"Zor and Zam"

Last night, I figured out the trombone part in a section of "Zor and Zam" (from ~0:51 to ~1:10).  In a loose way, it doubles the vocal melody, and it led me to a few realizations about the lines "The king of Zor, he called for a war / And the king of Zam, he answered" (the first two lines of the song), which are sung to a melody something like this:

Lyrically, the lines exhibit structural parallelism, and the similar melodic shapes add an-other layer to it.  Furthermore, this parallelism (in the lyrics and the music) matches the reciprocal nature of "he answered."

"Zor and Zam"

This is just a minor point, but the phrase "to one and to all" in the line "Out went the call to one and to all" at the beginning of the second verse of "Zor and Zam" contains a merism.

"Mijacogeo (The Frodis Caper)"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Mijacogeo (The Frodis Caper)" - the fifty-eighth and last episode of The Monkees series (and the twenty-sixth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (25 March 1968).  It was written by Micky Dolenz, Dave Evans, and Jon Anderson, directed by Micky Dolenz, and featured the songs "Zor and Zam" and "Song of the Siren" (performed by Tim Buckley).  Sandoval describes the plot as: "The group battle with the evil Wizard Glick (Rip Taylor) who plans to take over the world through the hypnotic spell of television."