Re-Focus (album)

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Re-Focus
Compilation album by The Monkees
Released	1972
Recorded	1966-1969
Genre	Rock
Length	30:51
Label	Bell Records
Producer	Various
The Monkees chronology
Barrel Full of Monkees (1971) Re-Focus (1972) The Monkees Greatest Hits (1976)

Re-Focus was a 1972 compilation album of songs by The Monkees, released on Bell Records, the successor to Colgems Records, which had been the Monkees's original record label.

The band had quit, one by one, over 1969 and 1970, but their television series continued to air on CBS-TV on Saturday mornings (moving to ABC in 1972). Two earlier best-ofs collections from Colgems were hard to find, and neither had included a photo of the band. While Re-Focus used an early photo of the Monkees on its front cover (as the subject of a camera lens, hence the title), this collection also soon headed for obscurity.

The same song lineup was reused in 1976, after Bell Records evolved into Arista Records (with music mogul Clive Davis in charge), for a far more successful compilation, The Monkees Greatest Hits.

[edit] Track listing

1. "(Theme from) The Monkees" (Boyce & Hart)
2. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Boyce & Hart)
3. "She" (Boyce & Hart)
4. "Daydream Believer" (Stewart)
5. "Listen to the Band" (Nesmith)
6. "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" (Diamond)
7. "I'm a Believer" (Diamond)
8. "I Wanna Be Free" (Boyce & Hart)
9. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (King & Goffin)
10. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" (Boyce & Hart)
11. "Shades of Gray" (Mann & Weil)