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The Monkees is an American television musical sitcom that first aired on NBC for two seasons, from September 12, 1966, to March 25, 1968. [1] The series follows the adventures of four young men (The Monkees) trying to make a name for themselves as a rock 'n roll band. [2]
The Monkees also filmed a movie called Head that started production in early 1968, and was released in theaters that November by the Monkees' parent studio, Columbia, just after their TV show was canceled. Head was co-written by a then-largely-unknown Jack Nicholson.
The Monkees' debut and second albums were meant to be a soundtrack to the first season of the TV show, to cash in on the audience. In the 2006 Rhino Deluxe Edition re-issue of their second album, More of the Monkees , Nesmith stated that he was angered by the release of the first album because it portrayed the band as an actual rock-and-roll ...
Summer 1967: The Complete U.S. Concert Recordings is a four-CD compilation of live recordings by the American pop rock band the Monkees, released in 2001 by Rhino Handmade. Recorded during the band's summer 1967 tour, the CD was a limited edition release, with 3,500 copies being made available. 16 of these tracks had previously been compiled by ...
By the end of the Monkees run, Nesmith was withholding many of his original song ideas from Monkees albums, planning to release them in his post-Monkees solo career. Nesmith's last contractual Monkees commitment was a commercial for Kool-Aid and Nerf balls in April 1970 (fittingly, the spot ends with Nesmith frowning and saying, "Enerf's enerf ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. American musician and actor (born 1945) Micky Dolenz Dolenz in 2022 on the Beach Boys cruise Born George Michael Dolenz Jr. (1945-03-08) March 8, 1945 (age 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Other names Mickey Braddock Occupations Musician actor singer TV producer businessman Years active ...
A Monkees television show marathon ("Pleasant Valley Sunday") broadcast on 23 February 1986 by MTV resulted in a wave of Monkeemania not seen since the band's heyday. Jones reunited with Dolenz and Peter Tork from 1986 to 1989 to celebrate the band's renewed success and promote the 20th anniversary of the band.
The Monkees were both an American TV series in the 1960s and a pop-rock group. One of the first multimedia franchises, production of the Monkees series, music, feature film Head and other works involved a virtual Who's Who of American talent, giving many up-and-comers their first high-profile work, and many entertainment veterans a career boost.