Some of the flip sides of the Monkees' singles were as good as, if not better than, the A side. Some of them were "Take a Giant Step"
"Stepping Stone", "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", "Words" and "Goin' Down." I know there are others from the later
years but cannot think of them. Can anyone help me here? And, which do you think was the best?
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Best "B" Side?
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Posts: 8821 (04/22/08 10:28 AM) Rev. Nora |
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Posts: 10 (04/22/08 11:06 AM) |
of the ones you mentioned i LOVE take a giant step. it's so classic monkees. and i quite enjoy listening to goin' down. one day i'll be able to
make it all the way through without messing up the words. it's a fun song! micky does it well.
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Posts: 4241 (04/22/08 2:55 PM) Mr. Smarty Pants
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"Words" gets my nod. A lot of people tend to overlook this one, and it never gets played on radio as much as it should!
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Posts: 392 (04/22/08 8:32 PM) Gem Finder |
Along with the ones already mentioned here, I always liked "It's Nice to Be With You" the flip side of D.W. Washburn from early 1968.
The great thing about when these singles were out originally in the '60s, as I remember hearing them on the radio back then, was that both sides usually made the charts. Like if "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" was No.2, the "Girl that I Knew Somewhere" would be something like No. 10 for that week. When "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was No. 1, "Words" would be a few notches below it. We'd get to hear both sides on the radio. Thank goodness for XM Radio. They play alot of these flip sides today. In the past few weeks, I've heard them play "Goin Down" and "Tapioca Tundra". |
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Posts: 4244 (04/22/08 8:34 PM) Mr. Smarty Pants
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And I kinda dig that XM plays the Nesmith sung version of "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", not to mention the mix of "Look Out (Here Comes
Tomorrow)" with Peter's voice over.
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Posts: 8824 (04/22/08 8:40 PM) Rev. Nora |
Yeah, my vote would probably either go towards "Words" (even though I prefer the earlier version) or "TGIKS". They were all good, though.
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Posts: 4247 (04/22/08 8:48 PM) Mr. Smarty Pants
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Is Terry trolling around on ML? He's playing Mike's TGIKS right now!
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Posts: 8828 (04/23/08 12:51 AM) Rev. Nora |
I think "Valleri" was released as a single but what was the flip side?
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Posts: 625 (04/23/08 4:27 AM) GOMOTB |
"Mommy & Daddy" was on the 45 Rpm B side of "Good Clean Fun"
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without
error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the
triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic,"
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Posts: 396 (04/23/08 7:54 PM) Gem Finder |
You are correct, Nora. Valleri was indeed finally released as a Single around the Spring of 1968. The flip side was "Tapioca Tundra."
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Posts: 2731 (04/23/08 11:15 PM) Mistress of the Marathon |
Here's a list of the A & B sides of all the original Monkees singles with their release dates:
1. Last Train To Clarksville/ Take A Giant Step (August, 1966) 2. I'm A Believer/ (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (November 1966) 3. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You / She Hangs Out (version 1) February 1967 (This was the controversial Kirshner version that was released briefly in Canada and quickly removed from circulation) 4. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You/ The Girl I Knew Somewhere (March 1967) 5. Pleasant Valley Sunday/ Words (July 1967) 6. Daydream Believer/ Goin' Down (October 1967) 7. Valleri / Tapioca Tundra (February 1968) 8. D.W. Washburn / It's Nice To Be With You (June 1968) 9. Porpoise Song (Theme from Head) / As We Go Along (October 1968) 10. Teardrop City/ A Man Without A Dream (February 1969) 11. Listen To The Band / Someday Man (April 1969) 12. Good Clean Fun / Mommy And Daddy (October 1969) 13. Oh My My / I Love You Better (April 1970) And here's a link to the Monkees Singles discography on Rhino's website: http://monkees.rhino.com/read/discography/singles.lasso. It's definitely worth a look, because it gives additional details like where each song placed on the charts (including B sides if they did), Colgems release #s, and images of all the great picture sleeves! As for my favorite song among the B sides? Hmm... It's hard to narrow down, but Take A Giant Step, Words, The Girl I Knew Somewhere, and As We Go Along are all among my favorite Monkees songs! |
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Posts: 49 (04/24/08 6:41 AM) |
Mine are "Words" and "The Girl I Knew Somewhere".
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Posts: 5755 (04/24/08 8:56 AM) FVB |
Can somebody tell me how you know now which was A and which was B? How did we even know then? The record does not say A and B. I never considered some of
those A rather than B. The radio stations played some of them equally and some of your B sides a lot more than your A sides. I have all of those singles
except the Canada one. Does anyone have an extra one? (I know - "In your dreams!").
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