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"More of The Monkees" was the first album I ever bought.It was 1968,I was 12 and I had been watching their T.V. show every Monday night at 7:30 on NBC for a year. Well,I'm 62 now and now I got it on CD and I still love it. The album features their second single "I'm a Believer" which went to No. 1 on The Billboard charts for two months straight, in the top twenty biggest selling songs of the 1960's.Written by a then relatively unknown Neil Diamond and produced by his producer Jeff Barry and using his own studio musicians. Mr. Diamond played acoustic guitar on it and sang backup vocal along with Davy Jones. Mr. Diamond also released his own version as a single in 1967, which wasn't a hit.Too bad,his version is good too.Micky Dolenz titled his 1993 autobiography "I'm a Believer",(I have an autographed copy of),it's an entertaining ,fast read.I gave a copy to my brother Pat and my sister Melody and they loved it too.Micky has always been my favorite Monkee.Melody and my cousin Ruthie,too.
It also features two of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's best tunes "She" and "I'm Not You're Stepping Stone",they rock.Mike Nesmith wrote "Mary,Mary" and a then unknown Glen Campbell played lead guitar on it.Mr. Campbell was then part of the legendary studio musicians nicknamed "The Wrecking Crew." Micky does his usual great vocals on all three songs.
Peter Tork sings lead on "Your Auntie Griselda",an entertaining song.Micky sings "Sometime in the Morning",a lovely song written by future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members,Carole King and Gerry Goffin. And Davy sings lead on "Look Out! (Here Comes Tomorrow),also written by Mr. Diamond,who plays acoustic guitar and sings backup vocal along with Micky and Peter.Davy sings of Mary, oh what a sweet girl,lips like strawberry pie.Sandra,long hair and beat girl,can't make up my mind.Wish I only loved one.I see all kinds of sorrow,Look Out!!!Here comes tomorrow! Sounds like an episode of "The Bachelor",this is my sister Teresa's favorite Monkee songs,One of Pat and mine too.
Mike sings lead on "The Kind of Girl I Could Love",a good country-rock song,that I'd like to sing to every waitress I've ever been smitten with. Then there's the monkeying around on "Laugh",the lead sung by Davy. There were only two songs I didn't like,"When Love comes knocking at Your Door" and "On The Day We Fall In Love."
I've seen The Monkees in concert five times over the past 30 years and "She" and "I'm Not You're Stepping Stone" and "Your Auntie Grizelda" and "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" and "Look Out!(Here Comes Tomorrow!) and "I'm a Believer",(which Micky would say was a hit before "Shrek") were the big highlights of the show.And,I found out "More of The Monkees" is the third biggest selling album of the 1960's.Only The Beatles outsold them.Wow!!!
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