"The Kind of Girl I Could Love"

Last month I figured out the bass part for "The Kind of Girl I Could Love."  I notated it, but then I sort of forgot about it.  I finally got around to scanning it last night.  As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong:

Like I mentioned last month, I don't think the bass plays in the first measure of the bridge.  The notes I have there in parentheses are extrapolated from two measures that appear later in the bridge.

"The Kind of Girl I Could Love"

When I listened to the second disc of the deluxe edition of More of the Monkees a couple days ago, the bass part in the bridge of "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" sounded easy to figure out.  It was a bit more difficult than I expected, but this evening I figured out all of the bass part.  In doing so, I discovered a couple interesting features about the bass part in the bridge:

I should note that I don't think the bass plays at all for the first measure.  I extrapolated those notes based on the first two measures of the second line.

The lyrics here are:

You do something to my soul
That no one's ever done
If you're looking for to love
Then let me be the one

The bass part musically represents two ideas in these lyrics.

The song is in A major, but there are two accidentals (F natural and Bb), which represent the foreignness of "something... that no one's ever done."

After the line "Then let me be the one," the bass repeats a single pitch (an E), representing that idea of singularity.

"Alias Micky Dolenz"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Alias Micky Dolenz" - the twenty-fifth episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (6 March 1967).  It was written by Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, and Dave Evans, directed by Bruce Kessler, and featured the songs "The Kind of Girl I Could Love" and "Mary, Mary."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "Micky's resemblance to a vicious killer causes calamity."

"The Spy Who Came in from the Cool"

Backdated, archival post

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According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "The Spy Who Came in from the Cool" - the fifth episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (10 October 1966).  It was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso, directed by Robert Rafelson, and featured the songs "The Kind of Girl I Could Love," "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," "All the King's Horses," and "Saturday's Child."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "The Monkees are cast into the Cold War after Davy purchases a pair of 'red' maracas at a pawnshop."