Monkeemania: The Very Best of the Monkees

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  (Theme From) The Monkees
  2:21
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Last Train to Clarksville
  2:47
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Take a Giant Step
  2:31
• 4
  Saturday's Child
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Papa Gene’s Blues
  2:00
• 6
  I Wanna Be Free
  2:27
  4.5 ★
• 7
  I’m a Believer
  2:47
  4.7 ★
• 8
  (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
  2:24
  4.4 ★
• 9
  She
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Mary, Mary
  2:18
• 11
  Your Auntie Grizelda
  2:30
• 12
  Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (extended version)
  2:50
• 13
  Sometime in the Morning
  2:29
• 14
  When Love Comes Knockin' (at Your Door)
  1:49
• 15
  A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You
  2:49
  4.5 ★
• 16
  She Hangs Out
  2:35
• 17
  The Girl I Knew Somewhere
  2:34
• 18
  All of Your Toys
  3:09
• 19
  Randy Scouse Git
  2:35
  4.5 ★
• 20
  You Just May Be the One
  2:04
• 21
  Forget That Girl
  2:26
• 22
  Shades of Gray
  3:24
  3.0 ★
• 23
  For Pete’s Sake
  2:12
• 24
  Sunny Girlfriend
  2:34
• 25
  You Told Me
  2:26
• 26
  No Time
  2:09
• 27
  Salesman
  2:37
• 28
  The Door Into Summer
  2:49
• 29
  Daily Nightly
  2:33
• 30
  Star Collector
  4:25
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Pleasant Valley Sunday
  3:09
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Words
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 3
  What Am I Doing Hanging Around
  3:09
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Cuddly Toy
  2:41
• 5
  Daydream Believer
  2:59
  4.7 ★
• 6
  Goin’ Down
  4:24
• 7
  Valleri
  2:14
• 8
  I’ll Be Back Up on My Feet
  2:29
• 9
  PO Box 9847
  3:16
• 10
  Tapioca Tundra
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 11
  D.W. Washburn
  2:49
• 12
  Daddy's Song
  3:28
• 13
  Porpoise Song (theme from Head, alternate stereo mix)
  4:13
• 14
  As We Go Along
  3:55
• 15
  Can You Dig It
  3:25
• 16
  Circle Sky (alternate mix)
  2:32
• 17
  Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?
  2:40
• 18
  Tear Drop City
  2:02
• 19
  A Man Without a Dream
  3:04
• 20
  Someday Man
  2:40
• 21
  Listen to the Band
  2:29
• 22
  Some of Shelley’s Blues
  2:30
• 23
  How Insensitive
  2:33
• 24
  Good Clean Fun
  2:19
• 25
  Mommy and Daddy
  2:13
• 26
  Oh My My
  3:02
• 27
  The Monkees (TV version)
  0:51

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Release credits

• Al Casey
  guitar [2.8, 1.10]
• Al Gorgoni
  guitar [7, 15]
• Al Porcino
  trumpet [5]
• Alex Murray
  violin [5]
• Artie Butler
  organ [7, 15]
• Bill Chadwick
  acoustic guitar [1, 11]
• Bill Hood
  saxophone [8, 11]
• Billy Lewis
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4, 8-9]
• Bob West
  bass [10]
• Bobby Hart
  arranger [8], background vocals [1, 4, 8-9], organ [1, 4, 8-9], producer [1-2, 4, 6, 8-9]
• Bobby Helfer
  trumpet [11]
• Bobby Thompson
  banjo [24]
• Bonnie Douglas
  violin [6]
• Brendan Cahill
  percussion [11]
• Bud Brisbois
  trumpet [25]
• Bud Shank
  reeds [4]
• Buddy Childers
  trumpet [8, 25]
• Buddy Salzman
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Buddy Spicher
  fiddle [24]
• Carole King
  background vocals [13], producer [13]
• Carroll Lewis
  trumpet [11]
• Chester Anderson
  instrument [15]
• Chip Douglas
  background vocals [2.3-4, 1.20-21, 1.30], bass [1.19, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.11], classical guitar [27], electric bass guitar [1.27-30, 2.3-4], guitar [28], producer [2.1-6, 1.17, 1.19-25, 1.27-30]
• Coco Dolenz
  additional [25], background vocals [25]
• David Briggs
  piano [24]
• David Walters
  percussion [2]
• Davy Jones
  acoustic guitar [21], background vocals [2.1-4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.17, 1.19-25, 1.27, 1.30], bell tree [2], chimes [2], lead vocals [2.4-5, 1.6, 1.15, 1.21-22, 1.30], maracas [21-22, 24], percussion [1.27, 2.6], tambourine [1.17, 1.20, 1.22-23, 1.25, 2.4], vocal [19]
• Dennis Budimir
  guitar [8]
• Dick Nash
  trombone [25]
• Dominick de Mieri
  guitar [25], instrument [15]
• Don McGinnis
  brass [25]
• Don Thomas
  guitar [15]
• Donald Peake
  arranger [10], guitar [10]
• Doug Dillard
  banjo [3]
• Earl Palmer
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Eddie Hoh
  drums (drum set) [1.27-30, 2.1-3, 2.5-6, 2.10], instrument [15], percussion [1]
• Edgar Lustgarten
  cello [4]
• Erno Neufeld
  violin [5]
• Felton Jarvis
  producer [22]
• Frederick Seykora
  cello [6, 22]
• Gary Coleman
  percussion [10]
• Gene Estes
  percussion [1-2], tambourine [2, 4]
• Gene Pello
  percussion [17]
• George Kast
  violin [5]
• Gerry Goffin
  producer [13]
• Glen Campbell
  guitar [10]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Hank Cicalo
  engineer [19-25]
• Harry Nilsson
  instrument [28]
• Henry Diltz
  banjo [11]
• Henry Lewy
  percussion [8]
• Herb Lovelle
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Herbert Harper
  trombone [11]
• Hugh McCracken
  guitar [15]
• Jack Keller
  producer [1, 4, 11]
• James Burton
  guitar [10]
• James Tyrrell
  bass [15]
• Jeff Barry
  arranger [7, 15], piano [7], producer [1.7, 1.11, 1.13, 1.15, 2.26], tambourine [7]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [24]
• Jerry McGee
  acoustic guitar [6], electric guitar [2], guitar [1, 4, 8-9]
• Jerry Yester
  bass [22]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [1.10, 2.11]
• John Kitzmiller
  tuba [25]
• John London
  12 string guitar [17], bass [17, 24]
• John Lowe
  saxophone [6]
• Keith Allison
  electric guitar [11]
• Lance Wakely
  guitar [15]
• Larry Bunker
  glockenspiel [11]
• Larry Knechtel
  bass [10]
• Larry Taylor
  bass [1-2, 4, 8-9]
• Lew McCreary
  trombone [8]
• Lloyd Green
  steel guitar [24]
• Lou Blackburn
  trombone [6, 8, 11]
• Louie Shelton
  acoustic guitar [6], electric guitar [2], guitar [1, 4, 8-9]
• Louis Mauro
  bass [15]
• Manuel Stevens
  trumpet [5]
• Max Bennett
  electric bass guitar [8]
• Michael A. Glass
  instrument [15]
• Michael Cohen
  piano [10]
• Michael Nesmith
  12 string guitar [17, 20-21, 24-25], acoustic guitar [2.4, 1.20, 1.24], arranger [24], background vocals [1.17, 1.25, 2.1], electric guitar [2.1-2, 1.19], guitar [1.27, 1.29-30, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.10], lead vocals [2.3, 1.20, 1.24-25, 1.27-28], organ [23], percussion [10], producer [2.22, 2.24, 1.10], shakers [27], steel guitar [22], vocal [1.19, 2.10, 2.24]
• Michael Saluzzi
  guitar [25]
• Michel Rubini
  harpsichord [6], keyboard [25], prepared piano [11]
• Micky Dolenz
  Moog [29], arranger [25], background vocals [1.7, 1.9, 1.13, 1.20, 1.20-25, 1.27-28, 1.30, 2.3-5, 2.25], drums (drum set) [1.17, 1.19-25, 2.4], lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.7-10, 1.13, 1.17, 1.19, 1.23, 1.29, 2.1, 2.6, 2.11, 2.25], percussion [27], piano [25], producer [25], timpani [19], vocal [2, 8, 15], wood block [19], zither [25]
• Mike Deasy
  guitar [2.8, 1.10]
• Mike Melvoin
  harpsichord [8]
• Mike Moran
  recording [26]
• Milt Holland
  percussion [8]
• Myra Kestenbaum
  viola [6]
• Nathan Kaproff
  violin [5]
• Neil Diamond
  acoustic guitar [7]
• Norbert Putnam
  electric bass guitar [24]
• Norm Jefferies
  percussion [9]
• Ollie Mitchell
  trumpet [8]
• Pat Coghlan
  instrument [25]
• Paul Beaver
  Moog [30]
• Paul Shure
  violin [6]
• Pete Candoli
  trumpet [5]
• Peter Tork
  background vocals [1.7, 1.9, 1.17, 1.19-23, 1.25, 2.4], banjo [25], bass [2.6, 1.20], electric guitar [23-24], electric piano [21], guitar [15], harpsichord [17], keyboard [1.28, 2.4], lead vocals [11, 22], organ [1.19, 1.29-30, 2.2], piano [1.19, 1.22, 2.1, 2.5], vocal [2]
• Phil Teele
  bass trombone [5], trombone [6]
• Plas Johnson
  saxophone [6]
• Ray Triscari
  trumpet [25]
• Richard Leith
  bass trombone [5], trombone [6]
• Richard Nash
  trombone [6]
• Richard Noel
  trombone [5]
• Richard Podolor
  engineer [11]
• Richard Romoff
  bass [7]
• Ron Hicklin
  background vocals [1, 4, 9]
• Sal DiTroia
  guitar [7]
• Shorty Rogers
  arranger [8, 11, 25], conductor [11], horn [5-6], strings [5]
• Stan Free
  piano [15]
• Stan Levey
  percussion [8]
• Stuart Williamson
  trumpet [11]
• Ted Nash
  reeds [4]
• The Monkees
  producer [11]
• Thomas Cerone
  tambourine [15]
• Thomas Scott
  reeds [4]
• Tommy Boyce
  acoustic guitar [2], arranger [8], background vocals [1, 4, 8-9], producer [1-2, 4, 6, 8-9]
• Vincent DeRosa
  French horn [22]
• Virgil Evans
  trumpet [6]
• Wayne Erwin
  acoustic guitar [6], background vocals [1, 4, 9], electric guitar [2], guitar [1, 4, 8-9]
• Wayne Moss
  guitar [24]
• William E. Martin
  instrument [28], percussion [5]
• William Hood
  saxophone [6]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [2], percussion [9]
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Issues

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  Monkeemania: The Very Best of the Monkees

  2x CD
  16 May 2011
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  Monkeemania: The Very Best of the Monkees

  2x Digital Media
  2011