Monday, May 10, 2021

The Rainbow Room

Back in March, I saw a picture of the Monkees in "the Rainbow Room," similar to this one I found on Getty Images:


What really caught my attention was the Vox Super Continental; I didn't know the Monkees had used one.  Some quick searching didn't reveal what episode this was from (eventually, I discovered it was from the performance of "She Hangs Out" in "Card Carrying Red Shoes"), so I re-watched almost all of season two of The Monkees and made a list of what songs are performed in the Rainbow Room, what episodes they appear in, and who plays what:

  • "Pleasant Valley Sunday" (in "The Picture Frame"* and "Monkee Mayor")
    • Mike: guitar
    • Micky: drums
    • Peter: electric piano
    • Davy: bass
  • "Randy Scouse Git" (in "The Picture Frame" and "Art for Monkees' Sake"*)
    • Mike: guitar
    • Micky: timpani
    • Peter: piano
    • Davy: drums
  • "Love Is Only Sleeping" (in "Everywhere a Sheik, Sheik"* and "I Was a 99 lb. Weakling")
    • Mike: guitar
    • Micky: vocal and unknown machine
    • Peter: bass
    • Davy: drums
  • "Daydream Believer" (in "Art for Monkees' Sake" and "A Coffin Too Frequent")
    • Mike: guitar
    • Micky: tambourine
    • Peter: piano
    • Davy: vocal and some piano
  • "She Hangs Out" (in "Card Carrying Red Shoes")
    • Mike: guitar
    • Micky: drums
    • Peter: organ
    • Davy: vocal
  • "No Time" (in "The Devil and Peter Tork")
    • Mike: guitar
    • Micky: drums
    • Peter: piano
    • Davy: tambourine

*These performances are intercut with romps.

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, these segments in the "Rainbow Room" were filmed on 2 August 1967 at Fred Niles Film Studios in Chicago.