We loved these songs throughout our youth, but I am finally realizing after all these years that we didn't love them enough! If your a baby boomer like myself, these songs can really zone you in on a particular month and year when these songs were hits. This song was popular in early 1968, I hear this song and think of my classmate Patty G. in my freshman year in high school. We never suspected the impact these songs would have nostalgia wise some 40 odd years late in life.
These guys were great song writers for other artists. This is a great song. You don't hear many songs today that use a lot of horns like they did in the sixties.
I LOVE this song. My dad had the 45. He graduated in 1968. I was listening to some of mom and dad's records when I was in junior high. That's how I first heard this.. Dawn
Irregardless of one's birth date, because of the miracle of recordings, one can always discover older music. I was born in '55, yet I love the tunes Glenn Miller put out during WWII.
On this day in 1968 {March 23rd} Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart performed "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... Three months earlier on December 23rd, 1967 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #8 and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100... Tommy Boyce passed away on November 23rd, 1994 at the young age of 55... R.I.P. Mr. Boyce, Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012} and Bobby Hart celebrated his 74th birthday last month on February 18th...
You old fart! :) I love you anyway. '58 here. I listen to WAKY radio out of Louisville, Ky in my travels & they play songs of this nature that send me back to my youth. Where did the time go?
B&H's biggest of four 1967-8 hits, this one reached #8 early in 1968. This soundtrack is a little muddy, but the original single is one of the GREAT, heart-pounding rock 'n' roll records of all time.
I saw Electric Light Orchresta (ELO) live in Memphis back in the '70's at the mid-south colesseum on July 4, and they pulled a Milli Vanilli on us and those that had bottle rockets & roman candles fired them at the band along with throwing frisbees at the candelabra on top of their grand piano. The concert was delayed 1 hr till everyone calmed down & the show resumed. I have the best of ELO on a 2 cd set.
This and, "I'm Gonna Blow You A Kiss In The Wind," are two of my very favorite songs and always will be. Love the theme from Days of Our Lives, also written by Boyce and Hart. Just adore these guys.
"But I guess she didn't understand it when I said I want to be your friend ..." Uhh, isn't "Can we just be friends?" the classic break up line that gals usually tell guys? ♣
love this song. upbeat and fun. granted the videos back then were funky, but that's the time and the technology, or lack of it. but still these two wrote a lot of hit songs.
SockBoy, Boyce & Hart WERE on "I Dream Of Jeannie", in October 1967, but they weren't playing themselves like they did on "Bewitched" in Feb. 1970. On "Jeannie" they performed their first chart hit "Out And About". BTW, on that same episode, Phil Spector played himself!
My best years, honestly, were in this window. I can tell you that, when a Boyce & Hart written song came on the radio ~ there was not a still pair of feet in the joint!
...you can't lose a friend you never had! because a friend won't say it's over, & go out just for spite...& now i wonder...what she's doin' tonight... Great Song!!!!
I don't know quite how to express this in technical terms, but I was about 10 years old when this song came out and I was awe-struck by its ... sonority. The way the horns and bass and guitar go together was just MAGIC to me. Today's songs almost never hit me that way. The closest I've heard lately is Buke & Gase, though they're not layered like Boyce & Hart and they're a LOT louder. I wish I knew how to express this in technical terms. Maybe some expert can tell me what I'm trying to say!
This song always reminds me of a guy who I had been friends with for years back in 67. He was drop dead gorgeous and I was no slouch back then. Anyway, when the relationship turned romantic, it went pretty quickly down the drain. Ever since, I've always missed the friend I had in him and these words in this song always remind me of that.
I was born in the 1860s and that was music. The Beatles are okay but nothing beats a ticket to a concert by Monica Harmonica. She could play like a herd of buffalo at a Presbyterian stoning. When she did "Hand Me My Gun There's An Indian In My Shower," the crowd went wild. You talk about Madonna all you like but Monica could blow a tune that could make a wild stallion eat a tube of Crest. You kids don't know what real music is. It's time for my pills.
picked this up in one of those box of singles with the hole punched through the record, a cut out....99 cents for the box at Woolworths...then home with the box and jump inside for the goodies, usually ten second tier songs that never cracked the top 40, but there was a gem every now and then and I did really dig the unknown songs...oh, and the B sides were cool too...where can you get a bargain like that today?
I too had a nehru jacket type shirt and a necklace with a big ass pendant. I was among the first at school to dress in such a manner. Loved the old days!
lenspaulding Absofuckinlutely you inquireing youngster! Never mind wishing about it though. My cup runneth over and I turn down more than you can dream of... jus' sayin'
I hear you...some of us didn't have cars and had to sponge off our friends that did....but I hear you about the radio...my ifrst one was an am/fm transistor radio with a single ear jack...makes me feel so old...
True story. When the Monkees wanted to get back together, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith weren't interested, so Boyce and Hart replaced them. They renamed themselves "Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart and went on tour. Got to see that in person, although I was waaaaaaaaaay back in the cheap seats!
,I'm glad that I grew up in the Sixties. It was great, happy sing along music like this that made the time so special. The irony is, it's a sad song if you focus on the words.
The problem of live sound was that the performers (mostly singers) did not travel the TV show circuit with their band, so we HAD to do the lip-sync thing to the record or tape they brought with them. Our equipment was top-notch, in fact, broadcast equipment back then was the best on the planet, but was it expensive! A basic RCA TR-50 color VTR cost over $100,000 in 1969, what is that in today's money? We also had many RCA model 44 & 77 ribbon mics that are still highly sought after yet today.
For anyone that loves 1960s music, Boyce and Hart should be household words. They wrote so many fabulous tunes, but it seems like History is just pushing their legacy aside.
For so long I thought this was a Bobby Sherman song.... In the song,...they called out 'alright Bobby now lets go now...' Wow,..learn something new every couple of decades.
I was very young when this first hit the airwaves in Australia, but remember it well nonetheless. Maybe my older sis had the single. Takes me back to a bygone era when I hear it now. Sadly Tommy Boyce took his own life a long time ago.
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We loved these songs throughout our youth, but I am finally realizing after all these years that we didn't love them enough! If your a baby boomer like myself, these songs can really zone you in on a particular month and year when these songs were hits. This song was popular in early 1968, I hear this song and think of my classmate Patty G. in my freshman year in high school. We never suspected the impact these songs would have nostalgia wise some 40 odd years late in life.
These guys were great song writers for other artists. This is a great song. You don't hear many songs today that use a lot of horns like they did in the sixties.
One of my very personal favorites& one of the very best records of 1968
I LOVE this song. My dad had the 45. He graduated in 1968. I was listening to some of mom and dad's records when I was in junior high. That's how I first heard this..
Dawn
Great song by a great 60's song writing team. This was a terrific song from 1968 and I know at times, I wonder what she's doing tonight.
Love this group!
Love the song and the video!
I was there too, and surely this era is the finest in all of music history. It can come back, though.
Irregardless of one's birth date, because of the miracle of recordings, one can always
discover older music.
I was born in '55, yet I love the tunes Glenn Miller put out during WWII.
On this day in 1968 {March 23rd} Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart performed "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'...
Three months earlier on December 23rd, 1967 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #8 and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
Tommy Boyce passed away on November 23rd, 1994 at the young age of 55...
R.I.P. Mr. Boyce, Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012} and Bobby Hart celebrated his 74th birthday last month on February 18th...
We lost talented Tommy Boyce much too soon. However, we're grateful he was here at all. Thank you Tommy & Bobby . . . for everything. PEACE to all.
I'm a "55 er" to and the summer of 1969 @ 14 was the best year for me too.So much music that summer!
I was only six when this song came out, but I remembered hearing it even then and loved it. 45 years later, it is still an amazing song IMHO.
The team that wrote so many Monkees tunes, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart with their great 1968 hit.
Great song!-It's definitely stood the test of time.
Creedend
I agree...its hard to watch the video with all the other stuff going on but the music back then was so awesome... I miss those days... truly! (:
What an incredibly great track -- first note to the last.
You old fart! :) I love you anyway. '58 here. I listen to WAKY radio out of Louisville, Ky in my travels & they play songs of this nature that send me back to my youth. Where did the time go?
B&H's biggest of four 1967-8 hits, this one reached #8 early in 1968. This soundtrack is a little muddy, but the original single is one of the GREAT, heart-pounding rock 'n' roll records of all time.
I always liked the song . Has a lot of reality. When you break up , you wonder what you did wrong or if you ever had a relationship at all.
I saw Electric Light Orchresta (ELO) live in Memphis back in the '70's at the mid-south colesseum on July 4, and they pulled a Milli Vanilli on us and those that had bottle rockets & roman candles fired them at the band along with throwing frisbees at the candelabra on top of their grand piano. The concert was delayed 1 hr till everyone calmed down & the show resumed. I have the best of ELO on a 2 cd set.
Sure takes me back!
I remember K-Tel album compiiations too, they were pretty good, now I think today's songs are on Now that's what I call music.
This and, "I'm Gonna Blow You A Kiss In The Wind," are two of my very favorite songs and always will be.
Love the theme from Days of Our Lives, also written by Boyce and Hart. Just adore these guys.
Another song from the best musical era ever-the sixties. And do I ever miss those times.
I hate rap crap so much...
What a hit machine these guys were,i can't think of one song they wrote that i did not like.
Boyce and Hart wrote many top tunes in those days.
Most people do know this, but Boyce and Hart composed the theme song for the long-running soap opera DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
Boyce and Hart wrote many of the Monkees songs many of which were hits!
Those were great times...no doubt about it.
Born in 55 this was another world, nothing will ever compare
I would trade 5 years of my life for the summer of 69
Today Is Saturday The 19'th, 2020. Great Song And Video Right On.
Every teen's angst put to music.
"But I guess she didn't understand it when I said I want to be your friend ..." Uhh, isn't "Can we just be friends?" the classic break up line that gals usually tell guys? ♣
love this song. upbeat and fun. granted the videos back then were funky, but that's the time and the technology, or lack of it. but still these two wrote a lot of hit songs.
They were ADORABLE! The epitome of the 60's! Just AWESOME!
Bobby's suit is awesome! No Autin Powers cracks this is the real deal!
SockBoy, Boyce & Hart WERE on "I Dream Of Jeannie", in October 1967, but they weren't playing themselves like they did on "Bewitched" in Feb. 1970. On "Jeannie" they performed their first chart hit "Out And About". BTW, on that same episode, Phil Spector played himself!
I say how absolutely spiffing !
My best years, honestly, were in this window. I can tell you that, when a Boyce & Hart written song came on the radio ~ there was not a still pair of feet in the joint!
...you can't lose a friend you never had! because a friend won't say it's over, & go out just for spite...& now i wonder...what she's doin' tonight...
Great Song!!!!
I had this on a 45 single and I wore the grooves off of it!! Wish I still had this 1, and all my old Monkees albums!!
I don't know quite how to express this in technical terms, but I was about 10 years old when this song came out and I was awe-struck by its ... sonority. The way the horns and bass and guitar go together was just MAGIC to me.
Today's songs almost never hit me that way. The closest I've heard lately is Buke & Gase, though they're not layered like Boyce & Hart and they're a LOT louder.
I wish I knew how to express this in technical terms. Maybe some expert can tell me what I'm trying to say!
Alright Bobby, lets go.........
This song always reminds me of a guy who I had been friends with for years back in 67. He was drop dead gorgeous and I was no slouch back then. Anyway, when the relationship turned romantic, it went pretty quickly down the drain. Ever since, I've always missed the friend I had in him and these words in this song always remind me of that.
This song rocked in it's day
These guys wrote so many hits for other people, I'm glad they got one for themselves.
Most of Monkees songs were written by Boyce and Hart! ☺
+Moon Pie And Neil Diamond.
Haven't you heard, "I'm Gonna Blow You A Kiss In The Wind," ? Phenomenal. Love both of these songs and
that Boyce and Hart did them themselves.
Great classic! Loved the group, the music and the time!
Nehru jackets and shirts were so wildly popular for what seemed to be 6 months....what were we thinking?
I love these songs so so much
best two lines adlibed: Come on Now. and Allright Bobby lets go.
I was born in the 1860s and that was music. The Beatles are okay but nothing beats a ticket to a concert by Monica Harmonica. She could play like a herd of buffalo at a Presbyterian stoning. When she did "Hand Me My Gun There's An Indian In My Shower," the crowd went wild. You talk about Madonna all you like but Monica could blow a tune that could make a wild stallion eat a tube of Crest. You kids don't know what real music is. It's time for my pills.
picked this up in one of those box of singles with the hole punched through the record, a cut out....99 cents for the box at Woolworths...then home with the box and jump inside for the goodies, usually ten second tier songs that never cracked the top 40, but there was a gem every now and then and I did really dig the unknown songs...oh, and the B sides were cool too...where can you get a bargain like that today?
Still a great song after all this years. Sad about Tommy.
I too had a nehru jacket type shirt and a necklace with a big ass pendant. I was among the first at school to dress in such a manner. Loved the old days!
Follow The Sun I'm a girl & can relate
Those of us awake and eyes open knew what it was all about. life is short and I wasted a lot of time on gibberish
lenspaulding Absofuckinlutely you inquireing youngster! Never mind wishing about it though. My cup runneth over and I turn down more than you can dream of... jus' sayin'
Follow The Sun you still sound groovy to me.....good luck and God Bless.
And the beat goes on. Hi Kandy! I'm a Capricorn.
I hear you...some of us didn't have cars and had to sponge off our friends that did....but I hear you about the radio...my ifrst one was an am/fm transistor radio with a single ear jack...makes me feel so old...
T H A N K Y O U !! I forgot about this CLASSIC!! must be getting old tonight!
@octoberprince I was born long after a lot of these BRILLIANT artists/bands. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era!
just got back from Vietnam....it was hard to get being normal..
Anybody remember when they were on I dream of Jeanie???? They wrote many songs for the Monkees as well!!!
Can't lose a friend, you never had.. food for thought!
I love the old classic rock and roll very much bit is really nice
fricking awesome!
LOL They were high as a kite, but I loved them both.
very talented songwriter/performers - wrote a buch of the monkee songs - lots of hits
All right Bobby, let's get 'em!
The good old days
These guys were hook geniuses.
True story. When the Monkees wanted to get back together, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith weren't interested, so Boyce and Hart replaced them. They renamed themselves "Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart and went on tour. Got to see that in person, although I was waaaaaaaaaay back in the cheap seats!
Boyce & Hart wrote many of the Monkees songs. They were a great songwriting team.
Joy riding in my dads 1964 Buick Electra
This sounds like something out of an old,classic filmation cartoon.
R.I.P., Tommy.
If it wasn't for Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart,the Monkees would never had such a claim to fame.
Ha ha, I was born in 1948....PERFECT !!!!
you will live to see where she is and enjoy your old body.but she will live forever in a song.be happy bye
Groovy Man!!
,I'm glad that I grew up in the Sixties. It was great, happy sing along music like this that made the time so special. The irony is, it's a sad song if you focus on the words.
This sounds like it could be on a classic filmation cartoon.
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote a bunch of the Monkees' songs. That's where that heavy bubblegum sound comes from.
the sixties when i was young and didn;t even know where to play that on the guitar lol !
boyce&hart wrote this song #8 in dec.1969 us charts they never remade it they wrote it
It was I dream of Jeannie. I have the episode. Jeannie was their manager. Funny one too!
I'm remembering how cool we thought this video looked back in the day.
Put this song on the jukebox and you're good to go....
The problem of live sound was that the performers (mostly singers) did not travel the TV show circuit with their band, so we HAD to do the lip-sync thing to the record or tape they brought with them. Our equipment was top-notch, in fact, broadcast equipment back then was the best on the planet, but was it expensive! A basic RCA TR-50 color VTR cost over $100,000 in 1969, what is that in today's money? We also had many RCA model 44 & 77 ribbon mics that are still highly sought after yet today.
I got it~Tommy Boyce, and Bobby Hart!
I wore this record out,they had so many cool songs!
Oh my!! Great memories!!
For anyone that loves 1960s music, Boyce and Hart should be household words. They wrote so many fabulous tunes, but it seems like History is just pushing their legacy aside.
i was born 11-5-55 yes i am the back to the future guy!!
For so long I thought this was a Bobby Sherman song.... In the song,...they called out 'alright Bobby now lets go now...' Wow,..learn something new every couple of decades.
I was born in 61 and it's still good music, the oldies are GREAT!!!!!
these guys were known more for being songwriters. They wrote several for the Monkees that became very succesful
These guys wrote hits for many a band.They were a Hit machine and I know them both.
Wow, talk about obscure............. good find!
You sir are insane
wow, great old tunes. thanks
I was very young when this first hit the airwaves in Australia, but remember it well nonetheless. Maybe my older sis had the single. Takes me back to a bygone era when I hear it now. Sadly Tommy Boyce took his own life a long time ago.
GROOVY!!
Love! Love! This song! Great dance song! Love to sing it!
If only ! I was born in 48 ! ...and knew then what I know now !!