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Co-writer of hits for the Monkees and other acts

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September 18, 2025

His creations include Tm Not Your Steppin’ Stone’ and Last Train to Clarksville.’

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Co-writer of hits for the Monkees and other acts

CHRIS WALTER WireImage MONKEE AROUND Tommy Boyce, left, Davy Jones, Bobby Hart and Micky Dolenz put out an album together.

NEW YORK - Bobby Hart, a key part of the Monkees' multimedia empire who teamed with Tommy Boyce on such hits as "Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone," has died. He was 86.

Hart died at his home in Los Angeles, according to his friend and co-author, Glenn Ballantyne. He had been in poor health since breaking his hip last year.

Boyce and Hart were a prolific and successful team in the mid-1960s, especially for the Monkees, the madefor-television group promoted by Don Kirshner.

They wrote the Monkees' theme song, with its opening shot, "Here we come, walkin' down the street," and enduring chant, "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees," and their first No. 1 hit, "Last Train to Clarksville." The Monkees' eponymous, million-selling debut album included six songs from Boyce and Hart, who also served as producers and used their own backing musicians, the Candy Store Prophets, as session players.

"I always credit them not only with writing many of our biggest hits, but, as producers, being instrumental in creating the unique Monkee sound we all know and love," the Monkees' Micky Dolenz wrote in a foreword to Hart's memoir, "Psychedelic Bubblegum," published in 2015.

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