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Monkees: 50 Years Ago Debut (1 Viewer)

Favorite Song

  • What Am I Doing Hanging Around

    Votes: 3 7.9%

  • I Wanna Be Free

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Porpoise Song

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Steppin Stone (I'm Not Your)

    Votes: 10 26.3%

  • That Was Then (This Is Now)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Shades Of Gray

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sometime In The Morning

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • My Choice Is In Poll #1

    Votes: 23 60.5%
  • Total voters
    38
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The Monkees debuted in June of 1966.

I'm A Believer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9YIsKIEbA

Pleasant Valley Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhB0Q0S4Yhk

She: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fSte2nRMw

Daydream Believer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaODCg

Last Train To Clarksville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXpKiY2MXE

A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sSSgyLkTo0

Monkees Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96A0uyFWQHs

Valleri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTa9CE51sA

Look Out Here Comes Tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHf7fc73OOY

Words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJL-clqdfU

The Girl I Knew Somewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZS8LJ7mVAg

You Just May Be The One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGYaP3Yy10s

Randy Scouse Git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejw_LOi-nhk

Mary Mary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMNize7s8nc

What Am I Doing Hanging Around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSYJDNSUkN8

I Wanna Be Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnlyMXt6Zw

Porpoise Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdd5xI9l7Ns

Steppin' Stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFUOnT0ZnUc

That Was Then (This Is Now): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljitVsdIpZg

Shades Of Gray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGP9-xShbs

Sometime In The Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTbFM-mUVk

 
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ok. whoever.... but stepping stone is an all-timer.

looking forward to hearing the new album (?!) which the music nerds here are saying good things about.

 
The show doesn't hold up, but damn it was good in the day.  

Remember, I was 8-10 and tv had 3 channels and a local public station with total ####.  

Zero programming for kids in those days except cartoons really.  

They still bring back good memories and should be in any most any 60s pop singles mix.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
Their music has held up much better than expected.
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Not that surprising in that the top writers of the Brill Building were penning songs specifically for them, including Neil Diamond, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, plus David Gates (pre Bread) along with Boyce and Hart.

 
rude classless thugs said:
Not that surprising in that the top writers of the Brill Building were penning songs specifically for them, including Neil Diamond, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, plus David Gates (pre Bread) along with Boyce and Hart.
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Yep. They were despised by everyone who was hip, but their music still sounds good today while a lot of the more "authentic" stuff is dated as hell. And go look who actually played what on albums by critical faves like the Byrds and the Beach Boys.

The Monkees just released a new album written and produced by some of the biggest stars in indie/alt rock today. 

 
"What am I Doing Hanging Around"* is a criminally underrated song.

Written by Michael Martin Murphey

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Susan Dey was one of my first crushes
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big time DITTO here   :wub:

she was so lithe and lovely ... and seemed to be so fragile at times

looking back now, i gotta say ... my future adoration of waifish warblers (Hope Sandoval, Fiona Apple) was due to Ms. Dey plying her wares back in the 70s

 
My wife's family owned a hotel in Albuquerque and the Monkees stayed there. She actually got a peck on the cheek from Davey - who I suppose could make any adolescent wet back then.

 
rude classless thugs said:
Not that surprising in that the top writers of the Brill Building were penning songs specifically for them, including Neil Diamond, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, plus David Gates (pre Bread) along with Boyce and Hart.
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I agree about the song writing itself, that was top notch. I think it's surprising that a thrown together group of guys actually had good, enduring music.

 
Part of me feels bad for them. They did have talent but their talent was that they were young, handsome and had both musical ability and comedy chops to pull off the job they were hired for, a goofy tv show geared to kids about a band. Ironically I think what did them in was the massive success of the music. They're just thinking they're going to be on a tv show and suddenly they're getting similar attention to the Beatles. When it gets out they're not even playing instruments, everything went south and what seemed like such a huge break becomes an albatross.  They become disenchanted, some quit the band and the rest of their lives are about trying to prove they're legit. Even in recent interviews the bitterness is still there. There's no way they could have seen at the time it began what it would become.  Before the show they're all trying to make it (Jones was already a success, i believe had already won a Tony) and they do but they make it as a made for tv show band.  The music comes out and they're taken seriously (for a while) by their audience but not their contemporaries or serious music fans. I'm sure at some point they could play together and sound decent but when they show exploded they just sang the track while other musicians played and wrote the songs (for the most part).

 
I should let you guys know that I'm president of the Davey Jones fan club.  Never was a good time to mention this salient factoid prior to this thread.

 
Willie Neslon said:
Part of me feels bad for them. They did have talent but their talent was that they were young, handsome and had both musical ability and comedy chops to pull off the job they were hired for, a goofy tv show geared to kids about a band. Ironically I think what did them in was the massive success of the music. They're just thinking they're going to be on a tv show and suddenly they're getting similar attention to the Beatles. When it gets out they're not even playing instruments, everything went south and what seemed like such a huge break becomes an albatross.  They become disenchanted, some quit the band and the rest of their lives are about trying to prove they're legit. Even in recent interviews the bitterness is still there. There's no way they could have seen at the time it began what it would become.  Before the show they're all trying to make it (Jones was already a success, i believe had already won a Tony) and they do but they make it as a made for tv show band.  The music comes out and they're taken seriously (for a while) by their audience but not their contemporaries or serious music fans. I'm sure at some point they could play together and sound decent but when they show exploded they just sang the track while other musicians played and wrote the songs (for the most part).
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I always found it hypocritical for Elvis to be such a huge star despite not writing his songs and being at best an average guitar player. If Elvis was born later he would have been in The Monkees.

 
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