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Partridge Family Theme Song by Wes Farrell and Danny Janssen

by musician on March 28, 2016

Partridge Family Theme Song

Artist: The Partridge Family

Written by: Wes Farrell and Danny Janssen

The Partridge Family (1970-1974)

Shirley Jones: Shirley Renfrew Partridge

David Cassidy: Keith Douglas Partridge

Susan Dey: Laurie Partridge

Danny Bonaduce: Danny Partridge

Dave Madden: Reuben Kincaid

Suzanne Crough: Tracy Partridge

Brian Forster: Chris Partridge

Jeremy Gelbwaks: Chris Partridge

Come On, Get Happy (Excerpt)
Hello, world, here’s the song that we’re singin’
Come on, get happy!
A whole lot of lovin’ is what we’ll be bringin’
We’ll make you happy! …

The Partridge Family (1970-1974)

96 Episodes Were Produced Over Four Seasons

The half-hour comedy aired on ABC as part of the Friday night lineup. The show attracted a number of popular guest stars, including Howard Cosell, Farrah Fawcett, Dick Clark, Jaclyn Smith, Bobby Sherman, Cheryl Ladd, Bert Convy, Jodie Foster, and Mark Hamill.

Meet The Partridge Family

Susan Dey, David Cassidy, Shirley Jones, Danny Bonaduce, Jeremy Gelbwaks, Suzanne Crough

Partridge Family Portrait 8×10 Photo Print

Shirley Jones
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

We’ll Make You Happy!

A Whole Lot of Lovin’ is What We’ll be Bringin’

As one of television’s most popular moms, actress Shirley Jones would occasionally find runaway kids camping out on her Beverly Hills lawn, anxious to join the fictional Partridge family. Danny Bonaduce, who played wise-cracking sibling Danny Partridge, often stayed with his television mom and her family when tensions ran high in his own home.

Viewers embraced the singing family, travelin’ along in their psychedelic schoolbus. It didn’t matter that most of the actors were merely going through the motions. According to Shirley Jones, actors Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Suzanne Crough, Jeremy Gelbwaks and Brian Forster were given the chance to enter a recording studio and perform for themselves, but they weren’t able to pull it off. Only she and her real-life stepson David Cassidy could actually sing and play, the latter ascending to teen idol super-stardom due to the show’s incredible popularity.

Come On, Get Happy

David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Shirley Jones, Suzanne Crough, Jeremy Gelbwaks

The Partridge Family – 24×30 Photo Poster Print

David Cassidy
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can’t ask for a better life.

The Cassidy Family

Shirley Jones with Stepson David Cassidy

Shirley Jones with David Cassidy – Collectible Autographed 8×10 Photo

Shirley Jones
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that’s what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

David Cassidy

April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017

David Cassidy – 18×24 Reproduction Print

Ultimate TV Themes

93 Songs From Your Favorite Shows (Hal Leonard Books)

The Hal Leonard Corporation was founded in 1947 and has become the largest print music publisher in the world, representing some of the greatest artists and songwriters of all time. Hal Leonard Books are popular with musicians as well as music lovers. The book includes theme songs from several popular classic TV shows including The Partridge Family.

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Shirley Jones
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

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The Andy Griffith Show Theme Song by Composer Earle Hagen

by musician on March 26, 2016

The Fishin’ Hole

Composed by: Earle Hagen & Herbert W. Spencer

Lyrics by: Everett Sloane

The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968)

Andy Griffith: Sheriff Andy Taylor

Ron Howard: Opie Taylor

Frances Bavier: Aunt Bee Taylor

Don Knotts: Deputy Barney Fife

George Lindsey: Goober Pyle

Howard McNear: Floyd Lawson

Aneta Corsaut: Helen Crump

Jack Dodson: Howard Sprague

Hal Smith: Otis Campbell

Hope Summers: Clara Edwards

Betty Lynn: Thelma Lou

Jim Nabors: Gomer Pyle

The Fishin’ Hole (Excerpt)
Well, now, take down your fishin’ pole
and meet me at The Fishin’ Hole,
We may not get a bite all day,
but don’t you rush away …

Starring Andy Griffith as Sheriff Taylor

The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968)

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Composer Earle Hagen

The Andy Griffith Show Theme Song Composer

The legendary Earle Hagen composed music for over 3,000 television series episodes during his long career, and will surely be remembered for the theme from The Andy Griffith Show. The theme song, called “The Fishin’ Hole,” is unquestionably one of the most recognizable tunes of all time.

Until Earle Hagen’s passing in 2008, very few fans of The Andy Griffith Show realized it was the composer himself who whistled the famous tune at the top of each episode. It wasn’t planned that way. As a composer, Earle Hagen was a master at capturing the tone of each show he worked on. However, creating a theme song for The Andy Griffith Show proved somewhat challenging. The composer ultimately decided to create something simple, something that could be whistled.

A demo of the show’s opening theme was recorded, with Earle Hagen whistling the tune and his 11-year-old son Deane snapping his fingers. The idea was presented to the show’s executive producer, Sheldon Leonard, the following morning. The concept was a winner! Sheldon Leonard loved the theme and suggested the now famous (and much parodied) opening sequence where Andy and Opie Taylor walk along a country road with their fishing poles.

Earle Hagen
While sitting at home wracking my brain for an idea for a theme for the Griffith show, it finally occurred to me that it should be something simple, something you could whistle. With that in mind, it took me about an hour to write the Andy Griffith theme.

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Composer Earle Hagen

The Andy Griffith Show Theme Song Composer

Earle Hagen jokingly referred to himself as “a famous composer nobody ever heard of,” but that was hardly the case. Television production superstars Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard depended on Earle Hagen to create original and distinctive music for their shows. At one point in his busy career, Earle Hagen worked on as many as six different television shows at one time.

Though perhaps best known for The Andy Griffith Show, Earle Hagen wrote memorable opening themes for a number of other television shows, including The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Mod Squad, That Girl, and Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer. He scored dozens of television shows, including Make Room for Daddy, The Mod Squad, Eight Is Enough and The Dukes of Hazzard.

At his peak, Earle Hagen was known to work 16-hour shifts, seven days a week, for 40 weeks a year. The prolific composer received three Emmy Award nominations for outstanding achievement in musical composition for I Spy, and won the award in 1968.

Earle Hagen
It was hard work, with long hours and endless deadlines, but being able to write something one day and hear it a few days later appealed to me.

The Men of Mayberry

Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors

The Andy Griffith Show – The Men of Mayberry Retro Vintage 8×12 Metal Sign

The Andy Griffith Show

Ranked by TV Guide as the Ninth-Best Show in Television History

The Andy Griffith Show aired on CBS for eight seasons from October 3, 1960 through April 1, 1968. The first five seasons (159 episodes) were shot in black and white, and the final three seasons (90 episodes) were shot in color. Andy Griffith appeared in all 249 of these episodes.

The popular series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and was ranked number one during its final season in 1968. The show was a spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show and spawned a spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. in 1964, as well as a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D. in 1968. There was also a reunion movie, Return to Mayberry in 1986. Reruns of The Andy Griffith Show currently air throughout the United States, and the complete series is available on DVD.

Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Andy Griffith

Starring as Opie, Aunt Bee and Sheriff Taylor

The Andy Griffith Show – Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Andy Griffith Under Umbrella – 5×7 Photo

Ron Howard
Early in the second season of ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more ‘like the way a kid would say it.’ I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me.

The Andy Griffith Show

Starring Ron Howard as Opie Taylor

Ron Howard as Opie Taylor – The Andy Griffith Show 8×10 Glossy Photograph

Huell Howser Tours Franklin Canyon Park

As Seen in The Andy Griffith Show Opening Credits

A man-made reservoir in Franklin Canyon Park was the location for the show’s opening credits. In the famous sequence, Sheriff Andy Taylor and his son Opie walk along the trail with their fishing poles in hand.

Andy Griffith and Ron Howard

Shot in Franklin Canyon Park, Los Angeles

The Andy Griffith Show 8×10 Glossy Photograph

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Andy Griffith
I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of ‘Mayberry,’ and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

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Green Acres Theme Song Written by Vic Mizzy

by musician on March 25, 2016

Green Acres Theme Song

Sung by: Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor

Written by: Vic Mizzy

Green Acres (1965-1971)

Eddie Albert: Oliver Wendell Douglas

Eva Gabor: Lisa Douglas

Tom Lester: Eb Dawson

Frank Cady: Sam Drucker

Pat Buttram: Eustace Charleton Haney

Alvy Moore: Hank Kimball

Hank Patterson: Fred Ziffel

Barbara Pepper: Doris Ziffel

Sid Melton: Alf Monroe

Mary Grace Canfield: Ralph Monroe

Green Acres Theme Song (Excerpt)
Green Acres is the place to be
Farm livin’ is the life for me
Land spreadin’ out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside …

Starring Eva Gabor

I Just Adore a Penthouse View

Eva Gabor 16×20 Photo Poster Print

Eva Gabor
Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Green Acres

It’s the Place To Be!

Though decidedly corny today, Green Acres was a trail blazer in the 1960s. It was only the second television series to show a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed (Samantha and Darrin Stephens were the first sitcom couple to share a bed).

Moreover, the show’s distinctive theme song was the first to be sung by the stars of a television sitcom. He likes fresh air, she likes Times Square. He likes chores, she likes stores.

Goodbye, city life! Ultimately, Oliver Wendall Douglas prevails, and that’s how he and his glamorous wife Lisa end up in Hooterville for six seasons. Ironically, it’s Lisa who adapts well to country life. Oliver, the only farmer to ride his tractor in a three-piece-suit, proves incapable of growing a thing.

Starring Eddie Albert

Keep Manhattan, Just Give Me that Countryside

Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor – Green Acres 8×10 Photo

Eddie Albert
I don’t really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

The Hooterville Handbook

A Viewer’s Guide to Green Acres by Stephen Cox

Here’s a perfect gift idea for fans of this timeless television treat. It features a foreward by friendly county agent Hank Kimball and interviews with several cast members. Take a sneak peek at the Olivers’ bedroom and learn more about the private life of Arnold Ziffel.

The Hooterville Handbook: A Viewer’s Guide To Green Acres by Stephen Cox

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The Rural Purge
Pat Buttram, who played the wily Mr. Haney, was quoted as saying “CBS canceled everything with a tree, including Lassie.”

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Petticoat Junction Theme Song by Paul Henning and Curt Massey

by musician on March 25, 2016

Petticoat Junction Theme Song

Written by: Paul Henning and Curt Massey

Petticoat Junction (1963-1970)

Edgar Buchanan: Joseph P. ‘Uncle Joe’ Carson

Linda Henning: Betty Jo Bradley Elliott

Bea Benaderet: Kate Bradley

Frank Cady: Sam Drucker

Lori Saunders: Bobbie Jo Bradley

Rufe Davis: Floyd Smoot

Meredith MacRae: Billie Jo Bradley

Mike Minor: Steve Elliott

Smiley Burnette: Charley Pratt

Jeannine Riley: Billie Jo Bradley

Pat Woodell: Bobbie Jo Bradley

June Lockhart: Dr. Janet Craig

Gunilla Hutton: Billie Jo Bradley

Petticoat Junction Theme Song (Excerpt)
Come ride the little train
That is rolling down the tracks
To the junction
(Petticoat Junction) …

Petticoat Junction (CBS)

Starring (Top Row) Frank Cady, Gunilla Hutton, Linda Henning, Rufe Davis, Smiley Burnette and (Bottom Row) Lori Saunders, Bea Benaderet, and Edgar Buchanan

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Frank Cady
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

The Shady Rest Hotel

It is Run by Kate … Come and Be Her Guest

Welcome to Petticoat Junction. The opening titles of the series featured a display of petticoats hanging on the side of a large railroad water tank where Kate’s three daughters are bathing. The “junction” in the title refers to the Shady Rest Hotel, situated at a crossing of two train lines.

Lotsa Curves You Bet!

Linda Henning, Gunilla Hutton, Lori Saunders

Petticoat Junction – Seasons 1-3

Bea Benaderet as Granny?
Bea Benaderet was originally considered for the role of Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies. When Bea saw her friend Irene Ryan at the audition, she told Paul Henning, ‘There’s your Granny!’

Petticoat Junction

Forget About Your Cares … It’s Time to Relax

Producer Paul Henning wrote the series for Bea Benaderet, one of his favorite character actresses. She worked alongside radio and television stars Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. She provided the uncredited voice for many Warner Bros. cartoon characters and was the first actress to voice Wilma Flintstone’s best pal, Betty Rubble. According to Linda Henning, her father felt that Bea Benaderet had paid her dues and deserved to headline her own series.

Paul Henning also created The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. Edgar Buchanan portrayed Uncle Joe on all three shows. The gravelly voiced actor had made his living as a dentist, in a practice shared with his wife. At age 38 Edgar Buchanan turned the business over to her and began his long and successful acting career. His dentistry skills came in handy on the set — he once pulled the tooth of his long-time stand-in, Jack Henderson.

Like Edgar Buchanan, Frank Cady portrayed his character Sam Drucker, the congenial general store owner, on all three of Paul Henning’s shows. His final acting credit is for the reunion special Return to Green Acres which aired in 1990. Frank Cady stayed with Petticoat Junction for its entire seven-year run, along with co-stars Edgar Buchanan and Linda Henning.

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Bea Benaderet as Ethel?
Vivian Vance fans might be surprised to learn that Bea Benaderet was Lucille Ball’s original choice for Ethyl on I Love Lucy. At the time Bea had a regular role on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and couldn’t accept the offer.

The Girls of Petticoat Junction

Meredith MacRae, Lori Saunders, Linda Henning

The Girls of Petticoat Junction: Sixties Sounds

Petticoat Junction Theme Song

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Frank Cady
What’s the secret to playing Sam Drucker? I just play myself. Sam Drucker and I are old friends. I played him on Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies and we were going strong until 1971, when Fred Silverman canceled every show with a tree in it.

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F Troop Theme Song by Irving Taylor and William Lava

by musician on March 25, 2016

F Troop Theme Song

Lyrics by: Irving Taylor and William Lava

F Troop (1965-1967)

Forrest Tucker: Sgt. Morgan O’Rourke

Larry Storch: Cpl. Randolph Agarn

Ken Berry: Capt. Wilton Parmenter

Melody Patterson: Wrangler Jane Angelica Thrift

James Hampton: Hannibal Dobbs

Frank DeKova: Chief Wild Eagle

Bob Steele: Trooper Duffy

Don Diamond: Crazy Cat

Joe Brooks: Trooper Vanderbilt

Ivan Bell: Trooper Duddleson

The Ballad of F Troop (Excerpt)
The end of the Civil War was near
When quite accidentally
A hero who sneezed abruptly seized
Retreat and reversed it to victory …

F Troop Cast

Ken Berry, Melody Patterson, Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch

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Welcome to Fort Courage

Home of F Troop

If you take a left at the rock that looks like a bear, and a right at the bear that looks like a rock, you’ll end up at Fort Courage, home of television’s beloved sitcom, F Troop.

Politically incorrect by modern standards—the F Troop theme song includes the words paleface and redskin—F Troop symbolizes a simpler time when television shows were allowed to laugh at race and religion without fear of reprisals. None of the regular Indian characters were played by Native American actors.

Many of the Hekawis were played by veteran Yiddish comedians employing classic Yiddish shtick. Most notably, Medicine Man Roaring Chicken was portrayed by legendary actor and voiceover talent Edward Everett Horton.

Melody Patterson

Starring as Wrangler Jane

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Jane Loves Wilton
Melody Patterson was only 16 when she auditioned for the part of Wrangler Jane, not really expecting to get the job. She and her mother didn’t tell the producers her real age until just before shooting started.

Captain Parmenter and Wrangler Jane

Please Jane — Not in Front of the Men!

Ken Berry Melody Patterson F Troop 8×10 Photo

Wilton Loves Jane
That’s why in the first season while Jane pursues Wilton Parmenter at every conceivable opportunity, he never returns a kiss. By the second season, Melody had turned 18 and Wilton was allowed to be a bit more affectionate.

F Troop Hekawi Style

Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry

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Chief Wild Eagle
(On How the Hekawi Got their Name)
Many moons ago tribe move west because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood. Tribe travel west, over country and mountains and wild streams. Then come big day … tribe fall over cliff. That when Hekawi get name. Medicine man say to my ancestor, ‘I think we lost. Where the heck are we?’

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Larry Storch
I’ll never forget what Edward Everett Horton said to me: “Promise me, Larry, you will never grow old.” I’ve tried my best to use that advice.

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Mister Ed Theme Song by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston

by musician on March 25, 2016

Mister Ed Theme Song

Written by: Ray Evans and Jay Livingston

Mister Ed (1961-1966)

Alan Young: Wilbur Post

Connie Hines: Carol Post

Bamboo Harvester: Mister Ed

Allan Lane: Voice of Mister Ed

Larry Keating: Roger Addison

Edna Skinner: Kay Addison

Leon Ames: Gordon Kirkwood

Florence MacMichael: Winnie Kirkwood

A Horse is a Horse (Excerpt)
A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one can talk to a horse, of course
That is, of course, unless the horse
Is the famous Mister Ed …

Mister Ed

Starring Connie Hines and Alan Young

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Alan Young
We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.

A Horse is a Horse

Of Course, Of Course

In 1961 American television audiences were introduced to the most famous talking horse of all time. Mister Ed was no ordinary horse. In addition to holding in-depth conversations with his owner Wilbur Post, Mister Ed flew an airplane, played chess and ping pong, schmoozed with Hollywood celebrities, and even rode a surfboard.

The show lasted six seasons and attracted a number of notable guest stars, including Clint Eastwood, Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Burns, Donna Douglas, Nancy Kulp, Leo Durocher, Vin Scully, Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby), and film legend Mae West who was a personal friend of the show’s producer, Arthur Lubin. Mister Ed won a Golden Globe award for Best TV Show, Comedy in 1963.

Mister Ed

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Starring Bamboo Harvester as Mister Ed
Bamboo Harvester was trained by Les Hilton. Ed’s stable companion was a quarter horse named Pumpkin who also served as Bamboo Harvester’s stunt double. Pumpkin later appeared in the popular sitcom Green Acres.

Mister Ed (CBS)

A Filmways Presentation

Mister Ed was the first television series to debut as a midseason replacement. The situation comedy aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961 to February 6, 1966. The star of the show is Mister Ed, an intelligent palomino American Saddlebred, “played” by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by Allan Lane. When an episode called for Ed to sing, his voice was provided by the musically trained actor Sheldon Allman. Ed’s solo line at the close of the show — I Am Mister Ed — was sung by Jay Livingston, the theme song’s composer.

Rumors circulated for years that Mister Ed’s talking effect was achieved by applying peanut butter to the horse’s gums. In later interviews Alan Young explained that he invented the story. Happily, Mister Ed’s young fans seemed satisfied.

The Famous Mister Ed

Featuring the Voice of Allan Lane

Mister Ed – Alan Young – 8×10 Photo

Alan Young
Al Simon and Arthur Lubin, the producers, suggested we keep the method (of making the horse appear to talk) a secret because they thought kids would be disappointed if they found out the technical details of how it was done. So I made up the peanut butter story, and everyone bought it.

Mister Ed and Wilbur

Alan Young Relished the Role of Sidekick to a Talking Horse

Much of the program’s humor is at the expense of Ed’s owner Wilbur Post, the only person with whom Ed will speak. Arthur Lubin chose Alan Young to play Wilbur because he “just seemed like the sort of guy a horse would talk to.” Connie Hines was delightful in the role of Carol Post, though the show’s story lines focused on the relationship and antics between Wilbur and Mister Ed.

The Famous Mister Ed

He’ll Never Speak … Unless He Has Something to Say

Mister Ed – Alan Young – Framed 11×14 Print

Alan Young
It was initially done by putting a piece of nylon thread in his mouth. But Ed actually learned to move his lips on cue when the trainer touched his hoof. In fact, he soon learned to do it when I stopped talking during a scene! Ed was very smart.

Mister Ed and Me

by Alan Young (with Bill Burt)

Wilbur speaks! Mister Ed’s owner reminisces about one of the most beloved classic television shows. Alan Young began his show business career as a child radio performer. By the 1950s he was starring in The Alan Young Show and winning Emmys. When CBS refused his request to adopt a three-camera film technique developed by Desi Arnaz and Al Simon, Alan’s live show floundered and was eventually canceled. His next television role, as the sidekick to a talking horse, put his career back on track. Mister Ed was one of a handful of syndicated shows picked up by a network.

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Mister Ed Theme Song

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Mister Ed – The Quotable Equine
Don’t yell at me, Wilbur. I’m not your wife.
Well, time to hit the hay … Oh I forgot, I ate it!
Hey Wilbur … what do you say we go out riding and pick up a couple of fillies?

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Monkees Theme Song by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart

by musician on March 25, 2016

Monkees Theme Song

Artist: The Monkees

Lyrics by: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart

The Monkees (1966-1968)

Micky Dolenz: Micky

David Jones: Davy

Peter Tork: Peter

Michael Nesmith: Mike

Monkees Theme Song (Excerpt)
Here we come
Walking down the street
We get the funniest looks from
Everyone we meet …

Hey, Hey … We’re The Monkees

Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz

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Micky Dolenz
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for ‘The Monkees’ came along.

The Monkees

Here We Come … Walkin’ Down the Street

Based loosely on The Beatles’ films A Hard Day’s Night and Help!, a sitcom called The Monkees featured the antics of a fictional pop-rock group. When they came walkin’ down the street in 1966, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Mike Nesmith were virtual unknowns.

A six-week crash course in improvisational acting with director James Frawley paid off. The four actors gelled as a team and morphed into a real pop group. After an auspicious start—The Monkees original pilot set a new ratings low for a pilot—the show went on to dominate its time slot for the entire 58-episode run from 1966 to 1968. In 1967 the show won an Emmy award for Outstanding Comedy Series. The show pioneered avante garde film techniques like improvisation, jump cuts, breaking the fourth wall, and free-flowing, loose narratives. James Frawley also landed an Emmy award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy.

The Monkees Television Show

Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith

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Davy Jones
Wherever I go, people still shout out: ‘Hey, hey, we’re The Monkees.’ And I never tire of that.

The Monkees

We’re Too Busy Singing … To Put Anybody Down

When Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork joined forces in 1966 to portray The Monkees, the actors provided vocals under the supervision of music producer Don Kirshner. Downtime on the television production set allowed the fictional band members to develop their musical and songwriting skills. They eventually earned the right to supervise all musical output under the “Monkees” brand, and also performed live during several concert tours.

The show was cancelled after just two seasons in 1968, but the band continued to release records until 1970. In addition to The Monkees theme song, the group’s international hits include Last Train to Clarksville, I’m a Believer, (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone, Pleasant Valley Sunday, and Daydream Believer.

People Say We Monkee Around

Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith

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Peter Tork
I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there’s not much that’s more fun than that.

Ultimate TV Themes

93 Songs From Your Favorite Shows (Hal Leonard Books)

Ultimate TV Themes: 93 Songs from Your Favorite Shows (Hal Leonard Books)

Mike Nesmith
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don’t expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

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Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork

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Monkees Theme Song

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British Playwright Tom Stoppard
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

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