Australian singles chart:
Last Train to Clarksville entered the Australian singles chart* on 24 September 1966 and peaked at #14.
Album:
The song is on The Monkees which entered the Australian albums chart* on 1 July 1967 and peaked at #3.
Songwriters:
Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
Producers:
Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
Record label of Australian release:
RCA
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Last Train to Clarksville was written by the songwriting duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Boyce has said that the song’s opening guitar part (played by Louis Shelton) was an attempt to emulate the type of memorable and clearly identifiable riff that the Beatles had used in songs such as I Feel Fine, Day Tripper and Paperback Writer.
The lyrics, too, were inspired by Paperback Writer: Hart misheard the end of that song on the radio and thought Paul McCartney was singing “take the last train”; Hart then decided to use the line himself, after he found out that McCartney was actually singing “paperback writer”.
Micky Dolenz sang lead vocals on this recording.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_to_Clarksville
Lyrics:
Take the last train to Clarksville
And I’ll meet you at the station
You can be here by four thirty
‘Cause I made your reservation
Don’t be slow, oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
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