"They wrote the Monkees' theme song, with its opening shot, Here we come, walkin' down the street, and enduring chant, Hey, hey, we're the Monkees, and their first No 1 hit, Last Train to Clarksville. The Monkees' eponymous, million-selling debut album included six songs from Boyce and Hart, who also served as producers and used their own backing musicians, the Candy Store Prophets, as session players."
"I always credit them not only with writing many of our biggest hits, but, as producers, being instrumental in creating the unique Monkee sound we all know and love, the Monkees' Micky Dolenz wrote in a foreword to Hart's memoir, Psychedelic Bubble Gum, published in 2015. As Boyce and Hart grew in fame and the Monkees took more control of their work, they pursued their own careers, releasing the albums Test Patterns and I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite?"
Bobby Hart died at 86 at his Los Angeles home after suffering poor health following a broken hip. Hart and Tommy Boyce formed a prolific songwriting and production partnership in the mid-1960s, writing the Monkees' theme and hits such as Last Train to Clarksville and (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone. Their contributions included six songs on the Monkees' million-selling debut and production using their backing band, the Candy Store Prophets. They released their own albums, appeared on television, campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy, wrote LUV supporting the 26th Amendment, and Hart later managed hits with other collaborators.
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