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  1. Always liked the Monkees, Last Train to Clarksville was the first “pop” song I learned to play on the guitar.
    Their Christmas shows were always funny.
    Deck the Halls, “Don we now our gay apparel”, with mugging, was hilarious.
    This was back when Gay, wasn’t all that common, when talking about fags.

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  2. The Monkees started out as a “joke band,” four actors hired to play a pop group in a television show. Nesmith and Tork had music experience; Jones and Dolenz not so much although all of then could sing. At some point – after their second number one album – they decided to be a real band which, after a couple of interruptions, only lasted about 50 years.

    For some reason, I found this story inspiring. My kids know the Monkees only as a 60s era band whose music is still played on the airways. Although the television show was only on a couple of years, all four were always known as Monkees. Nesmith in particular became successful in other endeavors, including music videos, but he eventually resigned himself to being a perpetually known as a Monkee.

    There are worse legacies than being involved with a group that has entertained and brought back memories to millions of people over decades.

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  3. @RADIOATIONMAN/HAM/CB –
    “…Who knew the Monkees
    could sing in Spanish….”

    If you noticed Peter and Davey smiling (almost laughing) when Mickey sang his two solos in Spanish – almost as if they were surprised he could do it also.

    It was a pretty song.

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  4. And now I’m playing rent-a-cop with a puter that blocks Boobtube so will have to wait till tomorrow to check those out…

    Barney was a great character in that show without him the interplay what have been nothing.

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