Release Calendar

The A’s, The B’s and The Monkees, at long last, brings together on 2 CDs all of the band’s commercial singles originally released between 1966 and 1970, from “Last Train to Clarksville” b/w “Take a Giant Step” through “Oh My My” b/w “I Love You Better.”  It’s arranged with its 15 A-sides on Disc One and 15 B-sides on Side Two.  The As from Messrs. Jones, Dolenz, Nesmith, and Tork include songs from Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Neil Diamond, John Stewart, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller: the chart-topping “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I’m a Believer,” and “Daydream Believer,” along with the hits “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” (No. 2), “Pleasant Valley Sunday” (No. 3), “Valleri” (No. 3), and “D.W. Washburn” (No. 19). The Bs are no less filled with fan favorites, with more compositions from Goffin and King (“Take a Giant Step”), Boyce and Hart (“(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” “I Wanna Be Free,” “Words”), Mike Nesmith (“The Girl I Knew Somewhere,” “Tapioca Tundra”), and Paul Williams and Roger Nichols (“Someday Man”).  All tracks are presented in their original single mixes.  Andrew Sandoval has written the new liner notes.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.