Mark Weitz
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Mark Stephen Weitz (born 1945) is an American musician. A keyboard player for the 1960s psychedelic rock group Strawberry Alarm Clock, Weitz was the principal composing member of the band.
Biography
Weitz was born Mark Stephen Weitz in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945 and at 6 months old moved to California. He took up playing piano and organ at age 8 and at age 20 joined a rock group called Thee Sixpence as one of the singers and the organist. Three or four years older than everyone else, he had more definite musical ideas than his bandmates, as well as a more mature and professional outlook on music, which served them well the next four years.
Weitz was an able composer, and for the group's 1967 single on the all American label he submitted three songs: "The Birdman of Alkatrash", "Heart full of Rain", and "
Weitz played keyboards for
Mark Weitz and Ed King wrote the melody for Incense and Peppermints, with John Carter composing the Lyrics. When the hit single was pressed, SAC Manager Bill Holmes left Weitz and King off the credits. The band's main composers were never able to recover those lost royalties.
References
- ^ "Billy Corgan Announces More Concerts With Spirits In the Sky". Rolling Stone. August 11, 2009. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ^ "Strawberry Alarm Clock on Corgan label" PsychedelicSight.com 2010-01-17.
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