Talk:Strawberry Alarm Clock

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Before they became the Strawberry Alarm Clock the song, "Insence And Peppermints" was recorded by another band: A Little Bit Of Sound. When they broke up, the singer joined TSAC and took that song with him. They had the big hit with it. The two versions are almost completely different.

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The group originally consisted of Ed King (lead guitar), Mark Weitz (keyboards), Lee Freeman (rhythm guitar), Gary Lovetro (bass), and Randy Seol (drums). On their first and most famous single, "Incense and Peppermints", none of the band wanted to sing Carter's lyrics, so lead vocals were sung by Greg Munford, a 16-year-old friend of the band...Ed King was denied songwriting credit by the band's producer because he did not write the melody line or the lyrics, which were by John Carter and did not appeal to the band.

John Carter is reffered to as "Carter" before "John Carter". Later on in the paragraph, you can kind of gather that he was some guy who wrote the lyrics, but the first sentence assumes the reader already knows this. And it is never mentioned what Ed King's claims to the lyrics were (again, its assumed the reader knows this) Brentt 08:30, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

According to the liner notes of Wake Up... It's Tomorrow, Carter put his melody line and lyrics on top of an instrumental written by King. --Scottandrewhutchins 23:30, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Website

The two links to the official site do not match; the first one is down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.226.73.187 (talk) 14:11, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

"Bubblegum pop"

The Strawberry Alarm Clock did not make bubblegum pop music. The citation to Rhapsody cannot be verified, and would be wrong in any case. I'm not sure how to characterize their music however; though I'm not sure it's necessary to do so in a simple phrase. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Manumoka (talk • contribs) 15:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Completely agree. Nowhere near bubblegum. Call it psychedelic pop, like The Groop and Eternity's Children. 96.237.184.133 (talk) 13:58, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 28 May 2017

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The result of the move request was: No move for the band; move the radio show to The Strawberry Alarm Clock (radio programme), and redirect The Strawberry Alarm Clock to the band. Cúchullain ^t/c 16:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

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• Strawberry Alarm Clock → The Strawberry Alarm Clock (band)
• The Strawberry Alarm Clock → The Strawberry Alarm Clock (radio programme)

– Both the band and the radio program formally go by the longer form with the definite article, and both commonly go by the informal form without the definite article, so the current disambiguation scheme doesn't disambiguate. Nor is either entity a clear primary topic; the band is mostly known for its name, not its music, and the radio program isn't well-known outside of Ireland. Both topics should get parenthetical disambiguation. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 18:57, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose, the genre-important 1960s band is known for its music, be it maybe a two hit or more wonder (imagine emojis of incense and peppermints here), and seems the primary topic as the little-known radio program is obviously a take-off on the band's name. Randy Kryn 19:32, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
• Oppose. I believe the band is clearly the primary topic. --Michig (talk) 21:43, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
• Comment: The two "oppose" comments above appear to oppose only half of the proposal. It would be helpful to clarify whether those comments stand in opposition to a move of the radio program's article as well. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 00:23, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

No objection to moving the radio program, support that part, thanks for asking for a clarification. Randy Kryn 00:38, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

• Semi-favor. Since the band is rarely but occasionally referred to as "The Strawberry...", I'd recommend this article (SAC) stay as is, The Strawberry Alarm Clock be a dab page to both this article and the one about the programme, and the programme be renamed as proposed. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 14:43, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

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Better photo needed

As usual Wikipedia uses a picture of aged musicians several decades after their heyday instead of an appropriate image.