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,
Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo This page lists the winners and nominees for the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo. The award was given out every year since the first annual Soul Train Music Awards in 1987. From 1989 to 1992 the award was known as R&B/Urban Contemporary Single – Group, Band or Duo. When the Soul Train Music Awards returned in 2009 the categories of Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo and Best R&B/Soul Album – Group, Band or Duo were consolidated