Posted on 03/04/2009 11:20:41 PM PST by LibWhacker
Is his last name really Torkelson?
The Sir Douglas Quintet was also a “Beatle knockoff” (it was a formulated attempt to get an American band on the charts in the midst of the British Invasion).
Just about everything rock and roll was a Beatle knockoff in those days.
And there are those who decry the Monkees because they did not (initially) play their instruments or (initially) write their own songs. Sounds like the Motown “Hit Machine” system to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RppY5b6h6eM&feature=related
The Monkees - Sometime in the Morning (with Rose Marie)
RIP Doug Sahm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th7yaYqEKSA
Sir Douglas Quintet ~ Mendocino
(Augie Meyers playin’ that funky Farfisa)
Later reunited as the Texas Tornados
Wow, I envy you having a Monkee classmate!
Thorkelson .
Same school , but like I said he was 11 years ahead of me .
The saddest part is that this was the direction they were wanting to go to get away from their bubble gum image, and the suits finally said, "Heck, let 'em do it." Nesmith was rich from the Liquid Paper thing anyway, so he didn't care.
As to their talent, they weren't good musicians, not compared to the studio guys that did their first albums, but their harmonies were excellent, and they could really run with the Boyce-Hart type stuff.
FWIW, the suits wanted the Monkees to have a band manager in the series. He would be the guy who provided the “adult supervision” to them, as NBC thought it would be too radical to have four guys in their early twenties living in a beach house. In one of the pilots, he wore a suit and had the classic birth control glasses. BTW, was I the only one who wondered how four starving musicians could afford a wickedly cool beach house and a customized GTO?
I wouldn’t say The SD Quintet were a “ knockoff “ at all . Yes , the band had a British sounding name but their musical sound was nothing like what was coming out of England , a mix Tex-Mex , Cajun and blues for the most part .
It was a targeted effort by Huey Meaux to get a song on the charts. And the local kids did think that they were a British band.
They had to play their live concert themselves (and the sound isn’t that great, especially when they try to immitate the opening act, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who they picked up after seeing him play at Monterery). You can even see Mickey Dolenz in the crowd at the Monterey show.
Oh, no - so sorry to hear this. I had a huge crush on him back in 1968.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x78o8_the-monkees-intro-tv-theme-song_extreme
I bet there are alot if us that can sing the theme song after all of these ears.
IIRC it was on 2x a week for a while.
ears = years
(damned y key sticking)
Does anyone, anywhere, remember a live-action version of “Pinocchio” that had Davey Jones in the main role? It was a made-for-tv event that only was on once, I think late ‘68 or early ‘69. I can’t remember what network carried it. Every time I ask anyone about it, all I get are glazed looks!
Never mind! I found it! Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits starred, not Davy Jones.
“Cheer up Sleep Jean...”
Life was much simpler then.
I know. Me, too!
And my mother used to get on me about doing my homework without being under a very bright light. Then years later I heard the theory that eye strain is caused by bright light and soothed or avoided altogether by using a rather dim light.
And while I'm harping on my poor mother here, she used to chastise me for turning the channel knob on the tv too fast. She said it would wreck the knob. So when I went from channel to channel I had to pause for about three seconds in between. It could take a while since we only got three channels and they were far apart on the knob!
By the way perhaps you are too young to know about this - but back then when you turned the tv off a spot of light would remain in the middle of the screen for what seemed like the longest time. Hah. I just remembered that.
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