Product Description
The latest in our popular songwriter series spotlights Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, the duo best known for the two-dozen Beatles-ish folk-rock numbers they wrote for the Monkees.

Friends since the late 1950s, Boyce and Hart began writing together in earnest in 1963. They made their breakthrough the following year with Lazy Elsie Molly (a Top 40 hit for Chubby Checker) and Come A Little Bit Closer (a #3 record for Jay & the Americans).

The twosome reached the apex of their success and creativity in 1966, writing for and producing the Monkees; three of their best recordings are here. A further six songs popularized by the group are featured in less frequently heard but equally good mostly pre-Monkees versions, including I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (by UK fuzz-beat combo the Flies) and She (an almost hit for Del Shannon).

The set kicks off with one of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's own recordings, I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight, a power-pop precursor from 1967 and the pair's biggest hit as performers.

Compilation and sleeve note by Mick Patrick.

1. I WONDER WHAT SHE'S DOING TONIGHT - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
2. VALLERI - The Monkees
3. ACTION, ACTION, ACTION - Keith Allison
4. I'M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE - The Flies
5. TOMORROW'S GONNA BE ANOTHER DAY - Sir Raleigh & The Cupons
6. WORDS - The Regents
7. LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE - The Standells
8. (HE'S GONNA BE) FINE, FINE, FINE - The Ikettes
9. P.O. BOX 9847 - The Monkees
10. SHE - Del Shannon
11. COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER - Jay & The Americans
12. THE DUM DUM DITTY - The Shangri-Las
13. I CAN'T GET HIM OUT OF MY MIND - Sandra Gee
14. HURT SO BAD - Little Anthony
15. THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME - The Sapphires
16. IF YOU'RE THINKIN' WHAT I'M THINKIN' - Dino, Desi & Billy
17. SEVEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER - Ginger & The Snaps
18. NEVER AGAIN - The Royalettes
19. I GOTTA FIND CUPID - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
20. BEVERLY JEAN - Curtis Lee
21. TOO MANY TEARDROPS - Bobby Hart
22. BE MY GUEST - Fats Domino
23. LAZY ELSIE MOLLY - Chubby Checker
24. ACTION - Paul Revere & The Raiders
25. (THEME FROM) THE MONKEES - The Monkees
26. DICCI COME FINI (PEACHES N' CREAM) - The Honeybeats

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I missed this when it was first posted. I did not know until today, after having listened to the song for 48 years, that Boyce & Hart wrote "Come A Little Bit Closer".

Someday there will be a set other than the 1 Euro bootleg with Let Us Vote

Hey Geff - Just for you, the Fortune & Maltese cover of LUV (Let Us Vote) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyoKoEAxR0