The Monkees minute believes that we are somehow this accomplished rock 'n' roll band that got their own television show. ... you putting the record out like this is just beyond the pale." Within a few months of their debut album, Music Supervisor Don Kirshner would be forcibly dismissed and the Monkees would take control as a real band. The Monkees' first single, "Last Train to Clarksville" b/w "Take a Giant Step", was released in August 1966, just weeks prior to the TV broadcast debut. In conjunction with the first broadcast of the television show on September 12, 1966, on the NBC
Last Train to Paris Richard's lowest charting "Billboard" 200 album, the others being with the group Danity Kane. The album also debuted on the US Top Digital Albums at number 7 and the US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums at number 3.<ref name="US R&B/Hip-Hop"></ref> It is also both Diddy's and Richard's lowest charting R&B/Hip-Hop album, thus far. "Last Train to Paris" is Kalenna Harper's first appearance on any "Billboard" album chart. , the album has sold around 270,000 copies in the United States. Upon its release, "Last Train to Paris" received positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100