#pleasant valley sunday

[jt1674]

[tantrumofdarkness]

[thislovintime]

Headquarters sessions, 1967.

“I have been working at the Recording Studios just recently with the other boys, cutting our new single Pleasant Valley Sunday and Words. The sessions have been great, and so much so that on one day our Recording Engineer, Hank Cicalo gifted us all… they turned out to be very gassy looking water-pistols. Naturally, we immediately put them to use, and the sessions turned into cold, or should I say ‘wet’ warfare! Instrumentally, I can’t say it helped the record one iota, but we certainly added some extra vitality to the potted plants, and also gave the partition window between the studio and the engineer’s booth an added gleam… [...] Please stay happy for me… 
Love and peace, Peter Tork” - Fabulous 208, July 15, 1967

[myimaginaryradio]

Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees - 1967

[howardhawkshollywoodmusic]

90. Pleasant Valley Sunday by The Monkees debuted Jul 67 and peaked at number three, scoring 830 points.

The Monkees' first 11 chart entries all made the top 40, through 1968. Their only other top 40 was their 1986 reunion, That Was Then, This Is Now. The song peaked at number 20 and was first credited to Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork (of The Monkees).

[codesquire]

Say what you may, about The Monkees, but you can't commend their management and production, enough, for getting some great proto-garage/proto-punk tunes in their catalog.

I think that's what's given them staying power.

"Pleasant Valley Sunday" - absolutely brilliant piece of satire, worthy of Jello Biafra.

[arvidsgarden]

The ever evolving playlist

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The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday" - ORIGINAL VIDEO - HQ

[radarsteddybear]

I think that the Monkees should have covered the Mamas and the Papas and the Mamas and the Papas should have covered the Monkees

[rodeoromeo]

liking these monkees songs on spotify once isn’t enough. I need my finger to drill through the heart so hard it comes out the other side of my phone

[myimaginaryradio]

Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees

[chiffonlime643]

'Pleasant Valley Sunday' by The Monkees walked so 'Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally' by Will Wood could run

[radioprune]

bringing the grand total of licks i can play up to like. five

[leonardcohenofficial]

top five monkees songs? 🎶

in no particular order:

auntie’s municipal court

for pete’s sake (closing theme)

come on in

papa gene’s blues

you told me