I remember making our large oversized pillows for Mickey & delivering them to their house in the canyon one night. He invited Marc, Vince & me to stay & hang out for a while. We were all laying around on the pillows just talking. Wish I could remember the conversations but that was way too many years ago. Just a nice memory.
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: Very Cool Robert....INFO MASTER!
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: 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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