The following year, Hildebrand penned the debut single, "He Walks Like a Man", for American country singer Jody Miller—a modest U.S. hit, reaching #66 on the Billboard Chart February 1964.
[1] In the mid-1960s, Hildebrand became a staff writer for Screen Gems, a publication company that supplied many of the songs recorded by the NBC television band the Monkees.
The songwriting duo also wrote "Early Morning Blues and Greens" for the Monkees' 1967 album Headquarters, and the theme music for another ABC series, The Flying Nun.
[3] In his review of the album, music historian Richie Unterberger felt the project "showed a fuller and more serious side of Hildebrand than the Monkees' interpretations of her compositions had".
It brought together a collective of top session musicians, including Russell White, David Dawson, Fred Myrow, and Tony McCashen, as well as sound engineers Bruce Botnick and Jac Holzman.