Changes (The Monkees album)
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| Studio album by The Monkees | ||||
| Released | June 1970 | |||
| Recorded | October 28, 1966, January 21–24, February 4–6, 1967, July 16-September 12, 1969 and February 5–April 2, 1970, New York City, and RCA Victor Studios, and The Sound Factory, Hollywood |
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| Genre | Pop rock,bubblegum pop | |||
| Length | 39:32 | |||
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Colgems (original U.S. release) RCA (Japan) Rhino (1986 LP reissue + 1994 CD reissue) |
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| Producer | Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Bill Chadwick, Jeff Barry | |||
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Changes is the ninth studio album by The Monkees. The album was issued after Michael Nesmith's exit from the band, leaving only Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones to fulfill the recording contract they signed in the mid-1960s. Changes was their last new album for Colgems Records and the group's last album of all new material until 1987's Pool It.
The album's title had originally been considered for the Monkees' movie (released in 1968), and a song with that title (cowritten by Jones with Steve Pitts) had been recorded. The movie was retitled Head, however, and the song was shelved, remaining unreleased until the 1990s.
Changes reunited Jones and Dolenz with producer Jeff Barry, who now had his own successful record label, Steed Records. As with the earliest Monkees recordings, Jones and Dolenz provided only their vocals, while the backing tracks were provided by session musicians. Barry plucked his own produced outtake of his composition "99 Pounds" from the final Don Kirshner-supervised Monkees sessions in January 1967 that also yielded the hit single "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"; while "Midnight Train" was recorded during sessions for The Monkees Present and had been featured in CBS-TV reruns of the The Monkees television show (most notably in "The Chaperone"). "I Never Thought It Peculiar" was recorded during the sessions for More of the Monkees.
"Oh My My" became the first single from the album and made the Top 100 in the Billboard charts; written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, it is unrelated to the later 1973 Ringo Starr single of the same name. Besides being the opening track and lead-off single from the album, "Oh My My" was also accompanied by a rare promo film directed by Micky Dolenz, showing Micky and Davy Jones riding their motorcycles and horses. "Acapulco Sun" was released as a single in Mexico, becoming a minor hit there.
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