The Monkees

Take a Giant Step

(Gerry Goffin/Carole King)

Lead Vocals: Davy Jones

Guitar: Sonny Curtis

Electric Guitar:Glen Campbell and James Burton

Bass: Ray Pohlman

Piano & Organ: Larry Knechtel

Drums: Hal Blaine

Produced By: Snuff Garrett

Date: June 10, 1966

This first official recording session involved a session group of: Sonny Curtis (guitar), Hal Blaine (drums), Larry Knechtel (piano and organ), Ray Pohlman (eight-string bass), and Glen Campbell and James Burton (both 12-string electric guitar). Garrett and arranger Leon Russell recorded Goffin/King's "Take A Giant Step" with Davy handling lead vocals.

Lyrics:

Though you've played at love and lost

And sorrow's turned your heart to frost

I will melt your heart again.

Remember the feeling as a child

When you woke up and morning smiled

It's time you felt like you did then.

There's just no percentage in remembering the past

It's time you learned to live again at last.

Come with me, leave yesterday behind

And take a giant step outside your mind.

You stare at me in disbelief

You say for you there's no relief

But I swear I'll prove you wrong.

Don't stay in your lonely room

Just staring back in silent gloom.

That's not where you belong

Come with me I'll take you where the taste of life is green

And everyday holds wonders to be seen.

Come with me, leave yesterday behind

And take a giant step outside your mind.

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