# The Monkees: Original Album Series

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The Monkees: Original Album Series is a CD set by The Monkees which includes the first five albums by The Monkees. The CD set was released in 2009 as a slipcased box set.

## Track listings
### The Monkees (1966)

* "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) – 2:21
* "Saturday's Child" (David Gates) - 2:44
* "I Wanna Be Free" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:27
* "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" (Boyce, Steve Venet) - 2:39
* "Papa Gene's Blues" (Michael Nesmith) - 2:00
* "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:31
* "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:47
* "This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:09
* "Let's Dance On" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:32
* "I'll Be True to You (Yes I Will)" (Goffin, Russ Titelman) - 2:49
* "Sweet Young Thing" (Goffin, King, Nesmith) - 1:58
* "Gonna Buy Me a Dog" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:44

#### 1994 reissue bonus tracks

* "I Can't Get Her off My Mind" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) - 2:55
* "I Don't Think You Know Me" (first recorded version) (Micky's vocal) (Goffin, King) - 2:18
* "(Theme from) The Monkees" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 0:52

### More of the Monkees (1967)

* "She" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:41
* "When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door)" (Neil Sedaka, Carole Bayer Sager) - 1:49
* "Mary, Mary" (Nesmith) - 2:16
* "Hold on Girl (Help is on its Way)" (Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh) - 2:29
* "Your Auntie Grizelda" (Diane Hildebrand, Keller) - 2:30
* "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:25
* "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (Neil Diamond) – 2:16
* "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" (Roger Atkins, Nesmith) - 1:53
* "The Day We Fall in Love" (Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell) - 2:26
* "Sometime in the Morning" (Goffin, King) - 2:30
* "Laugh" (Mitch Margo, Phil Margo, Hank Medress, Jay Siegal) - 2:30
* "I'm a Believer" (Diamond) – 2:50

#### 1994 reissue bonus tracks

* "Don't Listen to Linda" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:28
* "I'll Spend My Life with You" (first recorded version) (Boyce, Hart) – 2:30
* "I Don't Think You Know Me" (second recorded version) (Goffin, King) - 2:19
* "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (extended mix) (with Peter's narration)" (Diamond) – 2:52
* "I'm a Believer" (take 4A) (Diamond) – 2:52

### Headquarters (1967)

* "You Told Me" (Nesmith) - 2:25
* "I'll Spend My Life with You" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:26
* "Forget That Girl" (Douglas Farthing Hatlelid) - 2:25
* "Band 6" (Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Nesmith, Peter Tork) - 0:41
* "You Just May Be the One" (Nesmith) - 2:03
* "Shades of Gray" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 3:22
* "I Can't Get Her off My Mind" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:27
* "For Pete's Sake" (Tork, Joey Richards) – 2:11
* "Mr. Webster" (Boyce, Hart) - 2:04
* "Sunny Girlfriend" (Nesmith) - 2:33
* "Zilch" (Dolenz, Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 1:06
* "No Time" (Hank Cicalo) - 2:08
* "Early Morning Blues and Greens" (Hildebrand, Keller) - 2:35
* "Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)" (Dolenz) – 2:40

#### 1995 reissue bonus tracks

* "All of Your Toys" (single mix) (Bill Martin) - 3:02
* "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" (second recorded version) (Nesmith) – 2:38
* "Peter Gunn's Gun" (jam session) (Henry Mancini) - 3:38
* "Jericho" (studio dialogue) (Traditional) - 2:02
* "Nine Times Blue" (demo version) (Nesmith) - 2:07
* "Pillow Time" (demo version) (Janelle Scott, Matt Willis) - 4:00

### Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)

* "Salesman" (Craig Vincent Smith) - 2:38
* "She Hangs Out" (Jeff Barry) - 2:57
* "The Door into Summer" (Douglas, Martin) - 2:49
* "Love is Only Sleeping" (Mann, Weil) - 2:31
* "Cuddly Toy" (Harry Nilsson) – 2:38
* "Words" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:51
* "Hard to Believe" (Eddie Brick, Kim Capli, Jones, Charlie Rockett) - 2:37
* "What Am I Doing Hanging 'Round" (Michael Martin Murphey, Owen Castleman) – 3:09
* "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky" (Tork) - 0:27
* "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (Goffin, King) – 3:15
* "Daily Nightly" (Nesmith) - 2:33
* "Don't Call on Me" (John London, Nesmith) - 2:51
* "Star Collector" (Goffin, King) - 4:27

#### 1995 reissue bonus tracks

* "Special Announcement" (arr. Tork) - 0:36
* "Goin' Down" (extended mono mix) (Dolenz, Hildebrand, Jones, Nesmith, Tork) - 4:46
* "Salesman" (alternate mono mix) (Smith) - 2:36
* "The Door into Summer" (alternate mono mix) (Douglas, Martin) - 2:52
* "Love is Only Sleeping" (early alternate mix) (Mann, Weil) - 2:32
* "Daily Nightly" (early alternate mix) (Nesmith) - 2:31
* "Star Collector" (extended mix) (Goffin, King) - 4:52

### The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees (1968)

* "Dream World" (Jones, Steve Pitts) - 3:21
* "Auntie's Municipal Court" (Keith Allison, Nesmith) - 4:04
* "We Were Made for Each Other" (Carole Bayer Sager, George Fischoff) - 2:25
* "Tapioca Tundra" (Nesmith) - 3:07
* "Daydream Believer" (John Stewart) – 3:00
* "Writing Wrongs" (Nesmith) - 5:08
* "I'll Be Back up on My Feet" (Linzer, Randell) - 2:26
* "The Poster" (Jones, Pitts) - 2:21
* "P.O. Box 9847" (Boyce, Hart) - 3:16
* "Magnolia Simms" (Nesmith) - 3:48
* "Valleri" (Boyce, Hart) – 2:15
* "Zor and Zam" (Bill Chadwick, John Chadwick) - 2:10

#### 1994 reissue bonus tracks

* "Alvin" (Nicholas Thorkelson, Tork) - 0:27
* "I'm Gonna Try" (Jones, Pitts) - 2:44
* "P.O. Box 9847" (early alternate mix) (Boyce, Hart) - 3:15
* "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (second recorded version) (Sedaka, Bayer) - 2:40
* "Lady's Baby" (alternate mix) (Tork) - 2:29