I follow Your Daily Dose of the Monkees on Instagram, and in recognition of the 52nd anniversary of the first episode's broadcast, there were some clips of the show. I was catching up on things this morning, and while watching this one, I realized something else about "This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day."
The "stayed" in "Wish she would have stayed" in the backing vocals in the bridge is sung with a melisma (E D C#). Because the word's drawn out, there's something of a sense of its meaning.
