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  Boyce and Hart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hart served in the Army after leaving high school, and on discharge travelled to Los Angeles seeking a career as a singer.
It was Boyce and Hart who wrote, produced and recorded (with the help of their band, the Candy Store Prophets) backing tracks for a large portion of the first season of The Monkees, and the band's accompanying debut album.
The Monkees themselves re-recorded their vocals over Boyce and Hart's when it came time to release the songs, including both "(Theme from) The Monkees" and "Last Train to Clarksville", the latter of which was a huge hit.
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 Boyce & Hart - Biography - AOL Music
Boyce and Hart's material may not have been the first choice of what the group -- and specifically their most experienced songwriter, Mike Nesmith -- wanted to record.
Boyce and Hart were also involved in the Monkees' first two albums as producers, a role they returned to on the Monkees' then-final, desultory albums in 1969 and 1970.
Boyce and Hart split up, both as songwriters and performers, at the end of the 1960s, although they teamed up with ex-Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones to perform and record for a while in the mid-1970s as Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart.
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 Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tommy Boyce was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1939 and Bobby Hart in Phoenix the same year.
The first big hit for the Monkees, one that was written by Boyce and Hart, was Last Train to Clarksville, a song that went all the way to number one on the charts shortly after the premiere of the TV show in the Fall of 1966.
Boyce eventually moved to England and worked on songs with Richard Hartley and with artists such as the Darts, Iggy Pop, and Meatloaf.
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 LyricsVault: Hall of fame: Tommy Boyce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Boyce and Hart toured with the Monkees in the '70s and recorded with some of the group's members on albums as Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, and Hart.
Boyce, who appeared on TV talk shows sharing his travails with depression, succumbed to the illness, committing suicide at his Nashville residence in 1994.
Boyce-related releases are Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart: Anthology, Boyce and Hart: The Songs of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart from Uni/Varese, Sarabande, and Concert In Japan.
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 The Songs Of Tommy Boyce
Tommy Boyce was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and migrated to Southern California (Highland Park to be exact) at the age of 12.
Boyce’s parents were both singers and his father (who taught him the guitar) fronted a Country and Western band.
Bobby Hart was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ.
www.boyceandhart.com /lyric/songsof.htm   (1526 words)

  
 Welcome to Bobby Hart's Official Website - www.bobbyhart.net
By 1966, Boyce and Hart had created the musical sound for four actors who played musicians in a weekly television sitcom.
Boyce and Hart wrote a whopping thirty songs for the foursome, some of which they would later record themselves.
This is the "The Boyce & Hart Anthology" is the most definitive collection of Tommy and Bobby's own songs as a duo.
www.bobbyhart.net   (1035 words)

  
 Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
Boyce and Hart's material may not have been the first choice of what the group  and specifically their most experienced songwriter, Mike Nesmith  wanted to record.
Boyce and Hart split up, both as songwriters and performers, at the end of the 1960s, but had a short reunion during Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart.
Boyce committed suicide on November 23, 1994 after a lengthy struggle with illness and depression.
www.monkeesrule43.com /djbh.html   (591 words)

  
 Boyce & Hart | Bubblegum University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Boyce and Hart were Hollywood's greatest writing team, a West Coast Goffin-King with no marriage to hobble their lyrical tomcatting.
If Boyce and Hart have anything to do with it, she's in the bathroom right now, attaching that second pair of false eyelashes before she hops in her daddy's car and cruises over to Bobby or Tommy's pad, where a leisurely evening of fine music, conversation, and discrete petting is anticipated.
Wonder is Boyce and Hart's ultimate statement about their place in the universe, in which they fully embrace their peculiar role as (if I may speak in archetypes) the Slightly Older, Frightening, Yet Very Sexy Stranger that every little girl longs for while simultaneously recoiling from.
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Subject: Tommy Boyce Dies In A Suicide Copyright: 1994 by The Associated Press, R Date: Thu, 24 Nov 94 11:30:10 PST NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tommy Boyce, part of the singing-songwriting duo of Boyce and Hart who penned ``Last Train to Clarksville'' and other hits for the Monkees, shot himself to death.
Boyce's wife, Carolyn, found him dead in the living room of the couple's home Wednesday.
In 1966, producers appointed Boyce and Hart musical directors for the NBC television series ``The Monkees,'' which debuted in September of that year.
www.monkees.net /docs/boyce.txt   (259 words)

  
 Monkee Television -- TV
When rock impressario Don Kirschner was brought in to handle the music for the show, he told Boyce and Hart they didn't have a proven track record as producers and they were off the project, except as songwriters.
The Monkees TV show was dropped by NBC in 1968, and the group disbanded shortly after.
In the mid-70's, Boyce and Hart joined with two members of the Monkees who had liked their songs, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones.
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 Welcome to TommyBoyce.com
The career of Tommy Boyce begins as early as the late 1950s.
According to Caroline Boyce, Tommy said he never regretted sharing the writer's income because it got his proverbial foot in the door.
Appreciation is extended to Caroline for her biographies of both the Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart websites.
www.tommyboyce.com   (1060 words)

  
 Candy Store Prophets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their lineup included Boyce and Gerry McGee on guitar, Hart on keyboards, Larry Taylor on bass guitar and Billy Lewis on drums.
After Boyce and Hart wrote and recorded the songs for the pilot episode of The Monkees, they were asked by the show's producers, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, to name five 'professional' record producers who could create the music for the series, once it went into production.
Their answer "Boyce and Hart, Hart and Boyce, Tommy and Bobby, Bobby and Tommy, TB and BH" was laughed off, and they were asked a second time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Candy_Store_Prophets   (335 words)

  
 Biography for Tommy Boyce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When The Monkees began playing their own instruments in the studio, and writing and producing their own songs, Boyce partner and Bobby Hart weren't sure where they stood with the band.
Wrote the song "Valleri" (with Bobby Hart) while they were on their way to the Colgems offices, when they got an early-morning call asking for a "girl's name song" (They pretended they'd already written it).
When Don Kirshner joined the production team for The Monkees, and Boyce and Hart's roles as writers and producers for the band were threatened, they responded by inviting Kirshner to a private audition, where the Candy Store Prophets played a nonstop set of all the songs the pair had written for the show.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0101670/bio   (1167 words)

  
 Dolenz Jones Boyce Hart: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As The Monkees began to exert more creative control over their own music, Boyce and Hart decided to try their hand at a recording career in their own right.
Boyce and Hart music can be found in the movies, as well, including such recent flicks as The Joy Luck Club and My StepMother Is An Alien.
Tommy Boyce moved to England to work with songwriter Richard Hartley for performers like Iggy Pop and Meatloaf.
www.stagemom.com /djbh/boycehart.html   (291 words)

  
 Boyce & Hart - I Wonder What`s She Doing Tonite: Best Of :: Not Lame Recordings - power pop and melodic rock record ...
Boyce & Hart - I Wonder What`s She Doing Tonite: Best Of :: Not Lame Recordings - power pop and melodic rock record label, music and CDs
Boyce & Hart - I Wonder What`s She Doing Tonite: Best Of UK reissue, 24 songs, 2005 release.
Well, Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce were popmeisters who wrote songs for the early Phil Spector productions among many others, but perhaps their best known project was The Monkees!
www.notlame.com /CDBOYCEANDHART1.html   (308 words)

  
 BootlegZone : Dolenz Jones Boyce And Hart -- Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dolenz Jones Boyce And Hart - Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
Boyce & Hart sound nothing like their 3 classic A&M albums, I guess age done 'em in musically...
This song is OK, has a definite Boyce and Hart feel to it, lyrically.
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 Bobby Hart
Working with Tommy Boyce, Hart co-wrote several hit tunes: "Lazy Elsie Molly" for Chubby Checker, "Come A Little Bit Closer" for Jay and the Americans, "Last Train to Clarksville" (and many others) for The Monkees, among others.
As The Monkees began to exert more creative control over their own music, Boyce & Hart decided to try their hand at a recording career in their own right.
During the 1980s Hart wrote and produced for both LaToya Jackson and New Edition.
theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/hart_b.htm   (190 words)

  
 The Monkees Music Vault
At the insistence of Don Kirshner, Jack Keller supervised Boyce and Hart's first official recording session with the group.
This version of "Let's Dance On" was recorded with Micky singing lead and Tommy Boyce on backup.
The musicians included Bobby Hart's band The Candy Store Prophets: Gerry McGee on guitar, Larry Taylor on bass (who didn't make the session in time for "Let's Dance On" which explains the absence), Hart on organ (and backing vocals on "Let's Dance On"), Billy Lewis on drums, and Gene Estes on percussion.
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 Amazon.com: Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart: Music: Jones, Boyce & Hart Dolenz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A kind of pseudo Monkees was created enlisting the services of gifted songwriting team Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (perhaps best known for penning the first number one hit for the Monkees, 'Last Train to Clarksville', but in fact responsible for a large chunk of the Monkees music).
Several of the tracks do appear on the Boyce And Hart Anthology import album, (also available here on Amazon), and those tracks do sound better to my ears than what they do here.
I have their Boyce & Hart collection "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite" and all but 2 of their Runaways releases and the all sound great.
www.amazon.com /Dolenz-Jones-Boyce-Hart/dp/B000A6SXX0   (1248 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Songs of Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart: Music: Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I especially enjoy Boyce and Hart's signature tune "I wonder what she's doing tonite".
I don't know where they stack up against Rogers and Hart, the Gershwins, or Lennon and McCartney, but this grabs a lot of stuff that would otherwise fall through the cracks of your music collection.
The Monkees are well represented of course, but my favourites may be Little Anthony and the Imperials' "Hurt So Bad" and Boyce and Hart's own "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight".
www.amazon.com /Songs-Tommy-Boyce-Bobby-Hart/dp/B0000014XQ   (930 words)

  
 CMT.com : Boyce & Hart : Biography
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 Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart
In 1975, Davy and Micky teamed up with Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart and formed a stage
They were known as Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart.
Large plastic souvenir cup sold at a chain convenience store to commemorate the Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart Tour of 1976
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 Boyce & Hart : The Songs of Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Boyce & Hart : The Songs of Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
But since Boyce & Hart's principal importance came from their songwriting rather than their performing, this compilation -- which matches the most notable Boyce & Hart recordings with the best and most famous cuts by other artists covering Boyce-Hart compositions -- is the best representative sampling of their most important music.
the songs of tommy boyce & bobby hart - similar albums
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 eBay - tommy boyce bobby ..., Records, CDs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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On the other hand, backed by a national tour and an NBC television special ("33 /3 Revolutions per Monkee"), the parent album actually managed to sell, eventually hitting # 32.
The only track worth hearing more than once was the Boyce and Hart written and produced 'I Never Thought It Particular'.
4.) I Wanna Be Free (Boyce - Hart) - 2:24
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 The Monkees
The first Monkees album to be released without the benefit of a television presence and after the departure of Peter Tork is a mixed affair.
Still able to draw from the rich songwriting well of Colgems, Boyce and Hart, Goffin and King and Neil Sedaka all produced songs for the remaining Monkees, but none of them were hits, and some of the album cuts were utterly baffling.
Although it wasn't a Monkees album proper, in 1976, this was the closest thing to it, with the two main lead voices of the Monkees (Micky and Davy) and the two songwriters (Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart) who were responsible for the Monkees string of early hit singles.
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 eBay: BOYCE AND HART - I WONDER WHAT SHES DOING.. BEST CD-NEW (item 320037769657 end time Oct-19-06 18:34:54 PDT)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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the Monkees even redid some Boyce-Hart songs, such as "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone," "Words" and "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day." Boyce and Hart's material may not have been the first choice of what the group ¿ and specifically their most experienced songwriter, Mike Nesmith ¿ wanted to record.
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 Amazon.co.uk: I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite: the Best of Boyce and Hart: Music: Boyce & Hart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
* Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce were popmeisters who wrote songs for the early Phil Spector productions among many others, but perhaps their best known project was The Monkees!
They were there from day one; TV appearances, tours, the usual Pop star treadmill which they had avoided by being backroom boys beckoned -leaving a superpop legacy of brilliant songs, for this their FIRST CD collection.
* FIRST TIME on CD collection of Boyce and Hart's hits and album classics; lovingly remastered, beautifully packaged and with many never before seen photos and featuring a treasure trove of ultra rare photos and trade ads.
www.amazon.co.uk /Wonder-What-Shes-Doing-Tonite/dp/B00093UQIE   (582 words)

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