What impact did "The Monkees" had on the old/young generations

[spencerkarter85]

Since the untimely passing of Davy Jones from myocardial infarction yesterday at aged 66. In honor of his memory. What impact did The Monkees had on the older and younger generation? I've enjoyed the Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza commercial from 1995 when Davy and other Monkees Micky and Peter did with ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, real classic and popular commercial at the time. I've first watched the reruns of The Monkees when it was on VH1 back in mid-1997 to summer 1998. I've seen the VH1 Movies That Rock film about them from 2000 (which was filmed in Canada).

 

[visaman]

I am 47. I used to watch the Monkees reruns every day after school. I liked the absurd humour. Sometimes the songs went over my head though. Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, when Marsha tried to get Davy to perform at their prom? LOL!

 

[spencerkarter85]

Yes I've seen that episode. Also, my uncle's friend meet the now surving Monkees (Micky, Peter, and Mike) in Boston years ago.

 

[chrish]

It was a silly, kind of cute, harmless musical sensation. To me the best Davey Jones was in the Brady Bunch Movie....both were better than the originals

 

[gregg75]

Not much of an impact for me........just something to watch early Saturday afternoon other than cartoons and old westerns.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I liked the TV show when I saw it, but I never really got into their music. But when I hear them on oldies stations now they sound pretty good.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I am 47. I used to watch the Monkees reruns every day after school. I liked the absurd humour. Sometimes the songs went over my head though. Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, when Marsha tried to get Davy to perform at their prom? LOL!

Same here. I am just a bit too young to recall their original NBC run, but do remember when
CBS picked them up on Saturday mornings. Then in middle school when our second UHF independent
came on the air and started running them after school I sort of discovered them again. I enjoyed the
show but could not say I was a big fan. But my sister really grabbed onto them and became part of the
second wave of Monkeemania in the 80's.

 

[firepoint525]

I am 47. I used to watch the Monkees reruns every day after school. I liked the absurd humour. Sometimes the songs went over my head though. Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, when Marsha tried to get Davy to perform at their prom? LOL!

I'm curious if Davy was actually working on an album at the time that show aired, and if maybe that song (I'll call it "Girl") was part of a project that he was working on at that time.

I'm 48 myself, and (re)discovered The Brady Bunch in reruns. (I remember seeing the Bradys in primetime, but never really watched them until they went into reruns later in the '70s.) The Brady Bunch Movie skit that reenacted that scene was especially funny, since the teachers were getting into Davy's music far more than the students were!

Of course, I was always into "miniskirt Marcia"! 8)

 

[FreddyE1977]

One of our local stations played "that song" (Girl) this morning.
I'd have to say, not one of Jones' finer efforts.

He sounded more like Anthony Newley on that one. Except a bit off-key.
And like it was being played back at 78RPM.

 

[azumanga]

I am 47. I used to watch the Monkees reruns every day after school. I liked the absurd humour. Sometimes the songs went over my head though. Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, when Marsha tried to get Davy to perform at their prom? LOL!

I'm curious if Davy was actually working on an album at the time that show aired, and if maybe that song (I'll call it "Girl") was part of a project that he was working on at that time.

He did have a self-titled album released on Bell Records in April 1971, and in November of that year, "Girl" (which was the title) was released as a single (though I don't know if it was on the album). The album peaked at #205 on the Billboard album charts, and "Girl", despite the exposure from "The Brady Bunch", never charted.

 

[firepoint525]

I am 47. I used to watch the Monkees reruns every day after school. I liked the absurd humour. Sometimes the songs went over my head though. Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, when Marsha tried to get Davy to perform at their prom? LOL!

I'm curious if Davy was actually working on an album at the time that show aired, and if maybe that song (I'll call it "Girl") was part of a project that he was working on at that time.

He did have a self-titled album released on Bell Records in April 1971, and in November of that year, "Girl" (which was the title) was released as a single (though I don't know if it was on the album). The album peaked at #205 on the Billboard album charts, and "Girl", despite the exposure from "The Brady Bunch", never charted.

Too bad. Nowadays, he could have sold the album on his website, his Facebook page, whatever! ;D Didn't know that the Billboard album chart went deeper than 200 titles. Maybe it "bubbled under." ;D

 

[jwk1979]

I'm curious if Davy was actually working on an album at the time that show aired, and if maybe that song (I'll call it "Girl") was part of a project that he was working on at that time.

I'm 48 myself, and (re)discovered The Brady Bunch in reruns. (I remember seeing the Bradys in primetime, but never really watched them until they went into reruns later in the '70s.) The Brady Bunch Movie skit that reenacted that scene was especially funny, since the teachers were getting into Davy's music far more than the students were!

Of course, I was always into "miniskirt Marcia"! 8)

Davy Jones performed at a fund raiser of the Nashville area Fire Departments about twenty years or so ago and did sing "Girl" from the Brady Bunch. He even stated that most of in the audience that had ever heard the song before only knew from "The Brady Buch" episode he appeared in and had only heard the chorus of the song at that.

 

[firepoint525]

Wasn't Marcia actually in junior high when she recruited Jones for that dance? Maybe "junior high" included up through ninth grade back then, but still Marcia would have only been about 14 at the time.

As an aside, I seem to recall that the child actors on The Brady Bunch played characters who were roughly a year younger than they were in real life. Since this was 1971, this would have made Maureen McCormick about 15 at the time.

 

[johnbasalla]

The impact, only identified when MTV became a reality, is that they were the first Rock group to do MTV-like films for television. By that, I'm not talking about the story part of their sitcom, but the music video parts where they had quick-cut images on the screen while the song played.

Davy Jones one solo hit was a modest one called "Rainy Jane". CKLW played it for awhile. It was good Pop.

 

[OldNumber7]

The impact, only identified when MTV became a reality, is that they were the first Rock group to do MTV-like films for television. By that, I'm not talking about the story part of their sitcom, but the music video parts where they had quick-cut images on the screen while the song played.

Davy Jones one solo hit was a modest one called "Rainy Jane". CKLW played it for awhile. It was good Pop.

The great irony is that Mike Nesmith pioneered the idea of a video music channel in the late 70s, a few years ahead of MTV. Then MTV came along and introduced Monkees reruns to a new generation looking for a visual music experience.

 

[Markieo]

I am 47. I used to watch the Monkees reruns every day after school. I liked the absurd humour. Sometimes the songs went over my head though. Remember the episode of The Brady Bunch, when Marsha tried to get Davy to perform at their prom? LOL!

I'm curious if Davy was actually working on an album at the time that show aired, and if maybe that song (I'll call it "Girl") was part of a project that he was working on at that time.

He did have a self-titled album released on Bell Records in April 1971, and in November of that year, "Girl" (which was the title) was released as a single (though I don't know if it was on the album). The album peaked at #205 on the Billboard album charts, and "Girl", despite the exposure from "The Brady Bunch", never charted.

"Girl" was not released on the Davy Jones LP. It was also featured in the opening credits of the movie "The Star Spangled Girl" starring Sandy Duncan.

The stock 45 is nearly impossible to find, I have the promo. It was the most expensive 45 I ever bought ($10).

 

[cspotrun]

i was never a fan of the tv show, it was too stupid for me at the time and i was a kid. when i was a teenager (a million years ago)The Monkees always seemed to appeal to teenage girls who thought they were "Cute", the guys i ran around with were into the Beatles or Rolling Stones or whatever. i will say this, i've come to appreciate their hits much more now, than i did back then. working at 2 classic hits stations i promoted two Monkees "reunion" shows and Davy Jones was a Nice guy, who would do anything to help promote the station and the show, a Class Act.

 

[hubcity]

The impact, only identified when MTV became a reality, is that they were the first Rock group to do MTV-like films for television. By that, I'm not talking about the story part of their sitcom, but the music video parts where they had quick-cut images on the screen while the song played.

Davy Jones one solo hit was a modest one called "Rainy Jane". CKLW played it for awhile. It was good Pop.

The great irony is that Mike Nesmith pioneered the idea of a video music channel in the late 70s, a few years ahead of MTV. Then MTV came along and introduced Monkees reruns to a new generation looking for a visual music experience.

Even greater irony: Mike Nesmith had been putting together both clips and long-form music-oriented video for a while in the late '70s via his company, Pacific Arts; a number of his videos showed up on HBO's "Video Jukebox" filler show. He even collaborated with WASEC (the joint venture between Warner Communications and American Express [!] that eventually became MTV Networks) on a show on Nickelodeon called "Pop Clips" - essentially, a primordial MTV. Bob Pittman later took the concept one level further with MTV, but Mike Nesmith (depending on who's telling the story) either opted out, or was shut out of the proceedings. Either way, it could have had a little something to do with his reticence to participate in the heavily-MTV-promoted mid-80's Monkees reunion.

 

[LKellerIII]

Waaaayy before MTV - in the late 60s - music videos were a staple of local TV "dance-party" type shows. These shows were either 30 or 60 minutes long, and needed filler between the kids dancing on the set. They tried to get singers and bands to come sing...uh...lip-sync their latest hit on the show, but it wasn't always possible. The early videos were generally cheaply produced, often just the singer facing the camera and lip-synching, though some did involve production.

I remember seeing Tommy Roe's video of Dizzy on Robert W. Morgan's show - Groovy!- complete with pseudo-psychedelic swirling video FX.

 

[hubcity]

And then, of course, there was The Now Explosion, which I remember seeing in New York on WPIX...

http://thenowexplosion.com/