[78-L] Davy Jones dies

[David Lennick]

Presumably, the fact that no pop station I ever worked at between 1968 and 1981 
even had them in their "oldies" library affected my lack of interest, so I 
missed them entirely.

dl

On 2/29/2012 3:06 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> 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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