[78-L] Davy Jones dies

[Cary Ginell]

You should - start with "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd." It was the first rock record to use a Moog synthesizer (on "Daily Nightly" and "Star Collector"). The song are excellent pop songs - the Monkees played their own instruments by this time, but were helped out by crack L.A. session musicians. There's some really great stuff here - go to YouTube and spend a half-hour listening to Monkees tunes. The only thing you'll be missing is the nostalgia of having grown up with them, as I did. Yes, I can listen to Gid Tanner, Charlie Parker, Stravinsky, and the Monkees consecutively without getting the bends.
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:02:34 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Davy Jones dies
> 
> By the way, I have never owned or played or heard a Monkees record in my life, 
> nor seen their tv shows. Total other world to me..I was in easy listening FM 
> when they emerged. The songs turned up in other versions of course, done by 
> people like Neil Diamond (who wrote I'm a Believer) and Anne Murray and a half 
> decent album of instrumental arrangements by The Living Strings, but their 
> career was remarkably short. Not one top ten hit after March 1968. Hell, 
> nothing higher than 51 between then and June '70.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 2/29/2012 2:26 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> > Shorty Rogers wrote the brass and string arrangments for 'Daydream
> > believer' among a number of their hits, and he was writing for and/or
> > playing in bands such as Woody Herman's second Herd and Stan Kenton's....a
> > fair number of which were on 78s originally.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Kristjan Saag<saag at telia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2012-02-29 19:51, David Lennick wrote:
> >>> Not 78-RPM era of course, but something to make those of us who just
> >> happen to
> >>> be the same age look over our shoulders...a couple of weeks ago I saw an
> >> obit
> >>> for a kid I'd known in Grade 2. Yikes.
> >>> http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-monkees/
> >> --
> >> In the March 4, 1968 epiosde of "The Monkees" ("Some Like it Lukewarm"
> >> a.k.a. "The Band Contest") the following happens:
> >>
> >> To enter and win a band contest hosted by radio DJ Jerry Blavat, David
> >> poses as a girl and falls in love with Daphne (Deana Martin), posing as
> >> a boy.
> >> Songs: "Last Train To Clarksville" (at 78 RPM speed!), "The Door Into
> >> Summer", "She Hangs Out".
> >> Kristjan
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