I’m trying to find out whether the Doors or the Monkees first recorded a rock song featuring a synthesizer. I’ve read that Paul Beaver played on sessions with both bands, though he wasn’t credited on Strange Days, which is said to feature a Moog on the song “Horse Latitudes.” He was credited on the Monkees’ song “Star Collector,â€? though. The two albums — Strange Days and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. — were released within a month of each other in late 1967. Does anyone know which session came first? (Interestingly, both albums predated Carlos’ 1968 release, Switched On Bach.) The first time I ever saw a synth was on the Monkees’ TV show in early 1968, on a song called “Daily Nightly,â€? from the same album. You can watch that clip here.