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"Pleasant Valley Sunday" is a song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, recorded and released by the Monkees in the summer of 1967. Inspired by their move to West Orange, New Jersey , and named for a street there, Goffin and King wrote the song about their dissatisfaction with life in the suburbs .
The album's single, "Pleasant Valley Sunday" b/w "Words", was a hit, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was among the earliest to make use of the Moog synthesizer , which Micky Dolenz introduced to the group and played in the studio; he owned one of the first twenty ever sold. [ 6 ]
Daydream Believer and Other Hits included both sides to the "Pleasant Valley Sunday", "Valleri" and "D. W. Washburn" singles, as well as the A-sides of the "Daydream Believer", "Good Clean Fun" and "Oh, My, My" single releases. "You Can't Tie a Mustang Down" is a bubblegum rocker that makes its debut here.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gerry Goffin, a prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "(You Make Me ...
Goffin and King formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the period, with hit songs including: "Take Good Care of My Baby" (a hit for Bobby Vee), "Halfway to Paradise" (Tony Orlando, Billy Fury), "The Loco-Motion" (Little Eva, and later Grand Funk Railroad and Kylie Minogue), "Go Away Little Girl" (Steve Lawrence, and later ...
Initially dismissed by critics in the late 1960s as a fabricated and talentless pop group, The Monkees experienced a significant resurgence in critical and commercial popularity during the mid-1980s. This revival was catalyzed by a marathon of their original television series, titled "Pleasant Valley Sunday", broadcast on MTV on
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King's songs "Pleasant Valley Sunday", "Sometime in the Morning", and "Porpoise Song" (Theme from Head) have emerged as signature songs from the Monkees. As of February 2010, he was appearing on stage in London in Hairspray with Michael Ball. The show also went on tour and had a successful run in Dublin, Ireland, during November 2010.