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#1 song overall in 1967
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A tense meeting at ''The Beverly Hills Hotel'' between the group and Kirshner, his attorney, and a few others culminated band member Michael Nesmith slamming his fist into the wall in defiant response to Kirshner's demand that they record ''Sugar, Sugar''
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''I'm a Believer'', written by the then-obscure but future megastar Neil Diamond, became an immediate spectacular hit.
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and the instrumental music was played by others.
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Their ''Last Train to Clarksville'' became a top hit before the show aired, and once the show aired their album soared to the top of the charts selling more 3 million albums in merely 90 days.
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particularly in 1967 (when they sold 35 million records)
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Micky Dolenz, the last surviving member of the band, did the vocals on the popular ''Last Train to Clarksville'', ''I'm a Believer'', and ''Pleasant Valley Sunday''
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Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote ''The Monkees'' smash debut single, ''Last Train to Clarksville''.
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Mickey Dolenz was lead vocals on that song.
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Neil Diamond wrote the love song ''I'm a Believer'', which spent 7 weeks at #1 starting at the end of 1966, making it the top single of the year for 1967.
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television show was (1966–1968)
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MTV (started 13 years later, in 1981)
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The television show has been described as an influential precursor to MTV, and the show had some initial popularity in syndication.
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→Songwriters: Superb songwriters for tunes The Monkees played on their show included Carole King, Neil Diamond, Harry Nilsson, and Boyce & Hart.
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But The Monkees did ultimately perform these songs written by Nesmith: ...
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Band member Michael Nesmith wrote the song "Different Drum" but The Monkees' producer Don Kirshner blocked the band from playing their original material on their television show.
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The songwriter for the popular "Daydream Believer" song by the Monkees was John Stewart.
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MTV ran a marathon of the television episodes in early 1986. "We've never received such a volume of mail," MTV's general manager Tom Freston described to Rolling Stone magazine in September of that year.
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