Anyway, in the summer of 1976, Laurie House (a cheap-o record mail order house) advertised a double LP of the Monkees for sale from a TV commercial! At this time (mid-70's) all the Monkees albums had been out of print, so this was the ONLY available Monkees product at the time.
I called up, and ordered the LP (with help from my folks), then waited. And waited....
I still remember receiving this in the mail. I was sooo excited. The cover had a penciled drawing of all the member's faces. I aways remember thinking Davy Jones looked really chubby in his picture.
Laurie House was really cheap. The cover was so thin that it was already creased from the outline of the record from shipping. They used the same picture for both the front and the back of the album - and no track listing or any other info except the catalog numbers (Laurie House LH-8009 and RCA Special Products DPL 2-0188). The track listing was available on the inside record labels. Even now, I think this is the best compilation of the Monkees ever released.
Ah, memory lane.
Hi. I was just Googling the Monkees, looking for info on this album, in particular. I think your experience was very similar to mine. I was in 3rd grade in 1976/77 and used to watch the boys on TV every day after school. When I saw this advertised I flipped out! I would sit there with my pen and paper ready to try to write down all the information and it must have taken me a dozen attempts before I got it all. And, like you, even as a 9-year-old I could tell the packaging was really low-end. But I played these records to death! Good times! I wish I knew what happened to this....
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