"No Time"

I was thinking about "No Time" yester-day, and I realized that since the line "Andy, you're a dandy; you don't seem to make no sense" contains a double negative, the line itself doesn't make sense (from a strict grammatical point of view, at least), so the semantics of the line match the intended meaning.

"No Time"

I know this has been noted before, but I couldn't find it quickly and had to look it up for myself.  I'm writing a short post about it mostly so that I'll be able to reference this again if I need to.  At ~0:35 in "No Time," Micky says something that sounds like "Rock on, George, for Ringo one time."  This is the same thing that Ringo says in the Beatles' "Honey Don't" (at ~2:20).

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.

"Zilch"

This morning I watched Oklahoma! for the first time.  I think I may have read somewhere that this is the source of the line "Never mind the furthermore, the plea is self-defense" in "Zilch" (and also "No Time"), but now that I've actually seen the movie, I know the context from which the line is taken.

Near the end of the movie there's an improvised trial (something of a formality that the characters want to rush through), and as one character explains his actions ("And furthermore..."), he's interrupted by the judge, who says, "Never mind the 'furthermore,' the plea is self-defense."  Because I hadn't seen the movie and didn't know the context, I didn't know that the "furthermore" in this quote is itself a quote.

"The Devil & Peter Tork"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "The Devil & Peter Tork" - the fifty-second episode of The Monkees series (and the twentieth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (5 February 1968).  It was written by Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, and Robert Kaufman, directed by James Frawley, and featured the songs "Salesman" and "No Time."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "Peter sells his soul to the Devil (Monte Landis) during a lesson in music and morality."

"Monkee Mayor"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkee Mayor" - the thirty-sixth episode of The Monkees series (and the fourth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (2 October 1967).  It was written by Jack Winter, directed by Alex Singer, and featured the songs "No Time" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "Mike runs for mayor in a bid to save the group's groovy pad."