Posted on 01/29/2022 4:43:09 PM PST by simpson96
The Peppermint Rainbow was an American sunshine pop group from Baltimore, Maryland. Their second single, "Will You Be Staying After Sunday", spent 14 weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and reached No. 32 on May 3, 1969, selling over one million copies and receiving a gold disc.
The Peppermint Rainbow -"Will You Be Staying After Sunday" (1969)
Released in April 1968 by Decca but did not get airplay until October. It was one of my picks during my college radio days. Written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, also known for “The Morning After” from “The Poseidon Adventure.” The last I heard of Kasha, he was lecturing to Christian church groups about the power of forgiveness.
Loved that song!
Thanks for the trip back to college!
Loved it!
The stereo effect of the drumroll intro was notable.
Good grief! I remember that.
Did they sing Incense and Peppermints? Or was that Strawberry Alarm Clock?
No, that was Clockwork Peppermint singing Incense and Orange.
It is always good to hear an old tune that jogs pleasant memories of youth.
The other day I heard "The Rain the Park and Other Things" by the Cowsills - another amazing sunshine pop song.
Sirius radio should dedicate a station to it, like they have one for Yacht Rock.
Can’t believe I forgot about this one. Thanks for sharing!
Indeed. This made me reach back and pull up another song from that time period. It got airplay only here in the South, but they did have another hit that went national.
It was popular the spring I turned 18... Once upon a time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GS9jkLxwWo
Dr Jon (The Medicine Man) Jon & Robin (1968) Remastered Digital
It could be a good pop-up channel or on the app. Lots of sunshine rock on 60’s Gold - Spanky and Our Gang, Association, Ms and PS, etc plus some regional favs like the New Colony Six that was huge in Chicago.
Summer of 1968 found me deep in the intramural games of southeast Asia.
Hendrix and the Doors were more to our tastes as I recall.
Never heard this song.
Thanks for that share. Jon and Robin did get some air time on college underground stations in Ohio.
“Did they sing Incense and Peppermints? Or was that Strawberry Alarm Clock?
No, that was Clockwork Peppermint singing Incense and Orange.”
Perhaps you were thinking of their song “Don’t Wake Me Up in the Morning Michael”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAuE_s46V0
Absolutely lovely. But I think there is a bit of exaggeration going on in the description. Only reached #32 but sold a million copies. Very unlikely.
Wow, melodies, harmonizing, a group of musicians like music machine, pretty much flawless., how strange....
Peppermint Rainbow - great song.1969 - “Will You Be Staying After Sunday?”
A similarly themed song by The Three Degrees was in 1974 entitled “When Will I See You Again”?
A little like The Emotions song, “The Best of My Love”,1977, which is another one hit wonder in my collection.. “Boogie Wonderland” was a joint song with Earth, Wind and Fire”,
1979.
All women groups from Baltimore, Philly and Chicago. Great sounds and lyrics. Don’t make them like that much anymore.
Way back when I taught history of rock, one of my charts was a line of nastiness, with the Beatles in the middle, nastier groups (Stones, Kinks, etc) on one side, and less nasty groups on the other. Peppermint Rainbow never made it on the chart; I would point in the direction and say that they were somewhere on the line’s extension at the other end of the next room, with the only group beyond them being Up With People.
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