Valleri - wikipedia Valleri `` Valleri '' US single label Single by The Monkees from the album The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees B - side `` Tapioca Tundra '' Released 17 February 1968 Format 7 '' Recorded 26 & 28 December 1967 United Recorders Hollywood, CA Genre Psychedelic rock Length 2 : 16 Label Colgems # 1019 Songwriter ( s ) Tommy Boyce Bobby Hart Producer ( s ) The Monkees The Monkees singles chronology `` Daydream Believer '' ( 1967 ) `` Valleri '' ( 1968 ) `` D.W. Washburn '' ( 1968 ) `` Daydream Believer '' ( 1967 ) `` Valleri '' ( 1968 ) `` D.W. Washburn '' ( 1968 ) Alternative cover Spain single cover `` Valleri '' is a song written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart for The Monkees, who had a # 3 on Billboard Hot 100 hit with it, also spending two weeks at # 1 on Cash Box in early 1968. The song also rose to # 1 in Canada, and # 12 in the UK. Contents 1 Background 2 Other appearances 3 Live history 4 Chart performance 4.1 Weekly charts 4.2 Year - end charts 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links Background Responding to Screen Gems president and music supervisor Don Kirshner 's early - morning request for a `` girl 's - name song '' to be used in the Monkees 's television series, Boyce and Hart improvised `` Valleri '' on their way to Kirshner 's office, after pretending over the telephone that the song was already finished. Nonetheless, Kirshner was pleased with their work, and `` Valleri '' took its place on the Monkees recording schedule, with Boyce and Hart producing the original sessions in August 1966. The original recording ( with instrumental backing by the Candy Store Prophets, plus session musician Louie Shelton contributing a flamencoesque guitar solo ) was featured in the show 's first season in 1967 ; a staged performance showed Michael Nesmith copying Shelton 's guitar licks, and singer Davy Jones appearing to physically outgrow his bandmates, through forced perspective and camera trick shots. While the first version of `` Valleri '' went unreleased, a few off - air recordings received radio airplay ( thanks to DJs taping the audio directly from the video ), and later surfaced on bootleg recordings. By the end of 1967, the Monkees had gone from only singing on their records ( to meet their filming, recording, and appearance schedules ) to also playing, to a mix of both. More importantly, they had gone from having no say over the music production to being in near - complete creative control. Their fifth album, The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees, rounded out the selection of songs from the show to appear on record, with the second season ( 1967 -- 1968 ) being its last. Assuming both performing and producing roles, the Monkees remade both `` I 'll Be Back Up On My Feet '' and `` Valleri '', duplicating the latter as closely as possible to the original, to the point of bringing back the Candy Store Prophets and Louie Shelton to perform. Boyce and Hart were not pleased that their production was not being used, but understood the reasons, and still collected writer 's royalties. Mike Nesmith had been reluctant to remake the song, and adamant against it being released as a single, declaring it the `` worst record ever '', but he was overruled by Colgems Records. When Lester Sill of Colgems heard the track, he felt it needed something extra, and had a brass section overdubbed. The remade `` Valleri '', released on February 17, 1968, made it to Number Three in the US, and was to be the band 's last top ten hit of the 1960s. ( It was also their last single to receive a push from their television series and it was also the last single to be certified gold. The followup single, `` D.W. Washburn '', was not featured on the show, and only reached # 19 in the pop charts. Later singles fared even worse. ) Other appearances The original recording of `` Valleri '' was finally released in January 1990, as part of the Rhino Records collection Missing Links, Volume II, along with several other versions of Monkees tunes used in the TV series. Of note, 1960s record releases of the second version, as well as subsequent hits packages of the song, feature a fade out ending. The cold ending version ( heard in one episode of the television series ) was first released on Arista 's `` Then And Now, The Best Of The Monkees '' in 1986. Subsequent hits packages and reissues of the single on their Flashback label also feature the longer version. Early examples of the Flashback single release have the fade out ending. The original Colgems single has the fade out ending. Live history When Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork reunited in 1986 to tour as the Monkees, they featured `` Valleri '' frequently in their song lineup. The song itself is simple musically ; consisting mostly of four chords ( F ♯ Major, E Major, B Major and C ♯ Major ) repeated several times, with a change midway ( from F ♯ Major to D ♯ minor, twice ). Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1968 ) Peak position Australia Austria 20 Canada Germany 11 Ireland 8 Netherlands 12 Norway 9 New Zealand UK 12 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1968 ) Rank Canada 89 U.S. ( Joel Whitburn 's Pop Annual ) 35 References Jump up ^ `` Readers ' Poll : The Best Monkees Songs of All Time ''. Rolling Stone. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2016. ^ Jump up to : ( 1 ) Jump up ^ `` flavour of new zealand - search listener ''. Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 02. Jump up ^ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.5867&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062 Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1999 ). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin : Record Research Inc. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 142 - X. Bibliography The Monkees Tale, Eric Lefcowitz ( Last Gasp Press ) ( ISBN 0 - 86719 - 338 - 7 ) Monkeemania ! The True Story of the Monkees, Glenn A. Baker, Tom Czarnota & Peter Hogan ( St. Martin 's Press ) ( ISBN 0 - 312 - 00003 - 0 ) External Links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics 1968 singles charts @ Musicseek.info Preceded by `` Love is Blue '' by Paul Mauriat Cash Box Top 100 singles March 30, 1968 Succeeded by `` Young Girl '' by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap The Monkees Micky Dolenz Davy Jones Michael Nesmith Peter Tork Production / management Don Kirshner Bob Rafelson Bert Schneider Ward Sylvester Lester Sill Raybert Productions Chip Douglas Hank Cicalo Studio albums The Monkees More of the Monkees Headquarters Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees Head Instant Replay The Monkees Present Changes Pool It ! Justus Good Times ! Box sets Listen to the Band Music Box The Headquarters Sessions The Monkees : Original Album Series Compilation albums Greatest Hits ( Colgems ) Barrel Full of Monkees Re-Focus Greatest Hits ( Arista ) Monkeemania ( 40 Timeless Hits ) More Greatest Hits of The Monkees Monkee Business Monkee Flips Hit Factory Then & Now... The Best of The Monkees Missing Links Missing Links Volume Two 25th Anniversary Collection Greatest Hits ( Rhino ) Barrelful of Monkees : Monkees Songs for Kids ! Missing Links Volume Three I 'm a Believer & Other Hits Daydream Believer & Other Hits The Monkees Anthology The Definitive Monkees The Best of The Monkees Monkeemania ( The Very Best of the Monkees ) Live albums Live 1967 Summer 1967 : The Complete U.S. Concert Recordings Live ! 2001 : Live in Las Vegas Extended Versions Singles `` Last Train to Clarksville `` I 'm a Believer `` A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You '' `` I Wanna Be Free '' `` Pleasant Valley Sunday '' `` Daydream Believer '' `` Valleri '' `` D.W. Washburn '' `` Porpoise Song '' `` Tear Drop City '' `` Listen to the Band '' `` Good Clean Fun '' `` Oh My My '' `` That Was Then, This Is Now '' `` Randy Scouse Git '' Film / television The Monkees ( Episode list ) Head 331⁄3 Revolutions per Monkee Hey, Hey, It 's the Monkees Related articles Discography Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart An Evening with The Monkees : The 45th Anniversary Tour The Monkees ( book ) The Monkeemobile New Monkees Songs Book Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valleri&oldid=800632386 '' Categories : 1968 singles 1968 songs The Monkees songs Songs written by Bobby Hart Songs written by Tommy Boyce American psychedelic rock songs Hidden categories : Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 14 September 2017, at 19 : 06. 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Question: who played guitar on the monkees song valerie
Answer: Candy Store Prophets