According to Andrew Sandoval's
The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Tear Drop City" b/w "A Man without a Dream" - the Monkees' ninth single (Colgems 5000) - was released in the U.S. fifty years ago this month (February 1969). The U.K. release (RCA 1802) was on 28 February.