And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'

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And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'

Studio album by Michael Nesmith

Released

1972

Length

Pacific Arts

Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith chronology

Tantamount to Treason Vol. 1
(1971)

And the Hits Just Keep on Comin
(1972)

Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash
(1973)

And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' is Michael Nesmith's sixth album. The album features Nesmith on vocals and acoustic guitar and long-time accompanist "Red" Rhodes on pedal steel. Nesmith has stated that the title of the album is a reaction to the record label repeatedly asking him to write more hit songs and features Nesmith's own version of his tune "Different Drum", a hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys in 1967. The liner notes to the album are signed "Papa Nes".

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Michael Nesmith.

"Tomorrow & Me" – 3:45
"The Upside of Good-Bye" – 2:50
"Lady Love" – 2:50
"Listening" – 2:23
"Two Different Roads" – 2:39
"The Candidate" – 2:35
"Different Drum" – 2:58
"Harmony Constant" – 3:48
"Keep On" – 3:30
"Roll With the Flow" – 5:08

[edit] The band

Michael Nesmith (guitars and vocal)
O.J. "Red" Rhodes (pedal steel)

[edit] Trivia

The album was recorded in March 1972 and all ten tracks had been composed by Mike before and early in his stint with The Monkees.

"Different Drum" made an unofficial debut on The Monkees episode Too Many Girls when Mike, posing as a mic-frightened folk singer, butchers its lyrics while playing the guitar.

Mike's version of "Different Drum" features four verses as opposed to the three in Linda Ronstadt's version; the verses in the Ronstadt version are the song's first, the second, the bridge, and then the fourth.