Japanese jazz drummer Takeuchi Wasaburo teamed with Tokyo College of Music vocal group School Mates on a 1969 album of Monkees cover songs, a majority of them from The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees, including "Tapioca Tundra".

Reception and legacy

Billboard magazine described the song as "a driving swinger with a clever megaphoned vocal workout and old-timey feel" in its "Top 20 Pop Spotlight" feature.

An acoustic demo of "Tapioca Tundra" recorded in 1967 was used in

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