Daydream Believer

The Monkees filming their pilot episode 60 years ago at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego in November 1965 🎸
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Judy Carne and Davy Jones on Laugh-In in 1969 🙂

Davy Jones 🤠

Sixty years ago this week we were down at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego shooting the pilot for what was then called "The Monkeys." We filmed from November 13 through November 22. None of us had any idea that those days on the beach and around that beautiful old hotel would launch something that would stay with us for the rest of our lives. I was just a young actor having fun and doing the work alongside Davy, Peter & Michael. Then suddenly the whole world changed. The show, the records, the touring… it all grew out of that first little pilot shoot. I’m grateful every time I think about it. The friends I made. The music we created. The people who’ve stayed with us for decades. I kept a lot of notes and photos back then, and when I go through them now I shake my head and smile. We were kids doing a job. Somehow it turned into a piece of pop history. Thanks for keeping the memories alive with me.

❤️ Shared from Micky Dolenz today:
"I’m grateful every time I think about it. The friends I made. The music we created. The people who’ve stayed with us for decades. We were kids doing a job. Somehow it turned into a piece of pop history. Thanks for keeping the memories alive with me."

Color photo of Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork intently playing guitar onstage during The Monkees’ 1967 tour.

“Peter was a much more skillful player than I was by some orders of magnitude.” - Michael Nesmith, The Monkees Tale

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Photo by Roland Thurman (?)

Davy Jones 🙂

Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork at Westbury Music Fair, NY, in 2015 🙂 Photo from Tony Papale 📷

The Monkees 🎸
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The Monkees 🎸
#michaelnesmith #davyjones
#mickydolenz #petertork 🙂

Davy Jones 🙂

Peter Tork 🙂

“There’s one song that Peter Tork sings on that Missing Links album where he sounds absolutely super. He sounds great; he’s right on the button. Sings it good and he wasn’t supposed to be a singer.” - Davy Jones on “Come On In”

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ON THIS DATE IN MONKEES HISTORY ⭐️
On November 20, 1996, The Monkees performed a mini-concert in Los Angeles at Billboard Live to promote their newly released album "Justus." This would be their last performance ever in the US by the full group.
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Davy Jones 🙂

Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz filming a Kool-Aid commercial on April 14, 1970 🥤

Peter Tork intently focused on music in the studio, 1967.

“Peter was a great musician, great banjo player, but he was mainly from New York, and he had a different process for thinking about songs. It didn’t quite fit with what we had in mind for the group called The Monkees.” - Tommy Boyce

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Michael Nesmith 🤠

The Monkees 🎸
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Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, and Micky Dolenz 🙂

Davy Jones with his friend and mentor Basil Foster in Florida in 1991 🏇 Basil hired Davy as a teenager to work in his horse stables in Newmarket, England, and encouraged him to pursue an acting career. Basil moved to Florida in his later years, and Davy helped to support him during that time.

Peter Tork, Davy Jones, and Micky Dolenz 🙂

Peter Tork, dressed all in white and carrying his banjo, smiles at the concert audience in Phoenix, January 1967; photo by Richard Weize.

“Peter was absolutely handsome in an all-white outfit for a banjo solo. Nobody wanted him to go.” - fan Charlene Steffens reports on The Monkees concert at the Cow Palace for Movie Teen Illustrated (October 1967)

Photo from the Phoenix show in January 1967; photo by Richard Weize.

Davy Jones 😎

Goldie Hawn and Davy Jones on Laugh-In in 1969 🙂

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Neil Diamond Gerry Goffin and Carole King John Stewart Paul Williams David Gates Harry Nilsson with Micky Dolenz Bobby Hart and Tommy Boyce Davy Jones with Carole Bayer and Neil Sedaka

In addition to writing their own songs, The Monkees had many of the best pop music songwriters of the time writing for them! ✏️

Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith 🙂

Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith, and Micky Dolenz 🙂

The Boy Meets World episode “Rave On!” — guest starring Peter, Davy, and Micky — originally aired on this day in 1995.

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Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, and Peter Tork with music supervisor Lester Sill 🙂

Goldie Hawn and Davy Jones on Laugh-In in 1969 🙂