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November 5, 2025: Last train to Clarksville

November 5, 2025: Last train to Clarksville

What role did Tennessee play in a controversy around a song by The Monkees?

NashVillager · WPLN - Nashville Public Radio

November 5, 202517m 53s

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Show Notes

The song “The Last Train to Clarksville” by The Monkees became an unlikely and somewhat accidental anti-war anthem in the 1960s thanks to a little quirk in geography. Plus, the local news for November 5, 2025, and this week’s edition of What, Where, Whens-day.

 

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This is a production of Nashville Public Radio

Host/producer: Nina Cardona

Editor: Miriam Kramer

Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP