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  • @trACEurace lol that is familiar but cant remember from what

  • @Dogote82

    Run DMC used it for song...IIRC, they used that awesome break at the start of the song as well.

  • My cousin just sent me the real RECORD of this album to DJ with! lol Best cousin ever besides all my other ones! [=

  • Mary, Mary.... WHY YA BUGGIN!?

  • Mary, Mary, why you so hairy?

  • psicodelic very good!

  • JJ Fad and Run DMC would sample this old tune back in 1987.

  • sick shirt u fag

  • mary mary !

  • I've got a cousin named Mary and every time I hear this song, it reminds me of her.  :) Her actual name is Maryann, but Mary for short.

  • Fantastic!!!*****

  • was 15 yrs. old, and oohhh memories, never mind, this song is a classic

  • I love the monkees

  • Awesome!

  • I'm going to sing this karaoke sometime! Great song, and I loved seeing the Monkees perform it live in June!

  • Only two members of the band actually played instruments and were "real" musicians Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork...the other two were merely actors...Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones. Unfortunately, the two who played nothing got all the attention, and maybe that was the plan all along. I only know that the MONKEES brought Paisley Shirts to the foreground and French sleeves and cuffs were the rage. If you looked like Davy Jones or Mickey Dolenz back then, you got ACTION.....BIG TIME....

  • @emcaraccioli - Micky knew how to play guitar almost as well as Mike, but he was mainly an actor

  • @emcaraccioli Don't worry people, who know the music such as yourseff, know those things.

  • This Michael Nesmith composition was not released as a single until 1968, when, backed with "What am I Doing Hanging Round?" from "Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Limited" reached #3 in Australia and gave them their final top ten hit Down Under. Incidentally both albums were still enjoying success on the Aussie album charts!

  • Fabulous song. 2011.

  • thumbs up if the intro drums remind you of Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John!

  • Mike doesn't have to play anymore.

    He inherited the WHITE-OUT fortune!

  • Here again this is the music of my high school years, I was in a band called the Many Few and we played this song at all our appearances. Whooo.... too many memories coming back to me.......

  • I saw them years ago in a suburb of Chicago, but Mike wasn't with the band. There were so many people in the outdoor theatre that thousands of people bought "grass" seats to sit on the grass hill behind the seats. Only it rained, so the grass was wet mud. And we STOOD elbow to elbow, the whole concert, and were so far up that they were almost microsopic. It was well worth it. Wish I could see the latest tour. I went with my Dad; he is now passed on but we had such a great time.

  • @TouchMeKnott Shame ya didn't see Mike, he and Peter are my faves.

  • @raintalonwindclan Yeah, it sure was. I loved Mike and his green hat. He was my favorite Monkee.

  • i love the monkees - don't understand why they never got as popular as so many other bands - look at the animals for example - couple of songs - the monkees have dozens!

  • Bring Back The 60 Music

  • @nba2054 I agree, who wants to listen to rap crap, the gag me and the beaver

  • @hotmn4u - i listen to it and gil scott heron said anytime people cannot understand something they try to destroy it .you cannot do it right?so whatever you say makes zero sense.

  • Saw them last night! They were so great! I loved every moment of the concert

    <3

  • @strawbootie WHEN DID THEY GET BACK TOGETHER?!?

    I'm 26 and I would love to take my friends to their concert so they can hear real music and realize that what their hearing today is because of groups like this. Without real talent, instraments and real convtroversy suroundingthembecause it wasn't classical or the 50s pop or because they were singing of the times that was going on with the war and such, there wouldn't be people today singing their songs with such freedom as they do now.

  • Saw them last night in LA. They were great. Even met Davy Jones and got his autograph.. haha

  • Oh this song reminds me of someone!

  • @TheGoldengirlfan Mary? XD

  • I saw the Monkees last night in Cincinnati. It was such a great show!

  • The Monkees ...

  • Mickey Dolenz on lead vocal.......

  • For a teeny bop group they did have some good riffs ... yes I know they didn't compose or write it.

  • @MsThebeMoon Actually, Mike Nesmith did write this one! =)

  • is this peter singing?

  • @babeesquid It's Micky Dolenz singing.

  • Great Song!!!

  • Love this song!!

  • Love this song!!

  • Run DMC hit it out of the park with the 'remake' of this song. The original ain't bad, either. ;-)

    

  • Me too

  • Totally Groovy.

  • @TJCATLOVER Actually, out of sight.

  • This was one of my all-time Monkee favorites. Used to play it in a band I was in back then. Oh the memories.

  • MUSIC FUN AND CURRENT COOL

    

  • I still have my original album (bought in Mill Valley, CA), from 1967. It has held up pretty well over the decades!

  • Another American bubble gum group. Pop goes the bubble.

  • OMG!!!!... THIS REALLY MAKES ME FEEL LIKE DANCING ... THE SOUL.... whoever remember those years when THE SOUL dance was very popular ha ha ha... I just couldn't believe like I am in my High school days.

  • They are in Indianapolis June 26.....

  • Micky was a great singer. He had such aunique voice. One of the best from the '60's

  • Great song, the only one better is "Steppin Stone"

  • LOVE the guitar intro!! get me the sheet music!!

  • this song brings back so goog memeries.I was 14 and i rember bying this same alblum. Beleive me i was going out with a girl named U guest it mary and we played that song over and over. I agree what that girl said about the monkees being in the R A R H O F.today my wife and i still play that song. Power 2 U monkeeys and those wonderfull 60s.Mikey

  • "Mary, mary, tell me truly, what did I do to make you leave me? Whatever it was I didn't mean to, you know I never would try and hurt ya. Mary, mary, where you going to?"

    I love those lyrics

  • A recent poster -- may or may not post here -- accused me of being an idiot & asinine for thinking blues artists covered The Monkees. So for the record: "Mary Mary" written by Mike Nesmith -- a Monkee -- (Paul Butterfield credited him); "Take A Giant Step" - by Carole King-Gerry Goffin credited & sung by Taj Mahal; "Last Train to Clarksville" written by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (the original Monkees musicians on the first album) credited by Cassandra Wilson. I rest my case. Do the research.

  • @lastrada52 Well put.

  • @lastrada52 tell the truth, bro. Right on.

  • @giles422 - Giles - it's just pisses me off that few people don't know the true origins of songs. Cassandra Wilson, Taj Mahal & Butterfield Blues Band turned versions of Monkees songs into blues classics. Look at what Coltrane did to the Sound of Music's "My Favorite Things;" Miles Davis & Coltrane's "My Funny Valentine." Folkies the Kingston Trio (1961) recorded "It Was A Very Good Year" BEFORE Sinatra did. Or the Jewish teacher's poem Strange Fruit that Billie Holiday sung into a prayer.

  • Run DMC!!!

  • this is when they made music!

  • Who played the killer bass on this track..Joe Osborn? Whoever was thumpin' Bass on this one really did his job!

  • @LarryRickenbacker

    Larry Knechtel.  Did session work with the Beach Boys, Elvis, the doors...

  • There are a few Monkees songs that are now standards for blues artists. Most of us know in '66 the Paul Butterfield Blues Band covered "Mary,Mary." But Taj Mahal covered "Take A Giant Step," & Cassandra Wilson did the "Last Train to Clarksville." The Monkees may not have written some but they recorded them first. So? Why are blues artists listening to The Monkees? I guess The Monkees were a good source of material. I think those songs are all terrific too. R&R Hall of Fame.....wake up.

  • I own this LP lol

  • It's amusing to note that Michael Nesmith hated this album yet he wrote one of the best tracks on the album.

  • One of my favourite Monkees' tunes. Thanks for posting.

  • Mary Mary if i could have you you would never doubt my love,never leave me never

    oh this is another one of those fantastic songs that never get old,oh yeah i will follow!

  • Mary Mary if i could have you you would never doubt my love,never leave me never

    oh this is another one of thos fantastic songs that never get old,oh yeah i will follow!

  • and the elitist jerks ath R&R Hall of Fame think they are too cool to allow the Monkees into the Hall. Fine, they can have their self-congratulatory B.S. and live in a joke of a world. Idiots.

  • In my Mind's Eye: Teri Garr, and Maryann from Gilligan's Island, dancing in bikinis to this song.

  • This Monkees were huge in shaping my musical tastes..They made a big impact in music. I agree with the HOF'ers plea.

  • I too had this album back in the 60's I used to sing all the songs and hear it over and over again.

  • Mary where did you go to? you know that i would rather die than live without you i've done more now that a clear thinking man can or could do

    is my mary waiting for me? out there dreaming like i am?

  • mY god Michael nesmith was a genius this song is Fantastic! he is fantastic and never got his just due i believe!

  • The Monkees were the first band I saw in concert at aged 11. Yeah they had a big pre teen following, but they were good. This stuff holds up. I mean, Nesmith sold this song to the Butterfield Blues Band before The Monkees recorded it. If Paul Butterfield thought it was good, then it was good. When will people realise how good a writer Nesmith was?

  • I cannot believe the dumb ***'es that run the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame cannot get it through their heads that The Monkees belong there!! They were the first 'video band' in history, their music is still just as listenable today as it was in the 60's. They had a lot of really good songs! And they are way more well known and loved than a lot of the stupid people that they've bothered to induct. It's just unbelievable. Who is running that joint, anyway??....

  • Mary Mary...why you buggin! LOL Love it!

  • im 19, my dad gave me this record and i love this stuff. he got it when it frist came out, and man that WAS rock n roll! in the 60's

  • @Sk8gangsta1

    I bought this album when it came out, I was 13, within a year everyone in the 8th grade made fun of it and called it bubble-gum music, and like a good sheep I went along and called it crap , but now, 45 years later I realize THIS SHIT ROCKS !!!!

  • @TheJomogogo yeah this was a time of musical snobbery with pop music versus 'serious' music. Pretty stupid when music is about feeling good. I like the cream, jefferson airplane etc but the monkess rocked too

  • I have the album in the basement. But I cant find my car keys. Why. I havent had my keys as long as this album. Could you imagine if they got back togeater. Davy why cant you remeber the words to this song. Mikey didnt you bring your reading glasses. Mike did you not wear your depends again.

  • OMG - THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS CLASSIC DANCE TRACK, WHICH  LIKE MOST OF THE 60s DANCE CLASSICS WAS REGRETTABLY TOO SHORT. RELEASED AS A SINGLE IN AUSTRALIA, BUT NOT U.S. OR U.K. WHENEVER I PLAY THIS IT IS ALWAYS A CROWD PLEASER BUT ALWAYS USE 2 COPIES! DAVEDJ

  • MARY MARY, AWESOME SONG:)

  • MARY MAEY, AWESOME SONG:)

  • I love the Monkees. Reminds me of all the great times I had as a kid with my family, especially my two brothers.

  • @JJones0424 thats cute :)

  • This is one of my favourite Mary songs. : ) (My name is Mary.)

  • @LoveShiaGDSN

    That's cute; I used to date a girl named Valerie who absolutely worshipped that song by the Monkees (and also "Valerie" by Steve Winwood). My name's Hank, so I'm not holding my breath that Lady GaGa or somebody will do a song with my name lol.

  • REM just called; they said, "Thanks for the bass line."

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  • @2222554 yeah right

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  • @2222554 you have to be about the most mean spirited person I have ever met

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  • Wow !! I love this song even though most of the verses don't rhyme... due to excellent songwriting and Mickey's rich voice...All Hail The Monkees !!

  • NICE!*****

  • i like this record/cd butHeadquaters is my fave the monkees deserve to be in the rock and roll hall of fame and mike is hot peter is adorable davys cute and mickys cute thur all HOT!!! <3

  • Forgive my ignorance about where this song came from. But I want to know where it did come from.

    I first met it, and loved it, via Run DMC.

    I then met it again via the Monkees, and loved it all over again.

    I know the Monkees preceded Run DMC.

    Was there anyone else before the Monkees on this song?

    Where did the song come from?

    Thanks heaps to anyone that can help.

  • @naganokumas - This song was wriiten by Mike Nesmith of the monkees (the tall one with the wool cap!

  • @naganokumas -- a good reference site for this kind of thing is second hand songs. Was there anyone else before the Monkees on this song? Well, yes and no: Mike Nesmith wrote it, but it was released by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band the year before it was released by the Monkees.

  • @naganokumas Michael Nesmith wrote this song before he joined The Monkees. It was first recorded by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band on the East-West album on Elektra in 1966.

    Monkees' drummer Micky Dolenz sang lead on this.

    Run-DMC covered this in 1988 on their album Tougher Than Leather. They did a rap version with the chorus changed to "Mary Mary, why you buggin'?" DAVEDJ

  • the age of the GO-GO DANCE....I LOV IT-TAKE ME BACK PLEASE!!!!!!

  • getit Mike! he is playin, aint he? :-p

  • I have this album, from when I was a kid. It was great! I was a kid of the 60's...They should get back together!

  • @Lovetogolf2005

    I special ordered the CD-my eldest sister had it on vinyl.

  • @Lovetogolf2005  my parents have this album also .

  • @Lovetogolf2005 They do regroup every so often. Mike is usually not along, though, being committed to other things.

  • @Lovetogolf2005 They're touring this summer...apparently..

  • @Sicilianforlife They are touring! They will be in Minneapolis on July 1 & 2 and I'm super excited!!!!

  • @Lovetogolf2005 They did. They are playing or have already played a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London England this summer :D

  • @Lovetogolf2005

    They're currently doing a 45th anniversary tour. You should look up the tour dates and see if they'll be in your area. Mike's not with them, as usual, but this time Peter's back in the fold, and they put on such a great stage show!

  • @DJCandyManMike , 45 years...omg I feel soooooo old right now....

  • @racingirl1595

    When they played this at their concert, I didn't know it was their song. It was an awesome concert all the way around.

  • Dolenz has this cool smooth voice that was perfect for this Mike Nesmith composed track.

  • @onthemoveagain - and also for Mike's great, cool, SMOOOOOTH finger work!!!!

  • @meandemjay Actually,Glen Campbell is playing lead guitar on this track.This was before The Monkees were allowed to play their own instruments on the records.

  • @lexbates - well, Mike can still play it...

  • Mary Mary, why you so hairy?

  • ♪♫♥ !

  • This has always been a favourite of mine. Greatl vocals from Micky. Really simple yet strong bassline for the time.

  • Rarely played monkees song this is.

  • MARY MARY WHY YA BUGGIN

     Both songs rock

  • where did you get this album?

  • @garose10

    I special ordered this album a few months ago-Rhinorecords distributes them-go to their website.

  • Memories!!!! thanks for putting this one up

  • Strange thing about this album---it contains examples of both the best and the worst of the Monkees. This is one of the best; "Hold On Girl" is among the worst.

  • @sneezepal You got that right! "Auntie Grizzelda" and "On the Day We Fall in Love" can be added to the "worst" list. "Mary, Mary", "Laugh", "Not Your Stepping Stone", and "I'm a Believer" are gold!

  • @sneezepal A lot of Jones songs fall into the worst catagory. 'When love comes knocking on your door' is another horror from this album. This is a classic though

  • jaja sta rola sta bn kremas fue lo mejor ke tubo ste grupo apesar de ke decian ke ellos no tokaban solamente kantaban!!

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