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All right, I feel old....really old
MaineWriter:
In a supersmart marketing ploy, the Monkees first album was released a month before the show premiered. That got all of us teen idol girls gushing and anxious and waiting for the show. I owned this album, wore a big rut in the vinyl.
1 (Theme From) The Monkees Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
2 Saturday's Child David Gates
3 I Wanna Be Free Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
4 Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day Tommy Boyce and Steve Venet
5 Papa Gene's Blues Michael Nesmith
6 Take A Giant Step Gerry Goffin and Carole King
7 Last Train To Clarksville Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
8 This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
9 Let's Dance On Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
10 I'll Be True To You Gerry Goffin and Russ Titelman
11 Sweet Young Thing Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Michael Nesmith
12 Gonna Buy Me A Dog Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 12, 2006, 07:07:31 pm ---Think how Stephen Stills must feel--he auditioned for a role on that show and didn't make it!
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Did he? The way I heard the story is that he suggested to his friend Peter Tork (real name Thorkelson) to audition and Peter did get picked.
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souxi:
Thanks a lot Leslie lol. I used to watch the monkies every saturday morning on the telly, AND banana splits too. And ok, if you really really want to feel old, how about Skippy the bush kangaroo? and Casey Jones. :o :o OH and lets not forget, good old Champion the wonder horse..lol. I cant be that old, I just cant. gawd. lol. ::)
MaineWriter:
All right, trivia time. Who can name all four Monkees?
The one who wore the hat all the time...what did his mother do?
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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on September 13, 2006, 06:54:29 am ---
--- Quote ---Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 12, 2006, 06:07:31 pm
Think how Stephen Stills must feel--he auditioned for a role on that show and didn't make it!
--- End quote ---
Did he? The way I heard the story is that he suggested to his friend Peter Tork (real name Thorkelson) to audition and Peter did get picked.
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You are both right! I interviewed Peter Tork a couple of years ago. Here's what he said:
--- Quote ---He moved to New York and played guitar in Greenwich Village coffee shops. One day his friend Stephen Stills (later of Crosby, Stills and Nash) mentioned that he’d auditioned for a sitcom about a rock band.
“Stills was turned down … he was told his hair and teeth wouldn’t work for television,” Tork said. “They asked if he knew anybody who looked like him whose hair and teeth were in order, and he called me.”
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Peter Tork was fantastic, by the way. Friendly, funny, relaxed, intelligent, candid (for example, he told me the Monkees never hung out together socially -- they were just coworkers) ... I interviewed him by phone, only for maybe an hour and a half or so. Still, one of my most fondly remembered interviews (I've done hundreds, if not thousands). I would have liked to meet him in person. Judging from the photo on his website, he's still pretty cute!
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on September 13, 2006, 08:35:17 am ---All right, trivia time. Who can name all four Monkees?
The one who wore the hat all the time...what did his mother do?
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The first one is way too easy for me. I'll leave it to someone who can't recite them in his/her sleep.
His mother invented liquid paper. And I've often heard that he, incidentally, is one of the fathers of the modern music video (I'm not sure why they say that exactly, but they do).
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