"Good Clean Fun" b/w "Mommy and Daddy"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Good Clean Fun" b/w "Mommy and Daddy" - the Monkees' eleventh single (Colgems 5005) - was released in the U.S. fifty years ago this month (September 1969).  The U.K. release (RCA 1887) was "late 1969 or early 1970."

"Good Clean Fun"

I recently read the entry for 18 October 1969 in Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, in which he writes about the chart performance of "Good Clean Fun."  I've never been too interested in chart numbers, but it got me thinking about the song again.

Back in August, I realized that "I look down" descends (C# A E), musically giving a sense of that "down."  Yester-day, I realized that there's more to it than that.

In the first two lines of the bridge, the singer/speaker looks down at his watch, and the watch looks back at him:

And this plane gets closer ev'ry minute I look down
To a watch that keeps lookin' back at me

This reciprocal looking is also illustrated in the music.  As noted above, "I look down" descends, and - complementing that - "back at me" ascends (A C C#).

"Good Clean Fun"

Yester-day I figured out most of the chords for "Good Clean Fun," and I noticed a small feature:  in the bridge, "I look down" descends (C# A E), musically giving a sense of that "down."