The Monkees: Original Album Series Explained

The Monkees: Original Album Series
Type:box
Artist:The Monkees
Cover:The Monkees Original Album Series.png
Released:2009
Recorded:1966–1968
Genre:Rock, pop
Label:Rhino
Producer:Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Jack Keller, Michael Nesmith, Neil Sedaka, Carole Bayer Sager, Jeff Barry, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Chip Douglas, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork
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The Monkees: Original Album Series is a CD set by The Monkees which includes the first five albums by The Monkees. The CD set was released in 2009 as a slipcased box set.

Track listings

The Monkees (1966)

See main article: The Monkees.

  1. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 2:21
  2. "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) - 2:44
  3. "I Wanna Be Free" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:27
  4. "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" (Boyce, Steve Venet) - 2:39
  5. "Papa Gene's Blues" (Michael Nesmith) - 2:00
  6. "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:31
  7. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:47
  8. "This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:09
  9. "Let's Dance On" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:32
  10. "I'll Be True to You (Yes I Will)" (Goffin, Russ Titelman) - 2:49
  11. "Sweet Young Thing" (Goffin, King, Nesmith) - 1:58
  12. "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:44

1994 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "I Can't Get Her off My Mind" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) - 2:55
  2. "I Don't Think You Know Me" (first recorded version) (Micky's vocal) (Goffin, King) - 2:18
  3. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 0:52

More of the Monkees (1967)

See main article: More of the Monkees.

  1. "She" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:41
  2. "When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)" (Neil Sedaka, Carole Bayer Sager) - 1:49
  3. "Mary, Mary" (Nesmith) - 2:16
  4. "Hold on Girl (Help is on its Way)" (Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh) - 2:29
  5. "Your Auntie Grizelda" (Diane Hildebrand, Keller) - 2:30
  6. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:25
  7. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (Neil Diamond) – 2:16
  8. "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" (Roger Atkins, Nesmith) - 1:53
  9. "The Day We Fall in Love" (Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell) - 2:26
  10. "Sometime in the Morning" (Goffin, King) - 2:30
  11. "Laugh" (Mitch Margo, Phil Margo, Hank Medress, Jay Siegal) - 2:30
  12. "I'm a Believer" (Diamond) – 2:50

1994 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Don't Listen to Linda" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:28
  2. "I'll Spend My Life with You" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:30
  3. "I Don't Think You Know Me" (second recorded version) (Goffin, King) - 2:19
  4. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (extended mix) (with Peter's narration)" (Diamond) – 2:52
  5. "I'm a Believer" (take 4A) (Diamond) – 2:52

Headquarters (1967)

See main article: Headquarters.

  1. "You Told Me" (Nesmith) - 2:25
  2. "I'll Spend My Life with You" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:26
  3. "Forget That Girl" (Douglas Farthing Hatlelid) - 2:25
  4. "Band 6" (Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Nesmith, Peter Tork) - 0:41
  5. "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) - 2:03
  6. "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 3:22
  7. "I Can't Get Her off My Mind" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:27
  8. "For Pete's Sake" (Tork, Joey Richards) – 2:11
  9. "Mr. Webster" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:04
  10. "Sunny Girlfriend" (Nesmith) - 2:33
  11. "Zilch" (Dolenz, Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 1:06
  12. "No Time" (Hank Cicalo) - 2:08
  13. "Early Morning Blues and Greens" (Hildebrand, Keller) - 2:35
  14. "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)" (Dolenz) – 2:40

1995 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "All of Your Toys" (single mix) (Bill Martin) - 3:02
  2. "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (second recorded version) (Nesmith) – 2:38
  3. "Peter Gunn's Gun" (jam session) (Henry Mancini) - 3:38
  4. "Jericho" (studio dialogue) (Traditional) - 2:02
  5. "Nine Times Blue" (demo version) (Nesmith) - 2:07
  6. "Pillow Time" (demo version) (Janelle Scott, Matt Willis) - 4:00

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)

  1. "Salesman" (Craig Vincent Smith) - 2:38
  2. "She Hangs Out" (Jeff Barry) - 2:57
  3. "The Door into Summer" (Douglas, Martin) - 2:49
  4. "Love is Only Sleeping" (Mann, Weil) - 2:31
  5. "Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:38
  6. "Words" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:51
  7. "Hard to Believe" (Eddie Brick, Kim Capli, Jones, Charlie Rockett) - 2:37
  8. "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" (Michael Martin Murphey, Owen Castleman) – 3:09
  9. "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky" (Tork) - 0:27
  10. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Goffin, King) – 3:15
  11. "Daily Nightly" (Nesmith) - 2:33
  12. "Don't Call on Me" (John London, Nesmith) - 2:51
  13. "Star Collector" (Goffin, King) - 4:27

1995 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Special Announcement" (arr. Tork) - 0:36
  2. "Goin' Down" (extended mono mix) (Dolenz, Hildebrand, Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 4:46
  3. "Salesman" (alternate mono mix) (Smith) - 2:36
  4. "The Door into Summer" (alternate mono mix) (Douglas, Martin) - 2:52
  5. "Love is Only Sleeping" (early alternate mix) (Mann, Weil) - 2:32
  6. "Daily Nightly" (early alternate mix) (Nesmith) - 2:31
  7. "Star Collector" (extended mix) (Goffin, King) - 4:52

The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees (1968)

  1. "Dream World" (Jones, Steve Pitts) - 3:21
  2. "Auntie's Municipal Court" (Keith Allison, Nesmith) - 4:04
  3. "We Were Made for Each Other" (Carole Bayer Sager, George Fischoff) - 2:25
  4. "Tapioca Tundra" (Nesmith) - 3:07
  5. "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart) – 3:00
  6. "Writing Wrongs" (Nesmith) - 5:08
  7. "I'll Be Back up on My Feet" (Linzer, Randell) - 2:26
  8. "The Poster" (Jones, Pitts) - 2:21
  9. "P.O. Box 9847" (Boyce, Hart) - 3:16
  10. "Magnolia Simms" (Nesmith) - 3:48
  11. "Valleri" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:15
  12. "Zor and Zam" (Bill Chadwick, John Chadwick) - 2:10

1994 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Alvin" (Nicholas Thorkelson, Tork) - 0:27
  2. "I'm Gonna Try" (Jones, Pitts) - 2:44
  3. "P.O. Box 9847" (early alternate mix) (Boyce, Hart) - 3:15
  4. "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (second recorded version) (Sedaka, Bayer) - 2:40
  5. "Lady's Baby" (alternate mix) (Tork) - 2:29

Notes

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