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A Barrel Full of Monkees Album Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears Gonna Buy Me a Dog Laugh Pillow Time Porpoise Song Teeny Tiny Gnome Theme from The Monkees The Poster Your Auntie Grizelda	Changes Album Oh My My Ticket on a Ferry Ride Acapulco Sun 99 Pounds Tell Me Love Do You Feel It Too? I Love You Better All Alone In The Dark MIDNIGHT TRAIN I Never Thought It Peculiar
Greatest Hits Album A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You I Wanna be Free Last Train to Clarksville Mary, Mary Pleasant Valley Sunday Rany Scouse Git Theme from The Monkees THE GIRL I KNEW SOMEWHERE	Head Album Porpoise Song Circle Sky Can You Dig It? As We Go Along Ditty Diego - War Chant Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?
Headquarters Album You Told Me Forget That Girl Band 6 You Just May Be the One Shades of Gray Mr. Webster Sunny Girlfriend Zilch No Time Early Morning Blues and Greens Rany Scouse Git	Instant Replay Album Through the Looking Glass You and I JUST A GAME Me Without You Tear Drop City WHILE I CRY The Girl I Left Behind Me A Man Without a Dream Shorty Blackwell
Justus Album Circle Sky ( In album Justus ) Never Enough Oh What a Night You and I ( In album Justus ) Unlucky Stars Admiral Mike Regional Girl Run Away From Life I Believe You	Live 1967 Album Cripple Creek Forget That Girl Gonna Build a Mountain I Wanna be Free Last Train to Clarksville Mary, Mary Rany Scouse Git Sunny Girlfriend Sweet Young Thing THE GIRL I KNEW SOMEWHERE Your Auntie Grizelda You Just May Be the One
Missing Links Volume 1 Album Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears If You Have The Time Party Carlisle Wheeling Storybook of You My Share Of The Sidewalk All of Your Toys Nine Times Blue So Goes Love Teeny Tiny Gnome OF YOU War Games Time and Time Again	Missing Links Volume 2 Album Changes Circle Sky Come On In Do Not Ask For Love (Prithee) Hold on Girl If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again I Wanna be Free Michigan Blackhawk Mr. Webster RIU CHIU Seegers Theme St. Matthew The Crippled Lion Valleri Words You Just May Be the One
More Of The Monkees Album She Mary, Mary Hold on Girl Your Auntie Grizelda Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow The Kind of Girl I Could Love The Day We Fall in Love Sometime in the Morning Laugh	Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Album Salesman She Hangs Out The Door Into Summer Love Is Only Sleeping Cuddly Toy Words Hard To Believe Peter Percival Pattersons Pet Pig Porky Pleasant Valley Sunday Daily Nightly STAR COLLECTOR
Pool It! Album Whole Wide World Heart and Soul Long Way Home Secret Heart Love You Forever Every Step of the Way Midnight Moving In With Rico Since You Went Away Counting on You	The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees Album Dream World We Were Made for Each Other Tapioca Tundra Daydream Believer Writing Wrongs The Poster P. O. Box 9847 Magnolia Simms Valleri Zor and Zam
The Monkees Album Theme from The Monkees I Wanna be Free Take a Giant Step Last Train to Clarksville Sweet Young Thing Gonna Buy Me a Dog	The Monkees Present Album LITTLE GIRL Good Clean Fun If I Knew Bye Bye, Baby, Bye Bye Never Tell a Woman Yes Looking for the Good Times Listen to the Band French Song Mommy and Daddy Oklahoma Backroom Dancer Pillow Time

September 1965, auditions were held for an American TV comedy about a rock group called the Monkees. 437 young men went to Hollywood, California to try out for the roles, but only four were selected for the series. One year later, the show premiered on NBC, preceded by the release of their first single, "Last Train to Clarksville", an immediate Number One hit.
Within this made-for-TV band, Michael Nesmith and Peter "Tork" Thorkelson were musicians, and Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones were TV actors who also had some musical experience. Despite their ability to play (as displayed in their 1966 and 1967 concert tours), outside musicians were hired to provide nearly all of the backing music for their first year's worth of material, leaving the Monkees themselves to provide little more than lead vocals to each song. Despite the good commercial judgements of record producer Don Kirshner, his constant control over the members' creative input led to his firing in early 1967.

After this, the Monkees began writing and playing more on their albums. Despite this, the success of their albums, concerts, and TV show was continually slammed by "serious" music critics who considered them showbiz phonies.

In 1968, the band stopped doing the TV series, choosing to concentrate on feature films. Unfortunately, their film of that year--"Head", a psychedelic montage of comic scenes and music videos--was considered too avant-garde by the average Monkees fan, and their record sales suffered as a result.

Despite the release of some quality music from the group, the general public was taking the band less and less seriously. As a result, Peter left the group in 1969. Two albums later, Mike followed suit, and the remaining two released one last Monkees record before calling it quits.

The 1970's saw sporadic TV, radio, and concert appearances by each of the four ex-Monkees. A highlight of the post-Monkees ventures in that decade was a semi-reunion tour of Japan called "Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, and Hart". This group was comprised of Monkees Micky and Davy, and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (who wrote several hits for themselves, the Monkees, and other groups). Mike's early-seventies works with the First National Band are also of note.

From the mid- to late-1980's, "Monkeemania" had returned, thanks to a 20th Anniversary reunion tour comprised of Micky, Davy, and Peter. They hoped to continue their comeback success by releasing an album of new material in 1988. Unfortunately, MTV--the music cable channel which had put the band back into the spotlight by re-running their series--refused to show their videos, due to a misunderstanding over an appearance they didn't make on the channel's "Superbowl Tailgate Party" special. By the end of the decade, the three Monkees had gone back to their separate lives...for the time being.

In the mid-1990's the three reunited once again for a 30th Anniversary tour, preceded by an excellent CD reisuue campaign headed by Rhino Records. The '90's wave of "Monkeemania" reached a peak in late-1996 and early-1997, when all four Monkees got together for a TV cable documentary, an ABC-TV special, a tour of the U.K., and "Justus"--an album comprised of songs written, played, and produced solely by the four Monkees, with no outside assistance whatsoever. But when Mike opted not to join them on their 1997 tour, the band drifted apart once again.

But public interest in the band has continued, inspiring another Mike-less reunion tour in 2001. Episodes of their show are available on video. Their musical output, meanwhile, is best encapsulated on a 2-CD set, "The Monkees Anthology", released in 1998.

THE BAND:
* Micky Dolenz- drums, vocals
* Davy Jones- tambourine, vocals
* Peter Tork- bass, vocals
* Mike Nesmith- lead guitar, vocals

U.S. CHART SUCCESSES (1966-1970):
* 5 Top Five albums (4 Number One's)
* 7 Top Five singles (3 Number One's)

HITS COMPILATIONS:
* Greatest Hits (Rhino version)
* Anthology (2-CD set)