Davy Jones
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Music, The Monkees at 19:49 on 29 February 2012
I was sad to hear that former Monkee Davy Jones has died, apparently from a heart attack.
Though Davy was nominally the Monkees lead singer, that duty frequently fell to fellow actor Micky Dolenz, leaving Davy to flail away somewhat unconvincingly with a pair of maraccas.
They were probably the first manufactured band, brought together to reproduce the Beatles films’ format on TV, but had some of the best pop songwriters of the day composing for them. This – I chose it because it actually features Davy on lead vocals – was written by Neil Diamond.
The Monkees: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You was the only Monkees single I bought back in the day and I came to love the B-side The Girl I Knew Somewhere, written by group member Mike Nesmith. So much so I referenced its title in a line of A Son of the Rock.
David Thomas Jones, 30/12/1945 – 29/2/2012. So it goes.
Tags: A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Neil Diamond, The Beatles, The Girl I Knew Somewhere, The Monkees
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