The single peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks at #1 on the Cash Box chart in early 1968,[2] and reached #1 in Canada and #12 in the UK.

Screen Gems president and music supervisor Don Kirshner asked Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart if they had any "girl's-name" songs to be used in the Monkees television series.

Wrecking Crew session musician Louie Shelton contributed a flamenco-style guitar solo consisting of hammer-ons and pull-offs.

[citation needed] The song "Barmy" by the Fall from the 1985 album This Nation's Saving Grace includes a riff based on "Valleri.

[5] When Jones, Dolenz and Peter Tork reunited in 1986 to tour as The Monkees, they frequently featured "Valleri" in their set lists.

[7] Record World called the track "a hard rock ditty that the Monkees will sing to the top of the charts.

"[8] Billboard called the single an "easy-beat rocker" and considered the 45 rpm record as containing "two blockbuster sides" with "Tapioca Tundra" as the B-side.