What Music Are You Listening To? - January 2023

[smudgersmissingleg]

Some of our older cousins were Paul Revere & the Raiders fans. They gave us Monkees fans a hard time, saying they were fake.
Well their music was mostly written by Boyce & Hart. They were a made for tv (and Boomer kids like us) production.

Hopefully these tidbit facts don’t Grinch anyone. I still have fond memories of watching their tv show & listening to them as kids

Mac

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I like them and their songs. Who wrote them doesn't really matter to me. They get stick for being a manufactured band but it wasn't like they were Milli Vanilli, or anything.

 

[5star]

I like them and their songs. Who wrote them doesn't really matter to me. They get stick for being a manufactured band but it wasn't like they were Milli Vanilli, or anything.

Yep.

After reading this thread I’m going to download some of their albums. I literally haven’t heard a Monkees song in decades. Hadn’t thought of them till this thread.

Mac

 

[renfield]

Now playing The Crusaders - Chain Reaction​

 

[monty55]

Now playing The Crusaders - Chain Reaction​

I can't resist.
One of my all time favorites. Especially when I'm feeling like an all-nighter...

 

[brian64]

Since they were a made for TV band they "cast" them to play their instruments. Davey Jones was the only one who knew how to play the drums, but the producers thought that being behind the kit would emphasize his short stature and he wouldn't be seen. So they moved Dolenz behind the kit and put Davey out as the front man. Tork was a better guitarist than Nesmith, and Nesmith had played bass before, but the producers switched that up as well and made Tork the bassist. Based on abilities, the lineup would have been Jones on drums, Tork playing lead guitar, Nesmith on bass, and Dolenz as the lead singer and front man.

There was quite a bit of manufacturing going on during that period with the wrecking crew and all of that. Some of the other big name bands started out very similar to the Monkees, and some of them could barely play...I've read descriptions of the Byrds early formation and instrument assignments for example that sounded just like what you're describing...and Stephen Stills supposedly was almost chosen as one of the Monkeys initially...but as things progressed into the late '60s and beyond there was a movement toward authenticity...and some of them had learned to play a lot better by then as well.

 

[Zero]

I like them and their songs. Who wrote them doesn't really matter to me. They get stick for being a manufactured band but it wasn't like they were Milli Vanilli, or anything.

I just try to blame everything on the rain

 

[brian64]

It started back in 1963
His momma wouldn't buy him that new red Harmony

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Is today the 12th day of Christmas? Either way ringing out the holiday season with some Xmas vinyl. Canadian Brass and Walt Harper for my lunchtime pleasure.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Another 1972 classic from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, recorded with young Willie Nelson, Sam Bush, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Martin, Ricky Skaggs, and on and on with the biggest names. This is a classic, and if you can get hold of a vinyl copy, hold on to it. This album was recorded way ahead of its time.
Also the banter between songs is amazing. Think about kings of country, bluegrass, and gospel coming together with hippies to make something amazing!

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

Live in New York.

 

[Briar Tuck]

Some New Zealand music.

 

[renfield]

Now playing The Flying Burrito Brothers - Burrito Deluxe​

 

[huntertrw]

 

[huntertrw]

Bill Wilson was a talented guitarist/song-writer who died much too soon. Here's a taste:

 

[huntertrw]

Here's another of Mr. Wilson's songs:

 

[huntertrw]

Interesting connection here between Mr. Wilson and Mark Knopfler:

 

[Briar Lee]

In 1973 ABC Records, flush with cash and looking for artists, discovered Lefty Frizzell was down and out, drunk, and without a label.

So they hired the best songwriters and pickers in Nashville, sobered him up, and the results were two albums of masterful twang by the originator of modern honky tonk. Since I Love You a Thousand Ways, every male honky tonk country star has been a Lefty Frizzell impersonator to one degree or another.

The last of the two albums was released a month before Lefty died of a stroke at 47 in July 1975.

This is the apex of honky tonk.

 

[milk]

Micky Dolenz is the only surviving member. They used to repeat The Monkees tv show here in the UK in the early 1980's during the school summer holidays. I used to love watching that when I was a kid and i've been listening to their music ever since.

Good band with some great songs.

If you can stand his voice, Gilbert Gottfried had a great podcast that’s still available on which he interviewed Dolenz as well as many other voices of nostalgia. Many might think of Gottfried as just a (deceased) dirty comedian, but he was extremely knowledgeable on Hollywood and TV and show biz trivia and he has great interviews with semi-obscure (not to many of us perhaps) people from bygone days.

 

[DesertDan]

 

[bullet08]

Louis Armstrong Definitive Collection, I think. Had it on LP back in 80s, but CD has more tunes and little different from what remember.