Strawberry Alarm Clock-Pretty Song from Psych-Out 1967

[kakurot69]

Yes, this song should have been a hit. It should have been the 2nd hit from Wake Up album. Why in the hell was it not a hit? To me, this is the greatest song the Alarm Clock ever recorded. This is the greatest tragedy of all. Such a great song. And it never truly saw the light of day. Damn those bastards at UNI! This was off their best album. The album that should have broke them into the big time!!!

[Federockeer]

Love and peace people, someday everything will change.

[betiyou66]

Please come back those days! :´)

[DrLearyUSA]

I cant stop listening to this Anthem

[frogg995]

it was a hit love the song i am not sorry i m a vet i was born 1954  any how everybody can say what they say huh

[frogg995]

it was a hit

[1951nightwish]

Anyone heard of a movie called "Purple Haze" and where i can get it

[pimsquirt]

I had this on a 45 record the other side was Sit With The Guru,

love it,

[Pedy1968]

Great movie and a wonderful song!

[AshestoAshes83]

This song is beautiful, and the movie is great :)

[TheStatue1]

a forgotten precious gem...

[bernwei1]

The "Strawberry Alarm Clock" truly defined the 1967 "Summer of Love" phenomenon that youths disgruntled with Vietnam and discarded values of the early 60's sought by flocking to the streets of Haight Ashbury. Unfortunately, this has been a forgotten piece of history. See the movie "Wild in the Streets" and "Jimi Plays Berkeley" for similar genre!

[bettydaw1970]

@bernwei1 thanks for basically repeating every 60s documentory ever made...



[bernwei1]

@bernwei1 I was there......walked the streets of Haight Berkeley....it was beautiful. However, that was 1967. It turned ugly in 1968 with speed freaks ruining the peace and tranquility of the summer of '67. Worsening this was the fallout from the Kennedy and M.L.K. assassinations as well as the Tet offensive in Vietnam. America got reall ugly and fast. I still remember Mayor Daley's "goons" bashing skulls in Chicago at the Democratic convention...how sad!

[Federockeer]

@bernwei1 it's beautiful that there is still people like you, I have 17 years, im from argentina, and when i listen this music, i know this, as having lived, tell me what it was like that time, my mail is fede_rocker@hotmail.com

love and peace. :)

[frogg995]

i was't grunted idid it and will still do it still like the ttones from the dayes

[frogg995]

cool comenets guess i'm thinking of the song not the movie thanks tho

[JudahaJudahaJudaha]

this song has no name'?

[DangerousBastard]

@JudahaJudahaJudaha Its called "The Pretty Song From Psych-Out"

[jahpeople94]

great movie and really good song

[jahpeople94]

greatest song. masterpiece !!!!!!!!

[berrycinnamon]

such a nice chill song ;)

I remember this song from the beginning of that Psych-Out movie which we just randomly watched in class because our teacher wanted to show it to us :) lol

[postyesterdayman]

I LOVE this song! Always have.

[pictureisup1]

This should be played on WCBS 101 FM in New York City today in 2010

[JUSTING101]

amazing

[Tubes12AX7k]

What a nice song. I love it.

[67bones]

lush



[jacksterner]

No, it's not 'Stairway to Heaven'. It's better!

[nozukleftbehind]

This song was NOT done by the Strawberry Alarm Clock... It was done by a garage band, The Storybook. Check out the Psych-Out album for the song list. I was tthe lead singer for the Storybook and we did most of the songs for the movie... And we never made a dime from the album... Thank you Dick Clark Productions...

[Sergeant26]

That Sucks!!!! You guys really had talent! Such beautiful music!

[fiendwithoutaface66]

@nozukleftbehind That is not true- there are TWO versions of this song. The version that appears on the soundtrack is by the storybook. The one on this youtube video, Wake Up It's Tomorrow album, and in the movie is by the strawberry alarm clock. Also no member of this group the storybook wrote the song either, it was written by Ed King and Lee Freeman.

[thesyd1975]

the film might be a flower power explotation film but it does it for me,seeing the haight in 67,the seeds,and SAC,and i liked seeing the scenes in the club with the light show,i was born in 1975 so it still seems beautiful and a heady time to me.

[kngofqns]

one of the greatest songs I ever heard..

[joannamell]

Bruce Dern's best role ever!!!

[Meckipsychman]

Beautiful music for a rather cornball exploitation movie...

"Stp" trips  and LA music in SF...

well worth seeing anyway

[RulerOfRock666]

Such a beautiful song. It defines the sixties :)

[harpobaby7]

It's an MGM film.

[dapoetmaster]

Melody line is ripped from a SPIRIT song....like completely...

[paisleybabee]

Oh?Which one?

[dapoetmaster]

Spirit - 'Dream within a dream' at about the .50 sec mark U will hear the intro melody almost note for note...

[paisleybabee]

don't know..I think that's nitpicking..This isn't Stairway To Heaven y'know

[dapoetmaster]

I like this song just reminds me of that melody from Spirit that's all.

[paisleybabee]

Oh okay..me too..just joking :)

[waylo4526]

this song is sooooooooo beautiful damn i wish i had been there

[grasspa]

@waylo4526

I WAS

Sam

class of 69'

[ExperimentalSurgeon]

where can i find the movie?

[Meckipsychman]

Pirate bay torrents or Mininova

[psusquall]

One of the best. i love 60s and 70s goten into it from my dad im only 16.

[wilcojoe13]

The name of this song IS "Pretty Song from Psych-Out"

[krugin72]

The movie is a true testament to the counterculture. Its wonderful, Jack, Susan,Bruce, Dean. Whats i cant figure out is what is the real name of this song? Btw whoever has never seen this is missing out, Its a rare gem worth watching. Its history.....

[stokepogue]

Simplify, man!

[spamalot2000]

You can see in the stills that Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern were in the Psych-Out movie. What a crazy, wonderful time.

[spamalot2000]

Regarding bumperu's comment - both songs were recorded by SAC.

They perform The Pretty Song in the "Psych Out" movie in a scene where Susan Strasberg plays a deaf girl who's freaking out. STP was the crazy drug in the story.

Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow is on their first album. I

[HistoryofTek]

Wake up it Tommorro is my favorite album.....more than any Beatles album(although if you combine both White album records that might be it).....Wake up is great great record....

[bumperu]

Incorrect listing of this song. The Pretty Song from Psych-out was done by The Storybook. Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow was done by The Strawberry Alarm Clock.

[garageband66]

Look in the previous posts. This debate has gone on before.

[nozukleftbehind]

@bumperu You are correct. This song and many more on the album were performed by the Storybook, a San Fernando Valley garage band. The songs were written by composer Ronald Stein for Dick Clark Productions. I was the lead singer for the group. The band broke up in the late 60's when I went into the military...

[fiendwithoutaface66]

@bumperu if you have the soundtrack album listen to this song and you will hear it is a different version- that is the storybook's version. This version in this youtube video is the Strawberry Alarm Clock.

[Bolender]

In the 60s and early 70s, it was very common to use folk chord progressions in pop songs. So even the most bubble-gummy music of the time (like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand") had a poignancy that one virtually never hears nowadays.

[garageband66]

It's mostly because these musicians could actually read and play music. There is not much good musicianship in most bands today.

[Bolender]

As a little kid, the pop songs of the time made me feel so sad. Even Beautiful Balloon and Georgie Girl made me sad. Pop music today makes me feel ... nothing. As a teenager, I turned to atonal music (like Schoenberg) because it seemed to have some depth.

[glimmer2158]

This song should have been a hit

[garageband66]

It was in some regional markets.

[Sean123771]

where is this song available?

[garageband66]

Usually only through the soundtrack from the movie.

[RichardMBeaverII]

Off of Strawberry Alarm Clock's album, "Wake Up...It's Tomorrow." You can probably find it on eBay or somthing similar.

[garageband66]

If you find it feel free to share.

[RichardMBeaverII]

I have the entire album, as well as their other 1968 release "The World In A Seashell", I can probably post them both sometime soon.

[pgh45rpms]

"Pretty Song from Psych-Out" was also released as a single -- the b-side to "Sit with the Guru" in Spring 1968.

[garageband66]

hadn't heard that; thanks for the info.

[Walrusknucklecorp]

This song is on the reissue of Wake Up...It's Tomorrow from collector's choice music.

[garageband66]

Probably the members of SAC were cut out of royalties, I imagine.

[psychout3211]

@garageband66 thanx for posting real good song from a real good decade

[acevamp]

Listening to this stuff on a turntable makes the high even more intense for some reason, I was born in 1980 but I sure appreciate every psychedelic band from that era. The saying is definetly true, "they don't make 'em like they used to).. I saw them last year here in Hollywood when they played the Knitting Factory and the show was amazing to say the least! The drummer Randy Seol is such a cool guy, and so are the rest of the band. I'd love to see them again.

[garageband66]

I saw them in 93 visiting relatives in Garden Grove. It was a pretty good show.

[Darkstar2000nds]

I'm going to run down the street and buy some acid now and a couple of beauties and a couple of downs for after.For the other strawberry songs I listen to.PARTY!Thanks man!

[Darkstar2000nds]

I havent smoked grass for 25 years but when I heard this I ran down the street and bought 2 joints and smoked them.AHH FEELS GOOD!

[garageband66]

Glad I could help!

[andup123]

Man you crazy 25 years?

gosh

A puff a day keeps alzheimers away:)

keep on tokin!

[sonicjay007]

only my self here!!!

[Tubes12AX7k]

What a great song! I love it.

[garageband66]

Can't take credit for the song but thanks for the view.

[torkerbmx]

you and me

[Lamvesp]

I love The Strawberry Alarm Clock. All out quality sublime talent, it doesn't get much better than this.

[1960jack]

If you have never seen this flick, you GOTTA!. The tunes are great and Susan Strasberg is a hottie!.

[wixy20071]

GOD I LOVE THIS!!!! and I am only 19!! from UK too lol

[ReyZame]

Good!

Age is not a crucial criteria. It is all about taste. Many people out there will appreciate your search for more than just Britney Spears

[garageband66]

Britney who?

[Lamvesp]

If you like this then you really should look out for more 60s acid. There's a growing scene out there and it's getting big. If you live near london and you want some more of this then i recomend The Rocket club on the Holloway Rd in Islington were they play this kind of stuff as a rule. Great to hear some one of your age likeing 60s acid garage punk. Check my channel out for some inpiration. Good luck.

[wixy20071]

Oh thanks I will do and yeah I live in london wwowow!!! LOL

[finland916]

LOVEEEEEE IT!

[gemainchains]

geez i wish i couldve been alive during this decade, im only 16. :( but this one of my fav SAC songs, such a great band

[garageband66]

You can always play it and re-introduce it to new audiences.

Psychedelic music has been making waves again in eclectic places nationally. If you play and I am judging from your guitar, you might give it a shot.

[DickStainy]

I'd like to go back in time and fuck some of those hippy girls.

[ryanbmx5]

Thanks for the video. I too remember hearing this song for the first time (in high school) on the MGM Psych Out dvd and have loved it ever since. Makes me wish I could go back in time for a day to experience it in person... it must've really been something magical that many in my generation would loved to have been a part of. A world without love = doom and thats something that has slowly proven true in my short life (I'm only 23).

[garageband66]

Well we won't hold it against you being 23. Anyone from your generation that can appreciate this music is OK with us. I have older relatives that can tell you it was a magical time but they also have horror stories about how the establishment, cops, and other adults treated them. My sister-in-law still has many physical and emotional scars to prove it on the front lines.

[Styxhexenhammer3]

We shall rise up again!

[garageband66]

Wouldn't that be cool?

[skunkus]

The album on the back says it's The Storybook who sang this. Who really is it then? There's even a picture of them on the back.

[garageband66]

Strawberry Alarm Clock was the artist. It was pretty common back then to credit a fictious group to avoid headaches from the labels the artists belonged to. The Storybook was the name of the house band in the movie which really was Strawberry Alarm Clock.

[battlekat23]

there's a version by the studio group storybook on the original album actually so that's not entirely true

[garageband66]

According to a review of the album here is a quote "Although the Storybook actually have a photo on the back cover, they appear to be a vehicle for Ronald Stein who is credited on this Dean Stockwell/Susan Strasberg film for "Original Music and Adaptation." The first tune on the disc is by the Storybook, written by S.A.Clock (Strawberry Alarm Clock). It sounds very much like the Alarm Clock's "Barefoot in Baltimore." "Rainy Day Mushroom People".

[garageband66]

It continues... and "The World's on Fire," a three-minute-and-thirty-one-se­cond version, are Strawberry Alarm Clock's other contributions to side one; these songs are also on their album Incense & Peppermints.

[battlekat23]

I was talking about this reply you wrote, "Strawberry Alarm Clock was the artist. It was pretty common back then to credit a fictious group to avoid headaches from the labels the artists belonged to." It sounded like you were saying that SAC was just using the name storybook on the album but it's in fact a different group and different version of this song.

[scotpens]

IIRC (and it's been a while), "The World's On Fire" was the opening track of Side 1 of the "Incense and Peppermints" album, and it had a long jam in the middle a la the Doors' "Light My Fire" and Iron Butterfly's "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida."

Just thinking about that music makes me want to bring out the old blacklight posters and the lava lamp . . .

[wilcojoe13]

Put your trust in me and try to see that all you need is here....

[garageband66]

Yes, you've got it down pat. It's amazing how many people have such an attachment to a song that was once considered a flop as far as the top 40 goes.

[wilcojoe13]

I was born in 1974... its great finding these old songs that were ignored...some of them, like this, are gems !

[garageband66]

I agree with the "gem" comment. This should have been a bigger hit. Why didn't they come up with a name worthy of the song?

[BeatriceMarie27]

This song makes me so happy that words can't express it. <3

[garageband66]

Thanks for the comment and the view.

[royalfuzziness]

Can we go back if only for a minute, to a simpler time. When you could turn on the radio and enjoy a song,at least for a while. No violence no rap music just some people doing there own thing.

[garageband66]

Only here and a few other places.

[herbdade]

I heard that they were going to be really huge with the backing of Dick Clark and all, but there was some kind of marijuana bust, and then Dick dropped them.....

Any of this true? It's kind of before my time....

[garageband66]

Dick Clark actually produced the movie "Psyche Out" that was supposed to help SAC rebound from the lackluster slaes of their follow-up album "Wake-up It's Tomorrow" despite the fact that "Tomorrow" the single charted into the 20's. To my knowledge there was no drug bust but SAC never recovered from line-up changes and dissention over royalties from Incense and Peppermints. They were later type-casted as sell-outs by their original fans and doomed to fail.

[sweethippy67]

;p

<3

[sweethippy67]

thanks ;p forgot that part (its before "Look into the sky....")

[garageband66]

All flower children are welcomed here!

[sweethippy67]

I can see you, you can see me as we stand,

we can live forever god and goddess wonderful,

And your face i've never seen it quite like this before,

though the moon is out the sun still shines your beautiful

You are on the run and of your problem i'm aware,

In a silent world you see the words I say to you,

Iam lost in a poets dream where skies are burgundy,

just to raise my hand and say the word they will be blue.

Put your trust in me and try to see, that all you need is here,

[sweethippy67]

For the white dove is our prophecy and the far away is near..

Look into the sky the sun is rising, see the light,

That extends the purest yellow gold into the sky,

As the world awaits it finds we still are holding on,

To a tender kiss that means so much we start to cry

[garageband66]

Where'd you find the lyrics?

[wickedlittlethings]

Dance through the park

see the gay color children of happiness,

Awaiting the artists surrounded with flowers and holiness,

With all that's around you your problems will have no more meaning,

Your mind will be free and you will see it all

[bixbyglaser]

Pretty song it surely is-from a pretty time....unless you were in Vietnam.

[garageband66]

Yes dodging bullets and such can put a real damper on your music listening time.

Let's just make sure we NEVER forget them!

[roppi]

WHOA! I love this song and I've been looking for it for so long, care to send an mp3 of it maybe?

[garageband66]

Send me an e-mail address in a personal message and I'll get it out to you as soon as I can.

[sweethippy67]

I need the lyrics to this song...really badly...

=D

its too sweet...

[garageband66]

I know the guitar pics are available on a web site (to learn how to play it on guitar) but I cannot find the definite lryics anywhere.

[sweethippy67]

thanks anyway, man =]

[isthatmusicicanhear]

thanks garyco for the send ' good tune thanks for post GB66

[garageband66]

My pleasure!

[pauliem]

Great stuff!!!  Takes me right back to that great time.

[Stacela]

What's the name of this song?

[garageband66]

The actual name actually is Pretty Song from Psych-out. Really!

[Stacela]

Thanks

[fuzzfreak1967]

Sweet, so PsyCHaDelIc

[barriedams]

one of their best songs, great to hear it on youtube.

[garageband66]

My pleasure!

[fuzzfreak1967]

Another good song from this movie is the one that play's during the scene when Stoney & Jenny get it on