60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
8/16/66 – The first Monkees single, “Last Train To Clarksville,” is released on Colgems Records, a full month before their television series premiers on NBC. It will go straight to #1.
(Did you collect all of the different picture sleeve variables that were released???)
Black and White Photo with no additional promo information; Sepia Photo with no additional promo information; Sepia Photo with LP promotional information; Color Photo with LP promotional information; Color Photo with Fan Club information and Color Photo with "Write To The Monkees" information with an NBC television plug -
Quite a launch campaign for a brand new, unproven group whose television series hadn't even started yet!!!
