First National Band shout out requests of "Last Train to Clarksville" and/or other Monkee hits. During his stint with The Monkees, Nesmith had accumulated an extensive back-catalogue of songs which had not been heard by anyone. This meant that, in their short time as a band, The First National Band was able to release three albums in less than a 12-month span. July 1970 saw the release of "Magnetic South", which was the first and "blue" in the trilogy of "red, white and blue" albums and reached No. 143 on the Billboard Albums Chart. This album contained the inclusion of five songs which
Last Train to Paris The latter has become the most successful, peaking at number 12 on the United States. On "Billboard" Hot 100, it marked as the top five or top ten, so much in Europe. During its opening week "Last Train to Paris" outperformed expectations, debuting eight places higher than predicted at number 7 on the US "Billboard" 200. It sold 101,000 copies, compared to the 60,000-70,000 copies that "Billboard" had predicted it would sell. Diddy described the "Last Train to Paris" as an "electro-hip-hop-soul funk" album which has been three years in the making. Diddy says the sound of this album was