Monkees Mickey Dolenz "Plastic Symphony III" Round Robin "Sit and Dance" Leon Russell

When The Monkees became the hottest craze on the planet for teens in 1966, record labels scrambled to cash in on their fame. Their drummer, Mickey Dolenz, had recorded for Challenge Records in 1965 with his band, The One-Nighters. Dolenz's composition "Don't Do It," which had been shelved, was dusted off and released in late January 1967 opposite an instrumental titled "Plastic Symphony III." That instrumental had been put out on a Domain single by Round Robin in 1965 titled "Sit and Dance," written by Elaine Fink and Shirley Romans, and recorded with Leon Russell on organ.
The owners of Domain Records were producers Tony Sepe, Marty Brooks and Bob Krasnow. They had written "Do The Slauson" for Round Robin, which Leon had played on when it was recorded in October 1963. Russell had played on several sessions for Sepe and Brooks.
The writing credits for "Plastic Symphony III" on the Challenge and Apex labels had Romans-Fink-Richardson. The latter was Johnny Richardson. In 2005 a four-song compact disc titled Plastic Symphony EP was released with four songs by Dolenz. Two were instrumentals ("Big Ben" and "Plastic Symphony III") and two had Mickey singing ("Don't Do It" and "Huff-Puff"). All four had been produced by Tony Sepe and Marty Brooks, and Dolenz was credited on the inner sleeve as their songwriter. Mickey denied any participation in the instrumental sides, saying they were a cash-grab by the label.
Davy Jones of The Monkees did recordings with Leon’s hometown pal, David Gates, as arranger. Look for “The Girl From Chelsea” on this Youtube channel.