18 January 2024

A friend won't say it's over and go out just for spite

Thursday music corner: Tommy Boyce (1939-94) and Bobby Hart (b.1939), known collectively as Boyce and Hart, were a singing and songwriting duo best known for their many compositions recorded by the Monkees, including Last Train To Clarksville and most of the band's self-titled first album. The duo also released three studio albums under their own names from 1967 to 1969. 

I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight is Boyce and Hart's most successful single released under their own names, reaching number eight in the US Billboard charts in 1968. It was the title and opening track of their second album, released in 1968. The modern video below featuring 1960s TV actors Barbara Eden and Elizabeth Montgomery is mostly not contemporaneous to the recording, although some of it is from a 1970 episode of Bewitched in which Boyce and Hart are performing a different number, I 'll Blow You A Kiss In The Wind. (Also, Elizabeth: your guitar's not plugged in...)

Boyce & Hart - I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight (1968)


See also:
Music: Boyce & Hart - The Ambushers (I Wonder b-side, 1968)
Music: The Monkees - Words (1967)
Music: The Monkees - A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (1967)

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