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Few 1960s bands have been as marginalized as the Strawberry Alarm Clock in spite of having a catalog of well-written and well-crafted songs. Matt delves into their catalog and discusses the reasons why critical acclaim has eluded them.
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@bradparker9664 2 месяца назад

Ed King was one of the most underrated guitarists I can think of.

@philwright2480 2 месяца назад

Lynyrd Skynyrd

@eternallife9786 Месяц назад

What an odd transition@@philwright2480

@maverick6722 21 час назад

Absolutely, he never had the 'pretty boy' good looks to be a guitar god I suppose, but guitarists know!

@johnorgan3 3 месяца назад

First time I heard the beginning of 'Incense & Peppermints 'in the summer of love I heard the line, 'Dead kings, many things I can't define', and my artistic lovin' life was never the same. Then at the end I heard, 'A Yard stick for lunatics, one point of view'. As a young lad, I found my yin and my yang in the same poem. Lord sweet home Alabama!

@romanjohncarlos2368 2 месяца назад

A very underrated band! Groovy Los Angeles vibes! Much love and respect!❤❤

@patrickkerns2022 3 месяца назад

strawberry alarm clock and iron butterfly were great bands .i wish these guys sitting on these live bootleg shows would put some of it out.would be nice

@jamesfetherston1190 2 месяца назад

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a fantastically bizarre movie.

@Mach11976 2 месяца назад

I remember listening to them on WLS radio out of Chicago in the 60s and 70s, what a time to grow up

@PeterMayer 2 месяца назад

I did, too.Where did you live?We lived right outside of Lake Bluff.

@Mach11976 2 месяца назад

@@PeterMayer Gurnee IL!! Do you remember the Night Gallery in waukegan? So close lol

@Mach11976 2 месяца назад

@@PeterMayer Hey are you around?

@thegreatelfinko 2 месяца назад

WLS. 60s baby!!! Bowen high

@Mach11976 2 месяца назад

@@thegreatelfinko My girlfriend lived in lake Villa IL and I skied all over Fox lake.

@christopherdavison652 Месяц назад

My older brother Tommy, 8 years older than me, would turn me on to a good dose of 60's Rock and Roll. Nice to get the backstories, thanks again, Matt.

@annietiques1803 3 месяца назад

Incense and Peppermints was the first record I bought as a teenager with my babysitting money. 39¢

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

A great deal!

@luiscardenas930 2 месяца назад

In today's money 39 cents equals to $3.64. So If she is talking single instead of album then that was too expensive for a single

@jeffcarlson3269 2 месяца назад

@@luiscardenas930 I am not so sure..39 cents was a bad price..... I was 12 in 1967...and I remember paying anywhere from 49 cents to 69 cents per single... I started buying records around then with my paper route money.. that is how I remember.. and the average album.. cost any where from 3.99 to 4.99 depending where you went.... there were of course bargain deals and specials going on.. . most of my 45's.... I got before my paper route.. were given to me by the guys that changed out 45's in juke boxes and they.. free.. thrift stores often sold sleeveless singles for 10 cents.. but a lot of times those were scratched up... I think when I was 8.... I remember going to Woolworths with my mom.. and I got 5 singles out of their bargain bin/ With sleeves/ for a dollar.. it was a good deal if both sides of the 45's had great songs on them... I really appreciated "Paper back Writer/ Rain.... by the Beatles as well as "Hello Goodbye/ I am the Walrus".... good to get two great songs for the price of one..

@beverlyledbetter4906 2 месяца назад

I've got the Seashells album on my playlist. I really like their music!🙏

@stepanbandera5206 2 месяца назад

You got ripped off!

@John_Fugazzi 3 месяца назад

What a great surprise. I never really knew that they lasted so long as a band. incense really dominated late 1967 and everyone took them seriously, and the album cover was really hip for two months but looked silly and dated not long after. Speak with the Guru really did them in. I do remember their Good Morning Starshine, but the theremin opening was an old sound and their singing of the nonsense word parts ("Gliddy Glip Gloopy") sounded like Bubblegum. Oliver Swofford's strong vocal and the typically elaborate arrangement by Bob Crewe made a much stronger single. One thing really true is how often bands got ripped off by managers, producers and owners of small labels. This was especially true with the garage bands, many of whose members were still in high school. "I'll take care of the publishing" was the usual offer and these kids never knew what that meant.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Thanks for commenting, John. I agree with the lyrics of Starshine, rather childish and not appropriate for them at the time.

@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 22 дня назад

The ironic thing is the cover fashion is deemed as "dated" (which I disagree) but in comparison any 80's covers or dress is 100x more dated than the 60s thing, because the 60's style and fashion have a HUGE following (especially on social media) which is still popular and relevant. The second irony is older baby boomers think it's dated while younger generations do not think so.

@ijeff2005 2 месяца назад

When "Incense and Peppermint" hit it big I was a young boy who was buying singles and just starting to progress into buying albums, but with a very limited budget. So, I did buy the single and it was one of my favorite songs from that era. What I remember about this band was they literally received no airplay in the upper Midwest city where I grew up so I never really heard anything from them again after their big hit. After watching this history I think its time for me to catch up with the rest of their output.

@shyman99 3 месяца назад

I've never met or spoken with Greg Munford, but I love the man like a brother. Amazing how the vocalist to a lifelong favorite song can create such a strong connection with the listener.

@Greybase9 2 месяца назад

that line : "Occasion, Persuasion, Busted your Mind" and Chorus : "Young Girl... Yeah!" 😍

@PAINFOOL13 2 месяца назад

The fashion they wore were Neru shirts/ jackets. I wore a couple ( made by my Mom ) in my band circa 68. Great info on this underrated band 👍🏻👏

@michaelbuday5630 3 месяца назад

It's just your strength when you can give a band with 1 real hit 38:55 in coverage. This is why I love your mini-docs. Though I woulda liked to have heard a little "Good Morning Starshine" so I could compare it with Oliver's recording. R.I.P. Ed King. A guitarist who never got the notoriety he deserved.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Thank you, Michael!

@davidschaadt3460 2 месяца назад

I love that one too

@karmices 2 месяца назад

They had 2 big hits. Incense and Peppermints which went to #1 nationally and Tomorrow (which was top 10 in many markets) which went to #23 nationally.

@pgh1all1 2 месяца назад

I agree!! Ed King really was the heart and soul of the alarm clock and later with Skynrd he had some iconic contributions to the band. Too bad Ronnie Van Sant was such a dick of a leader that he didn't appreciate what he had. So after 1 too many insults and put downs Ed said screw this and left. This is not to say i didn't like Skynrd, I thought they were one of the best 70s southern rock bands period. Free bird, ahem! Nothing more needs said!

@karmices 3 месяца назад

Jimmy Pitman was a member of The Nightcrawlers prior to joing Strawberry Alarm Clock. Also, the last version of the band (King, Marshall, Freeman and Gunnels) was also the longest running version of the band.

@MarkHoffman-yk9rx 3 месяца назад

Matt is one guy on the internet that really does a fantastic job. And he has the original LPs from the 60s to display during his presentation. A+

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thank you, Mark!

@Grisostomo06 2 месяца назад

Absolutely. Lots of detailed information make this channel a must for anyone interested in the music of the '60s. I remember the song "Barefoot in Baltimore" and I liked it a lot mainly because I was an Oriole fan as a kid and Baltimore is their town.

@jeffcarlson3269 2 месяца назад

@@popgoesthe60s52 Hey Matt my name is Jeff... I sure did appreciate your Strawberry Alarm Clock revue... years ago the cover band I was in used to play "Incense and peppermints" do you think you could do a detailed review of the group called "BANG"...?...from like the late 60's.. to about 1972 or 1973... their second album.. I think had their commercial hit "QUESTIONS"......

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

@@jeffcarlson3269 Nice to meet you, Jeff. I have a very long list of 60s bands to do before I venture into the obscure bands of the 70s. I hope you understand, but some artists I probably won't get to, particularly the ones who only released material in the 70s.

@jeffcarlson3269 2 месяца назад

@@popgoesthe60s52 ok thanks.....

@user-qm7nw7vd5s 3 месяца назад

The album sound and cover artwork has an Arthur Lee LOVE feel. Definitely of an era.

@jammininthepast 2 месяца назад

Arthur Lee was under valued, aside the Love Albums his solo work ( is it eliminator or vindicator - my albums are boxed) good stuff. Hamburger Breath Stinkfinger, I wonder what Lee and Zappa could have come up with. Thanks appreciated.

@neilfriedman 3 месяца назад

I bought their first album when it was released, and it's been one of my favourite albums ever since. Thanks for all the info

@appledoreman 2 месяца назад

Me, too. Not only does it remind me of those heady days more than any other album, but it's still in my all-time top 50.

@gordonteats298 2 месяца назад

their was a band called CAN, in the 1960s,;and 1970s, , they got over looked ,CAN would be Cool to do a review on them

@LNERFlyingScotsman 3 месяца назад

I love the Strawberry Alarm Clock. It's such a cool name for the band. I do think of them as a psychedelic band rather than bubblegum pop with their first two albums being evident of the image they created for themselves and unable to shake that image once the music tides began to change. I'll have to come to the defense of "Sit With The Guru" as I think of that as my favorite song by them. While it may not have charted very high on Billboard and Cashbox, it actually did reach the Top 40 on Record World's Top 100 chart at #36 with only 4 weeks of chart action during it's run. I do think that Record World rated psychedelic songs a bit higher than the other two charts, but I'm not complaining when it comes to that.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Thanks for that chart info from Record World - much appreciated.

@terrylewis7803 3 месяца назад

Thanks for another fun show. Your historic coverage of the Strawberry Alarm Clock was very informative and entertaining. Great stuff!

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Thank you, Terry!

@clearview4076 3 месяца назад

One of the Alarm Clock was interviewed in the 80's saying the played in jeans and t shirts until their manager convinced them to wear psychedelic pajamas. Greg Mumfords group put out their only album which i love. The Alarm clocks album from ten years ago is really good.

@bobberndt9744 2 месяца назад

Randomly ended up here. I noticed The Corporation in your record rack. Hadn't thought of them in years. Thanks, subscribed. 🙂

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Welcome, Bob! Glad to have you aboard.

@jody8526937 3 месяца назад

Wow.. best pop historian I have seen on YT. The Paul Revere and Love videos were fantastic. 3 minutes into this SAC video and I’m already taking notes. Please think about doing an Electric Prunes and Iron Butterfly. Big Brother and Seeds would be essential as well.. 13 Floor…

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

All of those are on my long list, so stay tuned!

@Chamozart Месяц назад

This channel kicks ass

@bobburroughs6241 3 месяца назад

Thanks Matt, like many I only knew the hit. A quick listen shows Tomorrow and Rainy Day Mushroom as goodies!

@4-dman464 3 месяца назад

Feels like Strawberry Alarm Clock built harmonies around the assumption that 1967, which had been on the cards since 1965, was here to stay. Take a tab & there's no turning back for your change of consciousness, so there's no turning back for the culture either. The momentum of the young generation must have felt inevitable. But it wobbled in 1968 & took a nose-dive in '69. The Establishment, drawing on its capital reserves, defined what reality was in the end, so the Summer of Love failed the loaded reality-test. Within a year, the same ecstatic sound was reminiscent of delusion & failure, a vibe that didn't make it. That had to be a bitter reminder by 1969, the bliss & pointers to 'another way' on a record overtaken by counterculture cynicism. That's my best guess - - that Strawberry Alarm Clock didn't get the wake-up call.

@MikeE_Fab4 2 месяца назад

I definitely learned a lot from this video! I was listening to the (AM) radio and buying 45s when "Incense And Peppermints" was a huge hit, so, I knew and loved that song .... and I also knew that Ed King went on to join Lynyrd Skynyrd .... but all of the other content was new to me. Thank you, Matt !!

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the comments, Mike!

@Huskrrrr 3 месяца назад

Thank you! I loved growing up with this kind of music. I'm still trying to figure out the meaning of most psychedelic lyrics, although they seemed quite profound at the time.

@jw4321 2 месяца назад

You are doing a wonderful job filling in all these missing prices of my music history. I was 15-18 during their hit years. I do like their sound.

@syater 3 месяца назад

I had no idea this one hit wonder had so many releases. Great job, Matt!

@monterlude1939 3 месяца назад

Been so excited to see this!!! The Strawberry Alarm Clock are one of my favorite bands ever! Wake up, its tomorrow is psych pop perfection.

@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 22 дня назад

Contrary to what it was described as here I DO think it's masterpiece material. 🙌🏽👍🏽🍓⏰🍄✨

@DRIVEIN101 3 месяца назад

A most awesome documentary on a most awesome group. There should have been a CD release of "The Complete Uni Singles" which would consist of 22 tracks

@57Banjoman 3 месяца назад

I had no idea that they wrote so much good music-they were really good-much overlooked-thanks Matt!

@transformationgeneration 3 месяца назад

As a kid in the 1960's the band had my favorite name and I really liked the hit. We lived in inner-city Cincinnati Ohio over-top a candy store (w/milk, pop and bread) - the owner lived in the building on the first floor. On the weekends her daughter and son-in-law brought the grandchildren to visit. The two boys were my age and older. I had seen SAClock on TV and I thought the older brother who played a bass in a little warehouse behind the bldg. (Mike Brauer) looked just like (I knew as the chubby one) Ed King. I was about 11 and spent year telling kids at school that a member of the band was my landlords grand-son (LOL, bad boy) - Just a silly, but MAJOR rock-n-roll kid's imagination! Another great show.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

I appreciate the comments - thank you for watching!

@alanartme1 3 месяца назад

One thing you can say about The Strawberry Alarm Clock. their songs and arrangements (especially The Pretty Song) really captures that moment in time and sounds from that period. Very nostalgic and in a way very wistful and sad to the times and sounds that has gone by and is gone forever.😩

@jimyoung688 3 месяца назад

Another excellent piece of music journalism. Good job!

@stephenbrowne3399 3 месяца назад

Wow! A huge favourite and a great job compiling & presenting this. The first LP I love still and it has no mediocre tracks. The first three LPs are best and it is a band that really gets better the more you listen...even World in a Seashell. There is a lot to these three. I have the 4 LP albums and also the Japan released CDs I got in mid 1990s of the 4 LPs and the reproduction is so good it is equal to the vinyl if anyone is looking.

@stephenroman9015 2 месяца назад

I can recall listening to this 1st album with a couple of friends of mine, it was an absolute down pour of a rainy day. We decided to do some LSD and it was the most magical trip I had ever been on. It seemed like we'd been hanging out tripping together for like a week. We had a great time, and every song seemed to be perfect for the moment....

@rexmonarch2 2 месяца назад

They played along with Love at the 'Blue Law' in Torrance CA. My friends and I took lsd tripped our mnds out to the music of both of those bands.

@johnlouisgood 3 месяца назад

Now we're talking. Keep up the fantastic work.

@canadianstudmuffin 3 месяца назад

I really enjoy these videos, Matt! I think the Strawberry Alarm Clock were a very good band. As you mention, their outdated 60's look and name didn't help them, but I think they have gotten more respect throughout the years, especially with Ed King being one of the members. Hope to see an episode on The Buckinghams one of these days! 🙂

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

I've just been listening to the Buckinghams to sort of prepare myself to do their history. I will move it up on the list! Thanks Larry!

@LarryGravesCanadianStudmuffin 3 месяца назад

@@popgoesthe60s52 Awesome! 🙂

@lensquires6580 2 месяца назад

Thank you for a fantastic insight into Strawberry Alarm Clock, the movie, and song clips and the way they evolved in the story. I have some songs I also like from a group that it is said got their band name idea from SAC, "The Chocolate Watch Band." 😃 I was 14 in 1967 and what a year for music. Of course Incense and Peppermints, also Donovan was out, Lovin Spoonful, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and the whole Haight Ashbury music scene was being born with many early psychedelic sounds of fused folk, pop and rock. And so the evolution of music went on, but truly those times will never be repeated.

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the comments!

@BigStar303 2 месяца назад

Chocolate Watchband formed in 1965, so they pre-dated Strawberry Alarm Clock by at least a couple of years. They were a GREAT band. So if anyone copped anyone name-wise, it was the other way around.

@lensquires6580 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the correction (I must have read that misinformation somewhere). Wikipedia shows in their biography of them that the name was: "a name that was originally meant to be taken as a joke." Differently a GREAT band, I had a girlfriend in the 90's that had their albums and I made a compilation cassette of 90 minutes of their songs. Sometimes I play that cassette for background work music for days straight. I even liked the songs when the vocalist came in after David Aguilar left. And I think I have a "Reunion" CD of them that Rhino put out. We have a group from the Rochester, NY area that have a history called "The Chesterfield Kings," if you get a chance, look them up. I've been listening straight lately to a 1965-66 group called the "Squires" (No relation) Not the Neil Young early band, this one from the US. Another group I luckily transferred their music from my Vinyl to cassette. Maybe CD someday... But taking less than 10 seconds to flip it over's fine with me. Take Care... Love those early "Stone-ish" sounding bands. I had band in high school, Fox in 1971, still a bunch of my videos here. Here's a bit of the Kings, I think you'll like em... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qjmAy8Mn6PU.html

@BigStar303 2 месяца назад

@@lensquires6580 Appreciate your comments. I agree that CWB were great. Paradoxically, I even like most of the tracks on their three original albums that weren't done by the band at all. If you can find it, check out the movie "Riot on Sunset Strip." It shows them (plus The Standells) performing in a club. Of course, they're lip-synching, but the recordings they're playing to are different from the ones that appear on the soundtrack album. Aguilar is truly a force of nature in those performances! I'm very familiar with The Chesterfield Kings. They did a great job of bringing that 60s garage rock ethos forward into a new era. And I've loved The Squires' "Go Ahead" for decades now.

@JennieJuniper 2 месяца назад

Oh my gosh, what did I even do before I found your channel?? So jazzed about every single video, so interesting and well done!

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

That is very nice of you to say. Welcome Jennie!

@patrickbullock2136 2 месяца назад

Dick Clark's American Bandstand featured a segment on the show called "Rate a Record". On this segment from the August 1967 show where a songs was rated by random kids from their show. I couldn't believe that it bombed. I thought it was one of the coolest song of that era. Later, however, it charted No. 1 in SoCal for four weeks!--and that other song from AB. . . well, who knows.

@EricRyder2012 3 месяца назад

Are you a fan of The Blue Magoos? That would be a fun band to know its history. Just a suggestion.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Yes. I will certainly do a video on them as they have some very interesting material.

@michaelrochester48 3 месяца назад

@@popgoesthe60s52 you know there is a connection to the band kiss and The Blues Magoos because of Pepe Castro and his friendship with Ace Frehley

@edwardallan197 3 месяца назад

I have a Blues Magoos best-of on Mercury. I LOVE the whole thing. It is waaaay psych and great! ❤

@Greybase9 2 месяца назад

Psychedelic Lollipop 😎

@jonsheehan4715 2 месяца назад

They did a great arrangement of Tobacco Road....

@graemeking7336 3 месяца назад

The Sixpence. Quite an English name for an LA band on the All-American label.

@coyotecreekband236 3 месяца назад

I always enjoy your in deep dive on 60's music, Matt. Thanks so much!

@professorhamamoto 2 месяца назад

Delightful. Well-researched and written. Roger Ebert wrote for Russ Meyers? Wild!

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thank you Darrell! What a pair - Meyers and Ebert .

@jonsheehan4715 3 месяца назад

I really enjoyed this one. I started playing guitar in 1966. By the time I got on my feet a little Hendrix and Clapton were happening. Initially I was dismissive of Incense and Peppermints but I’ve turned around. I think that song defines the psychedelic/pop genera. What a great arrangement too. In doing some reading on Lynyrd Skynyrd it came out that Ronnie Van Zant thought Ed King was the best guitarist in the band. That’s saying something when King wasn’t the Free Bird guy(Allen Collins)...Anyway thank you!

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

My pleasure, Jon.

@axiomist4488 2 месяца назад

The reason you've "turned around" is because you're now an old man, like the rest of us and you're suffering from that old age disease called nostalgia.

@jonsheehan4715 2 месяца назад

Not true at all.....I’ve just realized that this is my happening and it freaks me out!

@jonsheehan4715 2 месяца назад

A true naysayer..how original...

@pgh1all1 2 месяца назад

But Van Sant was such a controlling prick, his insults and put downs of Ed, drove him to leave the band. Ronnie made a grievous error about Ed and worse, about telling his band mates to get on a plane that they were scared was not safe. The rest they say is history.

@robertpincus6528 4 дня назад

Hey Matt, it's been a while. I love the Strawberry Alarm Clock. i saw them a year before the pandemic. Amazing. I'm also have whisky on the rocks.

@natlee8947 3 месяца назад

I didn't know they had that many albums.i was never fond of the song Incense and Peppermint.But the other tunes they did weren't half bad even if they didn't chart. Thanks Matt.

@4Naturalgreen 2 месяца назад

I dig this LP. I haven’t listened to it in a while, but every now and then, it hits the spot. The vibraphone sound makes it stand out as truly groovy music. Tim Buckley is the only other artist I can think of from that time who used vibes on more than one song on their record (Happy Sad). It’s interesting to hear the back stories about the band, its members, and their songs.

@BigStar303 2 месяца назад

Good call. "Happy/Sad" is one of my all-time favorite albums. I agree that the vibraphone adds so much to it, and SAC's use of it is very cool as well.

@4Naturalgreen 2 месяца назад

@@BigStar303 I love Tim Buckley’s music. Some deep, powerful stuff there. Goodbye & Hello is such a masterpiece. Especially for someone his age. Have you ever heard the Blue Afternoon LP? Another favorite of mine. Lots of great vibes on that record. Much more than Happy Sad.

@BigStar303 2 месяца назад

@@4Naturalgreen "Blue Afternoon" is right up there with "Happy/Sad" in my estimation. Most of its songs are a natural continuation of what Tim was doing on the previous album. Truly magical, beautiful stuff. It's a shame Tim kind of went off the rails on the albums that followed it.

@4Naturalgreen 2 месяца назад

@@BigStar303 Yeah, I know what you mean. It started with Lorca and ended with Star Sailor. So odd because Lorca was before Blue Afternoon. The guy was all over the place. Look At The Fool is also odd, but in a more funky way, not avant-garde jazz/rock. Greetings From L.A. is not a great studio LP, but does have some good material. I do like Sefronia a lot. That’s actually a great LP. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s worth checking out. For me, his first few records were his best. The ones he did with Larry Beckett. People at the time wanted and expected him to stay in the Goodbye & Hello / Happy Sad style. No matter what, Tim was right. He and his music had to evolve. He couldn’t allow his music to be pigeon holed into being hippie cheese of the day. There was a huge difference between the vibes of ‘65 through ‘69 vs ‘70 through ‘75. The “flower children” were a bit different than the post Woodstock pseudo hippies. The optimism had been dampened quite a bit by then.

@clevebaker8399 3 месяца назад

Another awesome job!! Thank you Matt!! 🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

@robertwoodruff4296 2 месяца назад

This was really cool. Thanks for your post!

@JoelPerri7777 3 месяца назад

I remember watching beyond the valley of the dolls, back when I was in high school in the early 90s, and thinking the band that played at that party was cool, and of course has heard their one hit plenty of times, but after realizing their guitar player was part of one of the biggest southern rock bands, I delved deeper into their music. Ed king was Skynyrd’s secret weapon in my book. His tasty licks are all over those first few albums. So I came across some live recording of strawberry alarm clock from ‘68, and it was awesome. Not the stuff you hear on the radio from them, it was real heavy psych. Def opened my eyes to their sound. Thanks for making these vids Matt, this music is starting to disappear from the consciousness of our lives, and I’m depending on you to keep it alive! Thanks man

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Hey Joel, I enjoy doing these video so thank you for watching and commenting.

@jerryweber1768 3 месяца назад

How can we get their old live stuff? Thanks.

@JoelPerri7777 3 месяца назад

@@jerryweber1768 there’s some stuff on RU-vid, you gotta search for it

@LannieLord 3 месяца назад

I hope YOU have seen Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ! @@popgoesthe60s52

@BegToDiffer99 3 месяца назад

I can't wait to watch this tonight! Thanks matt!

@gourddrawing 3 месяца назад

YES!!! Saving this for later today. Thanks, Matt!

@secretflowersinfinite9475 3 месяца назад

You nailed this one Matt! Thoroughly enjoyed.

@earheadsix4119 3 месяца назад

Walla Walla, WA? Home of the ACME corp. poor Wile E Coyote. lol. Great history here. I thought I knew my stuff but I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

My pleasure - thanks for watching!

@ediblehorse 3 месяца назад

Thanks! I love your vids. So happy I found your channel!

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Welcome! There is plenty more to come.

@jackkintsel7605 3 месяца назад

Very Comprehensive, love the music history in this video. Big Steve Bartek fan. Thanks for the work put into this segment!

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thank you, Jack!

@scottsteele7109 Месяц назад

Matt doing a labor of love, so well done, great graphics and band history work. Professional stuff for YT. Love to see more.

@popgoesthe60s52 Месяц назад

Thank you, Scott! More to come.

@jammininthepast 2 месяца назад

Thanks Matt. Although very young I do remember these guys on free form radio "hippie station" tuned around Drake University and the Des Moines, Iowa hip crowd. (Someone out there probably remembers the call sign). I was under the covers listening on my mono earplug transistor. Good memories. Thanks again brother, you're appreciated.

@williambill5172 3 месяца назад

Thanks so much, Matt...you really took me back with this one, although I always loved the music of the 13th Floor Elevator more...I am sure they are too obscure to rate a video but you should check some of their tunes out. Thanks as always for the great content. If I wasn't on such a fixed budget as an aging man in worse health every day it seems, I would support you more than I do. You deserve it!

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

The Elevators are on my list so you will see a vid on them in the future!

@randomwrestlingarchive3937 3 месяца назад

Another history video and you hit right out of the park. Learned so much and was a great watch.

@user-mq4zg1rq7t 3 месяца назад

“This is my happening and it freaks me out!” Boy, that would make a great tee shirt for your on line store.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

I like that idea!

@jonsheehan4715 2 месяца назад

I’d buy one....

@user-mq4zg1rq7t 2 месяца назад

You’ve got two sold already Matt

@pdd60absorbed12 3 месяца назад

Thanks man this was great.

@gerrylavelle8433 3 месяца назад

They played at the Blue Law in Torrance CA way back in the day. Quicksilver Meesenger Service was on the bill, too. Tripping on lsd, it was a good show.

@danielbrotherton7274 2 месяца назад

Great video! I love the Strawberry Alarm Clock, so very glad to see you've done one on them. 🍓🍓

@teddydog6229 3 месяца назад

Great choice ! Like you said they got lumped in with a lot of twerpy bands like the Lemon Pipers or Sopwith Camel but those albums did indeed show a lot of talent. One problem is bands with names like that had a brief flash of fame and then got dismissed and the names were a big part of the problem. I recently heard a great album by a band named Ultimate Spinach who I’m sure you’ve heard but with a name like that everyone is going to expect bubblegum-psych - just like the Strawberry Alarm Clock. This is a very deserving group for one of your uploads. Amazing that one of them wound up in Lynyrd Skynyrd or so a psych fanatic friend of mine tells me. Those outfits really didn’t help either, did they ? Great look in 67 but by 68 a much grungier look was taking over. Love the episode as always. Great work ! 👍

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Thank you, Teddy!

@jonvought700 3 месяца назад

I remember reading something, somewhere, about "short-lived but illustrious Ultimate Spinach" which one of the members of Steely Dan had played in or founded.

@LannieLord 3 месяца назад

Good call "Twerpy bands". LOL. I think they call it "Popcorn rock" now.

@BigStar303 2 месяца назад

@@jonvought700 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was a member of Ultimate Spinach for their third album only, so he did not found the band. BTW, there are some good tracks (as well as some dire ones) on Ultimate Spinach's first two albums, but that third album is uniformly AWFUL! It was so bad that I actually sold it back in the day, something I rarely did. In retrospect, probably a mistake; if I had held on to it, it would have fetched a bit more once Skunk got well-known.

@keriford54 3 месяца назад

Thanks Matt, very enjoyable. I only knew of the first 3 and the reunion album. Good to learn more about them. Great instrumentation on those first albums, they're a delight to listen to.

@drewsturgeon9511 3 месяца назад

Love this. Great choice Matt!

@carldybowski4338 2 месяца назад

Very interesting. Oingo Boingo ...who would have known. Got to sit in with an alternative band once with John Avila and Johnny Hernandez.

@simonagree4070 3 месяца назад

I keep looking at that drink you never drink. Hmm... Along about Good Morning Starshine, it sounds like they were aiming at being Steppenwolf. Unfortunately, there already was a Steppenwolf, with better songs. BTW, I like that Oliver version.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Yeah, that was straight bourbon and I was only whetting my whistle on this one. 🙂

@kimoroman4992 3 месяца назад

Hey Matt nice choice In 1971, in a college dorm on Maui, after Viet Nam, my future wife turned me on to their first album. I was impressed that they were so much more than the one hit, Incense and Peppermint. We spent the night flipping the album over while we got to know each other. Magical album, magical time Thank you

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

My pleasure - thanks for watching.

@henryb160 2 месяца назад

First time watching this channel and must say how much I enjoyed not only the subject matter but also the presentation.

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thank you, Henry!

@michaelleroi9077 2 месяца назад

Great vid! Thx! Going to listen to the whole album now…after your vid!

@ricjan58 3 месяца назад

Great job on this one, Matt. I must admit I never really gave these guys much of a listen but thanks to you I'll have to pursue them further.

@thomasguild8675 3 месяца назад

Excellent video Matt. I didn't know much about the band.

@jerryweber1768 3 месяца назад

Thanks Matt. I too discovered them as a teenager in the 80's. I did not know about their late singles and reunion LP. I will get them.

@LPCustom3 3 месяца назад

Glad to see this! George Bunnell is a friend of mine! I grew up in Glendale and I use to see them all the time. Most of them use to go to Hoover High. I saw them at Hoover opening for The Box Tops. They blew the Box Tops away. I asked Ed (King) how that was and he said strange cause he’d just quit school 2 weeks before…I worked with Steve Rabe for years and we were roommates for awhile!

@marlaporter 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the awesome video, Matt! My Dad was Jimmy Pitman (SAC's Lead Vocalist & Guitarist in 1969).

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Nice to meet you Marla! I appreciate your dad’s work.

@ministerofdarkness 3 месяца назад

Excellent review. Such an underrated band.Definitely gotta check out some of their later albums.

@Joe67343 3 месяца назад

Matt, any band that actually played in the movie "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" will always have some serious street cred in my book.😆 Cheers!

@clairebunnell6006 3 месяца назад

We really enjoyed your thorough and well done explanation of the band over the years. You captured so much of the history of the band. Great job Matt.

@popgoesthe60s52 3 месяца назад

Thank you, Claire - much appreciated.

@clairebunnell6006 3 месяца назад

@@popgoesthe60s52 interested in a chat with the lads about their upcoming new album? It is in the works.

@mattgregory971 2 месяца назад

Great story about the Strawberry alarm clock! I picked up there first album last year on RSD great album. Going to pick up the other ones soon! Have a good one Matt

@musicisajourney 2 месяца назад

Very cool video! I was eager to hear about their history as I was familiar with them.

@dab505279 2 месяца назад

One thing I know is that your videos take a tremendous amount of work to make. The quality really shows. Even though it takes a lot of work on your part I'm sure it's a labor of love because your passion for the music shows. I did see the SAC in concert in the late 60's (I think). The Who were on the bill also. It was something else. Much respect to you from Larry. Keep up the great work.

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much, Larry. This channel is a labor of love and it’s a challenge to bring the best content Wi h each video. More to come!

@michaelshiflett4835 2 месяца назад

Matt, your show is such a godsend! Thank you for doing what you do. You and Abigail Devoe are the best at this. 👍🏻

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

Thank you, Michael.

@mcvideo5909 3 месяца назад

Congratulations. Great presentation & very interesting.

@SmartrMelons 2 месяца назад

Saw them in Santa Barbara at Earl Warren Showgrounds in the late sixties. Had one of their albums also. Good band for the times.

@matthewstreet1961 3 месяца назад

Fabulous episode Matt! I knew very little of them other than one song. You opened my eyes! Plus Ed King from Skynyrd!!?? Who knew? I didn’t!! Cheers 🍻

@filteredwaters9171 2 месяца назад

Excellent video!

@johnpick8336 2 месяца назад

Incense and Peppermints has an incredible vibe and tone. Awesome tune simply timeless ! Thanks

@newmexicoaquatics282 2 месяца назад

I started listening to SAC about five years ago, kind of on a whim, because I always liked the big hit and wanted to explore more late 60's bands. I listened to each album, in order, on RU-vid, and was immediately blown away by them and I started telling my friends and bandmembers about these guys because they obviously deserve more recognition. The first 3 albums are my favorites, and then BOOM, the reunion album from 2012 is so fantastic. To top it off, 3 months ago someone gave me a box of around 40 vinyl records and the 1st SAC album was part of the lot, and I was thrilled to hold an original SAC vinyl record in my hands (for free!!!) . Then I immediatly hung the album on the wall in our practice space precisely because of the cover (and the music). And thank you for your channel Matt -Little Bobby, Music Lover

@popgoesthe60s52 2 месяца назад

I appreciate the comments, Bobby!

@LordOfTheThreeWorlds 2 месяца назад

Superb work. I have been a huge fan of the Sixpence since the 1980s and never knew they became the S/AC. Also had no idea about the link with Skynrd. Very good documentary.

@eltronics 3 месяца назад

So interesting, another great job. Ed King 👍

@TheBitterSweetgr 3 месяца назад

Oh yes, Matt! Yes yes YES!!! I adore this band! I must have played "Incense And Peppermints" over a hundred times...THANKS.

@kt9166 2 месяца назад

Nicely done. A band overlooked by most, but solid and worth the investigation. By the way, my mug came yesterday! Very cool!

@scottjones3038 2 месяца назад

Great episode as usual Matt. It's fun to hear the history of these sort of minor groups of the 60s. I've always hated the term "one hit wonder" because 99.9% of bands will never have a charting single. To have recorded even one hit song is a HUGE accomplishment.