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{{Short description|American psychedelic rock band}} {{About|the rock band|the breakfast show|The Strawberry Alarm Clock (radio programme)}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Strawberry Alarm Clock | image = Strawberryalarmclock_4-29-07.jpg | caption = Strawberry Alarm Clock in 2007 | image_size = | landscape = yes | background = group_or_band | genre = {{flatlist| * [[Rock music|Rock]] * [[Pop music|pop]] * [[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]] * [[sunshine pop]] * [[acid rock]] }} | years_active = {{flatlist| * 1967β1971 * 1974β1975 * 1982βpresent }} | origin = [[Glendale, California]], United States | label = {{flatlist| * [[Uni Records]] * Global Recording Artists }} | associated_acts = {{flatlist| * Thee Sixpence * Waterfyrd Traene * [[Hunger (band)|Hunger]] * Buffington Roads * [[The Nightcrawlers]] * [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] * [[Oingo Boingo]] * Spirits in the Sky }} | website = {{URL|https://strawberryalarmclock.com}} | current_members = Gene Gunnels<br/>Randy Seol<br/>[[Mark Weitz]]<br/>George Bunnell<br/>[[Steve Bartek]]<br/>Howie Anderson | past_members = Lee Freeman<br/>[[Ed King]]<br/>Gary Lovetro<br/>Greg Munford<br/>Marty Katon<br/>Jimmy Pitman<br/>Paul Marshall<br/>Leo Gaffney<br/>Doug Freeman<br/>Peter Wasner<br/>James Harrah<br/>Clay Bernard<br/>Bob Caloca<br/>Bruce Hubbard<br/>[[Jon Walmsley]]<br/>Glenn Brigman }} '''Strawberry Alarm Clock''' is a [[psychedelic rock]] band formed in 1967, originating in [[Glendale, California]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/strawberry-alarm-clock-mn0000633079/biography|title=Strawberry Alarm Clock {{!}} Biography & History|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref> a city about ten miles north of downtown [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]. The band is best known for its 1967 [[hit single]] "[[Incense and Peppermints]]."<ref name=rap>{{cite web|url=http://www.rhapsody.com/strawberry-alarm-clock |title=Strawberry Alarm Clock β Songs & Albums |publisher=Rhapsody |date=2013-11-14 |access-date=2014-08-23}}</ref> Their music is categorized as [[acid rock]], [[psychedelic pop]],<ref name="Kemp2007">{{cite book|author=Mark Kemp|title=Dixie Lullaby|date=1 November 2007|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-9046-0|pages=49β}}</ref><ref name="GodfreyLeigh1998">{{cite book|author1=Donald G. Godfrey|author2=Frederic A. Leigh|title=Historical Dictionary of American Radio|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29636-9|pages=2β}}</ref><ref name="Critic2009">{{cite book|author=Journalist Barry Mazor Freelance Music Historian, Critic|title=Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century|date=17 April 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-971666-1|pages=259β}}</ref> and [[sunshine pop]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Goldenburg|first1=Joel|title=Joel Goldenberg: Sunshine pop offered some respite from '60s strife|url=http://www.thesuburban.com/arts_and_entertainment/joel-goldenberg-sunshine-pop-offered-some-respite-from-s-strife/article_d56d2712-5198-5220-9f20-c7bbcaf6eb0f.html|work=[[The Suburban]]|date=February 27, 2016}}</ref> and they charted five songs in the United States and Canada, including two Top 40 hits.
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