Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012

Subject: Obit: Davy Jones
From: Amergin
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 01:24 PM

This Monkee is off to fling crap in the rock zoo in the sky....

Davy Jones Dead at 66

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 01:35 PM

Oh, no! I loved him as a teeny-bopper and I loved their songs. They are so fun to sing along to.

Thanks, Davy, and condolences to friends and family.

kat

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones Feb 2012
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 01:42 PM

Had a heart attack this AM and boarded the last train to Clarksville this PM.

Karen was one of those fans of them and I have more enjoyed the documentaries about them. Condolences to all those who knew him well, friends and family......and the many aging fans like kat and Karen as well.

Getting older always carries an incredible sadness in the baggage......................


Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:01 PM

Daydream believer
This video not only conjures up memories of watching The Monkees in the late afternoon after High school, but also makes you realize how irritating these guys could be. RIP, Davy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:13 PM

I just read this. It makes me so SAD! I love the Monkees, though admittedly I was watching the reruns (I was born the year after they broke up!) RIP Davy...thanks for making my childhood just that much more fun.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:15 PM

Actually Leej, I got a kick out of fact that Davy was still doing that same dance move this past year!


Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Beer
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:19 PM

Sad indeed. Loved the song "I'm a Believer" and still do.
Condolences to all his love ones.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: olddude
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:32 PM

Awww Crap ... my high school days all the girls swooned over Davy ...including my cheerleader girlfriend
this is sad ..

God Bless, thanks for the memories
feel like I lost a friend

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:43 PM

Yeah, spaw. After all, it's a great move so why would you ever give it up short of dying? I think I've even seen Axl Rose doing it.
The other great thing about your clip is that Dolenz was still doing the hogging-the-spotlight schtick that made me want to punch him in 1966.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:59 PM

Well, damn.

At least they actually sang, unlike Vanilla Ice.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:59 PM

They knew how to make manufactured bands in those days ... Their songs were written by some very good writers, which as one of he things that made the Monkees so good. They worked so well a a team, too; they were all completely barmy, which was very appealing to a teenager in the 60's. Either modern made-up bands are rubbish, or I grew up when I wasn't looking.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: foggers
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:01 PM

Aw he was my first crush! Now I'll never get to marry him! They were a sunny happy part of my growing years and its a sad loss; thanks Davy and thoughts to his family.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: JennieG
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:13 PM

More of my youth gone......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:14 PM

I really liked Davy Jones. 66 isn't all that old is it? As kat says, the Monkees songs were great to sing along to. I particularly liked Alternate Title. (I think Mickey Dolenz sang that one though) Doesn't it seem ages ago now? RIP Davy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: fat B****rd
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:46 PM

And he was once Ena Sharples' Grandson!! (UK soap opera Coronation Street)
RIP Davy Jones.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:52 PM

I loved the Monkees - and had quite a crush on Davy. How sad!

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 03:54 PM

So sorry - and rather unnerved - to hear this. Just dropping dead unexpectedly at 66 (which happened to Derek Bell of the Chieftains at that age too) is sad & scary. I loved the Monkees when I was young, and never gave a toss whether they were a "manufactured" group or however the hell they came to meet. So what, who cared??

They were a lot of fun, put up a good show, had their own individual talents, and were more than the sum of their parts. Davy just always made me smile, and Daydream Believer is still one of my favourite songs. Another stone in the foundation of my youth tumbles away. Rest In Peace, Davy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 04:03 PM

The Monkees made very good pop records - many of which were written by Neil Diamond and played on by excellent studio musicians. It was good entertainment and I can only say that I hope Davy Jones had a happy and fulfilled life.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 04:07 PM

I was really sorry to hear this sad news.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 04:23 PM

RIP & much respect.

And boy, could those guys sing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRljpaOe2YI

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 04:57 PM

Suibhne, that is REALLY good. And no wacky antics at all! Thanks!

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Creede
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:06 PM

When I was in junior high school the local radio station ran a contest/petition drive to canvass their listeners on which was the better band, the Monkees or the Beatles. Seems kind of silly now . . .

There is a fair bit of truth in the Monkees being tagged as the original "Prefab Four", but keep in mind that not only did they have some high-powered talent in their corner (such as Neil Diamond and Boyce & Hart), they were musicians in their own right. Mike Nesmith had already established himself as a musician and songwriter, and Peter Torkelson (a/k/a Peter Tork) had been a fixture on the Greenwich Village folk music scene. That's where he came to know Stephen Stills, and when Stills was passed over for a role with the Monkees (they thought he would look too old to attract the intended demographic) he recommended Torkelson.

Like someone said above, growing older is tinged with sadness when one of the mainstays of our youth passes away. RIP Davy.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Little Robyn
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:28 PM

My favourite was I wanna be free.
The original version seems to have gone but that one is definately Davy.
Now you are free.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Beer
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 05:54 PM

What a beautiful song., thanks Robyn. Where have the years gone.
ad.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 07:42 PM

Bummer... The Monkees rocked it out big time!!!

B~

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 07:42 PM

Oh, sad. He was a cutie.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 08:16 PM

Like Becca, I only ever saw them in re-runs in the mid-Seventies when I was nine or ten. My best friend liked Davy best, but Mike was my favorite. I think my favorite song by the Monkees is (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone. J-boy once sang Daydream Believer at a New Year's Eve party we were at when they had the karaoke machine at. Shocked us all, he's usually so quiet.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 08:43 PM

Anybody remember the doctor show Ben Casey? I hadn't known he'd made an appearance on it, not too long before the Monkee madness hit, judging from the age he looks. There's a page in the Guardian ("Davy Jones: A Life In Clips") which shows part of it. His appearance on the Brady Bunch episode was fun too (he reminds me so much of Brian Cox in that scene) (science presenter, not the Bond baddie). Now you can *really* wallow in nostalgia -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tvandradioblog/2012/feb/29/davy-jones-monkee-lif

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Beer
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 11:08 PM

I looked at some of those clips. Ben Casey I watched a lot but never knew that Davy Jones took part. Great find Bonnie.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Genie
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 11:51 PM

SA, I'm glad you posted the link to the Monkees singing "Riu, Riu Chiu."   It shows very well how good they were musically, at least after they got out from under the thumb of the managers, etc., who tried to keep them in the box of teenage TV pop.

In the later years of their career, when they were allowed to play their instruments on their records, they showed that they really were pretty decent musicians.   I don't know the extent to which they grew into that as their teen idol careers progressed and the extent to which they were just allowed to display what they already had, but even Jerry Garcia acknowledged that "their records are pretty good."

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 01:11 AM

I wonder what happened to my Monkees record?

RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 02:32 AM

I am heartbroken, Davy Jones was my first crush. I didn't have a favourite that changed by the week but he had a special place in my heart. Although they were a manufactured band there are so many songs that stand out in my mind just as much as the Beatles ever did if not more. Stepping Stone was a particular favourite, Look Out Here Come Tomorrow, Little Bit Me a Little Bit You, Last Train to Clarksville. I did get to see Davy, Peter and Mickey when they were on tour in the UK in the 80's and it was money well spent and I still came away totally in love with Davy Jones. RIP Condolences to the family he will be missed.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: open mike
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 02:38 AM

One of the other Monkees, Michael Nesmith, has a website..I wonder if there is any news there...http://videoranch3d.com/

other Monkees: Peter Tork, Mickey Dolenz...here is a comment from them:

http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/02/29/ringo-starr-davy-jones-death/

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: banjoman
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 06:08 AM

Don't forget that he also rode and trained racehorses in UK and was a regular interviwer on TV. Great guy -sadly missed

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:26 AM

Mickey was my fav. Is it just me, or do male musicians look better as they get older? Davy looked really good...still those high cheekbones, winning smile...this is so sad. Thanks for all the links, folks. Riu Chiu was gorgeous!

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: goatfell
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:28 AM

so sad

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:36 AM

In the interest of completeness...

Davy Jones, Monkees Singer, Dies at 66
By MARGALIT FOX
New York Times
February 29, 2012

Davy Jones, a singer and, by long-held public consensus, the handsomest and most popular of the Monkees, the collectively young, longhaired, wildly famous and preternaturally buoyant pop group of the 1960s and afterward, died on Wednesday in Indiantown, Fla. He was 66.

The apparent cause was a heart attack, his publicist, Helen Kensick, said.

Created in 1966, the Monkees comprised Mr. Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork. The group sold millions of records. Its recording of "Daydream Believer," by John Stewart, became a No. 1 single, as did its recording of "Last Train to Clarksville," by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, and its cover of Neil Diamond's "I'm a Believer."

Though the Monkees officially lasted only until the early '70s, they reconvened sporadically for decades. For much of that time Mr. Jones also toured as a solo singer-songwriter; among his last performances was one on Feb. 18 at B. B. King Blues Club & Grill in Manhattan.

For all the Monkees' chart-topping acclaim, the group never pretended to be anything other than what it was: a smoke-and-mirrors incarnation of a pop group reminiscent of that mop-topped one from Liverpool, created for a benignly psychedelic American TV sitcom.

Broadcast on NBC, "The Monkees" lasted just two seasons, from September 1966 to March 1968, and featured Messrs. Jones, Dolenz, Nesmith and Tork as members of a freewheeling, fun-loving, beach-house-dwelling, up-and-coming pop group. The show won two Emmys in 1967: for outstanding comedy series and, to the director James Frawley, for outstanding directorial achievement in comedy.

To this day, its theme song is hard-wired into the baby-boomer brain:

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees,

and people say we monkey around.

But we're too busy singing

to put anybody down.

While the four did much of their own singing, they were relatively unbusy playing. Though each played an instrument — growing more proficient with time — most of the instrumentals on their albums were supplied by studio musicians. (On one album, "Headquarters," released in 1967, the Monkees played their instruments themselves.)

The group's critical reception was not unsurpassed. In 1967, in an article about one of the Monkees' relatively rare live concerts of the period, at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, The New York Times said:

"Frequently during the performance, sound that resembled the lowing of a sick cow hovered over the stadium. This turned out to be one of those horns often heard at Shea Stadium during baseball games. It didn't seem to hurt the musical evening."

But the critics could not dim the profuse enthusiasm of fans, who were overwhelmingly young, female and shrieking — tweeners before the word was applied to that demographic.

This adulation (and in later years nostalgia) kept the Monkees going, in various incarnations, on and off for decades. Last year three-quarters of the group, absent Mr. Nesmith, briefly toured Britain and the United States before cutting the tour short because of unspecified internal dissension.

The only actual Englishman of the four, Mr. Jones was inclined to elicit the loudest shrieks of all. An index of his appeal was his guest appearance on a memorable episode of "The Brady Bunch" from 1971 entitled "Getting Davy Jones." In it, Mr. Jones, playing himself, saves Marcia, the family's eldest daughter, from social ruin by attending her prom.

Television and the stage were actually Mr. Jones's original vocations.

David Thomas Jones was born on Dec. 30, 1945, in Manchester, England. A child actor, he appeared on "Coronation Street," the British soap opera that went on the air in 1960 and is still running, and in the police drama "Z Cars." After his mother's death when he was a teenager, he abandoned acting. Slight of build — he stood not much more than 5 feet tall in his prime — he began to train as a jockey.

Lured back into the theater a few years later, he played the Artful Dodger in the West End musical "Oliver!" When the production moved to Broadway in 1963, he reprised the role (billed as David Jones), earning a Tony nomination as best featured actor in a musical.

Appearing with the cast of "Oliver!" on "The Ed Sullivan Show," Mr. Jones had a transformative moment. After the cast sang, he heard wild cheering. But alas it was not for them: it was for the Beatles, also booked on the show that day.

"I thought: Is that what happens when you're a pop singer?" Mr. Jones told The Palm Beach Post in 2004. "I want to be part of that!"

His work on Broadway led to guest roles on a few mid-'60s television shows, including "Ben Casey" and "The Farmer's Daughter." He was signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems Television, which produced "The Monkees."

Mr. Jones, who had homes in Hollywood, Fla., and Beavertown, Pa., spent his later years touring; acting occasionally on television shows like "My Two Dads" and "Boy Meets World"; raising horses; and recording, including the well-received solo album "Just Me" (2001), which featured his original songs.

Whatever Monkeedom still attached to him (and it was considerable) did not dismay him.

"People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever," he told The Chicago Daily Herald, a suburban newspaper, in 2006. "But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco'?"

Mr. Jones's first marriage, to Linda Haines, ended in divorce, as did his second, to Anita Pollinger. His survivors include his third wife, Jessica Pacheco; two daughters from his first marriage, Talia Jones and Sarah McFadden; two daughters from his second marriage, Jessica Cramar and Annabel Jones; three sisters, Hazel Wilkinson, Lynda Moore and Beryl Leigh; and three grandchildren.

The other three members of the Monkees also survive.

Perhaps Mr. Jones's most enduring legacy takes the form of a name. The name belongs to another English musician, who burst on the scene some years after the Monkees. This man, too, had been born David Jones. But thanks to the Monkees' renown, he knew he would have to adopt another name entirely if he was to have the hope of a career.

So he called himself David Bowie.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:45 AM

Like Ranger, Mike Nesmith was always my favorite but Davy was a close 2nd.

Another Monkees fave: Randy Scouse Git

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:50 AM

My favorite Mike Nesmith song

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Greg B
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 09:16 PM

Quite an exclamation point on National Heart Disease Awareness Month, which was the month of February and would have been finished on Davy's final day but for the leap-day.

The take-away is very clear... pay attention to the health of your heart, before it is too late. That's especially true for those of us of British descent, for our genetic pre-dispositions are...unfortunate.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 04:21 AM

My Ex said she was leaving me because of my obsession with the Monkees.... I didn't believe her at first "And then I saw her face"!.... Rest in peace Davy... many memories!

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 05:27 AM

The four of them each had an individuality possibly because originally they were manufactured but each had something special. Mike Nesmith had the smouldering eyes and Texan drawl that I enjoyed in many of his songs, Mickey the zany one with the distinctive voice on so many of the hits, Peter for his boyish innocence and Davy for his vocals and cherub good looks.

The world was a great place back them with them in it.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:04 AM

...and not many people have played both the Artful Dodger AND Fagin in Oliver. (No, not at the same age, of course!)
The zany quick cutting of the tv shows was novel at the time.
RtS

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: evansakes
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 06:36 AM

Fascinating that they kept the original Monkees screen tests

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 07:32 AM

Oh wow, Twick - thanks for that!! Great archeology work :-)

[If ye have time, prepare to waste it now...]

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 11:09 AM

Thanks for the songs...thanks for the fun...thanks for not taking yourself too seriously.
Sincere condolences to your Family & all your Loved Ones.
            With Love,
                           Nigel & Ann Paterson.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: goatfell
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 12:59 PM

RIP Dave

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:41 PM

I was a big fan. Bought all the records and watched all the shows. RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: CapriUni
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:51 PM

The four young men in "The Monkees" were never really buffoons, they just played some for TV.

(Also, they were not the first, nor will the be the last band 'created' for the purpose of selling records)

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: Songwronger
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 07:52 PM

So, no Monkees reunion now? Bummer.

Subject: RE: Obit: Davy Jones 29 Feb 2012
From: breezy
Date: 06 Mar 12 - 10:10 AM

My girlfriend told me the sad news

I thought she was joking

Then I saw her face