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.

"She Hangs Out"

I listened to the first disc of the deluxe edition of Headquarters to-day, and I noticed a small feature in "She Hangs Out," a version of which is included as a bonus track.  In this particular track and in all of the other versions on the deluxe editions of Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., "every" in the phrase "every night" in the bridge is sung with three syllables, giving a sense of frequency.

"Some Like It Lukewarm"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Some Like It Lukewarm" - the fifty-sixth episode of The Monkees series (and the twenty-fourth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (4 March 1968).  It was written by Joel Kane and Stanley Z. Cherry, directed by James Frawley, and featured the songs "The Door into Summer" and "She Hangs Out."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "When the group enters a mixed-gender 'rockathon' Davy learns that band contests can be a drag."

To demonstrate the recent HD restoration of the footage, this full episode is on the Monkees' YouTube channel:

"Card Carrying Red Shoes"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Card Carrying Red Shoes" - the forty-first episode of The Monkees series (and the ninth of the second season) - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (6 November 1967).  It was written by Lee Sanford, directed by James Frawley, and featured the song "She Hangs Out."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "A Druvanian prima ballerina involves the group in a plot to smuggle microfilm."