"Monkees a la Mode"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkees a la Mode" - the twenty-fourth episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (27 February 1967).  It was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso, directed by Alex Singer, and featured the songs "Laugh" and "You Just May Be the One."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "A haughty style rag selects the group as 'the typical young Americans of the year.'"

"Captain Crocodile"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Captain Crocodile" - the twenty-third episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (20 February 1967).  It was written by Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, Peter Meyerson, and Robert Schlitt, directed by James Frawley, and featured the songs "Valleri" and "Your Auntie Grizelda."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "The Monkees find themselves at odds with an egomaniacal children's show host, Captain Crocodile."

"Monkees at the Circus"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkees at the Circus" - the twenty-second episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (13 February 1967, incidentally Peter Tork's twenty-fifth birthday).  It was written by Dave Panich, directed by Bruce Kessler, and featured the songs "She" and "Sometime in the Morning."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "When an old-fashioned circus company faces extinction The Monkees step in to save the day."

Re-Establishment

About half a year ago, I started a project in which the goal was to learn every part to every song by the Monkees (for the first few albums at least; I don't have their complete catalogue yet).  I don't think I'll ever actually achieve this, but I think it a worthy objective all the same.

I started this project on tumblr, but recently I've started to feel dissatisfied with it.  I felt I should have a cleaner, more professional-looking platform.  (I found some aspects of tumblr's interface less than ideal too.)  Initially, I went with tumblr only because I could directly post audio files of my own recordings of the songs, as a way to demonstrate that I had in fact learned the parts I said I had.  But I can achieve the same thing just with embedded YouTube videos.

So essentially, I'm jumping ship.  I'm going to continue doing everything I would normally do for this project, just on Blogger rather than on tumblr.  I'll be going back and copying my old posts over to this blog, so I'll have the complete archive, but it'll take a while to transfer everything.

"The Prince and the Pauper"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

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According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "The Prince and the Pauper" - the twenty-first episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (6 February 1967).  It was written by Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, and Peter Meyerson, directed by James Komack, and featured the song "Mary, Mary."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "Davy comes to the aid of a lovelorn Prince Ludlow - who just happens to be Davy's doppelganger."