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2 unusual facts about Davy Jones


Davy Jones' Locker

In his novel The Last Dickens, Matthew Pearl makes the Captain of the Samaria transatlantic liner assume that Herman the Parsee might be sleeping soundly in Davy Jones's locker, namely that he has almost certainly perished in the depths. Use of seamen jargon chimes with the dickensian topic and environment of the novel.

Fiddler's Green

In the traditional shanty "New York Girls," as recorded by Tom Lewis on 1995's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Singer!, the last line sung by the sailor is, "Commend our bones to Davy Jones, our souls to Fiddler's Green."


Al Coury

Coury's last signing to Capitol Records was the group Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, made up of former Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who'd written several Monkees hits.

Dave Wagstaffe

During his time in the United States, Wagstaffe was visited by boyhood friend Davy Jones, lead singer of The Monkees who he had played street football with as a boy.

Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw

Plot: The J through K volume of Chainsaw's World Book encyclopedia has been stolen and (in the movie) Chainsaw accuses Dave of stealing it, triggering a comedic misadventure with guest appearances by co-starring Bob Costas, Dom Irrera, Doug Flutie, Davy Jones, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Don Rickles.

Starkiller

Starkiller's expressions are based on Witwer's, which Blackman described as a "a new approach for LucasArts", noting that it "affected the way we handled casting for The Force Unleashed" and comparing it to how people see Bill Nighy as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.


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Star Spangled Girl

A different single version of the song was heard on the TV show The Brady Bunch; that episode, "Getting Davy Jones", was originally broadcast December 10, 1971, shortly before the film's release.