Here's the chart positions for TOMORROW, week by week:
80-----December 30, 1967---FIRST WEEK -----INCENSE at #13
63-----January 6, 1968--------------------------------INCENSE at #15
51-----January 13, 1968------------------------------INCENSE at #37-last week!!
41-----January 20, 1968
29-----January 27, 1968
28-----February 3, 1968
23-----February 10,1968
23-----February 17, 1968
32-----February 24, 1968
33-----March 2, 1968----------LAST WEEK ON THE CHART
Amazingly, for a new "psychedelic/garage" group, through the end of TOMORROW's run the SAC were on the singles chart for 23 straight weeks.
Also, there's a fluky side note to this. During TOMORROW's chart stretch "STRAWBERY SHORTCAKE" by Jay and The Techniques was on the charts for 6 weeks, peaking at #39. For two weeks there was both a "Strawberry" group and "Strawberry" song in the top 40 at the same time. It never happened again, of course, because the SAC was the only "Strawberry" group to ever make it onto the singles charts.
So.......George. We know that TOMORROW's release as the second single gets viewed in different ways by the band:
Vindication and credit for Mark and Ed as songwriters after the INCENSE rip off.
Not necessarily the type of "sound" the band was striving for at that point.
Bad timing since the first album was just put out.
Just to name a few...
What I'd like to know is, what brought on the final decision to make it the all important second single? Was UNI going to release a second single off the first album but then changed their decision when they saw that you were recording new material? Did the band have any power or say on the decision for its release? You would think that coming off a mega number one hit that the band's viewpoint would be considered on either older or new songs for the next single. Or, did your management and/or UNI just force your hands on it and released it anyway? Just wondering.
Steve
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