Your Auntie Grizelda
{{Infobox song
| name = Your Auntie Grizelda
| artist = the Monkees
| genre = Psychedelic pop{{cite magazine|title=Peter Tork Dead: Monkees Bassist Dies At 77|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8499416/peter-tork-dead-monkees-bassist-dies|date=21 February 2019|magazine=Billboard|access-date=27 May 2020}}
| album = More of the Monkees
| released = {{Start date|1967|01|10}}
| recorded = October 23, 1966
| studio = American, Studio City, California
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=30}}
| lyricist = Diane Hildebrand
| composer = Jack Keller
| label = Colgems
| producer = 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).{{cite web|title=With "Your Auntie Grizelda," The Monkees got even more madcap|url=https://www.avclub.com/with-your-auntie-grizelda-the-monkees-got-even-more-1798276853|last=Eakin|first=Marah|date=23 February 2015|website=avclub.com|publisher=AV Club|access-date=13 March 2019}}{{cite magazine |last=Martoccio |first=Angie |title=Flashback: The Monkees' Peter Tork Sings a Gleeful 'Your Auntie Grizelda' in 2015 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-monkees-peter-tork-your-auntie-grizelda-2015-797447/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |publisher=Rolling Stone Magazine |access-date=13 March 2019}}{{cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Matthew |title=The Monkees, Your Auntie Grizelda |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/your-auntie-grizelda-mt0003597611 |website=Allmusic.com |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=13 March 2019}}
Popularization
Although it was never actually 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. This was the first released Monkees song to feature Peter Tork on lead vocals. In the instrumental break, Tork was told beforehand to make nonsensical sounds, according to the songwriter Diane Hildebrand.
Lyrics
"Your Auntie Grizelda" is a general complaint about a prissy and spinsterish aunt named Grizelda. The verses condemn her as pushy, righteous, and judgemental, with the chorus concluding that "No bird of grace ever lit on auntie Grizelda".
Outside of ''The Monkees'' shows
An instrumental version of the song can be heard during Major Nelson's bachelor party in I Dream of Jeannie Season 5 Episode 6, and the hippie party in "Never Put A Genie on a Budget" Season 5 Episode 14. An instrumental version also is the background disco music in The Flying Nun Season 1 Episode 2.
References
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Category:Songs written by Jack Keller (songwriter)
Category:Songs written by Diane Hildebrand
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