Their last album of Top10 hit songs including the long awaited album release of "Daydream Believer."With the exception of the aforementioned song,the rest of the album was produced by the band.Other great cuts include "P.O. Box 9847," a re-make of an unreleased song that was played only on the TV series which finally gets released as a single: "Valleri" and a take off of the late 60s addage: "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came." That phrase gave birth to a song voiced by Micky entitled "Zor and Zam." One album followed this one which was not in my collection..the soundtrack to their movie "Head" released in late 1968 to bad reviews and befuddled moviegoers trying to make heads or tails of the storyline. Fortunately,in the 1980s "Head" became a popular cult classic.
After The Monkees weeky sitcom was cancelled by NBC,the group planned on making three TV specials for the peacock network but only one materialized as "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" which was never aired until 1970 after Peter already left the group and this album was released. Was a rather boorish collection of ballads however one good cut was featured: "You and I." Monkee magic was diminishing at a rapid pace as radio stations no longer had their songs on their playlists,so the group promoted this and later albums on musical variety and comedy shows including Glen Campbell,Johnny Cash and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
The Monkees(at present) were a trio as Peter Tork sought a solo carreer after the failure of "Head" and "33 1/3 Revolutions...." Nez penned the song "Listen To The Band" (the "B"side to "Someday Man.")earlier that year and released it as a single..which was also the only thing that made this equally boorish album worth buying but hey-hey, if you were a die-hard Monkees fan in a Led Zeppelin world as I was and in a new decade,you bought the album anyway at least for the sake of collecting. Their next album "Changes" was their last in 1970 and the group was down to a duo in Micky and Davy,and then in 1971 Colgems Records ceased operations as a record label. Theirs and all other recordings released by Colgems were carried over to Columbia-aquired Bell Records which later changed its name to Arista in 1975. Rhino purchased the rights to all Monkees recordings and the group's logo from Columbia Pictures and Arista in 1986.
Arista later joined with RCA Records and became part of Bertlesman Music Group(BMG) shortly before Columbia Pictures and Tri Star were aquired by Sony who also bought the CBS record label group.
