Monkeemania (The Very Best of the Monkees)

Monkeemania (The Very Best of the Monkees)
Greatest hits album by The Monkees
Released 9 May 2011
Recorded 1966–1970
Genre Rock, pop
Length 0:02:34:17
Producer Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Jack Keller, Jeff Barry, Michael Nesmith, Neil Sedaka, Carole Bayer Sager, Chip Douglas, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Bones Howe Michael Lloyd, Roger Bechirian, Felton Jarvis
The Monkees chronology

The Monkees: Original Album Series
(2010)		 Monkeemania (The Very Best of the Monkees)
(2011)

Monkeemania (The Very Best of the Monkees) is a 2 disc Monkees compilation released in 2011. It contains 57 of The Monkees' greatest hits. A few of the songs selected for the album are actually rarity songs from the Monkees' Missing Links albums.

Disc 1 - Track listing

  1. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 2:20
  2. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:46
  3. "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:31
  4. "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) - 2:44
  5. "Papa Gene's Blues" (Michael Nesmith) - 1:59
  6. "I Wanna Be Free" [Album Version] (Boyce, Hart) – 2:26
  7. "I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond) – 2:46
  8. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:23
  9. "She" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:39
  10. "Mary, Mary" (Nesmith) - 2:17
  11. "Your Auntie Grizelda" (Diane Hilderbrand, Jack Keller) - 2:29
  12. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" [Extended Mix] (Diamond) – 2:49
  13. "Sometime in the Morning" (Goffin, King) - 2:29
  14. "When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)" (Neil Sedaka, Carole Bayer Sager) - 1:48
  15. "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" (Diamond) – 2:48
  16. "She Hangs Out" (Single Version) (Jeff Barry) - 2:34
  17. "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (Nesmith) – 2:33
  18. "All of Your Toys" (Bill Martin) - 3:09
  19. "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)" (Micky Dolenz) – 2:34
  20. "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) - 2:04
  21. "Forget That Girl" (Douglas Farthing Hatlelid) - 2:26
  22. "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 3:23
  23. "For Pete's Sake" (Peter Tork, Joey Richards) – 2:11
  24. "Sunny Girlfriend" (Nesmith) - 2:33
  25. "You Told Me" (Nesmith) - 2:25
  26. "No Time" (Hank Cicalo) - 2:09
  27. "Salesman" (Craig Vincent Smith) - 2:36
  28. "The Door into Summer" (Douglas, Martin) - 2:49
  29. "Daily Nightly" (Nesmith) - 2:32
  30. "Star Collector" (Goffin, King) - 4:24

Disc 2 - Track listing

  1. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Goffin, King) – 3:08
  2. "Words" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:51
  3. "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" (Michael Martin Murphey, Owen Castleman) – 3:08
  4. "Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:40
  5. "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart) – 2:58
  6. "Goin' Down" (Dolenz, Hilderbrand, Davy Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 4:23
  7. "Valleri" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:14
  8. "I'll Be Back up on My Feet" (Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell) - 2:28
  9. "P.O. Box 9847" (Boyce, Hart) - 3:15
  10. "Tapioca Tundra" (Nesmith) - 3:06
  11. "D.W. Washburn" (Leiber & Stoller) - 2:48
  12. "Daddy's Song" (Nilsson) – 3:28
  13. "Porpoise Song (Theme from "Head")" (Goffin, King) – 4:13
  14. "As We Go Along" (King, Toni Stern) – 3:54
  15. "Can You Dig It?" (Tork) – 3:24
  16. "Circle Sky" (Alternate Mix) (Nesmith) - 2:31
  17. "Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?" (Tork) – 2:39
  18. "Tear Drop City" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:01
  19. "A Man Without a Dream" (Goffin, King) – 3:03
  20. "Someday Man" (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) – 2:40
  21. "Listen to the Band" (Nesmith) – 2:28
  22. "Some of Shelly's Blues" (Nesmith) - 2:30
  23. "How Insensitive" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicus DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel) - 2:32
  24. "Good Clean Fun" (Nesmith) - 2:18
  25. "Mommy and Daddy" (Dolenz) - 2:13
  26. "Oh My My" (Barry, Andy Kim) - 3:01
  27. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (TV Version) (Boyce, Hart) – 0:50

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