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 High School (Clarksville, Texas) band also placed 1st in the Texas STATE Marching Championship on November 7th, 2017, making them the current reigning State Marching Champion. "All hail Alma Mater" "Thy queen of all the rest" "In all our fond memories" "Thy name we love the best" "And as we walk the path of life" "And sail the storm-tossed seas" "Our beacon of light shall ever be" "Our days at Clarksville High School" "C*H*S!!!" The tune of the school song is based on the Piu Andante theme from the Fourth Movement of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1. A recording by the Columbia University Orchestra