“All of Your Toys (tracking session composite takes 1 to 10)”

Micky: Pete, should I do that with you?
Peter?: [???]
Micky: Okay.

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

Davy: What Mike?
Peter: Two, one two three.

[instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: Okay.
Micky: Sorry about that.
Peter: Sorry about what?
Micky: I missed a drum lick.
?: Yeah, yeah, it’s, it’s got a beautiful, relaxed feel to it though. It’s nice—it really swings. It’s just a matter of one or two little goofs here and there, you know. Let’s do one more real quick.
?: [???]
Micky: Wait a minute, can we do, take it from, uh, take it from, coming out of, um.
?: This is “All of Your Toys”…
?: [???] right there.
?: …featuring The Monkees. Or is it The Hunkies?
Mike: If it’s [???] tonight, you’re in—
Peter: The Junkies.
?: The Flunkies?
Mike: I’m gonna come over there. Could you tell me [???]
Micky: I don’t know if it is or not, we stopped [???]
Peter: Hey, come on, guys.
Micky: I did.
Peter: One, two, a-one seven sixteen and.

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: One more. There’s a note that drops outta that. Or was that?
Peter: One, two, eins zwei drei.

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: One more.
Peter: Three, two, seventy seventy, ninety.
?: [???]

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

Peter: No? One, two, un, deux, trois.

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: Wait. What is that fancy little spot in there?

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: Yeah, don’t do that. That sounds kind of awkward. The bass is cool, what he’s doing, but the harpsichord, just play it straight.
Peter: Let me do s—Hey! Let me do something. One, two, un, deux, tres.

[short instrumental excerpt from “All Of Your Toys”]

?: Enormous speed-up, right there.


  1. The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the ’60s TV Pop Sensation (2005), Andrew Sandoval, p. 286.