“Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow).” The is classic Neil Diamond, a buoyant pop confection and a nifty companion piece to “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You,” another Diamond composition that gave the Monkees a big hit. Here are five of Jones’s performances that stand up with the best of the Monkees catalog - which is to say, the best of ’60s pop music.ġ. "He had this classic, teen-throb beauty," said Eric Lefcowitz, a Monkee biographer, and that distracted fans from his musical talents.īut beyond that appeal was some true vocal talent. Some of his drippier numbers sound hopelessly dated today, in stark contrast to most of the Monkees oeuvre. Jones did bring Vaudeville tendencies to a group that was earnestly trying to prove its rock chops. Unfortunately, many rock fans have dismissed Jones as the most saccharine Monkee. Hart said Jones would sometimes pick up the meal tab for Hart’s band at the studio because he knew they weren’t getting paid at quite the same rate. Jones “was one of the preeminent voices of ’60s pop music," Hart said. Their band, the Candy Store Prophets, played the instruments on the first Monkees album and made them sound closer to a real band - which they more or less became, in time. I also spoke to Bobby Hart, half of the Boyce-Hart songwriting team, which produced “Last Train to Clarksville” and several other Monkees compositions. “Everybody was giving it their all,” Peter Tork said in an interview via telephone Wednesday night.
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