Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
Category: Monkees
Rosanne on a Monkees Halloween panel on Zilch: A Monkees Podcast
It’s always a pleasure to be invited to chat Monkees moments with other experts and this panel was extra fun since Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. We each chose our favorite scary episodes to create a perfect 5 episode binge – so listen in for the list, pop your popcorn, purchase your candy corn and cuddle up on your couch to watch with us this Halloween!
Zilch #102 SPOOKY MONKEES MOMENTS!
Trick or Treat! Welcome to a Zilch Halloween episode! Join Kenacula & Christine Carlson Werewolf as they Haunt the Zilch Castle.Then a Spooky Panel of Scary Monkees Moments with Courtney Cronin Dold, Dr.Rosanne Welch, Sarah Clark, Melanie Mitchell! Boo! Be safe and Happy Halloween!
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Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 78 in a series – Pilot
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Defining each character as distinctly different from the others became one of the first jobs for the writing staff. It was an issue from beginning, when the pilot earned low scores in testing and was nearly scrapped with one complaint being audience members could not keep track of the characters. The solution became adding sections of the audition tapes for both Nesmith and Jones to the pilot, thus allowing the audience to see them as individuals.
from Why The Monkees Mattered by Dr. Rosanne Welch — Buy your Copy today!
Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
McFarland (Direct from Publisher) | Amazon | Kindle Edition | Nook Edition
24: Writers, Actors and The Monkees : “Why The Monkees Matter” Interview with Jean Power [Video] (0:57)
Rosanne Welch talks about “Why The Monkees Matter” with Jean Hopkins Power
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Jean Powergirl takes the host reigns and welcomes her guest Rosanne Welch, PhD to the show! They’ll be discussing Roseanne’s book, “Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture.”
Transcript:
Rosanne: So, I originally wrote about that and that’s how I got to talk with Micky because I knew, as a child actor, he would understand how one worked with writers and, of course, he always did credit the writers — both the songwriters and the show writers when he was doing his interviews. I did get to talk to him and the secret — which isn’t much of a secret — because I put it in the preface to the book — is that he had been my favorite Monkee so to actually talk to him was the big deal. Even at the age of 50 for god’s sake.
Jean: So she got to talk to her favorite Monkee and was he able to give you some insight?
Rosanne: He was. I mean he, of course, he took seriously the work of the writers and, as an actor, you’ll notice that while they did a lot of ad lib — actors can’t do as much improv as we assume because camera angles have to be created by the directors and they’re based on the script.
Jean:…and isn’t there a tight time and money is time, right
Rosanne: Yes. Because of all the crazy quick shots, this show would do sometimes 60 or 70 camera setups a day when 20 is normal.
A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys–Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. Capitalizing on the show’s success, the actual band formed by the actors, at their peak, sold more albums than The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined and set the stage for other musical TV characters from The Partridge Family to Hannah Montana. In the late 1980s, the Monkees began a series of reunion tours that continued into their 50th anniversary.
This book tells the story of The Monkees and how the show changed television, introducing a new generation to the fourth-wall-breaking slapstick created by Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Its creators contributed to the innovative film and television of 1970s with projects like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laugh-In and Welcome Back, Kotter. Immense profits from the show, its music and its merchandising funded the producers’ move into films such as Head, Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces.
Rosanne Welch, PhD has written for television (Touched by an Angel, Picket Fences) and print (Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work and Kids and The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space). In the documentary world she has written and produced Bill Clinton and the Boys Nation Class of 1963 for ABC NEWS/Nightline and consulted on PBS’s A Prince Among Slaves, the story of a prince from West Africa who was enslaved in the 1780s, freed by order of President John Quincy Adams in the 1820s and returned to his homeland.
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From The Research Vault: The Monkees: Still monkeying around and inspiring others to play their songs, Washington Post
Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 77 in a series – Authentic
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Each in his own right was an authentic, mostly American teenager from various parts of the world, Nesmith the too-young-married Texan, Tork the Connecticut gentleman, Dolenz the Cruise Night Valley boy, a character type later glamorized in American Graffiti (1973), and Jones who offered a throwback to the 19th century teenage life of apprenticeship, first to a racing stable and then to an agent.
from Why The Monkees Mattered by Dr. Rosanne Welch — Buy your Copy today!
Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
McFarland (Direct from Publisher) | Amazon | Kindle Edition | Nook Edition
23: Writers, Fans and The Monkees : “Why The Monkees Matter” Interview with Jean Power [Video] (1:14)
Rosanne Welch talks about “Why The Monkees Matter” with Jean Hopkins Power
Watch this entire presentation (45 mins)
Jean Powergirl takes the host reigns and welcomes her guest Rosanne Welch, PhD to the show! They’ll be discussing Roseanne’s book, “Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture.”
Transcript:
Jean: All right, so did you get..have you been able to talk personally to any of The Monkees.
Rosanne: I was able to…I did phone interviews with Micky Dolenz when I was working…originally I did an article about the writers of the show for… this is Written By Magazine which is the magazine of the Writers Guild and I’m on the board there so I sometimes recommend things I’d like to do and if other writers don’t want to take them, I do them. So I had done that article so that is when I interviewed Micky to talk about — to talk to an actor who understood how writers operated and how scripts work. In fact, I also among all the things I bring to the book signings I have an actual script from the show.
Jean: Which I love stuff like this. An actual script. An actual television script which to me is great. it is just a beautiful thing. In the day, this is how it was done. Notice the little brads. I don’t think you Millenials even know what a brad is, but anyway, this is awesome. This is like a relic for Monkees people. Imean you might need a bodyguard because I know some Monkees crazy people that would like tackle you for that, but I digress.
Rosanne: Seriously. In fact, one of the gentlemen I talked to, Coslough Johnson, talked about when he would go to the studio to hand in a freelance script, he would be mauled by teenagers who were hanging around the gates wanting any piece of memorabilia they could get. “I just want to deliver my work.”
Jean: First-degree relic. (Laugher)
A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys–Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. Capitalizing on the show’s success, the actual band formed by the actors, at their peak, sold more albums than The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined and set the stage for other musical TV characters from The Partridge Family to Hannah Montana. In the late 1980s, the Monkees began a series of reunion tours that continued into their 50th anniversary.
This book tells the story of The Monkees and how the show changed television, introducing a new generation to the fourth-wall-breaking slapstick created by Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Its creators contributed to the innovative film and television of 1970s with projects like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laugh-In and Welcome Back, Kotter. Immense profits from the show, its music and its merchandising funded the producers’ move into films such as Head, Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces.
Rosanne Welch, PhD has written for television (Touched by an Angel, Picket Fences) and print (Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work and Kids and The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space). In the documentary world she has written and produced Bill Clinton and the Boys Nation Class of 1963 for ABC NEWS/Nightline and consulted on PBS’s A Prince Among Slaves, the story of a prince from West Africa who was enslaved in the 1780s, freed by order of President John Quincy Adams in the 1820s and returned to his homeland.
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From The Research Vault: Monkeemobile History from Pontiac Enthusiast Magazine
News: Archie to Meet The Monkees in Comic Book Crossover via Hollywood Reporter
I know this has been posted elsewhere, but the fact that one TV show’s characters are set to meet the characters from The Monkees over 50 years since they all were staples on TV… that just speaks to the power of pop culture – and fandom. I wanted to highlight this quote:
“Artist Joe Eisma agrees, adding, “From day one, The Monkees have been trailblazers in the entertainment business, and I’m excited and honored for the chance to draw their appearance in The Archies. It’s going to be a wild one!” (I also wanted to use cover art with The Monkees!”
Archie to Meet The Monkees in Comic Book Crossover via Hollywood Reporter
Archie Andrews has met some pretty big names during his comic book career — including Kiss, Marvel’s The Punisher, and even President Barack Obama — but his latest co-stars might beat them all. If nothing else, they get the funniest looks from everyone they meet.
The fourth issue of The Archies, the new comic book series centering around the musical ambitions of Archie and his pals and gals, will bring the band face-to-face with the Prefab Four themselves, as the Monkees guest-star for an issue. The meetings happens as the result of some good old-fashioned time travel, allowing the Riverdale gang to meet Peter, Mickey, Michael and Davy in their 1960s prime.
Alex Segura, co-writer of the series, tells Heat Vision that the two bands are “a perfect pairing, and they resonate in really similar ways — embracing pop sensibilities, crossing over from different mediums and just channeling the most fun parts of whatever they’re doing, be it TV, music, comics and beyond.”
To Segura’s co-writer, it’s also a dream come true.
Read Archie to Meet The Monkees in Comic Book Crossover via Hollywood Reporter
22: More on Peter Tork and The Monkees : “Why The Monkees Matter” Interview with Jean Power [Video] (0:54)
Rosanne Welch talks about “Why The Monkees Matter” with Jean Hopkins Power
Watch this entire presentation (45 mins)
Jean Powergirl takes the host reigns and welcomes her guest Rosanne Welch, PhD to the show! They’ll be discussing Roseanne’s book, “Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture.”
Transcript:
Rosanne: He did — as far as instrumentation — when they started to play their own instruments on their 3rd album, Headquarters, he did and from that point on has been playing on stage forever and he was always though to be the most proficient. He plays 6 different instruments. He eventually taught music after the show was over. So he’s quite brilliant in that aspect. He allowed himself thought to be cast as the village idiot in the show.
Jean: You always had to have a ding-y person on there. Right?
Rosanne: I talked to the writers and as they thought of the characters for each of these 4 individuals to make them stand out, they had an option with the last character. He could either be the idiot or he could be the supremely intelligent one who we make fun of because they can’t connect socially.
Jean: They’re nerding out.
Rosanne: Like Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory and the writers admitted that at the last minute they thought we can make more quick jokes about stupid people than we can about smart people. So let’s just choose that.
A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys–Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy. Capitalizing on the show’s success, the actual band formed by the actors, at their peak, sold more albums than The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined and set the stage for other musical TV characters from The Partridge Family to Hannah Montana. In the late 1980s, the Monkees began a series of reunion tours that continued into their 50th anniversary.
This book tells the story of The Monkees and how the show changed television, introducing a new generation to the fourth-wall-breaking slapstick created by Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Its creators contributed to the innovative film and television of 1970s with projects like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laugh-In and Welcome Back, Kotter. Immense profits from the show, its music and its merchandising funded the producers’ move into films such as Head, Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces.
Rosanne Welch, PhD has written for television (Touched by an Angel, Picket Fences) and print (Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work and Kids and The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space). In the documentary world she has written and produced Bill Clinton and the Boys Nation Class of 1963 for ABC NEWS/Nightline and consulted on PBS’s A Prince Among Slaves, the story of a prince from West Africa who was enslaved in the 1780s, freed by order of President John Quincy Adams in the 1820s and returned to his homeland.
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