Your Auntie Grizelda
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| "Your Auntie Grizelda" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Monkees | |
| from the album More of the Monkees | |
| Released | January 10, 1967 |
| Recorded | October 23, 1966 |
| Studio | American, Studio City, California |
| Genre | Psychedelic pop[1] |
| Length | 2:30 |
| Label | Colgems |
| Composer | Jack Keller |
| Lyricist | Diane Hildebrand |
| Producers | Jeff Barry, Jack Keller |
"Your Auntie Grizelda" is a song recorded by the American pop rock group the Monkees. Diane Hildebrand wrote the lyrics and Jack Keller composed the music. It is the first released song of the band with Peter Tork on lead vocals.
The song appeared on both the TV series and the 1967 album More of the Monkees. While originally published by Screen Gems-Columbia Music (BMI), it is now published by Colgems-EMI Music (ASCAP).[2][3][4]
Although never released as a single, "Your Auntie Grizelda" has appeared on several of the band's subsequent "Greatest Hits" albums, and the Monkees regularly performed it in their live shows. In the instrumental break, Tork was told beforehand to make nonsensical sounds, according to songwriter Diane Hildebrand.
