I mentioned before about liking the Monkees when I was younger, but some of their songs not holding up.
Some, though, I still like.
Mike Nesmith had a friend who was an aspiring songwriter. He wanted to record some of his songs on their earlier albums, but they were rejected. When the Monkees finally began to control their own recordings, picking their own songs and playing their own instruments, they recorded a song by Mike’s friend, Michael Martin Murphy, giving the songwriter and singer his first break.
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I really dig ‘Rain’ by the Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA
My only problem with the Monkees is that when their TV show came on, I knew all the Saturday morning cartoons were over.
And this has a different sound to it than some of their other stuff like “Last Train to Clarksville.”
There’s this sign, and it’s not on the Moon, in fact it’s on the lower right hand side of my screen, and I only see it when I come here to IMAO. It say’s, in a very ominous manner…close and accept. Close and accept what? Very ominous indeed.
The last sign on the Moon will belong to another.
Harold Sakata, who won a gold medal in weightlifting in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and went on to play Oddjob in Goldfinger, was born July 1, 1920, in Holualoa, Hawaii, not far from the little grass shack where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by.
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