The Monkees Greatest Hits
The Monkees Greatest Hits | ||||
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Greatest hits album by the Monkees | ||||
Released | July 1976 | |||
Recorded | 1966–1969 | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 30:51 | |||
Label | Arista | |||
Producer | Various | |||
The Monkees chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [2] |
The Monkees Greatest Hits is a 1976 greatest hits compilation album of songs by the Monkees released by Arista Records and a reissue of an earlier Bell Records compilation, Re-Focus.
While the Monkees were among the top-selling bands of the mid-1960s, their decline was sharp, and their last new albums and singles sold poorly. Earlier greatest hits collections (the first two from their original label, Colgems Records) had seen only limited release and were hard to find in stores. (The first compilation was also called The Monkees Greatest Hits, but its track listing was very different.) Several of the Monkees' hits had become radio staples, though, and with the sale of their television series into syndication in 1975, they found a new audience on daytime TV. Popular demand from old and new Monkees fans prompted the album's release.
The cover included a photo of the group on the front and a still from the show on the back. The songs were an all-stereo mix of both hit singles and album tracks featured in the series, with the exception of "Listen to the Band" which was not featured in the original series and was first heard (in a different live version) on 1969's post-series Monkees TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee. (The single version of "Listen to the Band" was dubbed into a rerun episode of The Monkees during its time airing on Saturday afternoons.)[3] Of the group's first six A-sides, only "Valleri" does not appear, although that and several successful B-sides would later show up on 1982's More Greatest Hits of the Monkees.
The album became a best-seller and remained available through the 1980s, with cassette and compact disc editions also appearing. Also, in 1981, The Best of the Monkees appeared in the UK; it had the same track lineup as Refocus and this Greatest Hits collection.[4]
When Rhino Records reissued the entire Monkees catalog during 1995, this and all previous Monkees compilations were deleted. In early 2019, however, this album returned to print in vinyl format.
Track listing
- "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart)
- "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart)
- "She" (Boyce, Hart)
- "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart)
- "Listen to the Band" (Michael Nesmith)
- "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" (Neil Diamond)
- "I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond)
- "I Wanna Be Free" (Boyce, Hart)
- "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King)
- "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce, Hart)
- "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil)
References
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r721764
- ^ Brackett, Nathan; with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. p. 586. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ "The Monkees CBS Saturday Afternoon Checklist: 1969-1970 SEASON".
- ^ "The Best of the Monkees by the Monkees - RYM/Sonemic".
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- The Monkees
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- Headquarters
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- The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
- Head
- Instant Replay
- The Monkees Present
- Changes
- Pool It!
- Justus
- Good Times!
- Christmas Party
- Listen to the Band
- The Headquarters Sessions
- Music Box
- The Monkees: Original Album Series
albums
- Greatest Hits (Colgems)
- Barrel Full of Monkees
- Re-Focus
- Greatest Hits (Arista)
- Monkeemania (40 Timeless Hits)
- More Greatest Hits of The Monkees
- Monkee Business
- Monkee Flips
- Hit Factory
- Then & Now... The Best of The Monkees
- Missing Links
- Missing Links Volume Two
- Greatest Hits (Rhino)
- Barrelful of Monkees: Monkees Songs for Kids!
- Missing Links Volume Three
- I'm a Believer and Other Hits
- Daydream Believer and Other Hits
- The Monkees Anthology
- The Definitive Monkees
- The Best of The Monkees
- Monkeemania (The Very Best of the Monkees)
- Live 1967
- 20th Anniversary Tour 1986
- Summer 1967: The Complete U.S. Concert Recordings
- 2001: Live in Las Vegas
- Extended Versions
- The Mike & Micky Show
- "(Theme From) The Monkees"
- "Last Train to Clarksville"
- "I'm a Believer"
- "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You"
- "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
- "Daydream Believer"
- "Valleri"
- "D. W. Washburn"
- "Porpoise Song"
- "Tear Drop City"
- "Listen to the Band"
- "Good Clean Fun"
- "Oh My My"
- "Do It in the Name of Love"
- "Christmas Is My Time of Year"
- "That Was Then, This Is Now"
- The Monkees (episodes)
- Head
- 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee
- Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees
management
- Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story
- Discography
- Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
- An Evening with The Monkees: The 45th Anniversary Tour
- The Monkees (book)
- The Monkeemobile
- New Monkees
- Songs
- Category