In 1966, The Monkees TV show made its debut with the episode “Royal Flush.” Starring Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones, the episode featured the song “Take a Giant Step.” And while it’s not remembered as one of the biggest Monkees songs decades later, the B-side hit was covered by a ‘70s heartthrob for yet another TV show four years after The Monkees debut.
“Take a Giant Step” was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. A post on The Monkees Instagram page noted that the song was featured on The Monkees premiere episode on Sept. 12, 1966, on NBC.
It was also released as the B-side to the band’s first single, “Last Train to Clarksville,” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November of that year.
With Dolenz on lead vocals, the song features an upbeat, pop-rock arrangement offset by lyrics about moving past a heartbreak.
In the liner notes to The Monkees Music Box set, producer Bobby Hart recalled getting demos for the TV show from multiple songwriters.
“Tommy [Boyce] and I had been working for about a year or more doing the demos for the pilot and getting it all together,” he recalled. “Then all of a sudden everybody was serious, and Donnie [Kirshner] was on the next plane with a stack of demos under his arm. He felt strongly about certain ones. We were told to do ‘Take A Giant Step,’ ‘I’ll Be True To You,’ and ‘Saturday’s Child.'”
Original producer Snuff Garrett had planned to feature Jones on lead vocals on “Take a Giant Step,” but Boyce and Hart recut the song with Dolenz singing lead.
Four years after the Monkees debuted the song, “Take a Giant Step” found a second life on TV. The song was featured in the 1970 episode of Here Come the Brides, performed by Bobby Sherman, one of the biggest teen idols at the time.
Sherman’s version of the song, which is a slowed-down acoustic rendition of the classic track, was featured as a voiceover in a sequence where his character, Jeremy Bolt, bonds with a non-verbal boy named Absalom (Mitch Vogel). It is vastly different than the Monkees’ version and was titled “Step Outside Your Mind” for the Here Come the Brides episode.
Sixty years after the Monkees’ release of “Take a Giant Step,” the last surviving band member, Dolenz, still performs the song live. During a 2023 performance at Englewood, NJ’s BergenPAC auditorium, Dolenz performed “Take a Giant Step” and credited King, Goffin, Boyce, Hart and Neil Diamond for all of the music they contributed to the band.
“Thank you so much for celebrating this thing we call The Monkees!” Dolenz told the crowd, per New Jersey Stage. “It was so much more than the four of us, behind the scenes especially. I feel so blessed to have had those songs.”
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