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 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