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DISCLAIMER - I have never taken LSD, nor do I endorse the use of it or other illicit drugs. I collect vinyl records of cultural interest. THAT is MY drug of choice. I am not only a broadcaster, but also a record collector. Or maybe I should say.. record ACCUMULATOR.Here is the soundtrack album to the 1968 counter-culture psych film, 'Psych-Out'. Sorry.. I have only the record itself.. but no cover. It's still in VG+ condition though...The film is a Dick Clark production, and is about Hippies, Psychedelic music, and recreational drug use in the late 1960's San Francisco Hight-Ashbury district. You know.. home of the Rock group, The Grateful Dead. The film was to be originally titled, 'The Love Children', but was changed by Samuel Z. Arkoff because of distributor requests.Much of the music in this film was performed by San Fernando Valley garage band, The Storybook. However, 'Pretty Song From Psych-Out', while performed by The Strawberry Alarm Clock in the film, is performed instead by The Storybook on the soundtrack album. I know not why. The Strawberry Alarm Clock version was released as a 45 single on the UNI label.Dick Clark had the insisted the film have an anti-drug message 'because I'd seen the kids in the hippie commune living in awful squalor'. A year prior to this, Clark had also produced an LSD film directed by Roger Corman, who had researched the subject by taking LSD himself. The film stars Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Susan Strasberg and Bruce Dern and features Dennis Hopper in another American International Pictures release, 'The Trip'.