Tear Drop City (song)
| "Tear Drop City" | ||||
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| Single by The Monkees | ||||
| from the album Instant Replay | ||||
| B-side | "A Man Without a Dream" | |||
| Released | 8 February 1969 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded |
26 October 1966 RCA Victor Studios Hollywood, CA | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 2:01 | |||
| Label | Colgems #5000 | |||
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Tear Drop City is a single by The Monkees released on February 8, 1969 on Colgems #5000. It had been recorded on October 26, 1966. The song went to #56 on the Billboard chart. The lyrics are about a man who feels low because his girlfriend has left him. Written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, it was the first single The Monkees released as a trio (Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Davy Jones; Peter Tork left in December 1968). Micky Dolenz did the lead vocal. Boyce and Hart produced and arranged the song, which ran 2 minutes and 1 second. The flip-side was "A Man Without a Dream", with Davy Jones doing the lead vocal. Both songs were from The Monkees album "Instant Replay", which was put out on CD by Rhino Records in 1995.
References
- Joel Whitburn's Billboard Top Pop Singles
- Instant Replay Rhino CD booklet
