Boyce Hart - Words Music Songs of Tommy Boyce Bobby Hart (18 tracks) +Album Reviews

Boyce & Hart Get the Treatment They Deserve!

Scott Clarkson | Montreal, Canada | 02/25/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is for geeks like us: the ones who bothered to read the production and writing credits on our Monkees lp's; the ones who noticed the fact that Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart appeared as themselves on both "Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie"; the ones who cared enough to feel bad on hearing of Boyce's death in '94. This collects their genuine hits as well as alternate versions and a few songs that rightly went unheralded. I don't know where they stack up against Rogers and Hart, the Gershwins, or Lennon & McCartney, but this grabs a lot of stuff that would otherwise fall through the cracks of your music collection. The Monkees are well represented of course, but my favourites may be Little Anthony and the Imperials' "Hurt So Bad" and Boyce and Hart's own "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight". They get a bit heavy (handed) on tracks like "We're All Going to the Same Place", but when they keep it fun ("Pretty Little Angel Eyes"! "Come a Little Bit Closer"!) they're hard to beat."

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, the 60's lost pearls

Eric Charles | 09/27/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Just adding some info about boyce & hart's tv appearances. They have also been on "The Flying nun " episode playing a couple of their rare songs of the "Nuggets " LP,I guess from 1967. This Lp brings us lost pearls such as "Sometimes she's a little girl" and Girl I'm out to get you among others. Attention Labels: Why don't you reprint this title? Certainly it will be sold here.It's going to be a hit!!!!!"

Ear-candy is good!!!

joeyc09@hotmail.com | bayonne,n.j. | 06/08/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"well,i think this is a must for fans of60's pop,or just fans of catchy under {sometimes} 3 min.songs....hey,boyce&hart should be remembered as great pop songwriters.they could take the most bubblegum sounding song. and then WHAM!! out of nowhere it sounds like a classical string quartet.this was part of their sound,i'll blow you a kiss in the wind is truely a lost pop classic,other songs you'll know others you'll be pleasently suprised that they wrote it,and others,yes are a little over indulgent, but hey hey it was the 60's.this disc is a great history lesson..."

A real treat!

Eric Charles | Ottawa, ON, Canada | 02/15/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I just bought this CD two days ago and it has been in heavy rotation on my portable CD player since! I especially enjoy Boyce & Hart's signature tune "I wonder what she's doing tonite".
I think that the other tracks on this disc really reflect this duo's immense talent for songwriting. I also enjoyed some tracks that, up until now, I've only known the Monkees to perform, such as "Words" and "I'm not your stepping stone". The versions performed here show that these songs are written in such a way that they sound good by whomever is performing them! Overall, this CD is a real treat to listen to and I highly recommend it!"

Has Anybody Seen My Old Friend Tommy?

Steven Haarala | Mandeville, LA USA | 02/09/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I guess some people would classify most of the music of Boyce & Hart as "bubble-gum". Who cares? I don't worry that much about classification in music, because I know that every category contains good and bad, so to classify it is really meaningless. Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart wrote some quality hits for other artists, probably more than most people realize. They helped The Monkees' careers with "Last Train to Clarksville", "Valleri" and "I Wanna Be Free". The Monkees also recorded "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone", but so did Paul Revere & The Raiders (on this CD), and years later The Sex Pistols gave it a shot too. "Come A Little Bit Closer" is here, probably Jay & The Americans' biggest hit. "Hurt So Bad" was a hit for Little Anthony & The Imperials (on this CD) and later, a big hit for Linda Ronstadt. Bobby Hart co-wrote it with 2 other writers. And there's "Action", the theme for one of TV's many teen-oriented music shows. Tommy Boyce was a co-writer on this one. One that I had never heard is "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" by The Astronauts, but it sounds a lot like very early Stones.

With all that to their credit, the songs I'm enjoying the most are the ones they sing themselves. They prove that you don't need operatic voices to get your point across. Sometimes a whisper will do. "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" is probably my favorite, followed closely by the sexier "I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind". (Who can forget Serena, Samantha's troublesome cousin, being involved in that song when our boys were guests on "Bewitched"?) "We're All Going to the Same Place" is a mildly disturbing warning of impending disaster, not their usual subject matter. "Out and About" is sort of a little darker "I Get Around" (the Beach Boys hit), with a touch of "Good Vibrations" added to the mix. "Goodbye Baby" could almost be a Beatles track. "Alice Long" is pretty similar in sound to "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight".

The very day I received this CD in the mail, I happened to read on Wikipedia that Tommy Boyce had died in 1994. He suffered from depression and physical illness, and then took his own life. Right on the heels of the tragic deaths of Heath Ledger and Brad Renfro, and the sad passing of Suzanne Pleshette, this was news that I could have done without. But, celebrities are mortal. Thank goodness their art lives on. As long as I have this CD, I'll have the best of Tommy and his partner Bobby, showcasing their talents as both songwriters and performers of mostly upbeat songs. And that will help to make ME happy...

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