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I first got "Pisces,Aquarius,Capricorn and Jones,Ltd. for a Christmas present from my sister Teresa soon after it came out in November 1967.It went to No. 1 on The Billboard Charts and went multi-platinum.I was 11 at the time.Well,I'm 62 now and now I got it on CD and I still Love it.It features their 4th single,"Pleasant Valley Sunday" written by future Rock&Roll Hall of Fame members,Carole King and her then husband Gerry Goffin.Ms.King has a movie and a Broadway musical about her and is a Kennedy Center Honoree. "Words" written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.This went to No.3 on The Billboard Charts.Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork said this was the best song The Monkees ever did!!! "Words" is a good rockin' tune and one of Boyce&Hart's best.!'ve seen The Monkees in concert five times over the past thirty years and they always ended the show with "Pleasant Valley Sunday",(also the show was usually on a Sunday.) This was the group's fourth No. 1,multi-platinum album in a row in one years time. In fact they outsold Elvis,The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined that year 1967.Wow!!!
It's believed The Everly Brothers,popular in the late 1950's, were the grandfather's of Country-Rock.Well,Mike Nesmith is an early pioneer,(an before The Eagles),shows his versitile talent on this album.The songs,"Salesman" and "The Door into Summer" are really good."Love is Only Sleeping" written by future Rock&Roll Hall of Fame members,the husband and wife writing team,Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil is a great song.The song was originally going to be released as a single.It was decided the song may be too suggestive at the time. They decided to release "Daydream Believer" as their fifth single instead.Which went to No.1 on The Billboard Charts for five weeks in a row at Christmastime,1967,a good decision.Then there's "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?", a really great Country-Rock song.Then there's Mike foray into psychedelic-rock with "Daily-Nightly",(with the line,"such anxious men find questions but no answers.") Then there is his mellow take on "Don't Call on Me".
Davy sings "She Hangs Out",a really good rock and roll tune written by Jeff Barry,who was record producer to future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and Kennedy Center Honoree Neil Diamond.And,then there is "Cuddly Toy",written by a then unknown Harry Nillson.This was the only song on the album which all four of them played on.Davy played percussion,Mike played guitar,Peter played piano,and Micky played drums.Davy co-wrote "Hard to Believe",(the only song on the album that I wasn't crazy about;)and then there's Goffin&King's "Star Collector", a cool song about groupies.
Micky sings lead vocal on "Words","Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Daily-Nightly".Micky played Moog-synthesizer on "Daily-Nightly"This was the very first album to use the electronic synthesizer.It was also used on "Love is Only Sleeping" and "Star Collector".Peter's contribution was the goofy "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky",the backup vocal with Micky on "Words",and playing the keyboards on "She Hangs Out","The Door Into Summer" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday".Peter also played bass,the guitar and banjo.The album was produced by Chip Douglas of the group, "The Turtles." They have said that they don't care if they ever get elected to The Rock&Roll Hall of Fame. Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Neil Diamond who wrote around a dozen terrific songs for The Monkees are in there and that's good enough.
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I had this album when I was in my teens and enjoyed revisiting my youth
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Good little known tracks
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