"Stir It Up," both great songs.
Not bad, kind of generic. I had no idea his career went back that far.
Actually, I found them kind of charming. And I won't because I can't.I'd give 'em a little more credit than that. I doubt we could do better.I can't dance, you won't dance....
At least it falls under the iTunes cutoff.
Paul and John in a nutshell.
Uh oh. These kinds of changes generally do not bode well.
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Ah...I'd been working under the impression that you were a one-man town from Footloose.And I won't because I can't.
Not that it matters to me in this case, as I own the CDs...and would be buying the whole albums if I didn't.
Yep...that and John adding "Can't get no worse" to "Getting Better". Paul says that the line in "Hey Jude" makes him a little emotional when he sings it, because it reminds him of John.Paul and John in a nutshell.
That more or less describes my feelings, although I was subjected to a lot of second-hand Dead back in the day. And I do have a fondness for "Casey Jones."
I think that means I have some moral opposition to dancing in general? Boy Howdy, no.
I can imagine.
I don't have that one, but it sounds familiar...possibly from classic rock radio. The 1970 album that it's from will be coming up eventually as 50th anniversary business, as it's on the RS list.
^^^So H&I has made a significant seasonal change to its lineup. The Comic Book Heroes block is gone. They're now playing multiple episodes of The Incredible Hulk and The Greatest American Hero on Saturday morning, then moving on to other programming in the afternoon. Completely gone from their lineup, among other shows, are The Adventures of Superman, Batman, and Tarzan! No wonder Decades was paying so much attention to the latter show...Weigel was about to put it under. This marks a significant shift on H&I back toward '90s-era cop/detective shows, though the six-night-a-week All Star Trek block still seems to be working for them. Oddly, they also seem to have replaced their striking, colorful intro logos, which used tilted bits of footage from each show...
...with a more generic blue and white logo.
At first I thought she must be trying to out-Colbert Colbert, because nobody could be that far gone-- but this is the 21st century, after all.
This was on their Ten Years Together album, which was one of those 8-Tracks that I listened to endlessly around the turn of the decade, along with Simon & Garfunkel and Donovan. I love that album.
It wasn't commonly played, but it was one of those gems you'd get late at night.
Wow, it didn't dawn on me that Buck replaced Trek.
Yeah, I figured there must have been, so it would have been nice to see a real one.
It's got nothing on the Dylan original, but I assume that these early hit covers must have played a substantial role in his rise to prominence.
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Any opinions on Frank and the Mothers of Invention? I skipped past a couple of their albums on the Rolling Stone list, as my impression from an odd song of theirs that I'd sampled was that they were a bit fringey and grotesque.Mike as Frank said:
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If that's all true, I assume that last part is just counting American broadcasts, as The Prisoner had used "All You Need Is Love" over a month earlier in the UK.An IMDb Trivia post said:
It's fun to blast while driving by this place:
A cherished memory from watching the show. Loved that bit.
"Good Morning Good Morning" was inspired by a Corn Flakes commercial...The Monkees was sponsored by Kellogg's...it all comes full circle....
I like some of Zappa's stuff, but I have to say that I admire his work more than I actually enjoy it.
I don't really have any interest in the war genre, but Twelve O'Clock High definitely seems the better of the two.
That's it for Rat Patrol and Monkees. Do we have any other animal shows to replace them?
That's probably what they mean by "prime time."
Interesting idea. I envision an amalgam of Ed Sullivan and Laugh-In.
You should go up to the door and knock.
Easily.
Not in my viewing line-up. We also lost Batman and Tarzan.
They did one special, 33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee, which aired in April '69, and is available on YouTube. I may visit it when the time comes.
I hope he didn't talk over the songs like that on the radio. And I hope his mob connections don't rub me off for criticizing him.
Ah, didn't catch that.
I didn't find anything about the use of the sped-up song funny. It just screamed "Cheap!" And maybe "Lazy!," too.
The things you learn around here!
Fascinating! I loved that cartoon when I was a kid and that theme song still pops into my head frequently to this day.
Damn. You don't realize how cool these animal-based shows are until you lose them.
Oh, interesting. I never heard of that.
Actually, they were too lazy to scream and to cheap to hire someone to do it.
Whereas I'd never heard of it...the difference less than a decade makes.
How are those Tarzans going, by the by?Damn. You don't realize how cool these animal-based shows are until you lose them.
From what I glanced over on its Wiki page, it sounds like they took more of a Star Wars Holiday Special approach...presenting variety show content in the framework of a questionable story. Peter described it as "the TV version of Head."
Practically speaking, they didn't even need an actual all-female band...they just needed an actual female singer, perhaps performing an existing Monkees song, for Deana Martin to lip-sync to.
I was never a big fan of Jimi, but in terms of nostalgia this really conjures up the time and place.
Another great single from these guys.
I love this one. A prime example of Happy 60s.
Based on what I learned from Wiki, I was watching reruns, which I should have known since I remember it as a Sunday-morning show (I think it came on after Davy & Goliath, which was at the opposite end of my fondness spectrum).
Due to stuff, we've only watched one of them, but we'll probably see a couple more today. The one we saw was the first-filmed blind Jungle Girl episode, which I found entertaining, but rather bad in terms of quality. The story was very disjointed and badly directed, with a lot of those post-production voiceovers that make a show seem amateurish. And I found it hard to swallow that Tarzan never before encountered a blind Jungle Girl and her pet lion that lived in his territory all those years.
That would have been a disaster.
It's interesting that the DVR does continue to communicate back to the source, though, even after recording.True. I was just thinking that it would have been an opportunity to give a boost to an existing band. The Monkees seem like the kind of guys who would want to do that.