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Re: Was anyone a Monkees fan years ago??

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pattyluvsjoe wrote:

Not embarrassed at all.....Count me in for The Monkees!! I use to tear pics of Davy Jones out of TigerBeat and tape them on my bedroom walls. He was my fav!  I always loved him singing, "I Wanna Be Free"  I still watch the reruns sometimes on the weekends.    I don't have a lunchbox Angela, but I do have Monkee trading cards.  I knew I should have went and seen him at the Iowa State Fair last summer  sad   God Bless Davy!

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I hope Cathy sees this, she told me she found a Monkees trading card in her house earlier in the day, then finds out Davys passed....eerie!!

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We spoke about this yesterday and commented on the irony/coinkydink of her having found this ancient card in the bowels of the utility room. Then we heard the other news.......... sad

...and who wasn't a Monkees fan?

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Yeah sort of...I'll admit it......Their GTO stationwagon/convertible was really really bad ....I had that model....
Actaully I had a bunch of those 60's models as a kid...till my younger brother got into them ......I might have one left

I had a lunchbox at one time too..I think I still have a monkess album in my posession too.

RIP Davy.....(he was young @ 66)

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I thought the show was beyond corny, but the music was damn good - the boys had some serious musicians supporting them.  Peter and Mike were legit players and Mickey Dolenz was/is a great singer, but clearly Davy was the heart and soul of the Monkees.  I think in '67 or '68 their record sales were more than The Beatles and Rolling Stones combined.  RIP Davy Jones.

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I thought the show was beyond corny, but the music was damn good - the boys had some serious musicians supporting them.  Peter and Mike were legit players and Mickey Dolenz was/is a great singer, but clearly Davy was the heart and soul of the Monkees.  I think in '67 or '68 their record sales were more than The Beatles and Rolling Stones combined.  RIP Davy Jones.

While he was still a session player, before joining The Ventures, I believe Gerry McGee was involved on guitar, think he was responsible for the riff on Last Train To Clarksville, but don't quote me.

Either way, we've lost another of the good guys, and some of us can remember his acting days in Coronation Street, pre Monkees. Rest well Davy.

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Re: Was anyone a Monkees fan years ago??

Curby wrote:

I thought the show was beyond corny, but the music was damn good - the boys had some serious musicians supporting them.  Peter and Mike were legit players and Mickey Dolenz was/is a great singer, but clearly Davy was the heart and soul of the Monkees.  I think in '67 or '68 their record sales were more than The Beatles and Rolling Stones combined.  RIP Davy Jones.

I read several obits yesterday and one mentioned their record sales @ 65 million. They gave The Beatles a run for their money for a couple of years. The intro guitar riff to Last Train is a classic.

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The first LP I purchased with my lawn-mowing money was 'More of the Monkees.' Being the ONLY album in my collection at the time, it got listened to a lot.

Definitely a part of the soundtrack of my youth.

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just a little trivia, Mike's mother Bette Nesmith Graham invented white out in 1951. She ended up selling the rights for some $47 million or so.

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Caught a segment with Brian Williams last night.  I learned that Davy was on the side of the stage at the Ed Sullivan show when the Beatles performed.  Davy was there to perform his Oliver role or something, but after he saw the Beatles, Davy said to himself, I want to do that!!

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just a little trivia, Mike's mother Bette Nesmith Graham invented white out in 1951. She ended up selling the rights for some $47 million or so.

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White Out!(wite out) is that the same a Tipp-Ex over here?
[edit] Ok, found out, same product, different company's - so, no!

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Yeah - what a shame - I remember as a kid that those shows back in the 60's were so funny - and Davy was such a hearthrob for the young girls - similar to David Cassidy a few years later - real shame, but I guess those hits will live on................

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Re: Was anyone a Monkees fan years ago??

Brack wrote:
ahsmith33 wrote:

just a little trivia, Mike's mother Bette Nesmith Graham invented white out in 1951. She ended up selling the rights for some $47 million or so.

Tres

White Out!(wite out) is that the same a Tipp-Ex over here?
[edit] Ok, found out, same product, different company's - so, no!

think wite-out was one of the original names, but it's liquid paper correction fluid anyway you cut it. She had the first patent over here, no telling who had it over there. I don't use it any more, have gone to the white tape stuff on the little plastic roller machines that you drag across the paper.

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Caught a segment with Brian Williams last night.  I learned that Davy was on the side of the stage at the Ed Sullivan show when the Beatles performed.  Davy was there to perform his Oliver role or something, but after he saw the Beatles, Davy said to himself, I want to do that!!

I seen the stage play Oliver, not with him though.  Interesting fact Angela, in that he changed what he was doing.  I loved his British Accent when he was singing, the same too with Peter Noone.  I thought they were quite the characters.


Maybe you remember this, one of my favorite episodes on the Brady Bunch was when Davy Jones was a guest star.  Good lighthearted fun.   RIP Davy.

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Hi RiverCat,

Loved the Brady Bunch, that was a great episode. I'm one of six kids, all close in age, so we watched the Brady Bunch, except my Mom didn't have Alice.

"In 1997, "Getting Davy Jones" (the 12th episode in the third season) was ranked No. 37 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[1]"

This is also from Wikipedia- Davy saw the Beatles in 64 and was with the Monkees in 65.

"On 9 February 1964, he appeared with the Broadway cast of Oliver! on The Ed Sullivan Show, the same episode on which The Beatles made their first appearance. Jones said of that night, "I watched the Beatles from the side of the stage, I saw the girls going crazy, and I said to myself, this is it, I want a piece of that."[3]

Following his Ed Sullivan appearance, Jones signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems (then the television division of Columbia Pictures). A pair of American television appearances followed, as Jones received screen time in episodes of Ben Casey and The Farmer's Daughter[4] He also recorded a single and album for Colpix Records, which charted but were not big hits.[citation needed]"

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