The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the '60s TV Pop Sensation is a book covering the history of the made-for-TV rock band, The Monkees.
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"A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" is a song by Neil Diamond that was released by The Monkees in 1967 (see 1967 in music).
Born in Burbank, California into a show business family, Dolenz is the daughter of Micky Dolenz of the 1960s group the Monkees, and British television presenter Samantha Juste.
She also made guest appearances on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Untouchables, Mission Impossible (season 4, episode 20, 1970), The Wild Wild West, Columbo, Battlestar Galactica, the 1968 movie Angels from Hell, and two appearances on The Monkees.
In the original French it is 'Les Monkiix,' referring to The Monkees.
Hayes portrayed a similar character in other roles, including Episode 8.10 of Bewitched ("Hansel and Gretel in Samantha-Land"), Weenie the Genie in the Sid and Marty Krofft program Lidsville, and Maw Weskitt in Episode 39 of the second season of The Monkees ("Hillbilly Honeymoon").
The songs used include an alternately sped up and slowed down version of The Monkees song Mary, Mary.
Studios she owned and operated included Gotham Sound and Long View Farms, the recording homes of artists from Buster Poindexter, The Monkees, and Melba Moore to The Rolling Stones, Michael Bolton, and Aerosmith.
"Daily Nightly" is a song by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees, which appeared on their fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., in 1967, and was featured in two second-season episodes of their television series, "A Fairy Tale" and "Monkees Blow Their Minds".
Beginning in the early 1980s, his music engineering included artists such as New Edition, The Monkees, Manhattan Transfer, Frankie Valli, The Beach Boys, The Pandoras, James Lee Stanley, Radio Cammon, Easter, The Rats and Jigsaw Seen.
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.
He collaborated with Dean Jeffries in 1966 on several TV cars, including Black Beauty for The Green Hornet and the Monkeemobile for The Monkees.
The album is notable for the appearance of the band's biggest hit song, "Different Drum", which was a #12 hit; the song was written by Mike Nesmith prior to his joining the Monkees.
The house can also be seen in both its familiar Father Knows Best style and later renovated variations in episodes of Hazel, Bewitched, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, and in numerous other television comedies and dramas.
Sherman and Stern's characters were reportedly based on the real-life songwriting team of Boyce and Hart, who had written hits for The Monkees ("Last Train to Clarksville", "Valleri"), Jay and the Americans ("Come a Little Bit Closer"), and others.
From 1958 through 1974, under the command of Ackerman as Vice President of Production, Screen Gems delivered the classic sitcoms: Father Knows Best, Bachelor Father, Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, and The Partridge Family.
Famous musical acts that played the Ballroom included: the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Eagles, Ray Charles, Maynard Ferguson, Blue Öyster Cult and The Monkees.
The record label was created when, after failing to find a label willing to sign the group Out of Eden, Elwood, McKeehan, and Collins decided to produce Lovin' the Day on their own.
In 1976 the Bicentennial Theater was added, where musical acts including the Statler Brothers , Barbara Mandrell , Billy "Crash" Craddock, Jerry Lee Lewis , Marty Robbins , Ronnie Milsap , Conway Twitty , Ernest Tubb and The Monkees appeared.
Graham's son Mike Nesmith, guitarist/singer in the popular 1960s pop band The Monkees, was the primary heir to her fortune upon her death in 1980.
The album features a rare occasion of Nesmith (as a solo artist) singing a Monkees song, Papa Gene's Blues (originally from the album The Monkees).
It was the launch album of Gotee Records, and was the catalyst for the creation of the record label; founders of the label Toby McKeehan, Todd Collins, and Joey Elwood had wanted to produce the album, but after not being able to find a label to sign the act to, they formed Gotee Records and began distributing the band's material on their own.
In 1968, she appeared in a pilot for a new TV series entitled Once upon a Twilight, which, inspired by the popularity of The Monkees, was to depict the semi-fictitious adventures of a real-life local band, The Twilights.
They toured Australia as support act for overseas artists such as The Monkees on their Australian December 1968 tour.
The pageant was hosted by Bob Goen for the third and final year, with color commentary by Shari Belafonte and entertainment from The Monkees.
#"Mister Bob" (E. Van Den Brink/M. Dolenz/D. Jones/P. Tork/M. Nesmith) – "Mister Bob" features the voices of The Monkees.
More roles followed, including the role of "Anna," the girl who was granted another birthday in "Tusitala," a 1955 Four Star Playhouse production starring David Niven as Robert Louis Stevenson; and Band of Angels in 1957 and television appearances in Circus Boy, starring Micky Dolenz, later of the singing group The Monkees.
After dropping out of Berklee Peter moved to the San Francisco Bay area and began playing and recording with many notable musicians including Jay Lane (Primus, RatDog), Sam Andrew (Big Brother and the Holding Company), Peter Tork (The Monkees), Marty Friedman (Megadeth), Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) and Bill Spooner (The Tubes).
The song was originally the second track on their self-titled debut album The Monkees with Micky Dolenz on lead vocals.
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"Saturday's Child" is a popular song, written by David Gates and performed by The Monkees.
He was also a studio musician for many of the rock and pop groups of the 1960s, including The Four Seasons, The Monkees and The Association.
After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.
In the TV show The Monkees episode 33 "A Nice Place To Visit" (1967), Micky Dolenz misquoted the line as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges".
The title is derived from an American anti-war slogan from the hippie subculture during the Vietnam War era (popularized by Charlotte E. Keyes), perhaps most notably used as part of the lyric to the song "Zor and Zam" on The Monkees' 1968 album The Birds, The Bees & the Monkees.
The film was one of several collaborations between Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, which included the cult 1968 Monkees film Head and Five Easy Pieces (1970), which established both men as major figures in Hollywood.
In 1967 they starred in a pilot for their own series that was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso of The Monkees, and directed by William Friedkin of The French Connection and The Exorcist.
The album hits included Riblja Čorba's first cover "Zadnji voz za Čačak" (cover of The Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville"), an all-time hit "Kad padne noć (Upomoć)" and ballad "Da, to sam ja".
Besides The Four Pennies, Diamond and Presley, it has been covered by Jim Croce, Glen Campbell, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, the Boston Pops Orchestra, Roberta Flack, New Birth, Paul Anka, Eddy Arnold, Michael Nesmith of The Monkees, Bobby Darin, Helen Reddy, Andy Williams, Joe Longthorne and Françoise Hardy.
A young journalist named Willie Sheeler (voiced by Micky Dolenz of the 1960s group The Monkees) and his girlfriend Dooley Lawrence (voiced by Susan Davis) solve crimes with the help of his superhero motorcycle, Wonder Wheels.
"Your Auntie Grizelda" is a novelty song written by Diane Hildebrand and Jack Keller, made famous by The Monkees.