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Michael Nesmith, Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist of The Monkees, Dies at 78
Hollywoodreporter.com ^ | 12/10/2021 | CHRIS KOSELUK

Posted on 12/10/2021 10:42:30 AM PST by massmike

Michael Nesmith, the guitar-playing singer-songwriter with the wool hat who along with Davy Jones, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz became a TV star and 1960s pop sensation as a member of The Monkees, has died. He was 78.

Nesmith died Friday of natural causes, his family told Rolling Stone.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: davyjones; deadagain; differentdrum; michaelnesmith; michaelnesmithobit; mickeydolenz; mickydolenz; mikenesmith; petertork; themonkee; themonkees
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To: ealgeone

I think you’re mistaken. The Monkees were on Monday night. The Beatles had the Saturday morning TV show.

https://youtu.be/oa-qLT2TLJg


41 posted on 12/10/2021 2:48:03 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

At my house they came on Saturday mornings around 11 or 11:30. That signaled the end of cartoons for the day.


42 posted on 12/10/2021 2:50:15 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: massmike

My favorite Nesmith song would be The Grand Ennui.


43 posted on 12/10/2021 3:13:17 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Mr. Blond

“Dolenz was in the Hollywood Vampires drinking club, but somehow outlived them all.“

-the “Keith Richards” of the group.. lol!


44 posted on 12/10/2021 3:21:28 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: ealgeone

I’m certain they were originally aired on Monday night right before that goofy Laugh In show.


45 posted on 12/10/2021 4:26:05 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: sushiman

👍


46 posted on 12/10/2021 4:26:13 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: hardspunned

Not saying they weren’t.....just at my house it came on Saturday mornings. It also aired in the afternoons after school.


47 posted on 12/10/2021 4:37:21 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

I would guess the show made Saturday morning syndication after it ended prime time. I’m talking about ‘66 and ‘67.


48 posted on 12/10/2021 5:15:00 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

makes sense.


49 posted on 12/10/2021 5:20:14 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: hardspunned

Yep. I got curious and looked it up. September 12, 1966. Monday night.


50 posted on 12/10/2021 5:23:26 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: hardspunned
In 1967 the Monkees outsold the Beatles and Stones combined.

Correct. In the year of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the Monkees vastly outsold The Beatles. It wasn't even close.

Another couple of hits, a trip to India and a well-rehearsed side-shuffle over there and The Monkees would have been the biggest selling band in the history of recorded music. The Beatles would have gone the way of Herman's Hermits and Gary Lewis & The Playboys.

51 posted on 12/10/2021 5:25:21 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 76 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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To: dhs12345
Very talented.
He wrote this song! Stone Poneys (Linda Ronstadt) - Different Drum - 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5lq9n6C98


Nesmith wrote the song in '64. It was first recorded by the Greenbriar Boys in '66, and a short comic version of the song aired on the Monkees TV show in December of '66. The Stone Ponies recorded the song in '67. Here is Nesmith singing his song, after which he says, "With apologies and a special thanks to Linda.":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkiZ9tO-Zs
He had great humility to apologize for performing his own song. Of course, Linda Ronstadt's version is the best.
52 posted on 12/10/2021 5:49:47 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: SamAdams76

You do know Jimi Hendrix, opened for the Monkees on tour in 1967. Hendrix first was popular in England where he released Are You Experienced in early ‘67. He was pretty much an unknown opening for the Monkees before the album was released in the US. Imagine taking your teenybopper daughter to see the Monkees and out steps this Jimi Hendrix madman pounding out Purple Haze to start the evening.


53 posted on 12/10/2021 5:50:19 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: GSWarrior

Tropical Campfires is my favorite Nesmith album.


54 posted on 12/10/2021 7:10:21 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Dr. Franklin

Yes. And apparently after Ronstadt, he performed it like she did.


55 posted on 12/12/2021 11:17:16 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: CodeJockey

I had their album. Didn’t care about the Beatles. I was five at the time.


56 posted on 12/16/2021 4:21:33 PM PST by Daggerboard
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