[1] The band recruited female singer Anne Tansey, whom Labes described as "a powerhouse, kind of a Janis Joplin with a sweeter voice, but sultry dynamic energy."

Though the single did not break the national charts, it did receive extensive airplay by DJ Dick Summer on Boston's WBZ Radio, as well as on several alternative-music stations just beginning to emerge across the US.

However, Tansey soon departed the band and was replaced by Marilyn Lundquist, who performed backing vocals on her co-written composition, "Ice", and a baroque version of David Blue's song, "I'd Like to Know".

The resulting album, The Apple Pie Motherhood Band, was released in 1968, and mixed extended instrumentals, heavy blues rock, influences of psychedelia and vocal harmonies, and became somewhat of an underground favorite in Boston.

[8] However, Apple Pie's 1969 release was delayed after their manager disagreed with the group's relocation to a communal farm in Vermont; and, as a result, the band disbanded in the summer of that year to play in the counterculture musical production Hair.