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Roxanne Tellier: MonkeeMania! Part Deux

Posted in Opinion with tags 16 Magazine, Bobby Hart, Davy Jones, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Harry Nilsson, Head, Jack Nicholson, Jann Wenner, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lindsay, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, music, Peter Noone, Peter Tork, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, Roxanne Tellier, Samantha Juste, The Bobcast, The Monkees, TIGER beat, Tommy Boyce, Toronto on February 9, 2014 by segarini

Critics called them “The Pre-Fab Four,” but a generation of little girls understood. Those of us coming into puberty, who had been just a little too young to have had fantasies about The Beatles, now had our very own super group. The Monkees were cute! They were funny! And really – could this quartet be more non-threatening? The worse that could happen would be that Davy might not get the girl … but he always did.

My best friends and I would loll around for hours, listening to their latest record, buying every copy of 16 Magazine and TIGER beat with a picture of one of the boys on the cover, and of course, watching the show every Sunday night. We’d squeal on the phone about their rumoured escapades, and dream of some day meeting a real live Monkee.

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Roxanne Tellier: MonkeeMania!

Posted in Opinion with tags Bert Schneider, Bob Rafelson, Bobby Hart, Carol Kaye, Charles Manson, Circus Boy, Danny Hutton, David Gates, Davy Jones, DBAWIS, Don Kirschner, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ed Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Harry Nilsson, James Burton, Jim Gordon, John Sebastian, Leon Russell, Marx Brothers, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, music, Oliver!, Paul Williams, Peter Tork, Records, Rodney Bingenheimer, Roxanne Tellier, Stephen Stills, Steve Stills, Television, The Beatles, The Monkees, Three Stooges, Tommy Boyce, Van Dyke Parks on February 2, 2014 by segarini

Ramping up to the 50^th anniversary of The Beatles February 9, 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, it’s easy to forget that one of the other acts on that same show, on that same evening, featured a slight, young “Artful Dodger” – one David Jones, aged 19, belting out a song from the hit Broadway play Oliver! During that performance Jones sang “I’d Do Anything” with the entire cast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpLngN6CPE

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