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Instant Replay
Studio album by the Monkees
Released	February 15, 1969
Recorded	July 18, 1966–January 10, 1969
Studio	United Recorders (Hollywood) RCA Victor (Nashville) RCA Victor (Hollywood) Western Recorders, Nos. 1 & 2 (Hollywood) Wally Heider, No. 3 (Hollywood) Sunset Sound Recorders (Hollywood)
Genre	Pop[1]
Length	33:31
Label	Colgems
Producer	Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Felton Jarvis, Davy Jones, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, Bones Howe
The Monkees chronology
Head (1968) Instant Replay (1969) Greatest Hits (1969)
Singles from Instant Replay
"Tear Drop City" / "A Man Without a Dream" Released: February 8, 1969
Cover for Rhino CD Reissue

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Swaptree	(favorable)[citation needed]

Instant Replay is the seventh studio album by the American pop rock band the Monkees, released in 1969 by Colgems Records. Issued 11 months after the cancellation of the group's NBC television series, it is also the first album released after Peter Tork left the group and the only album of the original nine studio albums that does not include any songs featured in the TV show.

Although the Monkees had recorded dozens of tracks since the release of their last studio album, spring 1968's The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees (a soundtrack LP from their film Head had been released between the two studio LPs), several of the songs on Instant Replay actually dated from sessions up to two and a half years earlier.

The band's new music coordinator (and former road manager), Brendan Cahill, believed that releasing previously unused tracks recorded in 1966—prior to the group's seizing control of their own recording process—was the way for the group to regain commercial success. The album's lead single, "Tear Drop City", written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, was one of the songs taken from the vault and was identified by Michael Nesmith as their intended first single in 1966. The track was not a major hit, only managing to reach No. 56 on the U.S. charts, while reaching No. 34 in Australia. Despite the single's poor chart performance, the album charted on the Billboard Top 40 Albums chart at No. 32.^[2]

Two songs from these sessions, "A Man Without a Dream" and "Someday Man" (later issued as the B-side of the "Listen to the Band" single), were produced by Bones Howe and recorded at Wally Heider's Studio. Howe brought in Wrecking Crew musicians, including Tommy Tedesco (guitar), Joe Osborn (bass) and Hal Blaine (drums), and a nine-piece horn section. Despite having already quit the group, Peter Tork makes an appearance on this album by playing guitar and Danelectro bass on the 1966 outtake "I Won't Be the Same Without Her".

Micky Dolenz's "Just a Game" had originally been written during the sessions for the album Headquarters (1967), while Nesmith's "Don't Wait for Me" was the first released product of his 1968 sessions with Nashville studio musicians. Davy Jones' "You and I" featured guitar work from Neil Young.

In 2011, Rhino Handmade released an 89-track deluxe edition of Instant Replay. Disc 1 features stereo versions and various remixed versions. Disc 2 features mono released and unreleased versions. Disc 3 features alternate takes, backing tracks, and tapes from the television special 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee. The 7-inch vinyl single has two songs sourced from acetate: alternate mixes of "I Go Ape" and "(I Prithee) Do Not Ask for Love".^[3]

Credits adapted from Rhino Handmade 2011 "Deluxe Edition" box set.^[4]

The Monkees

• Micky Dolenz – lead vocals (1, 4, 9, 12), acoustic guitar (4), backing vocals (12), piano (12)
• Davy Jones – lead vocals (2, 5, 7, 10–11), backing vocals (7, 11)
• Michael Nesmith – lead vocals (3, 6, 8), backing vocals (3), guitar (8)

Additional musicians

Unconfirmed personnel and duties

• Horns, strings (1–2)
• Additional backing vocals (3, 11)
• Calliope, tambourine, horns, backing vocals (5)
• Keith Allison – unknown (8)
• Bill Chadwick – unknown (8, 12)
• Harry Nilsson – unknown (8)
• Backing vocals (8, 10)
• Additional guitar (11)

Technical

• Tommy Boyce – producer (1–2, 5, 9), arranger (9)
• Bobby Hart – producer (1–2, 5, 9), arranger (9)
• Don McGinnis – arranger (1–2, 5)
• Michael Nesmith – producer (3, 6, 8), arranger (3, 6, 8)
• Micky Dolenz – producer (4, 12)
• Shorty Rogers – arranger (4, 7, 12)
• Felton Jarvis – producer (6)
• Davy Jones – producer (7)
• Carole Bayer Sager – producer (10)
• Neil Sedaka – producer (10), arranger (10)
• Bones Howe – producer (11), arranger (11)
• Bob Alcivar – arranger (11)
• Bill Holman – arranger (11)
• Brendan Cahill – music coordinator
• Alan Wolsky – cover design