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While other girl's had Donny Osmond on their ceiling, I had Davy Jones!!
I had Donny Osmond photos, but I should have had Davy Jones instead because ... BETTER MUSIC!!!
Sirius Radio was doing a tribute on the 60's station yesterday and having listeners call in who had met him. I was crying in the car. He was part of the soundtrack of my Sixties childhood.
I find it ironic that a couple months ago I watched an episode of the monkees on a retro channel (it had been years) and during the closing credits/For Pete's Sake ..just listening to those lyrics, the message, and this was so long ago-I was touched. The sixties were special and Davy Jones and the Monkees highly contributed to it
The sixties were special and Davy Jones and the Monkees highly contributed to it.
I've always been so glad I was born in time to live in the Sixties, even though it was as a child. The music was so optimistic and the fashion so colorful.
There was something in the air then that no decade since has had.
If anyone is interested there are two really good documentaries on tomorrow (Friday). I saw both a few months ago and the first one covers the entire evolution of The Monkees. From the time they were created up until the time they finally were allowed to prove themselves extemely talented musicians in their own right. The second one is totally about Davy and his rise to fame. I highly recommend them.
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Bio Channel will air two hour-long specials about Jones:
7 p.m.: "Biography: The Monkees"--The story of the celebrated band is told by those whose careers and lives were impacted by the phenomenon. Brought together as fictional characters intended to be the subject of a scripted TV series, the Monkees formed a real and successful musical touring act. Despite their brief TV career, the group prevailed with a long legacy of chart topping hits. This is the story of four actors who were turned into musicians by a Hollywood production office and evolved into a pop music phenomenon.
8 p.m.: "BIO Remembers: Davy Jones"--The name Davy Jones will forever conjure up images of the immensely popular teen heartthrob from the Monkees. Monkeemania was in full force in the late '60s, and it was most often Davy's face that lined the bedroom walls of teenage girls throughout the world. The Monkees have gone on and grown up, but in the eyes of women everywhere, Davy will always be the cute singer and tambourine player. Over the past few decades, he kept his singing and acting career alive, appearing in both theatrical productions and solo concerts around the world.
Agreed. It was tremendously creative period. Daring thoughts, big dreams, great music.
"We're doing things that don't even have names yet..." Jefferson Airplane
A to the MEN!
I feel sorry for young people who just write off that decade. I saw a comment on a news story the other day and the commenter listed all the backward social problems that they thought existed in the Fifties and Sixties. They said they could not have dealt with it.
They didn't grasp that they owe today's more tolerant atmosphere to the Sixties, or have a clue how inspiring it was. Nor do they know how apathetic people are now compared to then.
I've always been so glad I was born in time to live in the Sixties, even though it was as a child. The music was so optimistic and the fashion so colorful.
There was something in the air then that no decade since has had.
Indeed I would have no issues re-living that decade!
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I would have no issues re-living that decade!
