Here’s on what’s on the show tonight:
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist (with link to the artists’ website, if available) | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
I’m A Believer | Bram Tchaikovsky | Strange Man, Changed Man | Neil Diamond/The Monkees |
(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone | The Sex Pistols | The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle | The Monkees |
Sweet Young Thing | Bent Backed Tulips | Looking Through | The Monkees |
You Just May Be The One | Michael Carpenter | SOOP #1 | The Monkees |
Last Train To Clarksville | Flatt & Scruggs | 1964-1969, Plus | The Monkees |
Mary Mary | Support Group | About A Girl | The Monkees |
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You | David Bowie | Chameleon Chronicles Volume 2 | The Monkees |
The Porpoise Song | …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Worlds Apart (single) | The Monkees |
Daydream Believer | Kevin Rowland | My Beauty | The Monkees |
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Hi Brian….great Monkees show. You missed an opportunity to mention that David Bowie had to change his name from David Jones because Davy Jones of the Monkees was already more famous and using it. And that Michael Nesmith wrote You Just May Be The One, I think. They did have a lot of talent, especially Micky Dolenz singing. Thanks again. Kendall in Texas
Ha! I haven’t had a chance to listen to the show yet, but when I saw that there were comment(s), I had to check to see if someone mentioned the Jones/Bowie connection. Sure enough!
And I feel like a complete dunderhead that I forgot to include that bit of trivia in the show!
You should feel worse for not mentioning the Mike Nesmith/Liquid paper connection 🙂
Great show. Maybe it’s me, but I didn’t think that Kevin Rowland track was THAT bad. Kind of sentimental really considering where he was at, at that time.
Brian, I love how you put tracks aside until the appropriate time to play them. You sweet young thing you.
…oh my. That “Daydream Believer” cover was awful. Though, alas, I think it stops just sort of being so awful it’s awesome.
I was vaguely wondering whether you’d play “(Theme from) The Monkees” from The Benzedrine Monks Of Santa Domonica.
(Just short, not just sort. Oof.)
Regarding the Kevin Rowland altered lyrics, maybe “Little G” was his way of personalizing it for someone who helped him through rehab. In any case, it’s kind of funny how he gets all the backup singers to sing the wrong lyrics right along with him.
I heard that Michael Stipe says he refuses to accept being inducted into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame unless The Monkees are inducted first.
There was a very good documentary on about The Monkees a few years ago, which defended them to some extent, pointing out that at the time, bands were not always expected to write their own material, and that other groups, such as The Birds, made extensive and uncredited use of session musicians (even The Beatles had a session drummer on early hits).
Pity about Kevin Rowland, who I can only hope the best for – unsuitable material and lapses in taste pretty much killed the album.
Speaking of lapses in taste, I thought the Flatt and Scruggs treatment was pretty unlistenable.
My favorite Monkees trivia is that the band took a lot of heat for playing Mary Mary that the Butterfield Blues Band had made famous (how DARE the Monkees play BBB), but then it came out that it was the BBB version that was the cover, not the Monkees’.
Whee!!!!! Being a loooooooong time Monkees fan (my sister was buying the albums while I was being born, and she gave them to me when she decided they were no longer cool), it was wonderful to hear covers I never knew existed. I particularly liked the covers of “You Just May Be The One” and “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You”, and I was ready to adore the cover of “Mary, Mary”…until the vocals started. Oh well. If I had known, I would have recommended the cover of “The Porpoise Song” by The Church, from their wonderful cover album A Box of Birds.
Rohan — REM is in the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame already. Too bad, it’s a good line.
What – no Pleasant Valley Sunday???
When you said that Flatt & Scruggs were the “original bluegrass or probably the most famous bluegrass performers” I think I heard Bill “Father of Bluegrass” Monroe rolling around in his grave. This is the Bill Monroe who according to NPR and thanks to an Elvis cover wrote one of the most important songs of the century: Blue Moon of Kentucky. Anyhoo….great show – thanks for this one and all the others.
“REM is in the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame already.”
Oh well, I definitely heard that quote attributed to Stipe. Maybe he was joking.
eh…it’s spelled Byrds…