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Out Now Made for TV: Official Soundtrack to Season 1 of The Monkees

LP/2CD/BR Set Includes Best Moments From Emmy-Winning, Debut Season With Rare TV Mixes And 10 Full Episodes Out Now

Micky Dolenz’s “60 Years Of The Monkees” Tour Continues 

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LOS ANGELES – On August 16, 1966, The Monkees introduced themselves to the world with the group’s debut single, “Last Train To Clarksville.” A month later, the song was racing to #1 when The Monkees television series debuted on September 12. Within weeks, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork were a global phenomenon, destined to become one of the most popular bands of the 1960s. As part of a yearlong 60th-anniversary celebration, Rhino explores the joyous first season of the Emmy-winning series in a new multimedia boxed set arriving today, just ahead of the band’s 60th anniversary.

Made for TV: Official Soundtrack to Season 1 of The Monkees is available now at Rhino.com. The LP/2CD/BR collection serves up the first season’s greatest hits with 14 rare, broadcast-exclusive TV mixes created especially for the show, more than two dozen songs from the season, plus 10 fan-favorite episodes—including the series premiere. Monkees historian and author Andrew Sandoval produced the set and contributed the liner notes, including detailed guides to the episodes and songs. 

Inspired by A Hard Day’s Night, producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider created The Monkees, which ran for two seasons on NBC from 1966 through 1968. Rafelson’s initial vision was for a musical Marx Brothers—a band of playful jokesters prone to hijinks and breaking into song. What couldn’t be scripted, however, was the organic chemistry of the foursome, which flipped the script and transformed a fictional band into a genuine musical force.

Made For TV includes songs written for the group by some of the world’s best songwriters with Neil Diamond’s “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” and Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s “Take A Giant Step.” Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart are heavily featured, underscoring the team’s essential contribution to Season One with the theme song, the B-side “Words” and an early version of the gold-certified #3 hit “Valleri.” 

The featured episodes capture the zany spirit of the first season, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. It begins with the debut episode, “Royal Flush,” which earned director James Frawley an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. As a fitting bookend, the collection concludes with the season’s final episode, “The Monkees On Tour,” which documents the group coming together as a live unit during their record-setting concert run in early 1967.

The anniversary celebration continues on the road, where Micky Dolenz’s “60 Years of The Monkees” tour will spend the summer and fall making stops across the U.S.

Made for TV: Official Soundtrack to Season 1 of The Monkees

LP/2CD/BR Track Listing

LP

Side One

  1. “(Theme From) The Monkees” (TV Version)
  2. “This Just Doesn’t Seem To Be My Day” (Mono TV Version)
  3. “Take A Giant Step” (Mono TV Version)
  4. “Saturday’s Child” (Mono TV Mix)
  5. “All The King’s Horses” (Mono TV Version)
  6. “You Just May Be The One” (Mono TV Version)
  7. “I Wanna Be Free” (Fast Version – Mono TV Mix)

Side Two

  1. “She” (Mono TV Mix) 
  2. “I’ll Be Back Up On My Feet” (TV Version)
  3. “Your Auntie Grizelda” (Mono TV Mix)
  4. “Laugh” (Mono TV Mix)
  5. “Valleri” (First Recorded Version - Mono TV Mix)
  6. “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” (Mono TV Mix)
  7. “Words” (First Recorded Version - Mono TV Mix)

 

CD

Disc One

  1. “(Theme From) The Monkees”
  2. “This Just Doesn’t Seem To Be My Day”
  3. “Take A Giant Step”
  4. “Last Train To Clarksville”
  5. “Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day”
  6. “Saturday’s Child”
  7. “Let’s Dance On”
  8. “I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone”
  9. “The Kind Of Girl I Could Love”
  10. “All The King’s Horses”
  11. “I Wanna Be Free”
  12. “Sweet Young Thing”
  13. “Papa Gene’s Blues”
  14. “You Just May Be The One”

Disc Two

  1. “I Wanna Be Free” (Fast Version)
  2. “She”
  3. “Gonna Buy Me A Dog”
  4. “Mary, Mary”
  5. “I’m A Believer”
  6. “I’ll Be Back Up On My Feet”
  7. “Your Auntie Grizelda”
  8. “Laugh”
  9. “Sometime In The Morning”
  10. “Valleri”
  11. “Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)”
  12. “The Girl I Knew Somewhere”
  13. “Words”
  14. “A Little Bit, A Little Bit You”

 

Blu-ray

Episode Listing

“Royal Flush” (Episode #1 – originally aired 9/12/66)

“Monkee Vs. Machine” (Episode #3 – originally aired 9/26/66)

“Success Story” (Episode #6 – originally aired 10/17/66)

“The Chaperone” (Episode #9 – originally aired 11/7/66)

“I’ve Got A Little Song Here” (Episode #12 – originally aired 11/28/66)

“Dance, Monkee, Dance” (Episode #14 – originally aired 12/12/66)

“Monkees A La Mode” (Episode #24 – originally aired 2/27/67)

“Monkee Mother” (Episode #27 – originally aired 3/20/67)

“Monkees On The Line” (Episode #28 – originally aired 3/27/67)

“The Monkees On Tour” (Episode #32 – originally aired 4/24/67)

 

Micky Dolenz: 60 Years of the Monkees

Tour Dates

Sat, September 12 The United Theater on Broadway, Los Angeles, CA

Tues, September 29 Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre, Myrtle Beach, SC

Thurs, October 1 The Historic Beacon Theatre, Hopewell, VA

Sat, October 3 Borgata Music Box, Atlantic City, NJ

Thurs, October 15 The Palace Theatre, Greensburg, PA

Sat, October 17 Riviera Theatre and Performing Arts Center, North Tonawanda, NY

Sun, November 1 Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, IL

Fri, November 6 MGM Northfield Park - Center Stage, Northfield, OH

Sun, November 8 Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines, IA

Fri, November 13 Family Arena, St. Charles, MO

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