Hey, hey we're the monkees!

[Anonymous]

People say we monkey around.

But we're too busy singing,

to put anybody down!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anybody else into the Monkees?

Who's your favorite Monkee?

[Me]

Kinda.

Davy.

Without explicitly asking you to reveal your age, I'll just ask if you were into them when they first came out or if you caught them in syndication?

[Anonymous]

I became a fan in syndication. How 'bout you?

[Take 2]

My little teeny-bopper sister loved them when they first came out. fun, harmless pop

[Anonymous]

On the cynical side, I seem to remember that they were constructed via interviews based on prior market analysis of desired characteristics. They did not know each other before being hired to be in the group.

[Dr T Non-Fan]

The VH-1 movie about them was pretty revealing. Showed how they resented being treated as face-men. Wanted to play their own instruments, etc. They tried to learn on their own, and all.
I don't know if they were the first face/fake band or not. Not the last for sure. As long as there are screaming female teenagers, there will be face bands.

[Bill Cowher]

:love:

[cubedbee]

Anyone seen their movie Head? Very weird and trippy.

[Texas_Acty]

My first date was to a Monkees concert at the Baltimore Civic Center in 1967.

(Her mother accompanied us.)

[_BullDog_]

The VH-1 movie about them was pretty revealing. Showed how they resented being treated as face-men. Wanted to play their own instruments, etc. They tried to learn on their own, and all.
I don't know if they were the first face/fake band or not. Not the last for sure. As long as there are screaming female teenagers, there will be face bands.

now they are called boy bands.

[Salzmann]

I watched the original versions and had a crush on Mike Nesmith. But what really caught my attention were all the ads for a line of cosmetics from a London-based manufacturer. Lots of commercials showing people bopping around London with Westminster Abbey in the background, or Tower Bridge, or using the legendary red phone booths. It really fed the fires of my travel mania!

Nice songs, though- not terribly eloquent or complex, but I still hear Muzak versions once in awhile.

[Maine-iac]

My crush was on Mickey Dolenz. *sigh* The songs were nice as pop songs go. Some of them have endured.

I'd forgotten the brit-commercials. Wasn't that Yardley of London? I still use their lavender soap. :)

[Texas_Acty]

Nice songs, though- not terribly eloquent or complex...

Not eloquent or complex?? What about 'Your Auntie Grizelda'?

[Rockhound]

Mary, (Mary)
oh what a sweet girl
Lips like, strawberry pie

Sandra, (Sandra)
Long hair in pig tails
Can't make up my mind



Oh how I longed to have those problems in those days.

[Listeria]

My crush: Davey Jones. I had to have been about three or four. This was from the same era as the Banana Splits, who were a heavy influence on Bob Marley.

[Salzmann]

I'd forgotten the brit-commercials. Wasn't that Yardley of London? I still use their lavender soap. :)

Some were Yardley but the other was a line called "Love", by Menley and James, which probably doesn't exist anymore. I remember I had eye shadow in a little plastic container that looked like an eyeball.

The week before last I was in Edinburgh in one of the legendary red phone booths. Instead of thinking, "Hey, I'm in a legendary red phone booth!" I was grossed out by the heavy smell of cigarette smoke on the mouthpiece and grumbling to myself because the bus company I was trying to reach wasn't answering their phone.

(Sigh.) I'm getting jaded.