{"id":865,"date":"2026-03-30T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=865"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:33:59","slug":"mm-1966-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/03\/30\/mm-1966-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"899\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-869\" style=\"width:611px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/stone.jpg 896w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/stone-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/stone-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/stone-768x771.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monkees Stepping Stone\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I9pUq339ptA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;(I&#8217;m Not Your) Steppin&#8217; Stone&#8221; is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_music\">rock<\/a>&nbsp;song written by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boyce_and_Hart\">Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart<\/a>. It was first recorded by the English band the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool_Five\">Liverpool Five<\/a>&nbsp;in early 1966 but remained unreleased before summer of that same year. In the meantime, the American band&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Revere_%26_the_Raiders\">Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders<\/a>&nbsp;recorded the song which appeared on their album&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midnight_Ride_(album)\">Midnight Ride<\/a><\/em>, released in May 1966.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;(I&#8217;m Not Your) Steppin&#8217; Stone&#8221; is best known as a hit for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Monkees\">the Monkees<\/a>. Released in November 1966, the song became the first Monkees&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B-side\">B-side<\/a>&nbsp;to chart, reaching #20 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;Hot 100<\/a>.  Musicians featured on the recording are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micky_Dolenz\">Micky Dolenz<\/a>&nbsp;(lead vocal), Tommy Boyce (backing vocal), Wayne Erwin and Gerry McGee (rhythm guitar),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_Shelton\">Louis Shelton<\/a>&nbsp;(lead guitar), Bobby Hart (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vox_Continental\">Vox Continental<\/a>&nbsp;organ),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Taylor\">Larry Taylor<\/a>&nbsp;(bass), Billy Lewis (drums) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Lewy\">Henry Lewy<\/a>&nbsp;(percussion).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;(I&#8217;m Not Your) Steppin&#8217; Stone&#8221; is a&nbsp;rock&nbsp;song written by&nbsp;Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. It was first recorded by the English band the&nbsp;Liverpool Five&nbsp;in early 1966 but remained unreleased before summer of that same year. In the meantime, the American band&nbsp;Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders&nbsp;recorded the song which appeared on their album&nbsp;Midnight Ride, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}