First off...It may have been The Foot on the single...I can't remember...I do remember him playing bass in the rehearsals...I was busy playing percussion and singing harmonies. After the single was released Ed hated that his guitar solo petered out at the end so he wanted to go back and fix it since we were recording the 2nd album and it was to be included as the title song. He also redid the bass part and Mark redid the organ. The vocals are the same.
secondly,
It was Bill Holmes (I couldn't find his post here, but that's funny!) That hastily had Mark and Ed pen a new song to be the follow up to Incense because it was HE who was at the center of why Mark and Ed got aced on the writing credits. So, this was his way of making it up to them.
The I&P album was number 11 at the time and UNI had hoped to release a couple of other songs from that album to capitalize on it's success. As it was, they put Bird's in my Tree on the flip side of Tomorrow....stupid...it would have stood on it's own. They also put Paxton's Backstreet Carnival on the B side of a single from the third album, Seashell....massive stupidity!
The other mistake was not having an album to back the single, Tomorrow. It came out way later....stupid...
Then to make matters worse, they decided to make Sit With The Guru the A side over Pretty Song from Psych Out...Here it was, the theme song of a Dick Clark psychedelic movie and a gem of a song....Why push against that? Because Holmes was still in make up mode.
On top of all this dumbness, the remixed version of Tomorrow with it's great bass line and guitar solo would have done much better chartwise than the rushed earlier single version.
Lastly, if the first album had been milked for all it's worth there would have been some breathing room before the 2nd album and it would have probably charted.
Oh yeah, and they probably wouldn't have thought they need to bring in outside writers for the third album.....and so on....
Sorry Steve G, your question was much more concise than my answer...lol
If the Foot did play on the single version that must have been his last time playing with SAC at least on a record
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: Yeah, back then you had more than just one of
: music "trade magazines" to refer
: to. Basing chart position on sales only sure
: does make more sense. I guess since
: Billboard is the only one that survived it's
: become the go to source of chart info.
: Hey, #23 was good. #14 is really, really
: good.
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: --Previous Message--
: Well done, Steve.
:
: Tomorrow rose to #14 in Cash Box, whose
: charts were based solely on sales.
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: http://98.130.35.56/archives/60s_files/19680217.html
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: Something i'm never 100% sure of is, which
: parts were re-recorded for the LP version...
: Just the organ & guitar parts? Or the
: whole thing? Drums and Vocals (except for
: the Stereo panning effects) always sounded
: the same to these ears.
:
: Just remembered....think The Foot plays bass
: on the single, while The King plays on the
: album counterpart.
:
: Speaking of management, anyone else notice
: that BH actually responded to a thread a few
: pages back? Ha!
:
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: --Previous Message--
: Five weeks after INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS hit
: the #1 spot on Billboard's Top 100 singles
: chart, the SAC's followup single TOMORROW
: entered the chart, for the week ending
: December 30, 1967. For its first three weeks
: until INCENSE dropped off the chart, the SAC
: had two singles on the chart at the same
: time as shown below.
:
: 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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