Album of the Day

When it was clear that Monkees records were taking off, producer Don Kirshner, songwriters Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart and Micky, Davy, Mike and Peter themselves all had their own ideas of what they should sound like. On the group's second album, MORE OF THE MONKEES, that meant a dozen fine songs, including Boyce & Hart's “I'm Not Your Stepping Stone,” a brace of Brill Building tunes (Gerry Goffin & Carole King's “Sometime In The Morning,” Neil Diamond's “I'm A Believer”) and a pair of Nesmith numbers: “Mary Mary” and “The Kind Of Girl I Could Love.” The group’s most successful longplayer, MORE OF THE MONKEES was the #1 album in America on this day in 1967; the set spent 18 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart.