@marcodrumin Nope Louie Shelton played both versions, very easy to look up, also Bobby Hart has a interesting story there on when and where the riff came from...
Michael Ned really plays this songs Michael nez was a excellent guitarist back then it's a shame he was over looked He was much better than alot of them who were called great back then.
Another one who wouldn't like this video is Mike. Nez just HATES this song, thought it was too "packaged product". During the 97 tour when they played this song, he even stopped playing it at one point.
i knew a tuff broad named Valleri when i was 17. Vallewri beaT THE CRAp outta the homecoming queen. she wasa mad cuz the queen ACTED LIKE SHE WAS HOT SHIT
@raintalonwindclan Luckkkkkyyyy. My wife FORBAYED me from naming our sons Jimi and Cobain :P. But i got clearence for the next one, as long as i hyphanate it: James-Dean. :)
@terrybrass I vetoed naming our son "Wolfgang," and one day my wife starts banging the bathroom door screaming, "Valerie Bertinelli named her son WOLFGANG!" Thanks, Eddie.
Wow, so young. Their show was sort of one of the first 'music video's before MTV. I remember reading in one of the teen magazines that Peter Tork slept in the nude. Girlfriends though he was the wild one. LOL! Just fun music.
To this day I still don't know if they did or did'nt play their own instruments. Sometimes you hear it was all a facade then the Monkeys themselves , come out and set the record satright stating that they where in fact the musicians.
@6400az in the beginning, they were hired just as actors, although they could sing. they didn't actually play their own instruments until the album "Headquarters" (you might want to check with someone on that, i am not totally sure) they were all "for real" because they sang, and then later played their own instruments, and wrote some of their songs. for more detailed information you might want to look them up on wikipedia cause i am not really an expert on them, so yeah hope this helps!
Ok . Appreciate that. I guess it was somewhere in that gray area where they where maybe, kinda.....but not really !! Not like the Beatles or Moody Blues for example.
Would it be safe to say that @ 1:42 It's someone other than Nesmith on the guitar.
@beatlefan157333 They could play their own instruments, but the studio wouldn't let them. It was a big problem with the members of the band, and they were finally allowed to play their own instruments. This version of Valleri is the band members playing (Though the footage was shot later), and the CD version was with the studio musicians playing. On tour their played their own instruments. Micky was hired on as a drummer, and learned the drums for the Monkees. He was a guitarist.
@monkeeman1966 They finally released the TV Series versions of this and other songs like "Words". (I kinda prefer the show versions of those two songs)
@terrybrass me too. I never warmed to the later single release with the brass. It lost a lot of character. Davy Jones re-did the song with brass section 5 years back and it was even more charmless. This version rules even with it's warts. Part of it's charm.
@terrybrass I like the TV show versions much better. They screwed "Valleri" by putting horns on the record and having it fade out. "Words" also had much more mysterious sound to it. Why do they go and ruin great songs by changing them? Who's the jerk that comes up with these bad ideas?
@monkeeman1966 I too, remember this version getting quite a bit of airplay on 93 KHJ in Los Angeles. It really bugged me that it wasn't available in any form at that time. I prefer this early version over the 1968 re-recording with the brass.
I'm 28 years old and grew up with the Monkees in my home, thanks to a mother that recorded their shows on Nick at Nite with the old VHS and kept playing their songs on the turntable. I LOVE these guys!!!!!
@dawnabrendan: Very true. It took Mike Nesmith's ramming his fist through an executive's door and saying, "That could have been your face", before the producers allowed them to play any of the instruments on their records. Mike Nesmith was actually quite an accomplished guitarist, too, and could probably have done a decent job on the solo in the above clip if he'd been allowed to. However, when this song was re-recorded in 1968, they used the same personnel as before, along with a horn section.
@xatsnwotom that was true for the first two albums... and they rebelled greatly. So, when they worked on the Headquarters LP, they wanted it to be clear they did all the instruments themselves. It was the management that hired the artists who performed a lot of the first two albums and put their vcals on top of that.
The Monkees DO NOT play any of the instruments on this. The flamenco solo is by session great Louis Shelton, and the backup is by Tommy Boyce's and Bobby Hart's studio backup band, the Candy Store Prophets (who were created expressly for the purpose of playing backup on Monkees records)...
@xatsnwotom ....key word "backup". The Monkees did play their own instruments and the myth they didn't still persists. The t.v. show was a reenactment of course, just having fun.
@carroll1956 Mike never looks happy because he doesn't enjoy the song they play. On their Behind The Music episode, Mike says all the song were hopeless junk.
@poortogee77 At that town he was probably the only one who could play an instruments. LOL I think that Tork could play the bass but it doesn't look like he knows how to in this video.
I like Peter's shirt. Davy told some talk show host that after the Monkees went off the charts, that he became homeless and bummed people for money on the beach.
He said it was so hard to go from a "big deal" to a bum in just a few years. He got back on his feet later, but this was a true story.
the monkees were the creation of businessmen. they all played their given instruments and had a lot of catchy tunes written by others. the monkees served a purpose for their time. i actually like alot of the songs. here we come, walking down the street, we get the funniest looks, from everyone we meet. how's that for great lyrics.
If you look real closely, it is not a black shirt but the shadow of the neck of Mike's guitar on his wrist/blue shirt because it moves up and down a s he moves the guitar and it shows the button on the sleeve. That's all Mike playing there as he was a classically trained guitarist and one of the few members besides Peter Tork that could already play.
@cynicalsam1 Not true. Mike admitted himself that that's a session musican playing, as he could never play as well as the man chosen to play on the song. Also, Nez hated this tune so much, I doubt if he would have played on it anyway!
does anyone notice the guy with hands playing the guitar has a black shirt coming out of his jacket . when u see mike playing, he dont have a black shirt sleeves ..lol
If you look real closely, it is not a black shirt but the shadow of the neck of Mike's guitar on his wrist/blue shirt because it moves up and down as he moves the guitar and at one point it shows the button on the blue sleeve. That's all Mike playing there as he was a classically trained guitarist and one of the few members besides Peter Tork that could already play.
@cynicalsam1 Theres no way Mike Nesmith is actually playing the guitar, look around 0:16 how the whole band is way off from the song lol! Peter Tork is the worst of them all, he isnt even close to looking like he knows what he's doing. I'm sure they exaggerated a bit when they said Mike & Peter could "play", if they had any knowledge at all they wouldnt be strumming a hundred miles an hour when the song features a slow guitar riff. I always loved the Monkees though :)
@LeafsFlamesAndOilers actually, Mike did play the guitar, he was a folk artist and songwriter long before the Monkees. He wrote Linda Rondstadt's "Different Drum" among others. A lot of the times the action was off from the soundtrack not only in this, but in many of the musical numbers added to the shows. I guess the producers and directors just wanted the music played and the guys to be seen and didn't care how it looked. Figured kids were dumb back then or something I guess.
@LeafsFlamesAndOilers what a moron in any video no one is actually playing they record in a studio and they dubbing the music over the video in a Kentucky headhunter video Doug Phelps is playing the bass part on a flat top guitar mike was a great guitar player and peter played banjo long before the monkees came about
that's my favorite shirt on davy! peter and micky have both worn it as well! aha davy's tambourine must be magic how it makes a sound when he isn't beating it! haha
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote this one. The group was frustrated 'cause they wanted to do songs they wrote themselves. The truth is the songs they were being provided were better than any they could of wrote themselves.
(response to the deleted comment) Actully, yes. The sessions that were used for the show were done by the aforementioned artist, what i was talking about was the studio version of the song, off of 1967's The Birds, The Bees and The Monkees.
At this point in their career the Monkees did their own vocals (Davy Jones was an experienced performer in Broadway and London West End musicals--Mickey Dolenz sang his own leads too) but didn't play their instrumentals. This is the original version of the song that was SUPPOSED to be a single in the winter of 1966-7 but wasn't released--a few stations (WCFL in Chicago, WKBW in Buffalo) got it and played it then. It finally got released as a single a year later and charted high.
@BobWXXI Thank you. All of these guys were experienced musicians and performers. Peter even did music with Stephen Stills at an earlier time. Mike's previous stage name was Michael Blessing and had performed under that name. Mickey had prior TV experience and auditioned for the show by playing the guitar singing "Johnny B. Goode."
@terrybrass Wrong. Lou Shelton played the Flamenco bits on this. Most of the Monkees stuff was done by the "wrecking crew"; a group of studio musicians who's influence cannot be overstated. They played on damned near everything that was a hit in the 60s-70s time frame. Tommy Tedesco, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, the list is just too long. But no, it was NOT the "Monkees" who played on the studio recordings.
im gonna have two daughters,Michelle and Valleri
paloma598 6 days ago
Thanks Sassyeye...Louie Shelton, Boyce & Hart wrote some great material.
marcodrumin 1 week ago
best version,did`nt like the commercial version with the horns added in.
bishopaz 1 week ago
I know it's an old video, but is it actually pre metronome?
gotrottin 1 week ago
She's the same little girl who used to hang around my door. Now she makes better fertilizer than she ever did before !
JonBenait06 1 week ago
Who wrote this song? It's sick
wilstromgarcia 2 weeks ago
@wilstromgarcia Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, one of many.....
sassyeve2003 1 week ago
I thought Glen Campbell did the lead guitar work on this song...
marcodrumin 2 weeks ago
@marcodrumin Nope Louie Shelton played both versions, very easy to look up, also Bobby Hart has a interesting story there on when and where the riff came from...
sassyeve2003 1 week ago 3
the tambourine doesn't match with davy's hand movements
kamador627 2 weeks ago
This stuff just got on ,I've looked. Cool!!!
allazay913 3 weeks ago
lol this is so funny with the 'Davy chill' part. hehe
spookypatchouli 3 weeks ago
Not even close with that tambourine there Davy... lol
robkosinski 3 weeks ago
had this on 45 back in the day...
Richard94597 4 weeks ago
I masturbate to this song everynight
XXXHELLZxDEMONXXX 1 month ago
@XXXHELLZxDEMONXXX Really???????
perrysalembinks 2 weeks ago
@perrysalembinks yes, takes me back
XXXHELLZxDEMONXXX 2 weeks ago
u should get clearance b4 you try to spell
shane69999 1 month ago
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Caxes ok thanks i know Nez played it live. But not on single.
EPI6fingers 1 month ago
What is it with this guy and the super-awesome Gretsch twelve-strings?
Salzilloin2036 1 month ago
hey davy stop fighting at that bar you bloody fool and chill out with the liquor
sweetgyy 1 month ago
Mike is awesome. He knows how to play .He had the talent and still does.
winnamil19611 1 month ago
@winnamil19611 Louie Shelton was the guitarist playing all the blazing lead stuff on this song.
caxes 1 month ago
@caxes That's the fly in the ointment.
It seemed obvious, and we talked about it back then, that it wasn't Nesmith playing that.
metropolan 1 month ago
dont you love how Micky's druming is so out of time....guess he wasnt a real drumer then!!!!!
philball31 1 month ago
Mike was wrong about this one. "Valleri" is one of Boyce & Hart's best and definitely one of the really great rock from the 60's...
paleblue498 1 month ago
Michael Ned really plays this songs Michael nez was a excellent guitarist back then it's a shame he was over looked He was much better than alot of them who were called great back then.
EPI6fingers 1 month ago
@EPI6fingers The guitarist on this song was the great session guitarist Louie Shelton.
caxes 1 month ago
this song is so gangster i thought it was too good to be a monkees song...how wrong i was
northofthesun 1 month ago
I think this is how I got my name.
1SuperKawaii 1 month ago
Another one who wouldn't like this video is Mike. Nez just HATES this song, thought it was too "packaged product". During the 97 tour when they played this song, he even stopped playing it at one point.
HerrEllsworth 1 month ago
Was Mike actually playing this song, or was it a studio musician?
AgentOroko 2 months ago
monkeys r kool started this song like the stones then went to monkey sound
guido1365 2 months ago
now gosh darn isn't that some of the nicest fucking harmonizing you ever heard? Great memories for a 5 year old back in 69.
Let's just hope, then, that they didn't do the annoying ol' switcheroo between Mike's face and the "real" solo-er at 1:42.
He COULD play, so let's hope it that it WAS him.
666uberstud666 2 months ago
I always dreamed that they were at my sweet 16 party :) Now am 32 I still dream about it :)
fortinrose1 3 months ago
i was named after this song! lol :D
alucardxinuxvampluv 3 months ago
Cheer up Mike!
QMPhilosophe 3 months ago
that wasn't mike note no face in solo pics
Syzygy60 3 months ago
the runs,is like playing practice scales
Syzygy60 3 months ago
note u don't see anyone playing that solo,I can play that
Syzygy60 3 months ago
as a 10 year old I knew there was musical manipulation going on I found out the extent as I got older
Syzygy60 3 months ago
Mike does incredible guitar work in this number. At the end he shakes his hands out. For me, Mike is the lead on this one!
KittyinVA 3 months ago
@ed917751 Have you looked at him? He has a unibrow and constantly looks like he needs to poo. Yeah he wasn't the cutest one. Not at all.
silver67impala 3 months ago
This song is "Gone from the charts but still in our hearts!"
DrakeGrad 3 months ago 15
@DrakeGrad That's a great saying. Many a song; i feel that way about (not too recently though, lol)
terrybrass 3 months ago
♫♪♫ Great job ♫♪♫ wonderful music ♫♪♫
plebe30501 3 months ago
i knew a tuff broad named Valleri when i was 17. Vallewri beaT THE CRAp outta the homecoming queen. she wasa mad cuz the queen ACTED LIKE SHE WAS HOT SHIT
BrokenneckYgor 4 months ago
I LOVE VALLERI
susangrewal86 4 months ago
I am going to have two sons: Ringo and Davy. :)
raintalonwindclan 4 months ago in playlist Friggen Kick-Ass Music 5
@raintalonwindclan Luckkkkkyyyy. My wife FORBAYED me from naming our sons Jimi and Cobain :P. But i got clearence for the next one, as long as i hyphanate it: James-Dean. :)
terrybrass 3 months ago
@terrybrass I vetoed naming our son "Wolfgang," and one day my wife starts banging the bathroom door screaming, "Valerie Bertinelli named her son WOLFGANG!" Thanks, Eddie.
gmartinz01 1 week ago
@raintalonwindclan somebody has already done that
Bula2you 3 months ago
@Bula2you What? Damn. lol
raintalonwindclan 3 months ago
Hehehe! There looking up at him and I love the look on there faces at 1:00
AmbassadorJediSpock 5 months ago
louie shelton played the solo not capt. whiteout
hoodus61 5 months ago
The great tragedy of these lip-synched TV performances is that we never get to see Davy flex his chops with an extended tambourine solo.
problem49 5 months ago
This is just about my all time favorite Monkees songs of all. (Davy is something like 5'4, he's taller than I am and I'm five foot nothing.
Was supposed to see them next week, but the tour was cancelled.
lajmh 6 months ago
@lajmh so disappointed that the tour was cancelled. We were going to see them in NC :(
mshockey73 5 months ago
boyce and hart ruled as song writers
jbeng1953 6 months ago
Dave is 5'3", not 5'. He is still cute.
blueberries4ever 6 months ago
How could anyone dislike Valleri? It is a classic.
TouchMeKnott 6 months ago
what is it like to be in a band with a man that can float in the air while you are playing?
skiman2378 6 months ago
Wow, so young. Their show was sort of one of the first 'music video's before MTV. I remember reading in one of the teen magazines that Peter Tork slept in the nude. Girlfriends though he was the wild one. LOL! Just fun music.
tvcat1 7 months ago
My eyes always stray 2 the rest of the band wen I watch this 4 2 reasons Peter Tork soo cute ^-^ & the band sharin looks coz of Pete's dancin :)
BeatletteForever 7 months ago
THEY SHOULD BE IN THE HALL
diagreen 7 months ago
bad ass tune!
tubaljohn1 7 months ago
How can anyone "dislike" this video?
diapertommy 7 months ago
Is it supposed to be in this key? because the version I have is a bit higher.
ArigatoSan1000 7 months ago
Finally! A great copy! Thanks for posting.
Beagle3561 7 months ago
To this day I still don't know if they did or did'nt play their own instruments. Sometimes you hear it was all a facade then the Monkeys themselves , come out and set the record satright stating that they where in fact the musicians.
At least Davey Jones was a for real right?
Anyone, please.
6400az 7 months ago
@6400az in the beginning, they were hired just as actors, although they could sing. they didn't actually play their own instruments until the album "Headquarters" (you might want to check with someone on that, i am not totally sure) they were all "for real" because they sang, and then later played their own instruments, and wrote some of their songs. for more detailed information you might want to look them up on wikipedia cause i am not really an expert on them, so yeah hope this helps!
beatlefan157333 7 months ago
@beatlefan157333
Ok . Appreciate that. I guess it was somewhere in that gray area where they where maybe, kinda.....but not really !! Not like the Beatles or Moody Blues for example.
Would it be safe to say that @ 1:42 It's someone other than Nesmith on the guitar.
6400az 7 months ago
@6400az i think that would be about right.
beatlefan157333 7 months ago
@beatlefan157333 They could play their own instruments, but the studio wouldn't let them. It was a big problem with the members of the band, and they were finally allowed to play their own instruments. This version of Valleri is the band members playing (Though the footage was shot later), and the CD version was with the studio musicians playing. On tour their played their own instruments. Micky was hired on as a drummer, and learned the drums for the Monkees. He was a guitarist.
AjaxStudios 7 months ago
Peter looks so cute here -3
zipzip101able 8 months ago
Thanks fo posting this cool 1968 Monkee tune....a true 60;s song.
craig98shari 8 months ago
Mike's moodiness is welcome to me. He balances out Peter's overload of...excitement.
hyladams 8 months ago
Reverse Evolution... Men becoming MONKEYS...! ...LOL!
ROGER459 8 months ago
Gotta love the HAT!
djs61909 8 months ago
mike is a spoil sport. smile mike. baby, your a rich man. thanks to your mom. everyone thank the man that ruined the monkees. mike nesmith.
diesel021234 8 months ago
This song was a big hit in parts of the country. This TV version. It made the Big 93 on KHJ in 1967 but I don't know where else. Probably AZ too.
monkeeman1966 8 months ago 5
@monkeeman1966 They finally released the TV Series versions of this and other songs like "Words". (I kinda prefer the show versions of those two songs)
terrybrass 8 months ago
@terrybrass Love the video. It was my favorite song in April of 68. Thanks!
marinello6 8 months ago
@terrybrass me too. I never warmed to the later single release with the brass. It lost a lot of character. Davy Jones re-did the song with brass section 5 years back and it was even more charmless. This version rules even with it's warts. Part of it's charm.
genericgeorge 8 months ago
@terrybrass I like the TV show versions much better. They screwed "Valleri" by putting horns on the record and having it fade out. "Words" also had much more mysterious sound to it. Why do they go and ruin great songs by changing them? Who's the jerk that comes up with these bad ideas?
toymaster7425 7 months ago
@monkeeman1966 I too, remember this version getting quite a bit of airplay on 93 KHJ in Los Angeles. It really bugged me that it wasn't available in any form at that time. I prefer this early version over the 1968 re-recording with the brass.
1BBFAN4LYFE 8 months ago
@monkeeman1966 It was a big hit even in the sticks of Oklahoma. We used to skate to it at the town's only roller rink.
blueberries4ever 6 months ago
@blueberries4ever I was only 5 years old when all this was happening. I missed all of it.
monkeeman1966 6 months ago
@monkeeman1966
I was born when all this happened " 1965" and I loved the re-runs I watched them after school religiously at age 7!
doglover3415 5 months ago
@monkeeman1966 "The real Don Steel! 93 KHJ! Gawd, I grew up with 93 KHJ in Santa Ana, CA - thanks for the flashback!
keithmaxdesign 6 months ago
HEY THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!
meandemjay 8 months ago
I'm 28 years old and grew up with the Monkees in my home, thanks to a mother that recorded their shows on Nick at Nite with the old VHS and kept playing their songs on the turntable. I LOVE these guys!!!!!
Braveanglo 9 months ago
@dawnabrendan: Very true. It took Mike Nesmith's ramming his fist through an executive's door and saying, "That could have been your face", before the producers allowed them to play any of the instruments on their records. Mike Nesmith was actually quite an accomplished guitarist, too, and could probably have done a decent job on the solo in the above clip if he'd been allowed to. However, when this song was re-recorded in 1968, they used the same personnel as before, along with a horn section.
xatsnwotom 9 months ago
@xatsnwotom - but when they toured Mike played it ALL
meandemjay 8 months ago
The Monkees SANG on this, but played no instruments. They just mimed along for the camera here...
xatsnwotom 9 months ago
@xatsnwotom that was true for the first two albums... and they rebelled greatly. So, when they worked on the Headquarters LP, they wanted it to be clear they did all the instruments themselves. It was the management that hired the artists who performed a lot of the first two albums and put their vcals on top of that.
dawnabrendan 9 months ago
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xatsnwotom 9 months ago
The Monkees DO NOT play any of the instruments on this. The flamenco solo is by session great Louis Shelton, and the backup is by Tommy Boyce's and Bobby Hart's studio backup band, the Candy Store Prophets (who were created expressly for the purpose of playing backup on Monkees records)...
xatsnwotom 9 months ago
@xatsnwotom ....key word "backup". The Monkees did play their own instruments and the myth they didn't still persists. The t.v. show was a reenactment of course, just having fun.
KJVWordofGod 9 months ago
Cant remember if its Peter Tork or Mike Nesmith ,the guy with the hat ,looks like the only one not having fun performing on the show?
poortogee77 9 months ago
@poortogee77 that would DEFENLTY be Mike. Peter was always smiling (at the end, it was cause he was "smoking" lol)
terrybrass 9 months ago 6
@terrybrass Now i know why Mike is frowning ,it's because peter didn't share his "smoke",lol!!!
poortogee77 9 months ago
@terrybrass But you must admit, Mike did make good with guitar. :-)
Cml725 8 months ago
@poortogee77 I Feel like he is always like that, if you ever watch the show he has such a nonchalant personality, I love it. Haha! :)
raesunn 9 months ago
@poortogee77 he wanted to show he could play guitar. It was big fight they had with the music producers. That's my guess.
tdkdgh 8 months ago
@poortogee77 That's Mike .. He's a musician .. the rest are actors but good actiors . .they rock!!!!
GregERobertson 7 months ago
@poortogee77 Probably Nesmith! Tork was the highlight at their concert on Saturday Night in Minneapolis!
iambernig 7 months ago
@poortogee77 that was Mike...he was always like that...never smiled, part of his character.
carroll1956 7 months ago
@carroll1956 Mike never looks happy because he doesn't enjoy the song they play. On their Behind The Music episode, Mike says all the song were hopeless junk.
loklo101 1 month ago
@poortogee77 Mike was a serious, but very talented guy. Pretty cute, too.
blueberries4ever 6 months ago
@poortogee77 At that town he was probably the only one who could play an instruments. LOL I think that Tork could play the bass but it doesn't look like he knows how to in this video.
ekocentric 6 months ago
MIKE IS SO EPIC!!!!!!
dewstar100 9 months ago
unibrow overload. lol.
valareedoll 9 months ago
Is that really true about Davy?
aimeemannfan2010 9 months ago
I like Peter's shirt. Davy told some talk show host that after the Monkees went off the charts, that he became homeless and bummed people for money on the beach.
He said it was so hard to go from a "big deal" to a bum in just a few years. He got back on his feet later, but this was a true story.
blueberries4ever 9 months ago
Monki vanilli?
MrNicespaces 10 months ago
the monkees were the creation of businessmen. they all played their given instruments and had a lot of catchy tunes written by others. the monkees served a purpose for their time. i actually like alot of the songs. here we come, walking down the street, we get the funniest looks, from everyone we meet. how's that for great lyrics.
surferlaments 10 months ago
To paandora70
If you look real closely, it is not a black shirt but the shadow of the neck of Mike's guitar on his wrist/blue shirt because it moves up and down a s he moves the guitar and it shows the button on the sleeve. That's all Mike playing there as he was a classically trained guitarist and one of the few members besides Peter Tork that could already play.
cynicalsam1 10 months ago
@cynicalsam1 Not true. Mike admitted himself that that's a session musican playing, as he could never play as well as the man chosen to play on the song. Also, Nez hated this tune so much, I doubt if he would have played on it anyway!
bicfetish 8 months ago
does anyone notice the guy with hands playing the guitar has a black shirt coming out of his jacket . when u see mike playing, he dont have a black shirt sleeves ..lol
paandora70 10 months ago
@paandora70
If you look real closely, it is not a black shirt but the shadow of the neck of Mike's guitar on his wrist/blue shirt because it moves up and down as he moves the guitar and at one point it shows the button on the blue sleeve. That's all Mike playing there as he was a classically trained guitarist and one of the few members besides Peter Tork that could already play.
cynicalsam1 10 months ago
@cynicalsam1 Theres no way Mike Nesmith is actually playing the guitar, look around 0:16 how the whole band is way off from the song lol! Peter Tork is the worst of them all, he isnt even close to looking like he knows what he's doing. I'm sure they exaggerated a bit when they said Mike & Peter could "play", if they had any knowledge at all they wouldnt be strumming a hundred miles an hour when the song features a slow guitar riff. I always loved the Monkees though :)
LeafsFlamesAndOilers 10 months ago
@LeafsFlamesAndOilers actually, Mike did play the guitar, he was a folk artist and songwriter long before the Monkees. He wrote Linda Rondstadt's "Different Drum" among others. A lot of the times the action was off from the soundtrack not only in this, but in many of the musical numbers added to the shows. I guess the producers and directors just wanted the music played and the guys to be seen and didn't care how it looked. Figured kids were dumb back then or something I guess.
Caretaker24523 10 months ago
@LeafsFlamesAndOilers what a moron in any video no one is actually playing they record in a studio and they dubbing the music over the video in a Kentucky headhunter video Doug Phelps is playing the bass part on a flat top guitar mike was a great guitar player and peter played banjo long before the monkees came about
bigbadjoe39 9 months ago
@cynicalsam1 Mike did not play the solos on the song. Louis Shelton contributed the flamenco styled solos to the recording.
EchigoDragon 9 months ago
i LOVE this song........reminds of a "valerie" who is very smart and helpful.
deritpeehs 10 months ago
Looks like David's working on a uni-brow here... LOL
degrassigrl 11 months ago
I heard The Monkees did not want this song to be released as a single. I like this version better than the single version.
pewmanfustudios 11 months ago
that's my favorite shirt on davy! peter and micky have both worn it as well! aha davy's tambourine must be magic how it makes a sound when he isn't beating it! haha
ClassicsWEREandARE 11 months ago
#130 best songs of the 60s Valeri ..the Monkees
zynjan 11 months ago
@zynjan ? Is that a slam on this jam? lol
terrybrass 11 months ago
@zynjan ? Is that a slam on this jam? lol
terrybrass 11 months ago
@terrybrass no it was ranked #130 out of the top 300 songs of the 60s.
zynjan 11 months ago
Davey seems to go from 5'0" to 6'9" in about five seconds.
geoff2204 11 months ago 29
@geoff2204 Luck for him, they never tested for steriods in music..lolololol
terrybrass 11 months ago
@geoff2204 Davy is 5'3" tall.
blueberries4ever 9 months ago
I gotta say, seeing this turn into a forum of Monkee talk, makes it TOTALLY worth violating copywright for :)
terrybrass 11 months ago 12
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Your annotation is hilarious. I literally LOL'd for the duration fo the song and had to replay it - not that that's a bad thing ;).
valaurwen 9 months ago
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AntonyXV 11 months ago
60's bands are the best especially the Monkees
ambersalcove 11 months ago
THE MAN playing guitar is Louis Shelton...not Mike Nesmith....you don't just "play guitar" like that...if
Mike did, he'd have played on everything
mikmaz77 1 year ago
@mikmaz77 even if mike didn't play on this song, he was still a very talented guitarist in his own right.
HaWkBeAtLeSnElSoN 11 months ago
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote this one. The group was frustrated 'cause they wanted to do songs they wrote themselves. The truth is the songs they were being provided were better than any they could of wrote themselves.
jcmagicalmysterytour 1 year ago
The Nez always radiated cool..The later version is better.. Peter kinda sings off-key backups here..
wheez123 1 year ago
(response to the deleted comment) Actully, yes. The sessions that were used for the show were done by the aforementioned artist, what i was talking about was the studio version of the song, off of 1967's The Birds, The Bees and The Monkees.
terrybrass 1 year ago
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AmbassadorJediSpock 1 year ago 2
At this point in their career the Monkees did their own vocals (Davy Jones was an experienced performer in Broadway and London West End musicals--Mickey Dolenz sang his own leads too) but didn't play their instrumentals. This is the original version of the song that was SUPPOSED to be a single in the winter of 1966-7 but wasn't released--a few stations (WCFL in Chicago, WKBW in Buffalo) got it and played it then. It finally got released as a single a year later and charted high.
BobWXXI 1 year ago 2
@BobWXXI Thank you. All of these guys were experienced musicians and performers. Peter even did music with Stephen Stills at an earlier time. Mike's previous stage name was Michael Blessing and had performed under that name. Mickey had prior TV experience and auditioned for the show by playing the guitar singing "Johnny B. Goode."
kurtb8474 1 year ago
at 1:46, Davey almost starts to sing the chorus prematurely...wow, they really didn't bother to check the tapes for much detail, did they?
shegotyagood 1 year ago
@shegotyagood Yeah, he was an actor, not a musican, at that point.
terrybrass 1 year ago
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zangazoo2007 11 months ago
LOL, love your comment to Davey Jones regarding his overusage of tambourine..:D
shegotyagood 1 year ago
@shegotyagood He's WAY off time.
terrybrass 1 year ago
Wow, I always wanted to believe one of the Monkees really played guitar on this track, guess not, lol.
sonnyandbilly 1 year ago
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@sonnyandbilly Well they did on the studio track, but not this version of the song.
terrybrass 1 year ago
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@terrybrass Wrong. Lou Shelton played the Flamenco bits on this. Most of the Monkees stuff was done by the "wrecking crew"; a group of studio musicians who's influence cannot be overstated. They played on damned near everything that was a hit in the 60s-70s time frame. Tommy Tedesco, Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, the list is just too long. But no, it was NOT the "Monkees" who played on the studio recordings.
kgillum 1 year ago
Probably one of their best. Probably could have done better with the miming...
tdunc1994 1 year ago
@tdunc1994 Agreed. The Fuzzy guitar sound for the chorus is great.
terrybrass 1 year ago
GOSH! Never really paid much heed to Mike Nesmith, but... HE THE MAN!!!!!!! End of Discussion, hey?
ariellejsa 1 year ago
@ariellejsa Actully, in this particular track, he's just miming. But on the album version of the song, it is Mike playing,.
terrybrass 1 year ago
@terrybrass Mike is nowhere on either version. Session musicans on both versions.
bicfetish 8 months ago
neil diamond wrote many of their hits and Nesmith or his family invented white-out.
baseballeddie1177 1 year ago
@baseballeddie1177 Are you sure? Yes, dear. Alot of people know that. Carol King also wrote alot of there stuff.
terrybrass 1 year ago