![]() International Raceway, w/Chicago Transit Authority, Guess Who, Morning Star, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Steve Miller Blues Band, The Byrds, The Chessmen Square, and many more. September 27 & 28, 1969 Midwestern Pop Festival/ K.C. Fun Fair 69 w/The Cowsills/Municipal Auditorium Fun Fair 69 w/Wilson Pickett/Municipal Auditorium Fun Fair 69 w/Strawberry Alarm Clock/Municipal Auditorium Fun Fair 69w/Iron Butterfly/Municipal Auditorium Jefferson Airplane /Memorial Hall -w/Danny Cox, & Manchester Trafficway Steppenwolf/ Municipal Auditorium-w/The Chessmen, The Bank Iron Butterfly /Memorial Hall -w/Grateful Dead Jimi Hendrix/Municipal Auditorium -w/Cat Mother &All Night Newsboys James Brown and His Revue /Municipal Auditorium Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder/Municipal Auditoriu m w/Marian Love, Bunky Green Orchestra (Stevie Wonder didn't appear) KUDL Night/Memorial Hall w/ Dionne Warwick, Bo Street Runners, The Four Darlings, Tony Burke, Del Montes, Jumpin' Jacks Orchestra The Lovin' Spoonful /Municipal Auditorium -w/The Association Herman's Hermits / Memorial Hall w/ The Animals The Beach Boys /Municipal Auditorium-w/The Gentrys, The Strangeloves The Beatles/Municipal Stadium -Charlie Finley paid them $150,000 The period is 1960's thru 1979 and includes some Lawrence concerts. Any corrections and additions are encouraged. Lee Freeman died of cancer on February 14, 2010.I've put this list together over several years and from many different sources. The band performed at various other gigs throughout the United States. More recently the Strawberry Alarm Clock reunited for a one-hour set at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois on Apfor Roger Ebert's ninth annual Overlooked Film Festival, where Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) was screened prior to the Strawberry Alarm Clock's performance. However, the band got back together in 1987 and performed at various oldies concerts. ("Incense and Peppermints" was also featured on the soundtracks to "Riding the Bullet," "Recess: School's Out," and "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.") Alas, the group went through several line-up changes and failed to produce any subsequent hit songs. The group appeared as themselves in the nifty hippie exploitation winner "Psych-Out" and Russ Meyer's delightfully outrageous cult camp classic "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." They perform their signature tune "Incense and Peppermints" in both pictures. The follow-up song "Tomorrow" was the band's only other recording that cracked the Top 40 it went to #23 on the Billboard pop charts in early 1968. The group went on tour in the second half of 1967 and most of 1968 they shared billing with such artists as the Beach Boys, the Who, Buffalo Springfield, Jimi Hendrix, and Country Joe and the Fish. Their debut album "Incense and Peppermints" likewiseĭid well and reached #11 on the album charts. The group signed with the Uni record label in 1967 and scored a massive smash success with the insanely catchy and groovy "Incense and Peppermints," which peaked at #1 on the Billboard pop charts in 1967. ![]() ![]() The original band members are: Ed King (vocals), Mark Weitz (keyboards), Lee Freeman (rhythm guitar died February 14, 2010), Gary Lovetro (bass), and Randy Seol (drums). They initially did for the most part covers of popular songs. The band formed in 1965 and called themselves Thee Sixpence. The Strawberry Alarm Clock are a psychedelic rock group from Glendale, California. ![]()
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