Favorite song off More of the Monkees

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This album has LOTS of highs (She, Laugh, Sometime in the Morning, etc) and a few lows (The Day We Fall in Love).

I gotta go with She just beating out Laugh and The Kind of Girl I Could Love

[H2IZCOOL]

I went with Not Your Stepping Stone. But it is closely followed by Your Auntie Grizelda, Mary Mary, She, and I'm A Believer (which I would have liked more if, at the time, the local radio station didn't call it the #1 song of the year based on listener votes. Most of the votes obviously coming from pre-teens who picked it because it was the number one song that week.)

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h2izcool said:

I went with Not Your Stepping Stone. But it is closely followed by Your Auntie Grizelda, Mary Mary, She, and I'm A Believer (which I would have liked more if, at the time, the local radio station didn't call it the #1 song of the year based on listener votes. Most of the votes obviously coming from pre-teens who picked it because it was the number one song that week.)

Guess what-it DID become the number song of the year on Billboard.

[H2IZCOOL]

sat said:

h2izcool said:

I went with Not Your Stepping Stone. But it is closely followed by Your Auntie Grizelda, Mary Mary, She, and I'm A Believer (which I would have liked more if, at the time, the local radio station didn't call it the #1 song of the year based on listener votes. Most of the votes obviously coming from pre-teens who picked it because it was the number one song that week.)

Guess what-it DID become the number song of the year on Billboard.

1967? - That was Light My Fire.

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h2izcool said:

sat said:

Guess what-it DID become the number song of the year on Billboard.

1967? - That was Light My Fire.

Nope. 1966. It was released on 12/10 and apparently it was high enough quick enough that it was considered a 66 hit.

Oh and nope-1967 was To Sir With Love.

[Ken]

I'm going with Mary, Mary followed by Sometime in The Morning, I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone etc.

[H2IZCOOL]

sat said:

h2izcool said:

1967? - That was Light My Fire.

Nope. 1966. It was released on 12/10 and apparently it was high enough quick enough that it was considered a 66 hit.

Oh and nope-1967 was To Sir With Love.

I've seen both To Sir With Love and Light My Fire Listed as #1 songs. Are you going by Whitburn? I don't subscribe to his method of calling a song that was #1 for the most weeks in a particular year, the #1 song of the year. I use total weeks on the chart and give a certain number of points for each week at a particular position.

I'm trying to think what I have listed for #1 of 1966, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't I'm a Believer. I'm pretty sure I have that in 1967 since the majority of its tenure by far on the charts was in '67.

I don't think you could have gotten the data from Billboard itself, could you. I remember Billboard treated songs that spanned two years rather unfairly by dividing their rankings up between the two years.

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h2izcool said:

sat said:

Nope. 1966. It was released on 12/10 and apparently it was high enough quick enough that it was considered a 66 hit.

Oh and nope-1967 was To Sir With Love.

I've seen both To Sir With Love and Light My Fire Listed as #1 songs. Are you going by Whitburn? I don't subscribe to his method of calling a song that was #1 for the most weeks in a particular year, the #1 song of the year. I use total weeks on the chart and give a certain number of points for each week at a particular position.

I'm trying to think what I have listed for #1 of 1966, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't I'm a Believer. I'm pretty sure I have that in 1967 since the majority of its tenure by far on the charts was in '67.

I don't think you could have gotten the data from Billboard itself, could you. I remember Billboard treated songs that spanned two years rather unfairly by dividing their rankings up between the two years.

Oh, well then you subscribe to your own personal method. But Whitburn is an "official" guide for Billboard, so that's what people go by. And honestly, before I had a single Whitburn book, I saw a list somewhere that listed Believer as the number 1 song of the year.

I guess your way of figuring is a little strange to me. As an example, take Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life, 10 weeks at number 1. But what if that spent a total of say 17 weeks on the charts altogether, on and off quick. Then say some other song that wasn't at number 1 as long, but lingered on the charts for a long time, you'd consider that the number 1 of the year?

Whitburn's method just makes the most sense to me. If Song A spent more weeks at number 1 than songs B, C, D, etc, that was the most successful of the year.

I did get the data from Billboard. I guess because I'm a Believer peaked in 66, that's what they go by.

[55dodger]

I went with (I'm not Your) Steppin' Stone. She & I'm a Believer would place high as well.

[Pete70s]

Probably my least favorite Monkees album (I prefer the later stuff), I like a few songs here, but I'll go with "Steppin' Stone" since it's one of the first songs I remember.

[Railyn]

This is the least favorite album of the group, and probably of mine as well. Hastily thrown together.

I gave my vote to Sometime In The Morning. Good song. I like Carole King.

[Dawn]

Another vote for (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone. Sometime in the Morning would be a close second choice.

[H2IZCOOL]

sat said:

h2izcool said:

I've seen both To Sir With Love and Light My Fire Listed as #1 songs. Are you going by Whitburn? I don't subscribe to his method of calling a song that was #1 for the most weeks in a particular year, the #1 song of the year. I use total weeks on the chart and give a certain number of points for each week at a particular position.

I'm trying to think what I have listed for #1 of 1966, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't I'm a Believer. I'm pretty sure I have that in 1967 since the majority of its tenure by far on the charts was in '67.

I don't think you could have gotten the data from Billboard itself, could you. I remember Billboard treated songs that spanned two years rather unfairly by dividing their rankings up between the two years.

Oh, well then you subscribe to your own personal method. But Whitburn is an "official" guide for Billboard, so that's what people go by. And honestly, before I had a single Whitburn book, I saw a list somewhere that listed Believer as the number 1 song of the year.

I guess your way of figuring is a little strange to me. As an example, take Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life, 10 weeks at number 1. But what if that spent a total of say 17 weeks on the charts altogether, on and off quick. Then say some other song that wasn't at number 1 as long, but lingered on the charts for a long time, you'd consider that the number 1 of the year?

Whitburn's method just makes the most sense to me. If Song A spent more weeks at number 1 than songs B, C, D, etc, that was the most successful of the year.

I did get the data from Billboard. I guess because I'm a Believer peaked in 66, that's what they go by.

Actually, I remember Billboard rating songs the same way. I think it was I Go Crazy by Paul Davis, which only hit #7 on the chart, but was on forever, being listed somewhere in the top ten songs of the year.

I used to assign 20 points for each week a song was at #1, 19 points for each week at #2, etc. Like I say, I thought Billboard did it the same way, but I didn't like the fact that they'd split the points between two years if a song straddled a year. I'd assign a song to a particular year and put all the points there.

Whitburn, I think starts with only #1 songs and ranks them as to how many weeks they were at #1. If there's a tie, he looks at weeks at #2. After he gets through all the #1 songs he does the same thing for #2 songs.

Anyway, I forgot to look last night as to what I had for #1 in '66 (Pretty sure I had I'm a Believer in '67. because most of its chart tenure was there. )

[smittykins--70s pop RULES!]

I went with I'm A Believer, followed by Stepping Stone.

[mary]

Sometime In The Morning, with a second being The Kind Of Girl I Could Love.