Complete List Of The Monkees Songs From A to Z

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The Monkees were a cultural phenomenon created at the intersection of television and popular music in the 1960s. Conceived in Los Angeles as the center of a television comedy, the group brought together Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork. Jones contributed Broadway experience and an immediately recognizable pop presence, Dolenz brought comic timing and an unusually flexible voice, Nesmith arrived as a songwriter with strong country and folk instincts, and Tork was a gifted multi-instrumentalist rooted in the folk scene.

The group was assembled in 1965 after producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider advertised for performers to star in a television series inspired partly by the energy of A Hard Day’s Night. The early recordings were supervised by producers and songwriters including Don Kirshner, Tommy Boyce, and Bobby Hart, with many sessions supported by experienced studio musicians. The first album, The Monkees, arrived in 1966 and included “(Theme from) The Monkees,” “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I Wanna Be Free,” and “Papa Gene’s Blues.”

The Monkees’ rapid success led to More of the Monkees in early 1967, but the members soon fought for greater control over their music. That struggle produced Headquarters, an album on which the group played the principal instruments and worked as a functioning band. Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. followed later in 1967, combining the members’ own performances with outside musicians and expanding the group’s sound through songs including “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Words,” “Daily Nightly,” and “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?”

The television series ended in 1968, but the group continued experimenting. The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees included “Daydream Believer,” “Valleri,” and “Tapioca Tundra,” while the film Head dismantled the manufactured image that had made the group famous. Its soundtrack moved between fully developed songs, orchestral passages, dialogue, satire, and psychedelic collage. As the original lineup began to fragment, Instant Replay, The Monkees Present, and Changes documented a group increasingly shaped by individual sessions and changing personnel.

The Monkees disbanded in 1971 but repeatedly returned to public view. A major revival in 1986 led to new recordings and the album Pool It! in 1987. Justus reunited all four original members in 1996, with the group writing and performing the album themselves. Two decades later, Good Times! paired new performances with unfinished 1960s recordings and songs written by contemporary admirers including Andy Partridge, Ben Gibbard, Rivers Cuomo, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, and producer Adam Schlesinger.

Christmas Party followed in 2018, combining new holiday songs with classic material and archived vocals by Davy Jones. The album also featured lead performances by Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, allowing all four Monkees to be represented despite Jones’s death in 2012. Tork died in 2019, and Nesmith died in 2021, leaving Dolenz as the surviving member of the original quartet.

The group’s archive has continued to reveal how much music existed beyond the familiar singles. The 2022 Headquarters: Super Deluxe Edition presented extensive session material, while the expanded Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. project collected more than 100 tracks and reached digital platforms in 2026. Rhino also announced Made for TV: Official Soundtrack to Season 1 of The Monkees, a multimedia set built around rare broadcast mixes and restored episodes from the first television season.

The Monkees’ importance rests in the way the four members exceeded the limitations of the project that introduced them. Their television series helped reshape the relationship between comedy, music, and youth culture, while recordings including “I’m a Believer,” “Daydream Believer,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Porpoise Song,” and “Listen to the Band” remained part of the pop vocabulary long after the original program ended.

Complete List Of The Monkees Songs From A to Z

For archival material, the year shown identifies when the recording was made when known. The compilation, box set, or deluxe edition named may have been released later.

#–D

“99 Pounds” – Changes (recorded 1967; released 1970)
“Acapulco Sun” – Changes (1970)
“Admiral Mike” – Justus (1996)
“All Alone in the Dark” – Changes (1970)
“All of Your Toys” – Missing Links (1967)
“All the King’s Horses” – Missing Links Volume Two (1966)
“Alvin” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track; recorded 1968)
“Angel Band” – Missing Links Volume Three (1969)
“Angels We Have Heard on High” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere” – Then & Now… The Best of The Monkees (1986)
“Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears” – Missing Links (1966)
“As We Go Along” – Head (1968)
“Auntie’s Municipal Court” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1968)
“Band 6” – Headquarters (1967)
“Banjo Jam” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“A Better World” – Good Times! (2016, bonus track)
“Birth of an Accidental Hipster” – Good Times! (2016)
“Black and Blue” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“Blues” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“Calico Girlfriend Samba” – The Monkees Present (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track; recorded 1969)
“California Here I Come” – Head (2010 Rhino Handmade deluxe edition) (1968)
“Can You Dig It?” – Head (1968)
“Cantata and Fugue in C and W (Six-String Improvisation)” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Carlisle Wheeling” – Missing Links (1967)
“Ceiling in My Room” – I’m a Believer and Other Hits (recorded 1967)
“Changes” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“Christmas Is My Time of Year” – Christmas Is My Time of Year (single) (1976)
“Christmas Party” – Christmas Party (2018)
“The Christmas Song” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Circle Sky” – Head (1968)
“Circle Sky” (remake with alternate lyrics) – Justus (1996)
“Come On In” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“Counting on You” – Pool It! (1987)
“Cripple Creek” (live version) – Live 1967 (1967)
“The Crippled Lion” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“Cuddly Toy” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“D.W. Washburn” – non-album single (1968)
“Daddy’s Song” – Head (1968)
“Daily Nightly” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Dandruff?” – Head (1968)
“The Day We Fall in Love” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Daydream Believer” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1967)
“Ditty Diego – War Chant” – Head (1968)
“Do It in the Name of Love” – Do It in the Name of Love (single) (1970)
“Do You Feel It Too?” – Changes (1970)
“Don’t Be Cruel” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Don’t Bring Me Down” – Pool It! (1987)
“Don’t Call on Me” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Don’t Listen to Linda” – Instant Replay (1967)
“Don’t Wait for Me” – Instant Replay (1968)
“The Door Into Summer” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Dream World” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1968)
“Dyin’ of a Broken Heart” – Justus (1996)

E–I

“Early Morning Blues and Greens” – Headquarters (1967)
“Eve of My Sorrow” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“Every Step of the Way” – Pool It! (1987)
“Fever” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“For Pete’s Sake (Closing Theme)” – Headquarters (1967)
“Forget that Girl” – Headquarters (1967)
“French Song” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“Gettin’ In” – Pool It! (1987)
“Girl” (live version) – Together Again (1995)
“The Girl I Knew Somewhere” – non-album single B-side (1967)
“The Girl I Left Behind Me” – Instant Replay (1968)
“Goin’ Down” – non-album single B-side (1967)
“Goldilocks Sometime” – Instant Replay (2011 Rhino Handmade deluxe edition) (1968)
“Gonna Build a Mountain” (live version) – Live 1967 (1967)
“Gonna Buy Me a Dog” – The Monkees (1966)
“Good Clean Fun” – The Monkees Present (1968)
“The Good Earth” – The Monkees Present (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1969)
“Good Times!” – Good Times! (1968)
“Gotta Give It Time” – Good Times! (1967)
“Gravy” – Head (1968)
“Happy Birthday to You” – Head (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1968)
“Hard to Believe” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Head Radio Spot” – Head (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1968)
“Heart and Soul” – Pool It! (1987)
“Hold on Girl (Help is on its Way)” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Hollywood” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“House of Broken Gingerbread” – Christmas Party (2018)
“How Insensitive” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“I Believe You” – Justus (1996)
“I Can’t Get Her off My Mind” – Headquarters (1967)
“I Didn’t Know You Had It in You Sally (You’re a Real Ball of Fire)” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (recorded 1967)
“I Don’t Think You Know Me” (first recorded version) – Missing Links (1966)
“I Go Ape” – Instant Replay (2011 Rhino Handmade deluxe edition) (1968)
“I Got a Woman” (live version) – Live 1967 (1967)
“I Know What I Know” – Good Times! (2016)
“I Love You Better” – Changes (1970)
“I Never Thought It Peculiar” – Changes (1966)
“(I Prithee) Do Not Ask for Love” – Missing Links Volume Two (1966)
“I Wanna Be Free” – The Monkees (1966)
“I Wanna Be Your Puppy Dog” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“I Was Born in East Virginia” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“I Was There (And I’m Told I Had a Good Time)” – Good Times! (2016)
“I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day” – Christmas Party (2018)
“I Won’t Be the Same Without Her” – Instant Replay (1966)
“(I’d Go the) Whole Wide World” – Pool It! (1987)
“I’ll Be Back Up on My Feet” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1968)
“I’ll Be True to You” – The Monkees (1966)
“I’ll Spend My Life with You” – Headquarters (1967)
“(I’ll) Love You Forever” – Pool It! (1987)
“I’m a Believer” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“I’m Gonna Try” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1968)
“(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“If I Knew” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“If I Learned to Play the Violin” – Headquarters (2007 Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“If You Have the Time” – Missing Links (1969)
“It’s Got to Be Love” – Changes (1970)
“It’s My Life” – Justus (1996)
“It’s Nice to Be with You” – non-album single B-side to “D.W. Washburn” (1968)
“It’s Not Too Late” – Justus (1996)

J–O

“Jesus Christ” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” – Headquarters (1995 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1967)
“Just a Game” – Instant Replay (1968)
“Kellogg’s Jingle” – Missing Links Volume Three (1966)
“Kicks” – Then & Now… The Best of The Monkees (1986)
“The Kind of Girl I Could Love” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Ladies Aid Society” – The Monkees Present (1966)
“Lady Jane” – Changes (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track; recorded 1970)
“Lady’s Baby” – Missing Links (1967)
“Last Train to Clarksville” – The Monkees (1966)
“Laugh” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Laurel and Hardy” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (2010 Rhino Handmade deluxe edition) (1968)
“Let’s Dance On” – The Monkees (1966)
“Listen to the Band” – The Monkees Present (1968)
“A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” – non-album single (1967)
“Little Girl” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“Little Girl (Sunny Side Up)” – Good Times! (2016)
“Little Red Rider” – Missing Links Volume Three (1969)
“Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again” – Head (1968)
“Long Way Home” – Pool It! (1987)
“Look Down” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Looking for the Good Times” – The Monkees Present (1966)
“Love Is on the Way” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“Love Is Only Sleeping” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Love to Love” – Monkee Business (also overdubbed and re-released on Good Times!) (1967)
“The Love You Got Inside” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“Love’s What I Want” – Good Times! (bonus track) (2016)
“Magnolia Simms” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1967)
“A Man Without a Dream” – Instant Replay (1968)
“Mary, Mary” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Masking Tape” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Me & Magdalena” – Good Times! (2016)
“Me Without You” – Instant Replay (1968)
“Mele Kalikimaka” – Christmas Party (archived vocal recorded 1991; released 2018)
“Memphis, Tennessee” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Merry Christmas, Baby” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Merry Go Round” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“MGBGT” (live version) – Live! (1986)
“Michigan Blackhawk” (a.k.a. “Down the Highway”) – Missing Links Volume Two (1969)
“Midnight (When It All Comes Down)” – Pool It! (1987)
“Midnight Train” – Changes (1969)
“Mommy and Daddy” – The Monkees Present (1968)
“The Monkees Present – Radio Promo” – The Monkees Present (1994 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1969)
“Mr. Webster” – Headquarters (1967)
“My Share of the Sidewalk” – Missing Links (1968)
“Naked Persimmon” – Instant Replay (2011 Rhino Handmade deluxe edition) (1968)
“Never Enough” – Justus (1996)
“Never Tell a Woman Yes” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“Nine Times Blue” – Missing Links (1968)
“No Time” – Headquarters (1967)
“Of You” – Missing Links (1966)
“Oh My My” – Changes (1970)
“Oh, What a Night” – Justus (1996)
“Oklahoma Backroom Dancer” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“Oliver Medley” (Consider Yourself, I’d Do Anything, Who Will Buy?) (live version) – 2001: Live in Las Vegas (2001)
“Opening Ceremony” – Head (1968)
“Our Own World” – Good Times! (2016)

P–S

“P.O. Box 9847” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1967)
“Papa Gene’s Blues” – The Monkees (1966)
“Party” – Missing Links (1968)
“Penny Music” – Missing Links Volume Three (1969)
“Peter Gunn’s Gun” – Headquarters (1995 Rhino CD reissue bonus track) (1967)
“Peter Percival Patterson’s Pet Pig Porky” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Pillow Time” – The Monkees Present (1969)
“Pleasant Valley Sunday” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Poll” – Head (1968)
“Poor Little Me” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“Porpoise Song” – Head (1968)
“The Poster” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1968)
“Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun to Care)” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“Randy Scouse Git” (a.k.a. “Alternate Title”) – Headquarters (1967)
“Regional Girl” – Justus (1996)
“Ride Baby Ride” – (Unreleased) (1970)
“Riu Chiu” – Missing Links Volume Two (1967)
“Rosemarie” – Missing Links (1968)
“Run Away from Life” – Justus (1996)
“Salesman” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Saturday’s Child” – The Monkees (1966)
“Secret Heart” – Pool It! (1987)
“Seeger’s Theme” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“Shades of Gray” – Headquarters (1967)
“Shake ‘Em Up (and Let ‘Em Roll)” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“She” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“(She Calls Herself) St. Matthew” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“She Hangs Out” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“She Makes Me Laugh” – Good Times! (2016)
“She’ll Be There” – Missing Links Volume Three (1967)
“She’s Movin’ in with Rico” – Pool It! (1987)
“She’s So Far Out, She’s In” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Shorty Blackwell” – Instant Replay (1968)
“Silver Bells” – Christmas Party (archived vocal recorded 1991; released 2018)
“Since You Went Away” – Pool It! (1987)
“Smile” – Instant Replay (1995 CD reissue) (1968)
“Snowfall” – Christmas Party (2018)
“So Goes Love” (second recorded version) – Missing Links (1966)
“Some of Shelly’s Blues” – Missing Links Volume Two (1968)
“Someday Man” – non-album single (recorded 1968; released 1969)
“Sometime in the Morning” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Special Announcement” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1995 Rhino CD reissue bonus track; recorded 1967)
“Star Collector” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Steam Engine” – Monkee Business (1969)
“The Story of Rock and Roll” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Storybook of You” – Missing Links (1969)
“Sugar Man” – Headquarters (2022 Super Deluxe Edition) (1967)
“Sunny Girlfriend” – Headquarters (1967)
“Superstitious” – dialogue excerpt from The Black Cat (1934), included on Head (1968)
“Supplicio” – Head (1968)
“Swami – Plus Strings, Etc.” – Head (1968)
“Sweet Young Thing” – The Monkees (1966)

T–Z

“Take a Giant Step” – The Monkees (1966)
“Tapioca Tundra” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1967)
“Tear Drop City” – Instant Replay (1966)
“Tear the Top Right Off My Head” – Missing Links Volume Three (1968)
“Teeny Tiny Gnome” (a.k.a. “Kicking Stones”) – Missing Links (1966)
“Tell Me Love” – Changes (1970)
“Tema dei Monkees” (Italian version of “(Theme from) The Monkees”) – Monkee Business (recorded 1966; compilation released 1982)
“Terrifying” – Good Times! (bonus track) (2016)
“That Was Then, This Is Now” – Then & Now… The Best of The Monkees (1986)
“(Theme from) The Monkees” – The Monkees (1966)
“This Just Doesn’t Seem to Be My Day” – The Monkees (1966)
“Through the Looking Glass” – Instant Replay (1967)
“Ticket on a Ferry Ride” – Changes (1970)
“Time and Time Again” – Missing Links (1969)
“Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day” – The Monkees (1966)
“Too Much Monkey Business” (live version) – Together Again (1994)
“Twelve-String Improvisation” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Two Part Invention in F Major” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Unlucky Stars” – Justus (1996)
“Until It’s Time for You to Go” – The Headquarters Sessions (1967)
“Unwrap You at Christmas” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Valleri” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1967)
“War Games” – Missing Links (1968)
“Wasn’t Born to Follow” – Good Times! (recorded 1968; completed and released 2016)
“We Were Made for Each Other” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1968)
“We’ll Be Back in a Minute” – Missing Links Volume Three (1969)
“We’ll Be Back in a Minute #2” – Missing Links Volume Three (1969)
“What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“What Would Santa Do” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Whatever’s Right” – Good Times! (2016)
“When Love Comes Knockin’ (At Your Door)” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Which Way (Do You Want It)?” – (Unreleased) (1970)
“While I Cry” – Instant Replay (1968)
“White Christmas” – (Single, B-side to “Christmas Is My Time of Year”) (1976)
“Wind Up Man” – Instant Replay (2011 Rhino Handmade deluxe edition) (1968)
“Wonderful Christmastime” – Christmas Party (2018)
“Words” – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
“Writing Wrongs” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1967)
“Yardley’s Black Label” – (Unreleased) (1966)
“You and I” – Instant Replay (1968)
“You and I” – Justus (1996)
“You Bring the Summer” – Good Times! (2016)
“You Can’t Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover” (live version) – Live 1967 (1967)
“You Can’t Tie a Mustang Down” – Daydream Believer and Other Hits (recorded 1967; compilation released 1998)
“You Just May Be the One” – Headquarters (1967)
“You Told Me” – Headquarters (1967)
“You’re So Good” – Missing Links Volume Three (1969)
“You’re So Good to Me” – Changes (1970)
“Your Auntie Grizelda” – More of the Monkees (1966)
“Zilch” – Headquarters (1967)
“Zor and Zam” – The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees (1968)