"Daily Nightly" is a song by Michael Nesmith of the Monkees,[2] which appeared on their fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.,[3] in 1967, and was featured in two second-season episodes of their television series, "A Fairy Tale"[4] and "Monkees Blow Their Minds".
The lyrics are a veiled commentary on the Sunset Strip curfew riots,[5] which occurred in Hollywood, California in late 1966.
The record was arguably the very first rock recording to feature the Moog synthesizer,[6] programmed by musician Paul Beaver and played by Micky Dolenz, who was an early owner of a Moog; the fills he played were described as "spacey UFO noises", and were characteristic of psychedelic music,[7] which was then in vogue.
A music video in black and white was made for the series, with Dolenz miming his performance.
[8] The song was a regular inclusion in the setlist of the 2012 "An Evening with the Monkees" tour featuring Nesmith, Dolenz, & Peter Tork.