MONKEE, DAVY JONES DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 66

[firepoint525]

Cue the comments about MTV not covering this breaking news in 3...2.....1....

Well, the "it was Saturday night and they were on autopilot and all the regular fulltime weekday "news" people who might have otherwise covered this breaking news event were not there" excuse is not available for them this time, is it? :

How about it being wholly irrelevant to the audience?

And Monkees reruns somehow were relevant in 1986?

 

[KyDXIn]

Davy Jones seemed to take the "joke" of the Monkees and turned it into a real music entity. I think the others saw it as just a job.

Billy Preston is sometimes cited as the fifth Beatle. Would it be fair to say Neil Diamond is the fifth Monkee?

 

[TheBigA]

Would it be fair to say Neil Diamond is the fifth Monkee?

I don't think he'd see it that way. He really only wrote a few of their hits. Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart were more integral. They wrote Last Train to Clarksville.

Don Kirshner really was the 5th Monkee.

 

[KyDXIn]

Would it be fair to say Neil Diamond is the fifth Monkee?

I don't think he'd see it that way. He really only wrote a few of their hits. Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart were more integral. They wrote Last Train to Clarksville.

Don Kirshner really was the 5th Monkee.

Thanks for the clarification. I knew Diamond was involved, but I was unsure.

 

[firepoint525]

John Stewart (of "Gold" fame) wrote "Daydream Believer"

Diamond wrote "I'm A Believer," which I believe turned out to be their biggest hit, so Diamond's contributions to their success can't be diminished.

 

[gregg75]

I found this poll on ABCnews.com
so far 5980 have voted their favorite Monkee song.......

"Daydream Believer" 2696
"I'm A Beliver" 1723
"Last Train To Clarksville" 779
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" 311
"I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" 272
"Valleri" 199 (they are probably all named Valerie )

 

[Robnoxious]

I found this poll on ABCnews.com
so far 5980 have voted their favorite Monkee song.......

"Daydream Believer" 2696
"I'm A Beliver" 1723
"Last Train To Clarksville" 779
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" 311
"I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" 272
"Valleri" 199 (they are probably all named Valerie )

Not nearly enough love for Clarksville as I would have hoped. The guitar riff in that song is tasty. Now that I think of it, the hook in I'm A Believer is pretty good too.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

I found this poll on ABCnews.com... so far 5980 have voted their favorite Monkee song...
"Daydream Believer" 2696 "I'm A Beliver" 1723 "Last Train To Clarksville" 779 "Pleasant Valley Sunday" 311 "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" 272 "Valleri" 199 (they are probably all named Valerie )

Not nearly enough love for Clarksville as I would have hoped. The guitar riff in that song is tasty. Now that I think of it, the hook in I'm A Believer is pretty good too.

Clarksville's poor showing puzzles me; it was a tame anti-war protest song about a soldier's last night home before deployment to Viet Nam. I thought it was as good a song as Believer. Davey was the front man in Daydream, so that song's frontrunner status could be a sentimental bump.

 

[TheBigA]

Davey was the front man in Daydream, so that song's frontrunner status could be a sentimental bump.

Interesting how all the rest of the songs on that list have Mickey as lead singer. Reminds me of the quote from Lennon, who figured when he died the stations would all play Yesterday, which was Paul's song.

 

[firepoint525]

Davey was the front man in Daydream, so that song's frontrunner status could be a sentimental bump.

Interesting how all the rest of the songs on that list have Mickey as lead singer. Reminds me of the quote from Lennon, who figured when he died the stations would all play Yesterday, which was Paul's song.

I remember a similar Lennon interview in which he claimed that whenever he walked into a fancy restaurant (presumably in NYC since that was where he lived at the time), that the bandleader would "honor" him by playing "Yesterday." Well, his name was on it, as a co-songwriter! ;D

 

[firepoint525]

I found this poll on ABCnews.com... so far 5980 have voted their favorite Monkee song...
"Daydream Believer" 2696 "I'm A Beliver" 1723 "Last Train To Clarksville" 779 "Pleasant Valley Sunday" 311 "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" 272 "Valleri" 199 (they are probably all named Valerie )

Not nearly enough love for Clarksville as I would have hoped. The guitar riff in that song is tasty. Now that I think of it, the hook in I'm A Believer is pretty good too.

Clarksville's poor showing puzzles me; it was a tame anti-war protest song about a soldier's last night home before deployment to Viet Nam. I thought it was as good a song as Believer. Davey was the front man in Daydream, so that song's frontrunner status could be a sentimental bump.

I used to live in Clarksville, Tennessee, and I can tell you that "Last Train..." was not about Clarksville, TN, despite the nearby presence of the Fort Campbell military base there. I am told that the song was about Clarksville, Arizona.

 

[TheBigA]

Ironically, Tommy Boyce lived his final years in Nashville.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Ironically, Tommy Boyce lived his final years in Nashville.

Till reading your post, I wasn't even aware of Boyce's death. A suicide no less, so it must have made news. Wonder how I missed that?!

 

[landtuna]

I am told that the song was about Clarksville, Arizona.

There is a town in AZ called Clarkdale but not Clarksville.

More info here on the origin of the song: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2840

 

[Zenith Transoceanic]

Davy's last interview may have been the one at the link below, conducted by
"Beatle Edd" of WRKC (King's College) in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. on Friday, February 24, 2012.

http://wrkc.kings.edu/

Click on the audio link by the article:
Monkees singer, Davy Jones, dies at 66

Kind of interesting, imo.

 

[KyDXIn]

Would it be fair to say Neil Diamond is the fifth Monkee?

I don't think he'd see it that way. He really only wrote a few of their hits. Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart were more integral. They wrote Last Train to Clarksville.

Check this out, you probably will enjoy:

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

 

[TheBigA]

Absolutely amazing. You get to see Mickey's ego in full force. And it looks like Roy Clark was in between having hair and getting a toupe. Loved the Fats Domino story....never heard that one before. Thanks for posting.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Absolutely amazing. You get to see Mickey's ego in full force. And it looks like Roy Clark was in between having hair and getting a toupe. Loved the Fats Domino story....never heard that one before. Thanks for posting.

Funny video! Mickey's irrepressible class-clown routine was nearly upstaged by John Byner's antics. Cindy Williams looked like a nun. Poor Bobby Hart; all that talent, and he still looked like Barry Manillow. Roy Clark's hair looked laughable, though I never gave it a second thought back then. Felt a similar reaction to Mike Douglas' mane.