"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 |
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Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 2:01 | |||
Label | Colgems #5000 | |||
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The Monkees singles chronology | ||||
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Tear Drop City is a single by The Monkees released on February 8, 1969 on Colgems #5000 recorded on October 26, 1966. The song reached No. 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 departed December 1968). Micky Dolenz performed the lead vocal. Boyce and Hart produced and arranged the song.
The flip-side was "A Man Without a Dream", with Davy Jones doing the lead vocal. Notably, it was the first Monkees b-side since "Take a Giant Step" (off their debut single) not to chart, a sign of the group's waning popularity.
Both single sides were from the album Instant Replay.