Tommy Boyce And Bobby Hart are most famous for writing some of The Monkees’ biggest hits, including (I’m Not) Your Stepping Stone (US, No. 20), Theme From The Monkees (No.8 in Australia) and Last Train To Clarkesville, a US No.1. In fact all Monkees’ albums apart from the soundtrack to the movie Head, had Boyce and Hart songs […]
From the first album I ever bought in the last post, to the first single I ever bought – The Monkees Alternate Title, aka Randy Scouse Git, written by Monkees’ drummer/singer Mickey Dolenz and released in 1967. When I bought this single I lived in a large bungalow called Kinder View referring to Kinder Scout […]
It’s Sunday – and I always loved this song – music, melody and lyrics. Although there may have been other musicians on the records, other songwriters, I still see The Monkees as one of the great underrated bands despite their commercial success. The song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King boasts a great vocal […]