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Good Morning Starshine (Strawberry Alarm Clock album)

Good Morning Starshine
Good Morning Starshine album.jpg
Studio album by Strawberry Alarm Clock
Released 1969
Recorded 1969
Genre
Length 41:21
Label Uni
Producer Strawberry Alarm Clock
Strawberry Alarm Clock chronology
The World in a Sea Shell
(1968)
Good Morning Starshine
(1969)
The Best of the Strawberry Alarm Clock
(1970)
Singles from Good Morning Starshine
  1. "(You Put Me On) Standby"
    Released: 1969
  2. "Good Morning Starshine"
    Released: 1969

Good Morning Starshine is the fourth and final album by American psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock, released in 1969 on Uni Records (see 1969 in music). It featured a considerably altered lineup and a departure from the sound on the group's past psychedelic pop works, toward blues rock. The album itself failed to chart, but a single, "Good Morning Starshine", peaked in the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100.

Lineup changes within Strawberry Alarm Clock began with drummer Randy Seol and bassist George Bunnell, who were both aboard for the group's first three albums, but departed after the release of their third album, The World in a Sea Shell, near the end of 1968. However, ex-manager Bill Holmes, who was fired for incompetency, offered the two former members, along with three other musicians, a deal to form another Strawberry Alarm Clock and tour under that moniker. After multiple legal disputes, in which Holmes eventually withdrew his version of the band, promoters were confused over which incarnation of the group was authentic, and refused to book either one. In the meantime, the band found replacements in singer/guitarist Jimmy Pitman and drummer Marty Katin. Pitman assumed duties as lead guitarist and Ed King moved over to bass guitar, which he had already played on some material on Strawberry Alarm Clock's second and third albums. Katin was unable to gel with the group and, without recording with the band, was replaced by Gene Gunnels, who had appeared on the number one hit "Incense and Peppermints".


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