Last Train to Clarksville episodes of the band's television series, the most for any Monkees song. The song, written by the songwriting duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, has been compared to The Beatles' "Paperback Writer", particularly the "jangly" guitar sound, the chord structure, and the vocal harmonies. The Beatles song had been number one in the US charts three months earlier. The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman he loves, urging her to meet him at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave, possibly forever. There was no explicit reference to war in the song but its last line,
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