and 1967 before changing their name to Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Psych-Out movie with Jack Nicholson, 1968
Strawberry Alarm Clock music featured prominently in the classic ‘psychsploitation’ movie Psych-Out from 1968.