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- Produced primarily by Adam Schlesinger, the album was recorded to commemorate the band's 50th anniversary. It was the first Monkees studio album since Justus (1996), marking the longest gap between releases to date, and the first since the death of band member Davy Jones.
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Released in October 1968, the single from the album, "The Porpoise Song", is a psychedelic pop song written by Goffin and King, with lead vocals from Micky Dolenz and backing vocals from Davy Jones, and it reached No. 62 on the Billboard charts[62]and No. 26 on the Canadian RPM charts.
The Monkees' record releases were originally conceived as tie-ins with their eponymous television series about a fictitious band struggling to make ends meet as rock musicians.
Oct 10, 2016 · The Monkees topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks, the first of four straight No. 1 LPs for the group. The Monkees' main contribution to their first album was to provide lead vocals.
- The Original Monkeescasting Call Ad Was Riddled with Hippie-Ish References.
- The Monkeesmanaged to Squeeze in Subversive Behavior Whenever They could.
- The “Monkeemania” of The Monkees in Parisepisode Was staged.
- Two Monkees Stepped Behind The Camera During The Show’S Run.
- The Series’S Unofficial Finale Features Not One, But Two Beatles Tunes.
- There Was A Very Weird Monkeesepisode Where Frank Zappa Showed Up.
- The Monkees Outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in 1967.
The creators of The Monkees TV show, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, knew exactly the kind of guys they wanted for their new series. So the ad they took out in the September 8, 1965 edition of Variety had to reflect the attitudes of the burgeoning youth culture. In the ad, “spirited Ben Frank’s-types” are requested. According to the book Monkee Bu...
In the season two episode “The Devil and Peter Tork,” the boys took on the issue of censorship by slipping in a subversive joke about how, back in 1967, you couldn’t say the word “hell” on network television. “This episode was a point of controversy, between The Monkees production crew and the network,” says Tork in the DVD commentary (above). The ...
In June 1967, The Monkees headed off to Paris for a season two episode that would ostensibly show them being mobbed by French fans. Whether it was because the series hadn’t started airing in France or French audiences just hadn’t caught onto the craze yet (the truth is murky—this 1967 article says the show was on at the time; Monkee Business says i...
Toward the end of the second and final season, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz were given the opportunity to direct an episode. Tork, using his full name in the credits—Peter H. Thorkelson—directed “The Monkees Mind Their Manor,” which aired in February 1968. Dolenz then helmed “Mijacgeo” (a.k.a. “The Frodis Caper”), which also ended up being the serie...
This Micky Dolenz-directed episode opens up with a real bang: The intro to The Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band track “Good Morning Good Morning.” It was, in Dolenz’s words (heard in the above video doing the DVD commentary), “a big moment.” Mainly because, as he also mentions, it was “the first time, to my knowledge, that The Beatle...
It was the ’60s,The Monkees was winding down, and Michael Nesmith, according to Randi L. Massingill, in her book Total Control: The Michael Nesmith Story, “was trying to show the rock community that he was not just a kiddie show guy.” Nesmith achieved this by not only bringing The Mothers of Invention frontman Frank Zappa onto The Monkees,but by al...
Yes, you read that correctly. In 1967, the year of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,Between the Buttons, and Their Satanic Majesties Request, The Monkees outsold both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones—combined. Probably because neither British band had a hit TV show on its hands. Pretty impressive considering, at least in the beginning, as di...
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The Monkees, an American pop-rock group that was created as a made-for-television answer to the Beatles in the mid-1960s. Despite the synthetic premise, their rich crop of popular singles remains 1960s pop at its tunefully rambunctious best. Learn more about their background and their music.
The Monkees is the debut studio album by the American band the Monkees. It was released on October 10, 1966 by Colgems Records in the United States and RCA Victor in the rest of the world. [4] It was the first of four consecutive U.S. number one albums for the group, taking the top spot on the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks, after which it was ...
Dec 12, 2022 · Little did they know that the show’s music supervisor, Don Kirshner, was already recording backing tracks for the Monkees’ upcoming releases; all they’d have to do was show up and lay down a few vocals. Not this time.
