boyce and hart played lead guitar on last train to clarksville.
boyce and hart played lead guitar on last train to clarksville.
who played lead guitar on last train to clarksville?
boyce and hart
boyce and hart's band, candy store prophets, did the instrumental session work on the recording. their lineup included boyce and gerry mcgee on guitar, hart on keyboards, larry taylor on bass guitar and billy lewis on drums. the lead guitar part was written and played by hollywood session musician louie shelton who would eventually become a mainstay on monkees recordings.









































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"zadnji voz za čačak" (trans. "last train to čačak") is a song by serbian and former yugoslav rock band riblja čorba, from their 1987 album "ujed za dušu".
last train to clarksville
the formula worked phenomenally well – the singles "last train to clarksville", written by tommy boyce and bobby hart, and "i'm a believer" written by neil diamond and the first two monkees albums were produced and released in time to catch the initial wave of the television program's popularity. the lead guitar on "last train to clarksville", "valleri" and the monkees theme was written and played by louie shelton. after a year, the monkees wanted a chance to play their own instruments on the records. they also wanted more control over which songs would be released as singles. further, when word belatedly came out that the band had not played on the first season's songs, a controversy arose, and the public expressed a desire to hear the television stars perform their own music.
don kirshner