Origin: Los Angeles, CA, USA
The prolific songwriting duo of Sidney Thomas "Tommy" Boyce and Robert Luke "Bobby Hart" Harshman (Boyce & Hart) are by far best known for writing a substantial number of unique but catchy smash hit songs for the Monkees during the height of their career. What fewer people know however, is that they also released three LPs and several singles of their own accord in and around this same time period, earning three Top 40 hits. Before meeting in Los Angeles in late 1959, Boyce had already become a successful songwriter by scoring a huge U.S. and U.K. smash ('Be My Guest') for Fats Domino earlier …