I remember meeting the Cowsills in an elevator going up to the main office of Billboard magazine in New York right at the time that we robbed them of the #1 spot.
They were miffed!
As were we when the Monkees knocked us off the top one short week later!
I appreciated the Monkees songs back then...we were fully aware of who was wring the songs and which studio musicians were playing the tracks as well as which Monkees could actually write and play. Back then most everyone was also aware that Micky Dolenz was an actor...A child star on Circus Boy. I think kids that were a few years younger than us may have believed they were a real band...we new other people that tried out for the parts...like Stephen Stills and Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield. Nesmith was the ringer in the band...He was a guitar player and singer-songwriter prior to the TV Show. He wrote Linda Ronstadt's first hit with the Stone Poneys...Different Drum..
The Cowsills also had outside writers and players help on their records.
Both those bands were capable of playing their own stuff but in the studio for the sake of time and money the producers and record companies would pull in the pros.
Not true for SAC. We did it all...until they brought in first, outside lyricists, and on the third album, outside writers.
Much to our dismay.
Then on SAC's fourth album they tried to use the formula that The Cowsills struck gold with on taking a song from the musical Hair with Good Morning Starshine. Not a bad idea, but they got beat to the punch by Oliver and the star maker machinery behind him.
WA WA....
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: FYI,
: North Beachwood Drive runs North-South
: throughout most of Hollywood and up into the
: Hollywood Hills, and it crosses Sunset near
: Gower, about 3 or 4 miles East of the Strip.
: More significantly, it passes through the
: old Columbia Pictures studios - where The
: Monkees was filmed. The fan club Address
: 1334 N. Beachwood Drive (also the address of
: the band's beach house on the show) is right
: in the middle of the studio lot.
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: HI Guys!
: I was reading on the back cover of a
: Monkees' album that if you wanted to join
: their fan club,you had to send
: correspondence to somewhere on a steet
: called "North Beachwood".Where is
: Beachwood in realtion to the
: strip"Also,as much as the Monkees were
: in thier hey day sales wise were nearly
: mercilessly slammed by critics as being
: Beatle rip-off bubblegum.I personally like
: their catalog a lot,both singles as well as
: album cuts.What's your take on Monkees'
: music as well as the Cowsills.I know
: "The Rain,The Park and Other
: Things" gave "Incense" a
: strong run for its money on the Bilbboard
: Hot 100 and the Monks' "Daydream
: Believer" was the tune that ousted
: "Peppermints" from the #1
: slot..........
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