The definitive Boyce and Hart collection!
Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce were popmeisters who wrote songs for the early Phil Spector productions among many others, but perhaps their best known project was The Monkees! .Turned down for roles early in the auditions, they landed the perhaps more artistically satisfying and lucrative roles as writer/producers for the music content of the show. Indeed, it was their own band, The Candy Store Prophets, who ghosted for The Monkees on their early sessions, including all the early hits and successful album tracks.
Efforts by other Screen Gems writers and producers, from Neil Sedaka to The Tokens, to usurp their roles and get in on the Monkees cash bonanza were rather discouraging to our heroes, the undignified scramble leading to The Monkees decision to play their own music, and leaving Boyce and Hart out in the cold...or so it seemed...as well as continuing to contribute songs, they took a sideways leap.
Effectively, they had already had a couple of number one singles and a number one album, so a "solo" (or should that be "Duo") deal with A&M was a no brainer. Tommy and Bobby set forth on a career as bona fide Pop stars in their own right, starting with a major hit in "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" and recording three albums and a number of singles of wonderful Monkees style California pop...and why not? They were there from day one - TV appearances, tours, the usual Pop star treadmill which they'd avoided by being backroom boys beckoned. Leaving a superpop legacy of brilliant songs, for this their FIRST CD collection.
Out & About / I Should Be Going Home / For Baby / Sometime's She's A Little Girl / Girl, I'm Out To Get You / I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite / The Ambushers / Pretty Flower / Teardrop City / Love Every Day / Two For The Price Of One / Goodbye Baby (I Don't Want To See You Cry) / I'm Digging You Digging Me / Leaving Again / The Countess / I Want To Be Free / Where Angels Go (Trouble Follows) / Alice Long (You're Still My Favourite Girlfriend) / P.O. Box 9847 / We're All Going To The Same Place / Six + Six / It's All Happening On The Inside / Strawberry Girl / Thanks For Sunday
