Australian singles chart:
Valleri entered the Kent charts on 6 April 1968 and peaked at #4. The song was #50 on the Top 100 of 1968.
Album:
The song is on The Birds, The Bees and the Monkees which entered the Kent album charts on 14 September 1968 and peaked at #5.
Songwriters:
Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
Producer:
The Monkees
Record label of Australian release:
RCA
Songfacts:
Valleri was written and first recorded in the middle of 1966, as songs were being cranked out for The Monkees TV series, set to debut in September. Don Kirshner was the musical supervisor of the show, and he needed two songs for every weekly episode. He particularly wanted songs with girls’ names, and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote Valleri.
In late December 1967, Boyce and Hart returned to record a new version with The Monkees, which was released as a single in March 1968, 13 months after it was first performed on the TV show.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-monkees/valleri
Lyrics:
There’s a girl I know
Who makes me feel so good
And I wouldn’t live without her
Even if I could
They call her Valleri
I love her, Valleri
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