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  • gosh they're so funny and great.

  • wicked song, no excuse!

  • I had Bobby Sherman's poster on my wall. I loved this show.... Michael Nesmith was my favorite!

  • Hey that's Bobby Sherman!!! Awesome!

  • i love this guys reactions!I think its fabian but i could be wrong.great song,his dancing and that blonde wig are hillarious

  • That's Bobby Sherman, not Fabian.

  • Great, classic Monkees song! This episode was really funny, Bobby Sherman seems to be doing a parody of his image at that time...hilarious!

  • Another great song written by Neil Diamond.Sounds very similar to "the boat that I row" that Diamond wrote and was sung by Lulu.

  • That's exactly what I thought when the songs came out! They were in the charts around the same time. Then I found out years later they're ND songs.

  • Those girls are wearing grannie panties. Yuk.

  • Phenomenal show.... clever, hillarious.... and totally captivating!!!

  • legends of musik

  • Neil Diamond + The Monkees= Great Music...

  • I so love this song !!

  • This show was so great. I was only 4 when it was out & I used to sit on my curb waiting for them to come to my house. It's a sin what my kids have to watch these days.....nothing like this.

  • I have always preferred this version of the soneg and you gotta love the video its brilliant

  • I can't believe Bobby Sherman played in the Monkees show! I guess that is where he got his start later! Now he is a Policeman in L.A.

  • Nope. He actually got his start on Shindig. He was one of the house singers on the show along with another Monkees guest star, Donna Loren.

  • This is hilarious!

  • this used to be my favorite episode, i was brought up watching the show on video and listening to their music <3

  • This is still so funny.

  • the guy doesn't even know there stealing the girls LOL

  • This song popped into my head the other day so I came to You Tube to see if it was here. Wow! The Monkees AND Bobby Sherman! I'm 10 years old again!

  • im 13 and i love the monkees

  • Bobby Sherman, wow. what a flashback

  • NEIL DIAMOND WROTE THE SONG!

  • who sings the version that was played in multiplicity?

  • So many women's buuuuutttttsss!

  • Say what you want about these guys, but it has been over 40 years and we are still listening to their music.

  • Monkeeshines....Fluffy stuff is good for you...arguing about these videos proves only one thing...

  • Whether they were a real band or not, they had some great songwriters that came up with stuff that still great today!

  • I liked the Monkees when i was growing up and they was a real band and they had there own show out what ya think about that now and there still makeing music to this day. But i belive its only Davey Jones, Mickey, And Peter i dont think Mike plays with them any more. I know they are still doing shows though its on the net look it up it will tell you.

  • wow, name name calling, khultan? did i strike a nerve?

    look, you said the monkees weren't a real band. that is your opinion.

    most of those that post on this thread feel the monkees ARE a real band.

    now, seriously...think this over...what do you hope to accomplish by repeating your little statement?

    do you SERIOUSLY think anyone who's been a fan of theirs for years will suddenly 'agree' with you?

    why the changing arguments when you've changed definitions and been refuted?

  • Also, instrumentals aside, they sang lead on every record that says they did and Micky's voice in particular has a great unique sound. He was a wonderful pop/rock vocalist who put lots of feeling & soul into the songs. Many of the successful pop singers now cannot hold a candle to MD. not to mention rock singers of all decades who are not known for their melodious vocals...if it's hard 60's rock you want listen to the doors or the stones, if u want great pop listen to Micky Dolenz.

  • Fake band.

  • actually, a 'real band', khultan.

  • Neo, after those Nonkees song, no. Not a real band.  Outside of those songs, up to a point.

  • actually, a 'real band', khultan. if you believe they're not, that's your right.

  • Not at that point in time, they weren't a real band., Neocon. C'mon, don't kid yourself. The most damnable scenes are when Mike Nesmith is supposedly strumming the guitar, the camera always shoots the hands first and then a second later goes to a close up of his face looking all focused. Neocon, do not delude yourself, especially in a public forum, regardless if we are communicating in a disembodied fashion. Word.

  • khultan, they are a real band. and like ALL 'real bands' who did movies/videos/shows, they most often lipsynched for the camera.

    do you think the beatles were playing their music LIVE and singing LIVE when filmed in 'hard days night'? even when they were running around acting silly?

    and like most real bands, SESSIONS ARTISTS played on the albums (this includes the beatles). why? because sessions artists are better at their instruments than anyone in the beatles, monkees, etc.

  • khultan, don't delude YOURSELF. i'm quite aware we're in a public forum, and that nobody can see our faces.

    such attempts at ad hominen attacks not only fail to prove your point, but also point out that you have no control over the thoughts of others.

    as i said before, if they aren't a 'real band' to you, so be it.

    they are to me and others. nothing you say will change our minds.

    can YOU discount what i said about:

    1) lip synching for video;

    2) sessions artists?

    nope.

  • Neo, fact: they did not produce the music themselves in the studio during the time of their television program, why is this so offensive for you to not accept this?!? The skill level was never there.

  • so, since when is 'producing the music themselves' THE definition of being a 'real band'?

    this is the faux-intelligensia mindset of the 1960s, particularly after the beatles became...well...'the beatles'.

    however, there have been many groups before/since that did not produce their own music.

    if that's the case, then dean martin, frank sinatra aren't 'real singers' or 'real entertainers'. in fact, 'they byrds', can't be a 'real band', since a shit load of their songs are by dylan.

  • Let's settle it, Neoconsnightmare3, show me video where they are playing their instruments at the time of their era, okay?

  • 'video', as in for a television show or movie? won't find many.

    then again, you won't find many 'videos' of that kind showing the BEATLES playing their own instruments (in 'video', i mean 'hard day's night' kinda joint, upon with 'the monkees' were based on).

    or, for most 'videos' shown on the 'ed sullivan show' or any similar show, you won't find TOO many bands playing their own instruments.

    your argument is rather weak. you can keep saying they aren't a real band.

    your right.

  • and, as it's your right to keep saying they weren't a 'real band', i (and others) will say they WERE a 'real band'.

    and it can keep going until, eventually, you realize you aren't changing any minds, one way or the other.

    see how the game will be played?

  • keep it in the context, Neo. They were not a real band performing those songs as the incarnation  as The Monkees in their time. You'll just ping pong it back to me with another of your denying nonsense.

  • There is video of 1967 Monkees concerts where they played and sang. They played live all over America at that time. There are also some outakes from the show in the DVD set and at least two scenes IN the show that I can think of where they informally play and sing w/ no lip synching. The album "Headquarters" was performed completely by the Monkees.This idea that they couldn't play at all is a myth. They had to sing & play an instrument to even audtion for the show.

  • khutan, in your zeal to put the monkees down, you didnt know that mike nesmith and peter tork were actual muscians.

    you didn't know that peter tork was buddies with stephen stills. he was also able to play MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS and was part of the folk music scene in the early 60s.

    david was a singer and actor; micky sang and LEARNED how to play the drums.

    they played LIVE IN CONCERT.

    finally, few groups in the 60s played music on their 'videos' or on shows. too hard to control.

  • [snarling]....exasperated as I am, disembodied communication and not 'face to face' as it is, I'm saying once more and yet again: show me actual videos of THEM, The Monkees, playing their freaking instruments. Can you do this, hunh?!? Why is this so [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] difficult for you to try to do?!? Hunh?

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  • khultan, you're not very bright.

    "Live 1967" is an album where they played their instruments.

    google 'monkees' and you'll see that davy played drums better than micky...and that they switched off drum playing when micky was lead singer.

    you lose.

  • Hmpf....your appraisal really means a lot. I'm searching on the World Wide Web, Neoco, and I'm telling you, I've not found actual videos of The Monkees naturally reproducing the songs and music in their time like a natural band should. I lose?!? You just simply had to support your claim with evidence. I'm not here to contest and win a prize, I just want the facts. I lose?!? WTH???

  • must mean something...you keep going out of your way to tell the world your baseless opinion that the monkees weren't a real band.

    LOL...you think that someone on here who likes the monkees will suddenly change their mind based on what you say?

    few if any groups can 'naturally reproduce' the music on the records live. again, like it or not, most groups back in the day (likely NOW) have sessions artists do the real recording work.  fact, my friend.

    you'll have to deal with that.

  • well, i told you about 'live 67'. there's also a dvd of the monkees that shows, amongst other things, performing LIVE ON STAGE in 1967.

    you have nothing else to offer along the lines of 'not a real band'.

    you said they didnt produce their music, and i told you just like any other band of that time.

    you then went to a 'music video' from the show, 'proving' (LOL) that nesmith's fingers weren't in sync. as if they would play music on a television show.

    try again. cuz...YOU LOSE.

  • I lose and you win. That's the way your world is in your head, hunh? It's as though I were trying to reason against a retarded normal person as you seem to be. 'you have nothing else to offer blah blah blah etc and so on....'

  • you started with 'they aren't a real band'. you were proven wrong.

    you then slid over to 'they don't produce their own music, so they aren't a real band'. again, you were proven wrong, since MOST bands back then didn't produce their own music.

    then you came up with the 'in the video from their television show, his fingers aren't in synch with the music'. thrice you were proven wrong, since NOBODY on a t.v. show/movie played their instruments 'real time'.

  • part 2.

    then you said 'find the video of them playing in concert'. i found it and told you to look it up.

    what? you want me to BUY it for you?

    the only one stuck on retarded is you. you seem DESPERATE to yell 'they arent a real band'.

    good...TO YOU they aren't a real band. happy?

    now, how many minds do you think you've changed? that's it...none.

    the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome'.

    that, khultan, is you.

  • Don't get ahead of yourself there, patting yourself on the back, Neocons- I'll get back to you as I research.

  • khultan, do your research.

    while you're at it, you may want to look into why it's so important to you to claim the monkees were, in your estimation, 'not a real band'.

    most of the folks that speak here love their music...so you're not changing any minds.

    are you perhaps a frustrated musician?

  • Neoc, what does being a frustrated musician have to do with anything, hmmm? You see, your supposedly sound reasoning is not to be trusted. I do love music and the fact that I offer criticism whether favorable or not you come at me sideways with that? Now, YOU, put it that way when, as a appreciator of all styles of music as a description of myself, why shouldn't I challenge and question an alleged fact, hunh? You crummy human sheep.

  • i dont KNOW what you POSSIBLY BEING a frustrated musician has to do with this. that's why i asked you, khultan, 'are you perhaps a frustrated musician?'

    IF you are, and have seen little success, you may be a tad envious of the monkees. maybe not. it was a question that you didn't answer, so one can only PRESUME you are a 'frustrated musician' that is envious of the monkees.

    why else would you constantly say 'they weren't a real band'? what's in it for you?

  • I am not a frustrated musician. Why can I not ask such investigative questions for the sheer want of finding the truth out, hmm?

  • okay, you say you're not a frustrated musician (finally).

    you can ask away, but you INITIALLY made a statement: alleging that the monkees were not a 'real' band.

    you kept saying that, changing the requirements of what a 'real band' was supposed to have.

    i countered everything you said.

    you asked for film footage of them playing live, and i told you about the 'live 67' dvd, which shows some footage of them playing.

    get it...look at it...and know folks have seen them play live.

  • Oh the many hours I spent rocking on my bed to this song in the 60's! MONKEES ROCK!!!

  • Love this song. But just wondering if any of you know why they got rid of the "Shades Of Grey" by the Monkees on YouTube? Just wondering.

    Take Care,

    Kathy

  • Peter And Mike Are So Cute!

    :D

    God I Love These Guys!

    <3

  • i love the monkees!!

    and i love the guy with the blue shirt

    i dont know his name but he reminds me of somebody

    lol

  • Micky Dolenz is in the blue shirt

  • Search for The Monkees on GrooveSafari (dot) com

  • lol Bobby Sherman.  This was a great episode! Nice Neil Diamond song too ;)

  • i always go back to this song...because it is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Monkees rock!!!!!!!!

  • monkees are amazing.. i made a tshirt with them check it out. "its not spam"

  • Is that Mr.Roper From Threes Company? XD

  • yep most likely...he appeared in many, many sitcoms in the sixties

  • Mike invented MTV.God bless that man.We should thank him for that!

    Also,they sold more records in 1967 than the rolling stones and the beatles combined.Sign the petition to put them in the rock n roll hall of fame!

  • no offense ,getthedoogie,but you are an idiot..Headquaters is a respected album full of great songs _written by the band!

  • According to legend, Davey was the only Monkee singing on this record. None of the others were involved or were aware because of musical director Don Kirshner, who had constant fights with Nesmith and Tork over musical differences (BTW, that IS Neil Diamond in the background). When Nesmith found out the song was released, he punched a hole in the wall and told Kirshner, 'That could have been your head.' Kirshner was eventually fired and the Monkees began performing their own songs.

  • Hey Orange Tabby Cat3: you failed to list that Bobby Sherman is in this video!

  • I knew all their songs by the time I hit 3 years old.I still love um!:D My dad used to always play their music and I loved their show.We have all the episodes on tape.Funny stuff!

    P.S. Too bad theyre not current day lol I would've loved Peter,but yeah.....Too ooolllllddddd for me cuz im 15 lol and he's what?In his 60's....That is just so wrong!

  • I remember watching davey jones playing for Accrigton Stanley..

  • this show is so much funnier than i remember seeing as reruns when i was little. get it on dvd! p.s. they are hotties

  • were hotties.....

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  • ND singing this would probably sound a lot like "Cherry"

  • omg i remember this, bobby sherman in a bad blonde wig, lol, god am i showing my age

  • Bobby Sherman was a fancy boy in this episode. "Look at me, I'm a fancy boy."

  • Funny that they had better songs then probably 99% of the pro bands out there today. I mean if a band like Fag out boy or Plain White T had a song like this you`d never hear the end of it.

  • 1:36 LOL

  • DAVY JONES IS LIFEEEE!!

    gahh i wanna go back to the 60s D:

  • I remember hurrying up to get our chores done when we were kids so that we could watch the Monkees on Saturdays.  My mom had posters all over her walls of them and when her aunt would visit she wouldn't change in her room because she felt like they were staring at her. Thanks for uploading these.

  • ha ha love the monkees singing this this comedy band once had their own tv show thanks for the upload

  • The Monkees take care of the fancy boy, yes?

  • Ohhhh yes, The Monkees!! Sweet memories .... I was a litle girl and so in love with Monkees. A funny Band.

  • lol

  • Haha, very cheeky and cute.

  • written by the great Neil Diamond! I can definitely hear him singing this himself as well.

  • you know what i kind of figureed that cuz thats neil's sound hands down

  • Bobby Sherman it was

  • believe it or not. i was in guitar center in towson maryland a couple of years ago..and a guy that worked there told me peter tork was in guitar center shopping.none of the gc staff wanted his autograph...so i found him in the drum room and got his autograph on the back of a buisness card i had gotten at a tattoo shop in fellspoint..the baltimore tattoo mueseum..he signed it with a green marker..... he was very nice !

  • he got cancer

  • Gosh. The early memories this brings up. Wish I could go back.

  • Bobby Sherman and the monkees be still my foolish heart. My first crushes. Ahh, to be young again. We had nothing yet we had it all.

  • Did you know that Mike is a multi millionair? His mother invented Whiteout...

  • that's Bobby Sherman

  • whoa !!!

    the monkees really did a number on that guy, whoever he was --

    I think I kinda remember this episode --

  • Neil Diamond had a few songs including this one and I'm a Believer. Carol King wrote some, Boyce and Hart wrote many and even Harry Nilson wrote one. Mike Nesmith got to write as well, "Mary Mary".

  • how did you get the monkeys show on tv

  • OMG!! It's live action Ken!!

  • I love the first scene with Micky in, poking his head up from the popcorn hehehe!

    Another brilliant Neil Diamond song, brilliantly preformed by The Monkees :)

  • Sexy song. Love it!

  • Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were musicians when the Monkees were formed. Mickey Dolenz was given drum lessons so he could effectively mime playing. Through much practice and many rehearsals the Monkees eventually became a legitimate band and successfully toured N. America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. But most of their early recordings used studio musicians.

  • they're kinda like the lads. doesnt anyone think so?

  • oh yes...

    weren't they a knockoff?

    :D

    Anywho... they had really nice bodies!!

    I love 'em.

  • They started playing this song at a restraunt and I was freaking out. The Monkees rock. :D

  • Wow. Those chords in the intro sound exactly like Cherry Cherry By Neil Diamond. It's a good song regardless though. Monkees Rule!!

  • Well duh! Who do you think wrote this tune? That's right, Neil Diamond himself. The television show paid to have some of the best commercial songwriters (which is what Neil Diamond was before he became a hit solo recording artist) write many of the Monkees' tunes. People like Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, Carole King, and the aforementioned Mr. Diamond. So, no real surprise that this tune kind of sounds like Cherry Cherry at the beginning (and you're right, it does).

  • Neil Diamond wrote almost all of the Monkees songs.

  • Julie, Julie, Julie, Do You Love Me

  • good band

  • lol, i remember all of these ty for sharing

  • the main charactor is actually a teen symbol of the time named Bobby Sherman.

  • great music from a simpler more less demanding time in peoples lives. The main charactor is actually a teen symbol of the time named Bobby Sherman.

  • they remind me of the beatles in a way, but when a band like the beatles makes as big of an impact in music as they did of course there will be a lot of other bands who try to achieve the same amount of success. i think the monkees made a name for themselves and shouldn't really be compared to the beatles. the beatles are in a league of their own. :)

  • You mean Mickey right. He's the drummer NOT Peter.

  • Actually, I'm pretty sure all of them could play instruments except Davy, and he could sing well. And ya, the drummer's Mickey Dolenz.

  • why in any good video of older music, people have to bash on current music. stfu

  • It's because current music sucks. duh.

  • that is a terrible explanation.

  • yes but he is correct, modern music is truely shite

  • I can imagine "old people" saying that in the 60s as well.

  • me too funnily enough, strange how things work

  • my sis loves this song she also loves daydream beliver shes singing it in coreis

  • haha. neat

  • I have this sheet music

  • 1966 was great but now is worse. i love this song

  • This clip has a guy named Frankie Catalina. The allusion is Frankie Avalon and those beach films of the 1960's

  • I <3 Mickey!!!

  • GassyMask, I was just thinking how much they try to imulate the beatles when I read your coment...but yeah...they are still good.

  • emulate*

  • rap means Retard Attempting Poetry. its garbage. the monkees rule they were funny and had great songs .bring back 1967 yeah!!

  • The Monkeess AND BOBBY SHERMAN!!! YAY!!!

  • Life was so much better then.

    The music was great, the people were friendly, and everything was so much easier.

    Know we have to walk down the streets constantly looking over our shoulders.

    When I turn on the radio I all I hear is rappers and singers talking about killing, drugs, gangs, or prostitutes.

    And then I turn on the tv and see the same people getting honors and awards for the terrible things they say!

    What the hell happened?!?!?

    Omg...

    Sorry but I had to get that off my chest...

  • I agree with you.

    I wish we could turn back the time or we could change the world as it was.

  • Thanks for the rant, I have to say, I agree wholeheartedly!

  • Bobby Sherman!!!!!

  • these guys were so friggin cool. i put them up there with the 3 stooges!!

  • wtf...hahaha.

  • zoinks3: The problem with music today is that garbage is rewarded, and the best of talent most of the time is not recognized. Some who I believe have no talent: Madonna, Britney, Jessica Simpson, Miley Cyrus, and her dad. Marketing is a huge business that reaps great rewards.

  • ...Madonna should not be on your list of no talent! she is very talented and still going

  • Madonna can't sing and dance at the same time, it's terrible, but true.

  • Personally I think Miley's dad is pretty cool, but I'd better go read his wikipedia article before I draw conclusions XD

  • Avril also sucks ass

  • Is THAT why rap crap and hippity-hop is all you hear on the radio now days???? Can't anyone see that it belongs in the SAME TOILET that it CRAWLED out of?

  • Ianhune: He did take the cap off. He stopped wearing it because numerous fans started wearing one just like it. He didn't care for it.

  • Nice acoustic work by Nesmith. I wish he would've taken off that silly pullover cap.

  • WAIT didn't Davy wear the shirt the dudes wearing at 0:08 in an episode?!?!?!

  • Yep. Monkees ala Mode. That was a funny episode. Course they were all funny.

  • HA HA HA

  • Wow ! That was Bobby Sherman, LOL! He sucked, but I did like Here come the brides, and Hey little woman.

  • Writtn by Neil Diamond as was most of their songs....including I'm a believer.

  • fudgypaul: Why are you embarrassed of having owned The best of Bobby Sherman? I sent for that cd through the mail and I love it. I really like Mr. Success, She lets her hair down, and bubble gum and braces. He was an entertainer and his voice was not bad.

  • certainly can hear the niel diamond style here. good song!

  • My 5 year old plays my 45 of this record on my old RECORD PLAYER! Ha! He's the only 5 year old I know that spins vinyl.

  • zoinks3: The problem with music today is that garbage is rewarded, and the best of talent most of the time is not recognized. Some who I believe have no talent: Madonna, Britney, Jessica Simpson, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and her dad. Marketing is a huge business that reaps great rewards.

  • that and we have perfected auto-tone computer programs that can make the worst singer ever sound like an angel.

  • You are So Right !! I couldn't have said it better myself !!

  • I agree completely, Treaty4. All those singers are not particularly gifted, if at all. I wish we lived in a time when if you were a bad singer, people knew it.

  • LOL! I am 55 yrs old and I still LOVE the Monkees......wonderful!

  • LMAO!! I love the Monkee's but add Bobby Sherman and it is priceless!!