Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Although lots of songs were written by the band members, lots of their recorded songs were written by other very well known songwriters and/or song writing teams.
RIP.
I came across a “Best of the Monkees” playlist on Spotify recently. I figured that I would recognize 4-5 songs. They had more hits than I realized, and several more of the ones I didn’t recognize were very good. They may have started as TV characters, but they ended up with some really good songs.