Wake Up...It's Tomorrow
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Wake Up...It's Tomorrow is the second album by Strawberry Alarm Clock
. It is the last album to feature the classic Incense and Peppermints
lineup.
The album features two charted hits: "Tomorrow" (#23, the group's second and last Top 40 record) and "Sit With The Guru" (#65). The mono single and stereo LP versions of "Tomorrow" and "Sit With The Guru" are noticeably different mixes, particularly in the organ and lead guitar arrangements; both single versions appear as bonus tracks on the Japanese CD version of the album, released in 1997.
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawberry Alarm Clock is a psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles best known for their 1967 hit "Incense and Peppermints". The group took its name as an homage to the Beatles' psychedelic hit "Strawberry Fields Forever", reportedly, at the suggestion of their record company Uni Records.They are...
. It is the last album to feature the classic Incense and Peppermints
Incense and Peppermints
Incense and Peppermints is the first album by psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock. Released in late 1967, the album reached #11 on the Billboard 200 album charts and includes the band's #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Incense and Peppermints"...
lineup.
The album features two charted hits: "Tomorrow" (#23, the group's second and last Top 40 record) and "Sit With The Guru" (#65). The mono single and stereo LP versions of "Tomorrow" and "Sit With The Guru" are noticeably different mixes, particularly in the organ and lead guitar arrangements; both single versions appear as bonus tracks on the Japanese CD version of the album, released in 1997.
Side 1
- Nightmare of Percussion (2:57)
- Soft Skies, No Lies (3:07)
- Tomorrow (2:14)
- They Saw the Fat One Coming (3:25)
- Curse of the Witches (6:46)
Side 2
- Sit with the Guru (2:59)
- Go Back (You're Going the Wrong Way) (2:19)
- Pretty Song from Psych-OutPsych-OutPsych-Out is a feature film about hippies, psychedelic music, and recreational drugs, produced and released by American International Pictures. Originally scripted as The Love Children, the title when tested caused people to think it was about bastards, so Samuel Z...
(3:15) - Sitting on a Star (2:55)
- Black Butter, Past (2:23)
- Black Butter, Present (2:10)
- Black Butter, Future (1:32)
Personnel
- Mark WeitzMark WeitzMark Weitz is an American musician. A former keyboard player for the 1960s psychedelic rock group Strawberry Alarm Clock, Weitz was the principal composing member of the band.- Early life and The Strawberry Alarm Clock :...
– keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Randy Seol – drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s, keyboard, percussion, vocals - Ed KingEd KingEdward C. King is an American musician. He is best known as the guitarist for psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
– lead guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, vocals - Lee Freeman – rhythm guitar, sitarSitarThe 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
, vocals - George Bunnell – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals - Howard Davis - vocal arrangements, spoken passage on "Nightmare Of Percussion"