Tear Drop City | |
Cover: | The_Monkees_single_09_Tear_Drop_City.jpg |
Caption: | US single cover |
Type: | single |
Artist: | the Monkees |
Album: | Instant Replay |
B-Side: | A Man Without a Dream |
Released: | 8 February 1969 |
Recorded: | 26 October 1966 RCA Victor Studios Hollywood, CA |
Genre: | Rock[1] |
Length: | 2:01 |
Label: | Colgems #5000 |
Prev Title: | Porpoise Song |
Prev Year: | 1968 |
Next Title: | Listen to the Band |
Next Year: | 1969 |
Tear Drop City is a single by the Monkees released on February 8, 1969 on Colgems #5000 recorded on October 26, 1966. The song reached No.56 on the Billboard chart, no.37 on cash box. The lyrics are about a man who feels low because his girlfriend has left him. Written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, it was the first single The Monkees released as a trio (Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Davy Jones; Peter Tork departed December 1968). Micky Dolenz performed the lead vocal. Boyce and Hart produced and arranged the song.
The flip-side was "A Man Without a Dream", with Davy Jones doing the lead vocal, and it hit no.127 on the Cash Box chart.Both single sides were from the album Instant Replay.