Monkees

такой же логотип присутствует и на бутлеге Beatles At The Beeb

In 1968, the Beatles were desperate to remain on a level peg with The Monkees. At this time the Monkees had been discussing putting out a double album with one entire side or six cuts devoted to each individual Monkee. Although the original Monkee idea never came to fruition after Peter Tork left the group (and the album eventually became The Monkees Present), the idea was taken up by the Beatles and became their self titled or "White" album.

The 1967 charts!
Cash Box Top
#1
January 7 I’m A Believer - Monkees
January 14 I’m A Believer - Monkees
January 21 I’m A Believer - Monkees
January 28 I’m A Believer - Monkees
February 4 I’m A Believer - Monkees
February 11 I’m A Believer - Monkees
February 25 Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones
March 11 Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones
March 18 Penny Lane - Beatles
March 25 Penny Lane - Beatles
April 22 A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - Monkees
April 29 A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - Monkees
August 12 All You Need Is Love - Beatles
August 19 All You Need Is Love - Beatles
December 2 Daydream Believer - Monkees
December 9 Daydream Believer - Monkees
December 16 Daydream Believer - Monkees
December 23 Daydream Believer - Monkees
December 30 Hello Goodbye - Beatles

из 52 недель синглы Monkees в 1967 году были на первом месте - 12 недель!
у Beatles - 5, Stones - 2.

CASH BOX YEAR-END CHARTS: 1967
Top 100 Albums (Pop)
(As listed in the Dec. 23, 1967, issue)

4. MORE OF THE MONKEES (Colgems)
5. SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - The Beatles (Capitol)
8. THE MONKEES (Colgems)
9. HEADQUARTERS - The Monkees (Colgems)
10. THE DOORS (Elektra)
14. THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS DELIVER (Dunhill)
15. THE BEST OF THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL (Kama Sutra)
22. FLOWERS - The Rolling Stones (London)
25. GREATEST HITS - Paul Revere & The Raiders (Columbia)
26. BETWEEN THE BUTTONS - The Rolling Stones (London)
27. THE SPIRIT OF ’67 - Paul Revere & The Raiders (Columbia)
29. GREATEST HITS - Bob Dylan (Columbia)
36. GREATEST HITS - The Byrds (Columbia)
37. HERE WHERE THERE IS LOVE - Dionne Warwick (Scepter)
41. ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)
43. THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS (Dunhill)
48. THERE’S A KIND OF HUSH ALL OVER THE WORLD - Herman’s Hermits (MGM)
56. GOT LIVE IF YOU WANT IT! - The Rolling Stones (London)
58. GREATEST HITS - The Hollies (Imperial)
59. HUMS OF THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL (Kama Sutra)
69. GREATEST HITS - The Yardbirds (Epic)
70. HAPPY TOGETHER - The Turtles (White Whale)
73. YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY - The Byrds (Columbia)
76. HOW GREAT THOU ART - Elvis Presley (RCA Victor)
78. SMILEY SMILE - The Beach Boys (Brother)
*79. PSYCHEDELIC LOLLIPOP - The Blues Magoos (Mercury)
*82. STRANGE DAYS - The Doors (Elektra)
90. REVOLUTION! - Paul Revere & The Raiders (Columbia)
95. BEST OF HERMAN’S HERMITS, VOLUME 2 (MGM)
*97. PARLSEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY AND THYME - Simon & Garfunkel (Columbia)

и еще одно дополнение Charles Manson на прослушивание не приходил - в этот момент он был в тюрьме.

А в Британии всех в 1967 Engelbert Humperdinck "Release Me " по тиражу сделал.Тоже радостно:-).

Уважаемые знатоки,а чем вы можете объяснить отсутствие ,как правило ,в различных подборках такой известной в своё время песни,как "Alternate Title"?

Название песни Randy Scouse Git на английском слэнге звучит как - "horny liverpudlian jerk", поэтому для UK использовалось название Alternate Title

И еще несколько дополнений к пересечениям:

В саундтрэке Vanilla Sky вместе с одноименной песней Маккартни присутствует и композиция Monkees – Porpoise Song

8 декабря 2003 года Micky Dolenz посетил Liverpool Days Beatles Convention в Пасадене

2Lemon Lennon: по поводу пересечений... Ну как же ты забыл, что хедлайнером первого российского битлфеста была команда "Tribute To The Beatles", лидер которой параллельно выступает в Monkees-tribute бэнде.

Lemon Lennon***
Послушал Randy Scouse Git.Действительно,это Alternate Title.Спасибо!

Еще кое что:

“I`ve had a fantastic promotion in the State, but I think people will get tired of them. I`ve give the Monkees until july in America, perhaps a little longer”.
Mick Jagger
FAB 7 January 1967

Более точная дата –
7 February 1967 года Micky met Paul McCartney at Paul`s St.John`s Wood home. Mike spent time with John Lennon and sat in on a Sgt. Peppers recording Sessions.

24 June 1967 года – Monkees прилетают в Париж и останавливаются в том же отеле, что и Beatles – George V

31 June 1967 года – Monkees partied at a London nightclub with George Harrison, Pattie, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Keith Moon, Lulu.

“The only big hit I had I wrote here in England when I was over here and met the Beatles, and it inspired me to write a song called Randy Scouse Git which I heard on that show Til Death Do Us Part”
Micky Dolenz

6 April 1983 Michael Nesmith attended the first annual presentation of the American Video Awards in California, and presented the first AVA Hall of Fame Award to Paul McCartney.

12 сентября 1966 года - первую серию сериала Monkees только в Штатах по каналу ABC посмотрело – 10 820 000 человек.

2 Lemmon Lennon - отзовитесь!

Peter Tork dated Janis Joplin

On my birthday we were in LA playing a club & everyone was so nice! The owners of the club sent me 3 dozen red roses – all over the stage when I came in, the band gave me 2 doz., some friends in SF sent me 1 doz. & (are you ready Mike?) Peter Tork sent me 1 doz red roses. And after the show we had lots of champagne & a birthday cake. Really nice.

“Love Janis”


2 Дедушка Брайан: отвечу по почте сегодня.

Peter Tork dated mama Cass and Mama Cass' sister Owen Elliot.

During the early '60s, he moved to Greenwich Village, jammed with members of the Lovin' Spoonful, and dated Mama Cass Elliot.

Q: So before the Monkees when you were doing the folk stuff did you ever do any recording session work?

PT: Hmmmm, uh, very little, very little, I played bass on one album for a friend of my brothers, a woman named Wendy Erdman made an album that I played bass on most of the cuts. I played bass as an accompanist for a group called James Hendricks and Vanessa, James Hendricks was in a group with Cass Elliot. I think she and Tim Rose, and James Hendricks were in a band called The Big Three, before Cass joined the Mama’s and the Papa’s.

MacKenzie Phillips and Owen Elliot backing vocal on solo album Stranger Things Have Happened (1994) - Peter Tork

В 1968 году одновременно покидают свои группы -
Janis Joplin left Big Brother & the Holding Company, Mama Cass Elliot quit the Mamas & the Papas, and Peter Tork left the Monkees.

Peter Tork at Monterey International Pop Festival

Tork, the ineffectual Monkee, had surprised everyone by emceeing part of Friday night and drawing a good many teeny shrieks. The surprise was because Tork had written a little thing in the program that began: "We wanted to do this Festival, only we're in England now as the Festival goes on. We won't even be able to watch." But both he and Micky Dolenz (in an ancestral Indian headdress) were around all weekend doing their best to be likable. The Monkees have inferiority problems. Ever since their first album appeared with someone else playing the instruments, most of the people in rock have snickered at everything about them except their music. In San Francisco they are regarded as the height of L.A. plastic. "I was rapping with that guy backstage before," a member of one San Francisco entourage said, handing me a joint as Tork waited for the audience to quiet. "His head is really nowhere."

Tork's mission was to quash a small riot. All weekend there had been Beatle rumors--their equipment was backstage, they were holed up in a motel, they were mingling incognito ("disguised as hippies," Derek Taylor said). The Beatles are kings of the love crowd, and everyone wanted desperately to catch a glimpse of them. Now some kids were trying to get in backstage and hunt. Who better than a second-hand Beatle to stop them?

"People," Tork said, "this is me again. I hate to cut things down like this, but, uh, there's a crowd of kids--and this is to whom I'm talking mostly, to whom, are you ready for that?--and, um, these kids are like crowding around over the walls and trying to break down doors and everything thinking The Beatles are here . . . ."

2 Shaman: а что касается Стивена Стиллса, то вторая жена Питера Торка - это бывшая его подружка Reine Stewart

Reine played drums, how cool is that? She was at the rehersals for 33 1/3 revolutions per Monkee, and Fats Domino's drummer never showed up, and guess who became his drummer? REINE! And after Peter left the Monkees, he and Reine formed a band called RELEASE. They mainly played parties for their "in" friends and such, but one of their songs ALMOST got to be on the "Easy Rider" soundtrack.

Peter's Infamous house in the Hollywood Hills

Peter's first big purchase after the Monkees became rich was to buy a house in the Hollywood Hills. He had previously been living with Mike and Phyllis Nesmith. When looking for his perfect bachelor pad, he had in mind "Hills and cool green", which is what he got. His place was the smallest of all of the Monkee mansions, and for most of 1967, he lived there with Joey Richards and Stephen Stills of the Buffalo Springfield. Inside, the house was mainly orange (Peter's favorite color), with huge picture windows and danish furniture. I guess that kind of stuff was cool in the 60s. The kitchen was orange with paper flowers on the wall. On the walls was a poster from Stephen Stills that depicted a man and a woman with the word "Love" on it. Davy Jones printed the word "LOVE" on all of the walls with his stamps.

Anyway, along with Mama Cass' house and David Crosby's house, Peter's house was considered one of the biggest party houses in Laurel Canyon. Any day of the week you could always find famous folks hanging around. Besides living with Stephen Stills, Peter also had famous visitors. Dave Clark stopped by when he came to America, Jimi Hendrix stayed over, as did many other cool folks.

However, by the end of 1967, Peter decided that he needed a bigger house, because his house was too full with people! By the end of the year, his place had turned into a full on COMMUNE. Anyone could drop by and live there for awhile. Besides Joey and Stephen, Peter's housemates also included Karen and Justin Hammer (Lady and Lady's Baby) and Karen's husband Bobby. To accomodate his growing entourage, Peter made a big splurge and bought a new house ....

Ну что кто-нибудь прослушал 4 CD-Rom'а этой группы от "Домашней коллекции"?

2 Стас: завтра буду брать, но для меня там нового ничего нет.

Еще интересная информация о Peter Tork
Peter's second home is the stuff that legends are made of. This is his legendary NAKED POOL PARTY house. He needed a much larger house for all of his parties, so in early 1968, he found a house for sale that had been owned by comedian Wally Cox, in Studio City. At the time, he could have paid for it in cash, but he was advised against it. So he took out a huge loan and spent his cash on recorating it. The house itself was 14 rooms, with a sauna, a wet bar, a film room, and a fifty foot pool.

In his master bedroom, the bed was eight feet by eight feet with a foam mattress six inches thick. He had a four person bathtub put in the master bathroom, along with his sauna. Mexican tiles were put in the bathrooms, the rest of the house had plush, red carpeting. His house had an uninterupted view of the San Fernando Valley, and the living room had six by nine foot picture windows. The film room had sandblasted natural wood, and the screen covered the entire wall. Just down the hall and across a bridge was another wing of the house. The cabana was downstairs, leading to the pool. Since there weren't any pesky neighbors to worry about, the pool parties usually were skinny dipping events. Linda Jones (Davy's first wife) explains: "Whenever we would go over to Peter's house, generally, by the pool, naturally, there were a lot of unclothed people. And since we had our clothes on all of the time, we felt out of place." Not only that, but people often dived into the pool naked from Peter's bathroom window. Peter explains: "I'd rather have nude swimming. It's much easier. There's a certain charge to bodies if they're covered up, and if you remove that, it takes a lot of that extra energy out of things." What a sex god.

Like his previous residence, his Studio City place became a hippie haven and a haven for celebrities. When in town to promote Yellow Submarine, George Harrison and Ringo Starr dropped by. The Hollies were personal guests of Peter's when they came to town, as was The Who. Stephen Stills was always there hanging out, as was Buddy Miles, John Sebastian, and members of the Buffalo Springfield. Like most houses of debauchery, Tork's second house has quite a reputation. Jackson Browne hung out at Tork's house during 1968: "These beautiful chicks from Peter Tork's house kept coming over with these big bowls of fruit and dope and shit. They'd fuck us in the pool. We'd wake up and see this beautiful sixteen year old flower child who knew how to say 'fave rave' with a bowl of fruit. She'd get you incredibly high and then take you downstairs to go swimming."

Doug Trevor, of the Australian group The Cherokees, also remembers Tork's house: "There were stoned hippies laying all over the place, naked girls wandering in and out of the pool and the constant noise of Peter rehearsing his new band Release somewhere downstairs. Barry McGuire ("Eve of Destruction") and his chick were living in an old VW Combi in the back yard. Peter found a room for me in the attic and the first night I tried to sleep in it I was kept awake by this loud drunk roaring in the kitchen all night. They told me in the morning that it was Jim Morrison."

Before they played Woodstock and did concerts, Crosby, Stills, and Nash used Tork's house for rehearsals. Once, when Stephen Stills got mad at his bandmates, he plugged his guitar outside and wailed, the guitar echoing throughout the canyon, angering all of the neighbors.

Peter's generosity for his friends and leeches got the best of him, and once he bought himself out of the Monkees contract, he sold his infamous house to Stephen Stills and moved into the downstairs of David Crosby's house.