''Incense and Peppermints'' is the debut album by psychedelic rock band

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. Released in October 1967, it reached No. 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts during a 24 week runhttp://www.edking.net
and included the band's No. 1 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hit " Incense and Peppermints". In addition to the band's six official members, the album features the flute playing of Steve Bartek, who co-wrote four of the album's songs with bass player George Bunnell. The tracks "The World's on Fire", "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow", and "Incense and Peppermints" were all featured in the motion picture ''

Psych-Out ''Psych-Out'' is a 1968 American psychedelic film about hippies, psychedelic music and recreational drugs starring Susan Strasberg, Jack Nicholson (the film's leading man despite being billed under supporting player Dean Stockwell) and Br ...

'', along with a new song, "Pretty Song from Psych-Out", which later appeared on the band's second album, '' Wake Up...It's Tomorrow''. A compilation album of the same name (albeit spelled with an ampersand) was released by MCA in 1990. To date, the album has been released on CD only in Japan and (more recently) on

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Track listing

Side 1

#"The World's on Fire" (S.A. Clock) – 8:21 #"Birds in My Tree" (George Bunnell, Steve Bartek) - 1:53 #"Lose to Live" (

Mark Weitz Mark Stephen Weitz (born 1945) is an American musician. A keyboard player for the 1960s psychedelic rock group Strawberry Alarm Clock, Weitz was the principal composing member of the band. Biography Weitz was born Mark Stephen Weitz in Brookly ...

, S.A. Clock) – 3:13 #"Strawberries Mean Love" (Bunnell, Bartek) – 3:01

Side 2

#"Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" (Bunnell, Bartek) – 3:05 #"Paxton's Back Street Carnival" (Bunnell, Bartek) – 2:01 #"Hummin' Happy" (Bunnell, Randy Seol) – 2:25 #"Pass Time with the SAC" nstrumental(S.A. Clock) – 1:21 #" Incense and Peppermints" ( John S. Carter, Tim Gilbert) (uncredited:

Ed King Edward Calhoun King (September 14, 1949 – August 22, 2018) was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975 ...

) – 2:47 #"Unwind with the Clock" (Lee Freeman, Ed King) – 4:10

Japanese CD bonus track

"The Birdman of Alkatrash" (Weitz)

Personnel

- organ,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, harpsichord,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

*Randy Seol - drums,

bongos Bongos ( es, bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. They are struck with both hands, most commonly in an eight-stroke pattern called ''martillo'' (hammer). The ...

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

, vocals *

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

, vocals *Lee Freeman - rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals *George Bunnell - bass, vocals *Gary Lovetro - bass, vocals * Steve Bartek - flute *Greg Munford - lead vocals on "Incense and Peppermints" (uncredited) ;Technical *Paul Buff - engineer *

Ed Caraeff Ed Caraeff (born April 18, 1950) is an American photographer, illustrator and graphic designer, who has worked largely in the music industry. He has art directed, photographed and designed more than 400 record album covers from 1967 to 1981 for ...

- photography

References

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