Monkees Cereal Box Record No. 1

"Monkees. Colgems, full fidelity, 33⅓ rpm. 1. The Monkees (Theme), 2. Teardrop City, 3. Papa Gene's Blues, 4. (The) Day We Fell in Love. This is record no. 1."

A Monkees cardboard picture disc, circa 1970 or 1971, that someone unevenly cut out from the back of a box of Post's now-defunct Frosted Rice Krinkles cereal. Notice that Mike Nesmith's head is missing--he had already departed the group by the time this appeared.

As I was searching for information about this disc, I learned that Rhino recently re-released--on cardboard, nonetheless!--some of the Monkees songs that originally appeared on cereal boxes. And I was also surprised to discover that a brand new Monkees album is due out at the end of this month (on May 27).

For another cardboard picture disc, see Christmas Carols as Sung by Your L&M T.V. Quartet: