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NOTE:
The Monkees
brand of zany humor and light folk/pop music revolutionized
television, and they remain very popular to this day, so much so that
even decades after their dissolution, references to them can be found
in mass media all over the world. Here's where I'll list news items
from television, radio, and newspaper articles all around the world
that make reference to the Monkees.
Also, I'll list any updates to the site here, so check back weekly!
September 3, 2010
Ipswich Queensland Times
...
her scrapbook contains signed evidence of the bands she crossed paths
with, including autographs from members of The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, ...
NorthcentralPa.com
Blair frequently records and tours with Davy Jones of The Monkees. "I've learned immeasurable amounts of stagecraft from David," noted Blair. ...
Kansas City Star
... she'd landed in paradise when she arrived, at age 30, in Los Angeles with her husband, who had been hired to write for "The Monkees" television show. ...
Altsounds.com
'Consider This Your Warning' could just about pass for a riled young Tom Waits fighting with The Monkees. An odd description perhaps, but The Method do ...
Worcester Telegram
... Kiss,” but what's really something is how this romantic ditty starts off like the Monkees at their gooiest turns into Queen at its most bombastic. ...
Estherville Daily News
Their first date was a trip to the movies in Fairmont to watch a film starring "The Monkees." The courtship developed and the couple wed Aug. 6, 1966. ...
The Arts Desk
“How Long” sports
keyboards that ape the Sixties' Mellotron string sound, while
“It's Taking Over” seamlessly evokes The Monkees' “Stepping Stone” and The ...
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September 2, 2010
Wall Street Journal
Among the films to be hosted by the Criterion Collection at the All
Tomorrow's Parties festival are 1968's 'Head,' starring the Monkees. ...
BestWeekEver.tv (satire)
It's a communal movie going experience not unlike The Rocky Horror Picture Show. So it for sure warrants its own Monkees mashup called “The Roomies.”
Wicked Local Plymouth
... Comes,” “Can't Get Enough of You Baby,” and a cover of The Monkees classic “I'ma Believer,” which was prominently featured on the Shrek soundtrack. ...
Los Angeles Times
... she'd landed in paradise when she arrived, at age 30, in Los Angeles with her husband, who had been hired to write for "The Monkees" television show. ...
411mania.com
Must be my annual "The Monkees are SO good" day. Their pop singles were written by others, but their own work has depth and soul to it. ...
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September 1, 2010
UPDATE: I've added a listing and review of Micky's new album King For A Day.
OnTheRedCarpet.com (blog)
Micky Dolenz of the 1960s boy band The Monkees, which, like contemporary pop idols The Jonas Brothers, starred on television as well, has also joined the ...
East Anglian Daily Times
Eyebrows didn't really feature in my imaginings but one of my friends was very enamoured of Davy Jones of (Hey, hey we're) The Monkees who had just the ...
New York Times (blog)
It often began with a phone call at an odd hour and ended, in the case of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, three days later at a massage parlor in Phoenix. ...
ScreenCrave.com
According to ThirdAge, former drummer for the TV band The Monkees, Micky Dolenz has just joined the cast. That's right! We're moving from the eighties back ...
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August 31, 2010
UPDATE: This week on Open
Mic: A rockin' "Believer"
Chicago Tribune (blog)
... Close for Comfort," "The Monkees," "Married with Children," "NewsRadio," "Dennis the Menace," "The Donna Reed Show" and Three Stooges shorts. ...
Apex News Network (blog)
Mickey Dolenz, who made up one fourth of the made for TV super group The Monkees has a role as well. Dolenz portrays a “celebrity singer” hired by Tiffany ...
The Hill (blog)
Trying to find “our own Sarah Palin” could bring the New Yorkers
problems. They tried to do that with the Beatles and came up with the Monkees.
Sydney Morning Herald
Many might wonder what else there is to know about the Monkees' early hit I'm a Believer, by Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen's The River, Paul Simon's My ...
Seattle Times
Like the Monkees
and The Dandy Warhols, the Mants have their very own theme song, "We
Are the Mants." (Sample lyrics: "We are the Mants / You won't stand a ...
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August 30, 2010
UPDATE: This week on MonkeeVision: We should all be thankful it wasn't "Shades Of Chartreuse"
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MLive.com
Madeira convinced dozens of session musicians and national artists -- from guitarist Phil Keaggy to former Monkees' singer Micky Dolenz -- to donate their ...
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Call 553-2486 for details, or visit http://mchsociety.org/ Contrary to some beliefs, the Monkees song "Last Train to Clarksville" is not about the L&N ...
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August 27, 2010
Arizona Republic
Here are some tidbits: • DJ Bob Shannon was tied up in the 1967 episode of "The Monkees"in which the made-for-TV pop group commandeered the KRUX studio. ...
CMT.com
... from Willie Nelson to Jamey Johnson to Jack White to Lady Gaga to Ray Price to Beyoncé to the Monkees to U2 to Elvis Costello to Beatles reissues. ...
Middleboro Gazette
Cranberry Lane plays music spanning the late '50s to early ''70s, the Beatles, Beach Boys, Turtles, and the Monkees and much more. ...
Washington Post
AP The Monkees
had more than just musical talent -- the group (from left to right:
Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz) won the Emmy for
...
Kennebec Journal
Q: One of the songs that really got me was the first track -- the Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville." JOHNSON: We actually were going to record that song ...
Plain Dealer
"Jonas LA," their Disney Channel series, is essentially a 21st century update of "The Monkees," revamped for the grandchildren of Monkees fans. ...
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August 26, 2010
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MTV.com
Most notably, the band attached its remake of the Monkees' "I'm a Believer" to "Shrek." In 2006, Harwell starred in the sixth season of The Surreal Life, ...
AZ Central.com
For Shannon, the high points included being on an episode of "The Monkees" that was filmed when the made-for-TV band played Veterans Memorial Coliseum and ...
Sports Page Network (satire) (blog)
You call Trent out for looking like the lost member of The Monkees, and Chan will yell out you and he's not going to let Trent sign your Nerf football. ...
Dothan Eagle
I got the game-winning hit in the championship game against the Animals
— our teams were unfortunately named for music groups” Beatles,
Animals, Monkees and ...
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August 25, 2010
Huffington Post (blog)
"The Brady Bunch is on
today - the Brady Bunch episode with Davy Jones (from The Monkees),
but that's should be a music episode to because Davy Jones is an ...
Broward New Times
(blog)
The earliest comment I
can remember is someone who cited the fact that I looked like Peter
Tork, a member of the Monkees, which could also be
due to my ...
Gibson
Neil Diamond was hardly
the most charismatic performer in the '60s, when he was an affable
singer-songwriter type with some big hits (The Monkees'
“I'ma ...
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August 24, 2010
UPDATE: This week on Open
Mic: "Daydream Believer"
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Baristanet (blog)
A crowd of
all ages
danced to a selection of rock classics by The Beatles, Bon Jovi, The Monkees
and Elvis. They included nine month old Gianna Ramano who ...
TODAYonline
...
himself in the acid-tinged rock of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
(eventually designing the cover art for albums by The Monkees
and Jefferson Airplane). ...
Music Indistry News
Network
Known as a
genre-bending
sextet that strives to give their audiences 110 percent each time they
take the stage, The Grascals borrowed The Monkees'
pop hit, ...
Slate Magazine
It turned
up in B-grade
cinema and television—the Monkees once
ran afoul of it—but also in legitimate, mainstream work.
Lawrence of Arabia had quicksand and ...
Las Vegas Review -
Journal
The Monkees'
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" played over the loudspeaker at Cashman Field
during a pitching change in the eighth inning Sunday. ...
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August 23, 2010
UPDATE: This week on MonkeeVision:
Micky and Peter jam.
Playthings (blog)
Their
manager, Mike
Conway, told me that their inspiration was the Beatles, Stones, and Monkees
among others. You can hear it in the music and the parents ...
The Cruelest Sport
(blog)
I can think
of a few
boxing sites/blogs that might have “Hey Hey We're the Monkees”
or perhaps “Jean Genie” as their theme songs. ...
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August 20, 2010
UPDATE: I've updated
the tours page
with a new Davy date!
The Adirondack Daily
Enterprise
Texas
musician Guy
Schwartz, who has played with The Monkees, Muddy
Waters and Chuck Berry and is currently on tour promoting his 45th
album, will headline ...
Fort Smith Times Record
Hutton then
bought Alice
Cooper's old house in Laurel Canyon and became a low-key neighbor to Monkees
singer-drummer Micky Dolenz. "I had partied hard, ...
Patch
And as for
shows, we'd
always like to do more, but I also need some time for blues and jazz
jams and singing endless Monkees tunes with old
guitar friends. ...
Cybergrass
The
Grascals borrowed a
pop song from The Monkees, "Last Train to
Clarksville," and 'grassed it up as the first radio single and video
from their fourth ...
Bristol Evening Post
I was a
huge fan of The Monkees
– wasn't everyone – and having met him I know he's
a genuine talent and really funny guy… he looks like a great
kisser, too! ...
Chicago Daily Herald
...
scariest movies ever, and Mickey Dolenz, singer and drummer from the Monkees,
because that band deserves more respect than it gets from the rock
world. ...
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August 19, 2010
High-Def Digest
HEAD - Hey,
hey, it's
the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of
American cinema's most surreal sixties odysseys. In it, Mickey Dolenz,
Davy Jones, ...
High-Def Digest
'Head' (Bob
Rafelson,
1968) will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack,
and supplements include: Audio commentary featuring Monkees
...
Western Queens Gazette
Vallone,
who plays four
instruments, sat in on bass during the band's performances of the Grass
Roots' “Midnight Confessions” and the Monkees'
“Daydream ...
Quincy Herald Whig
I remember
the Monkees'
"Last Train to Clarksville" playing on the bus radio while I shook like
a leaf in my seat. Of course, a few minutes after arriving ...
Daily Comet
Even the Monkees,
by then down to only two members, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, made
their last recordings and expired along with the decade that created ...
Peterborough Examiner
The
Saturday evening
show winds down just as the Little Lake Musicfest, featuring Davy Jones
of the Monkees in the final show of the season,
begins across ...
Herald Scotland
As her
initially hushed
and gentle rendering of The Monkees' hit I'm A
Believer illustrates, Jungr is a great imaginative song interpreter but
she lets her ...
Belfast Telegraph
In the
words of the ace
old Monkees theme, so you better get ready, he
might be coming to your town! Yes, if you live in Glasgow, Edinburgh,
Carmarthen, ...
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August 18, 2010
IGN
Fueled by
money made
from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees,
they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form ...
ChartAttack
"We're not
trying to be
The Monkees," says Waters. "But in a way we are,"
he says with a laugh. Hopefully fans will get a taste of their sense of
humour at ...
Riverfront Times (blog)
What was
the hip wine in
1980s literary circles, he compares to listening to The Monkees
by the early '90s. Now, he doesn't care about the hip factor as he ...
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August 17, 2010
UPDATE: This week on Open
Mic: I think the answer is hyper-purple.
(Go ahead, say that five times fast!)
Las Vegas
Review-Journal
For
company, "I used to
listen to the Beatles all day and night," Steele says, along with such
then-favorites as Paul Revere & the Raiders and the Monkees
...
Inside Pulse (blog)
The Monkees
toyed with their faux pop star status. Even Rocky and Bullwinkle popped
off about their TV reality. The rebel with control of the airwaves
makes ...
Montreal Gazette
Even the Monkees,
by then down to only two members, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, made
their last recordings and expired along with the decade that created ...
Sparta Independent
“I'm
one of
the lucky ones,” said Tork, one of the original Monkees
from the 1960s hit TV show. “For those that don't make it,
it's a devastating experience ...
Sydney Morning Herald
This is
further
illustrated, though, with a story about my wife singing in the bath the
Monkees' Daydream Believer but changing
"Cheer up, sleepy Jean" to ...
Charlotte Observer
Music was
always in the
background at his house growing up, "everything from Mozart to The Monkees,"
said Morgan's mom, Dr. Joneice Morgan. ...
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