Changes (album)
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| Changes | ||
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| Studio album by The Monkees | ||
| Released | June 1970 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Label | Colgems Records | |
| Producer(s) | Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Bill Chadwick, Jeff Barry | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Monkees chronology | ||
 The Monkees Present (1969) |
 Changes (1970) |
 A Barrel Full of Monkees (1971) |
Changes is the ninth studio album by The Monkees. The album was issued after Michael Nesmith's exit from the band, leaving only Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones to fulfill the recording contract they signed in the mid-1960s. Changes was their last new album for Colgems Records.
The album's title had originally been considered for the Monkees's movie (released in 1968), and a song with that title (cowritten by Jones with Steve Pitts) had been recorded. The movie was retitled Head, however, and the song was shelved, remaining unreleased until the 1990s.
Changes reunited Jones and Dolenz with producer Jeff Barry, who now had his own successful record label, Steed Records. "99 Pounds" was a leftover from a 1967 session, "Midnight Train" (recorded during sessions for The Monkees Present) was featured in CBS-TV reruns of the television show, and "Acapulco Sun" was released as a single in Mexico, becoming a minor hit there. "Oh My My" became the single from the album, but barely scraped the Top 100 in the Billboard charts. As with the earliest Monkees recordings, Jones and Dolenz only provided their vocals, while the backing tracks were provided by session musicians.
The album appeared in June of 1970, and failed to make the charts. Jones announced shortly after that he was resuming his solo career, but he and Dolenz would release one more single together (before reuniting in 1976, with Monkees producers Boyce and Hart). In the wake of the success of the Monkees' television show being rebroadcast on Saturday mornings by CBS, the duo recorded "Do It In The Name Of Love" and "Lady Jane", in September of 1970. Instead of appearing under the Monkees name on Colgems Records, however, the single was released on Bell Records, the successor label to Colgems, credited to "Mickey Dolenz (sic) and Davy Jones".
Changes was reissued in December of 1986 by Rhino Records, as were all of the original Monkees albums that year, and made a belated entry into the Billboard album charts.
Jones has stated that Changes is his least favorite Monkees effort, going so far as to comment in the CD version's liner notes: "That was Jeff Barry and Andy Kim doing an Andy Kim album," adding that he had terrible memories of the recording sessions. Dolenz, while not lavishing praise on Changes, said that he was pleased to be invited to record new material.
[edit] Track listing
- "Oh My My" (Barry, Kim)
- "Ticket On A Ferry Ride" (Barry, Bloom)
- "You're So Good To Me" (Barry, Bloom)
- "It's Got To Be Love" (Goldberg)
- "Acapulco Sun" (Albright, Soles)
- "99 Pounds" (Barry)
- "Tell Me Love" (Barry)
- "Do You Feel It Too?" (Barry, Kim)
- "I Love You Better" (Barry, Kim)
- "All Alone In The Dark" (Albright, Soles)
- "Midnight Train" (Dolenz)
- "I Never Thought It Peculiar" (Boyce, Hart)
[edit] CD bonus tracks
- "Time And Time Again" (Jones, Chadwick)
- "Do It In The Name Of Love" (Bloom, Goldberg)
- "Lady Jane" (Bloom, Goldberg)
