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Way Out Junk helps out with my series of Micky Dolenz/Monkees posts by sharing "Here No Evil: A Tribute To The Monkees". This album features all different indie bands doing their versions of Monkees tunes. Some are good, some are bad and some are down right ugly. But the late Deacon Lunchbox gives us a version of "The Day We Fall In Love" that makes the whole album worthwhile! Head over and check it out!

Even More Micky!!!

I'm still in the pit playing for "Pippin" so I thought that I would throw some more Micky Dolenz at you! This time it's the "Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart" album. This was the seventies version of "cashing in" on the Monkees phenomenon. When it hit Saturday mornings it gained a whole new generation of fans. When a producer tried to get the original four back together, Mike Nesmith was against it and Peter Tork couldn't be tracked down. So, Micky and Davy agreed to do it with Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, the hit songwriting team behind a lot of Monkees songs. The result is this album! Enjoy!

Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart

Enter Micky Dolenz

This week I start subbing the drum chair in the pit at The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. The show is the revival of Pippin and features Micky Dolenz in the role of Charlemaigne, Pippin's father. It is a kind of dream come true for me to be playing drums for Micky, since the Monkees were one of the reasons I became a musician to begin with. To help celebrate I bring you this gem from The Monkees: the soundtrack from "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee", their ill-fated 1969 NBC television special. This is quite the bizarre show and the music from it features The Monkees as a group as well as individually. There is also some great music from Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Enjoy!

33 1/3 R.P.M. Soundtrack

Here Come The Nelsons!!!!

This is a trailer for a movie that would introduce The Nelsons to the viewing public. Up until that time, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett was a radio show and the public, for the most part, had never seen the family. This movie changed all of that and as we all know, the radio show would eventually wind up on television and then soon after that, Ricky would become a super star on his own right. Here's Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky!

Hoberreeba-Soben-Puddin' Pop!!!!

I'm interrupting the singles posts to give you guys this fantastic album! A lot of people have heard Bill Cosby's album entitled "Hooray For The Salvation Army Band" but not too many people know about his first album. "Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings" came out in 1967 at the height of Cosby's "I-SPY" fame! The back cover proclaims that it is a "rocking soul album" but the first side features a more country flavor with covers of three Jimmy Reed songs. The most surprising thing of all is that Cosby had a hit his first time out of the gate. He took Stevie Wonder's "‘Uptight" and reconfigured it with a new (funny) lyric and got himself a top 40 hit in September of 1967. I present it for you now in it's original pristine stereo sound!

Silver Throat (rapidshare link)

Singles Collection Episode 1: Well Mr. Jaws . . .

I'm starting to sort through my various boxes of singles and in doing so, I've realized how much I love listening to them all over again. As a result, I plan on posting a lot of different ones over the next few posts.
The first installment is one of my all time favorite records as a kid. Dickie Goodman's "Mr. Jaws". Long before "musicians" were taking parts of other people's records and adding their own lyrics to them, Dickie Goodman took that first step towards sampling, remixing, and symbolic juxtaposition. He was the first performer to use fragments of other people's hits to build his own chartbusters. Whether it was a Martian with Little Richard's voice, a President copping lyrics from an Alice Cooper track, or a shark with a taste for the Bee Gees, Goodman's "snippet" records became popular Top 40 radio movies. Along the way, he battled rival publishers, record producers, copycats and America's changing musical tastes to become one of the most successful and distinctive novelty acts in the rock era.

Rapidshare Link

Where's the Dartman? In this video!!!!

Here's Joan Jett's newest video! And guess what? I'm in it. I'm the guy in the crowd in the blue shirt that is bobbing his head from left to right. You can pick me out if you look really close. ENJOY!!!!!

More Fun With Ken and David

Continuing with more Starsky and Hutch goodies, I bring you a blooper reel from the series. This is not the blooper segment that is included as a bonus feature on the Season One DVD Box Set. This is actually an old blooper reel that the producers made for the show to give out to various sponsors and other big shots. This used to be a tradition in the TV world. When the video revolution hit, these "gag" reels found their way into the hands of various collectors. And, as with most bootleg material, was copied and copied and copied and copied thus providing several different generations of the original footage. I have no idea what generation this is but I do know that it is not the first. But none-the-less, it is worth seeing. One last note - this is not family fare!