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From The Research Vault: KDWB Radio Tapes from Radio Tapes, August 8, 1967

From The Research Vault: KDWB Radio Tapes from Radio Tapes, August 8, 1967

From The Research Vault: KDWB Radio Tapes from Radio Tapes, August 8, 1967

THE MONKEES ON KDWB-AM IN 1967

The Monkees were in the Twin Cities for a concert and broadcast from KDWB’s “Secret City” with a remote from the hotel where the band was staying. Featuring Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones.

The recordings feature candid, silly and serious moments from The Monkees – a wonderful collection of recordings during the two days The Monkees took over the radio station.

August 3, 1967 to 4 am on August 4, 1967: Starting with coverage of the Monkees’ airplane arrival at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport followed by Michael, Peter, Micky and Davy broadcasting from “Secret City” playing records, performing a skit, and some candid comments by Micky about criticism concerning the group not playing all instruments in their songs, thoughts about The Beatles, and more. Includes KDWB personalities Charlie Brown, Earl Trout, Tac Hammer, Bobby Davis and newscast by Robert Davis. #1 30 MB – #2 21 MB(provided by Curt Lundgren)

August 4, 1967 (3:00-6:00 pm): Mostly featuring Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork spinning records with Michael having fun insulting KDWB advertisers including Dayton’s and J A Gerber Jewelers and Peter playing the banjo. Includes newscast by Don Miller.    #1 16 MB – #2 23 MB – #3 19 MB – #4 8 MB    (provided by Phil Kitchen and Jeanne Anderson)

Includes commercials for J A Gerber Jewelers, Durkee Seasoned Spices, Ray Conniff “This is My Song” album, Pedwin Shoes, Baskin-Robbins, Preparation H, Heileman Old Style Beer, Minnesota Dragways, NCC Drive-In Theaters, “The Big Mouth” with Jerry Lewis (movie), Dad’s Root Beer, Mobile, Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum, Schlitz Beer, Coca Cola (sung by Ray Charles), STP, Summer Blonde Hair Spray, Honda and Hamm’s Beer. 

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Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 93 in a series – Reviled by their Peers?

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To refute the cultural myth that all their peers reviled them in their first incarnation, it appears the opposite was the more true from the very beginning. As a television program, The Monkees won two Emmy Awards in their first season, for Outstanding Comedy Series and for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for a Comedy. 

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From The Research Vault: Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience by Andrea L. Press

From The Research Vault: Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience by Andrea L. Press

Women’s inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world. — Amazon.com

 

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A final note on the long tail of their cultural footprint comes from the fact that the financial success of the show funded the filmmaking careers of show creators Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson. Screen Gems executive Steve Blauner adamantly believed, “There’d have been no Easy Rider without The Monkees so they should canonize The Monkees just for that.”

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From The Research Vault: The Monkees’ Davy Jones Recalls Beatles Friendship and Mike Nesmith’s Disloyalty via Monkees.net

From The Research Vault: The Monkees’ Davy Jones Recalls Beatles Friendship and Mike Nesmith’s Disloyalty via Monkees.net

From The Research Vault: The Monkees’ Davy Jones Recalls Beatles Friendship and Mike Nesmith’s Disloyalty via Monkees.net

When he appeared on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ with the Beatles in 1964, Davy Jones had no idea he was staring at his future.

On the show, he performed a song from ‘Oliver!’ the Broadway show he was acting in at the time. But two years later, he’d be cast in ‘The Monkees,’ a TV show about a band similar to the Beatles and inspired by the Fab Four movie ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’

Despite its origins as a pretend band, the Monkees became a real one after insisting they play their own instruments and write their own songs. Meanwhile, tunes like ‘Daydream Believer,’ ‘Last Train to Clarksville’ and ‘I’m a Believer’ were smash hits, contributing to Monkeemania.

While the show only lasted two years, the Monkees — Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith — would occasionally reunite. Currently, they are celebrating their 45th year with a tour that doesn’t include Nesmith, who opted not to join the band.

Jones recently spoke to Spinner about the reunion and the band’s storied past.

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In the year Davy Jones died (2012), the critically acclaimed, hard-edged AMC drama Breaking Bad used Micky’s vocals on the song “Goin’ Down” for a montage of Walter White making meth in his makeshift lab. That exposure began a new run of references on several critically acclaimed television programs.

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From The Research Vault: ‘We took a lot of flak at the outset’: Peter Tork talks to Vibe about The Monkees returning to London, Jim Palmer, News Shopper, 15th July 2015

From The Research Vault: ‘We took a lot of flak at the outset’: Peter Tork talks to Vibe about The Monkees returning to London, Jim Palmer, News Shopper, 15th July 2015

From The Research Vault: 'We took a lot of flak at the outset': Peter Tork talks to Vibe about The Monkees returning to London, Jim Palmer, News Shopper, 15th July 2015

Hey hey he’s a Monkee and nearly 50 years after his band first graced TV screens and the charts, Peter Tork is still monkeying around.

The 73-year-old pop star was full of humour when he chatted to Vibe about returning to London for a gig with bandmate Micky Dolenz on September 4.

Asked how excited he was about coming back to the captial, Peter opted for a numerical answer.

“About a nine…on a scale of 35,” he joked.

“I’m very pleased to be coming. I always enjoy the UK. Of course, I’m delighted, thrilled – totally chuffed as the Brits say.”

 

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The Monkees cultural cachet refers to the influence they had over the music, other television programs, and even the politics of their day and beyond, though it took nearly 50 years for mainstream critics to finally recognize that cachet. The Monkees influenced the culture of their time, but manufactured controversy transformed them into a guilty pleasure for fans at best and worthy of ridicule at worst. 

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From The Research Vault: Teenagers: An American History. Palladino, Grace. T, New York: Basic Books, 1996.

From The Research Vault: Teenagers: An American History. Palladino, Grace. T, New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Nobody worried about “teenagers” prior to the 1940s. In fact, as a culturally or economically defined entity they did not exist. But in the 50 years since the last world war, when the term was first coined, teenagers have had an enormous impact on American culture. They have reshaped our language, our music, our clothes. They have changed forever the way we respond to authority. They have become a 200 billion consumer group avidly courted by marketers. And they have changed our culture, which will never again treat their demographic group merely as young adults.Teenagers ranges widely across American culture of the middle twentieth century to depict the shifting characterizations of teens from invisible young adults to young soldiers in training, to bobby soxers and zoot suiters, to rock ‘n’ rollers and juvenile delinquents, from hippies to savvy consumers. Grace Palladino examines everything from Andy Hardy and Elvis Presley to Seventeen magazine and MTV. She challenges those who decry teenage hedonism and immorality today, showing that modern disaffected teenagers, as in the past, are responding just as much to hypocritical adult behavior as to a commercial cult of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.

 

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The later reputation Nesmith received for rebelling against authority came from his push for the actors to have a say in the music they recorded, which has been nicknamed the ‘palace revolt’ and resulted in the ouster of music supervisor Don Kirshner. Somehow the unrest Nesmith felt over the music situation blended into a common notion that he also detested the character he played. .

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