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 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