(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

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"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"
Song by Paul Revere & the Raiders
from the album Midnight Ride
GenreRock
Songwriter(s)Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
Producer(s)Terry Melcher

"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" is a rock song written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. It was first recorded by the English band the Liverpool Five in early 1966 but remained unreleased before summer of that same year. In the meantime, the American band Paul Revere & the Raiders recorded the song which appeared on their album Midnight Ride, released in May 1966.

The song is simple musically, with a repeating verse chord progression of E major, G major, A major, and C major, and a repeating bridge in cut time of E major, G major, A major, and G major.

Monkees version

"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"
US picture sleeve (reverse)
Single by the Monkees
from the album More of the Monkees
A-side"I'm a Believer"
Released12 November 1966
Recorded26 July 1966
Western Recorders Studio #1
Hollywood, CA
Genre
Length2:23
LabelColgems
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Tommy Boyce
  • Bobby Hart
The Monkees singles chronology
"Last Train to Clarksville"
(1966) 		"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"
(1966) 		"A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You"
(1967)

"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" is best known as a hit for

B-side to chart, reaching #20 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3] Musicians featured on the recording are Micky Dolenz (lead vocal), Tommy Boyce (backing vocal), Wayne Erwin and Gerry McGee (rhythm guitar), Louis Shelton (lead guitar), Bobby Hart (Vox Continental organ), Larry Taylor (bass), Billy Lewis (drums) and Henry Lewy
(percussion).

The single,

mono album versions contain several differences. In the stereo version, the track's title is sung just before the second verse, whereas on the single and mono album versions, this segment is left instrumental. The stereo version has an edit in the fadeout , but the mono album version does not have this edit and therefore has a longer coda. The single also does not have the edit, but it fades out earlier than does the mono album. All Monkees hits compilations
through the mid-1980s used the stereo version, and afterward typically used the single version.

The Monkees' version is featured in the "romp" segments of several episodes of the group's television series. It has also been heard in episodes of shows such as The Queen's Gambit and Zoo.

Other versions

The song has been

the Sex Pistols, State of Alert, the Trashmen, the Queers, and Minor Threat have also recorded versions of the song.[4] It was also covered by Fereydoon Foroughi with Persian lyrics in a song titled "Hoqqe" (حقه), also known as "Mashti Mashalla" or "Mashdi Mashalla".[5]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780922915699
    .
  2. ISBN 9781493064601
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  3. ISBN 0-89820-122-5
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  4. ISBN 1-84449-058-0
  5. ^ Fereydoon Foroughi. "حقه" (video). YouTube (in Persian). Taraneh Enterprise.
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