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 directed by Tilley. The video premiered on June 3, 2011. In its opening week, the "Last Train to Paris" debuted on the US "Billboard" 200 at number 7, with 101,000 copies sold. The final figure sold was, in "Billboard"s own words, "rather larger than initial forecasts", which put the album at around number 15, with 60,000 - 70,000 copies. Despite beating the expectations, the "Last Train to Paris" underperformed against Diddy's previous album, "Press Play" (2006), which debuted at number one, with 170,000 copies sold. Thus far, it is Diddy's lowest charting album on this chart as well as Dawn