More Greatest Hits of The Monkees

More Greatest Hits of the Monkees was a 1982 greatest hits compilation album of songs by the Monkees, assembled and released by Arista Records. Rather than featuring strictly hit singles, the collection instead featured music from their television series, which was still airing in syndication around the US.

This album marks the compilation debut of charted hits "Words" and "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", which had been overlooked on the previous greatest hits albums.

While the album was welcome among fans, in the absence of virtually any Monkees vinyl in print for over a decade (except for 1976's The Monkees Greatest Hits), apparently not much budgeting had gone into the release. A stock photo was hand coloured, a brief page worth of liner notes appeared (and of course no lyrics), and the sound quality itself was unfortunately less than superb. One of the record's detractors was one of its original performers – former Monkee Michael Nesmith, who had sampled a copy, and found little to praise. The 1988 CD reissue differs greatly from the original 1982 LP. In fact, this was the stereo debut of "The Girl I Knew Somewhere", which had appeared on singles and other compilation LP's in mono or "electronic stereo".

When Rhino Records reissued the entire Monkees catalog during 1995, this and all previous Monkees greatest hits compilations were deleted. The songs can all be found (carefully digitally remastered) on present-day Monkees issues from Rhino.

Track listing

1. "Take a Giant Step" (King & Goffin) (true stereo on LP, mono on CD)
2. "Mary, Mary" (Nesmith) (original 1967 stereo mix on LP, extended stereo mix on CD)
3. "Sometime in the Morning" (King & Goffin) (true stereo/single vocal on LP, mono/double-tracked vocal on CD)
4. "Cuddly Toy" (Nilsson) (CD and LP feature same mix)
5. "Randy Scouse Git" (Dolenz) (CD and LP feature same mix)
6. "Words" (Boyce & Hart) (CD and LP feature same mix)
7. "Valleri" (Boyce & Hart) (LP version fades out, CD version contains full ending)
8. "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) (CD and LP feature same mix)
9. "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (Nesmith) ("Electronic Stereo" on LP, true stereo on CD)
10. "Saturday's Child" (Gates) (true stereo on LP, mono on CD)
11. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (Diamond) (CD and LP feature same mix)
12. "For Pete's Sake" (Tork & Richards) (CD and LP feature same mix)

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