The Monkees' song that Carole King wrote was titled "Pleasant Valley Sunday." The song was released by the band in 1967.
Neil Diamond
The song "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees, or recently known to be done by Smashmouth, was not written by the monkees the writer was Neil Diamond. Neil's first song he wrote he sold tto the monkees and that was his first written song to go on the charts. Daniel Tuerffs "The Walking Musical Library" Yorba Linda, CA
The Monkeys version of Steppin Stone was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
He wrote several songs; his most famous was "For Pete's Sake," which became the closing theme for the TV show.
The Monkees' song that Carole King wrote was titled "Pleasant Valley Sunday." The song was released by the band in 1967.
It was Carole King's comment on the peculiarities of suburban life and the competitive nature within. It was also written as a vehicle for The Monkees (the first group to record the song) to make use of a guitar riff interlocked with bass, developed by producer Chip Douglas, because he was looking for the next big guitar riff along the lines of "Day Tripper" and "Last Train To Clarksville".
Neil Diamond
According to allmusic.com, "There would be original material generated for [Th Monkees] to sing in the [TV] series, mostly by professional songwriters like Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, and Neil Diamond." Most of these songs were the early hits, like "I'm a Believer," "Last Train to Clarksville," "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You," "Pleasant Valley Sunday," "Stepping Stone," "Take a Giant Step," "Valleri," and "Words". Later, The Monkees wrote more of their own material, but nothing that would be as big a hit as those mentioned above. In October 1996 in honor of their 30th Anniversary, The Monkees released an album called Justus (meaning Just Us), and that's exactly what it was from start to finish anything & everything that went into it was by the 4 Monkees (Micky, Peter, Davy & Mike), from the song writing (lyrics & music), to the singing & instruments to the production! Although all of the Monkees did very occasionally write their own material the only regular writer was Mike Nesmith. He wrote many of their songs such as "Girl I Knew Somewhere", "Mary Mary", "Listen To The Band" and many others. He also produced many of the sessions himself.
Charles wrote to the beach boys but There's a good reason Manson couldn't have attended the Monkees audition: he was incarcerated at MacNeil Island when they took place.
Derek Landy is the author of the Skulduggery Pleasant series.
The song "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees, or recently known to be done by Smashmouth, was not written by the monkees the writer was Neil Diamond. Neil's first song he wrote he sold tto the monkees and that was his first written song to go on the charts. Daniel Tuerffs "The Walking Musical Library" Yorba Linda, CA
The Monkeys version of Steppin Stone was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
Derek Landy
"How Green Was My Valley" was written by Richard Llewellen.
he wrote skulduggery pleasant series
He wrote several songs; his most famous was "For Pete's Sake," which became the closing theme for the TV show.