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
Clarksville, Mississippi Clarksville, Mississippi Clarksville is a ghost town in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States. Located directly on the Mississippi River approximately south of Fort Adams, Clarksville was one of the earliest non-Native settlements in Mississippi, and was considered a place of great promise. Clark Creek joined the Mississippi River at Clarksville, and the settlement was located on the south bank of the creek. Approximately south of Clarksville is the historically-significant 31st parallel north, which now forms the border between Mississippi and Louisiana, and approximately south of Clarksville is the current location of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In 1768, Daniel J. Clark,