![]() John Carter was solely responsible for conjuring up the lyrics and the controversial melody line extracted out of the finished musical track. Our producer Frank Slay decided to send the fully mixed music track (recorded on 8 tracks of mono!) to John Carter a member of the band The Rainy Daze, who Slay also produced at the time. At the time when the music was recorded at Art Laboe's 'Original Sounds' studio in Hollywood, there was only a temporary title to the song, and lyrics had not yet been written. Weitz gave us this account of how the song was written and how Munford ended up singing it: "I came up with the idea and actual music to the then untitled song that ultimately evolved into the #1 national hit, 'Incense and Peppermints.' I wrote the intro (the oriental sounding riff), the verses, and the ending (the major sevenths) while Ed King, at my request for some help on completing the song, co-wrote the bridge (the F # part) and of course the lead guitar parts. Despite this success, Munford never actually joined the group. He was not even a regular band member, but ended up singing a tune that would rocket to #1 in the United States and sell over a million copies. ![]() He was brought in to sing harmonies on this song, but ended up doing the lead vocals. It was Greg Munford, a 16-year-old singer with a group called The Shapes, who sang lead. The writing credits on the song are listed as John Carter and Tim Gilbert, who were not part of the band, and the lead vocalist on this track was also not a member of the group. Weitz, who was the original keyboard player of the Strawberry Alarm Clock, helped us sort out. This song has a rather convoluted history that Mark S. ![]()
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