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"Daydream Believer" is a song composed by American songwriter John Stewart shortly before he left the Kingston Trio. It was recorded by the Monkees , with Davy Jones singing the lead. The single reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1967, remaining there for four weeks, and peaked at No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart .
John Coburn Stewart (September 5, 1939 – January 19, 2008) was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of the Monkees' No. 1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own No. 5 hit "Gold" during a solo career spanning 40 years that included almost ...
The Lonesome Picker Rides Again is the fourth album by the folk musician John Stewart, a former member of The Kingston Trio, released in 1971. [2] The album contains Stewart's own recording of "Daydream Believer", a song he wrote for The Monkees.
Daydream Believer and Other Hits is a budget-price Monkees compilation released in 1998. It contained 10 of The Monkees' greatest hits, plus lesser-known classics. The album did not include any material from the 1980s or 1990s reunions, focusing strictly on the band's 1960s output.
In Peter Tork's commentary, he stated that Jones was a good drummer and had the live performance line-up been based solely on playing ability, it ought to have been Tork on guitar, Mike Nesmith on bass, and Jones on drums, with Micky Dolenz taking the fronting role, rather than as it was done (with Nesmith on guitar, Tork on bass, and Dolenz on ...
Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story is a 2000 American biographical drama television film about the rock and pop band the Monkees.Directed by Neill Fearnley and written by Ron McGee, the film is based on the 1996 book Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees by Harold Bronson.
The last guitar to enter features a volume-control pedal, [23] a device which had only recently begun to be employed in popular music and would be used on many recordings in 1966. [24] Paired with a guitar, the device hides the initial attack and decay of the instrument's tone while allowing the player to more easily control volume changes than ...
Daydream Believer and Other Hits, a 1998 compilation album by the Monkees; Daydream Believers: The Monkees' Story, a 2000 made-for-television biographical film about the Monkees "Daydream Believer", the 20th episode of season 16 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Daydream Believer", an episode of season one of My Life as a Teenage Robot