[TV] On this day 52 years ago

Stat Brother

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The Monkees is an American sit-com first aired on NBC from September 12, 1966.



I guess we can't really turn this into a 'favourite Monkees track' thread, although at least it'll be pithy:-



(own that bass Davy )

 

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When my girlfriend said she was leaving me because of my out of control obsession with The Monkees, I thought she was joking .... ... And then I saw Her face ....!
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AmexRuislip said:

When my girlfriend said she was leaving me because of my out of control obsession with The Monkees, I thought she was joking .... ... And then I saw Her face ....!
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Damn. Beat me to it

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PBPd3UA7Q

 

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No doubt she said

Its a little bit me a little bit you

And

I wanna be free

So I can

Listen to The Band



Ok I'll go now and catch the last train to Clarksville

 

Official Old Man

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With memories of Stuart Henry on a Saturday morning my fav is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AweItvbPmBQ&list=RDAweItvbPmBQ&index=1

 

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Wonderful track - Alternate Title. I still have my original 45.

P.S. I watched the first episode as a child and it was an immediate favourite.

 

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JfrXzQYcRnc


As happens so often on the music threads......ladies and gentlemen..... The Wedding Present.



.....bloody love 'The Monkees'

 

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Michael Nesmith's solo albums are brilliant, IMHO.

 

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They were certainly ahead of their time and I loved them at 10 years old and beyond

 

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I probably watched them when they were aired as repeats later well in the 70's.

Harmless good fun, with far more vocal/musical talent than they were given credit for.

Happy memories.

 

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Pure Austin Powers:-

 

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https://youtu.be/zN4NnQiDH5c

 

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Remember it was always exciting when The Monkees were shown every day on morning tv because it was nearly Christmas.

Pleasant Valley Sunday for me.....


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My favourite Monkees song - by a country mile...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKmPmZoKeP0

 

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I’m that old I remember Micky Dolenz as Corky the Circus Boy.

 

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Even the Monkees could do serious.

The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman he loves, urging her to meet him at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave, possibly forever. There was no explicit reference to war in the song but its last line, "And I don't know if I'm ever coming home", was an indirect reference about a soldier leaving for the Vietnam War.

It has often been presumed that the song refers to Clarksville, Tennessee, which is near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the home of the 101st Airborne Division, which was then serving in Vietnam. However, according to songwriter Bobby Hart, that was not the case. Instead, according to Hart, "We were just looking for a name that sounded good. There's a little town in northern Arizona I used to go through in the summer on the way to Oak Creek Canyon called Clarkdale. We were throwing out names, and when we got to Clarkdale, we thought Clarksville sounded even better. We didn't know it at the time, [but] there is an Army base near the town of Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the storyline. We couldn't be too direct with The Monkees. We couldn't really make a protest song out of it — we kind of snuck it in".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_to_Clarksville

 

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And don’t forget Ena Sharples’ grandson!

 

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An attempt by the Americans to cash in by hanging onto the coat tails of the Beatles. Cheeky chappies doing pop stuff. Hard to dislike their tunes though.