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3/30/2009 5:38:20 AM ---- Updated 3/30/2009 5:40:13 AM

Which Herman's Hermits and Monkees songs did you like best?
I was just listening to some old records and I loved them all.

3/30/2009 5:42:25 AM

This may be a controversial answer but I like Henery the 8th and Mrs Brown you've gawt a lovely dauwghter.

Monkees, I'm a Believer, and I'm Not Your Steppin Stone.

3/30/2009 5:48:50 AM

Hi Amanda ... a girl after my own heart ...

Regardless of how they get pounded by the public ... I liked a lot of Herman's Hermits songs ... "Silhouettes" .. the ever so fun "Henry the 8th I am" ... and BABY BABY .. "Can't you here my heart beat" ... ahhhhh that takes me back to a wonderful time ...

As far as the Monkees ....
I loved "Last Train to Clarksville" ... for personal reasons ... "I'm a Believer" /
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" ... "A little bit me, a little bit you" ... all fun tunes too ...

3/30/2009 6:32:12 AM

Steppin Stone, works great as rock, acoustic or new wave yet to hear a jaz version but that would probably work really well

3/30/2009 7:27:40 AM

I've alwayz dug Mrs. Brown you've got a loverly daw-ter and Henry the 8th for MONKEES -- that "Girl, look what you've done to me" tune that Davey Jones did on The Brady Bunch, as a side project/solo project. Day Dream Believer is pretty awesome too, but a BIT played out....

3/30/2009 12:16:24 PM

No Milk Today By Hermans Hermits is a beautiful pop song..
The Monkees have got a load of great tracks..'Porpoise Song' Do I HGave To Do THis All Over Again?' and As We Go Along...And those were just off the soundtrack to 'Head'

3/30/2009 2:56:12 PM

Looks like we have some connoisseurs here. I really liked "Kind of Hush" and I can actually play Daydream Believer on guitar now. Where are the modern day versions of band producing songs like this?

3/30/2009 3:17:13 PM

A Kind of Hush
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
Last Train to Clarksville
Henry the Eighth
etc.
etc.

3/30/2009 3:31:43 PM ---- Updated 3/30/2009 3:47:22 PM

I remember around that time, I was rather enamored with Pet Sounds, but the monkees had gotten my attention with "I'm not your stepping stone", ...which many people don't realize was a protest song calling for an end to the oppression of we animals, and the condemnation of us to a life of servitude and inequality...

I was rather young, idealistic, and yes; perhaps even a bit naive back in those days, and I bought into the message wholeheartedly... It was them as much as anyone that planted the seed of equality in my head, it was then that I took the first rudimentary steps in demanding equal treatment for myself, starting with a simple demand for the some of the same respect routinely shown to competing human actors in the business, ...I took what at that time was the the highly controversial step of placing the word "Mister" before my name.

Sure, I took some heat from the animal community, ...particularly from those jealous bastards down on the set of Bonanza who said I was selling out, trying to pass myself off as a human, ...but it wasn't about that, ...it was about respect, and dignity, ...and a vision that "Stepping Stone" had helped give to me.

Of course I, like everyone else, was utterly, and bitterly disappointed later on when it finally got out that the monkees, ...all of them, were frauds, ... merely human impostors, ...paid actors, posing as monkees.

Well after that, Stepping Stone's revolutionary message of freedom for animals was completely lost amid the scandal. In many ways I think those bastard wannabe monkees ultimately did more to harm the animal rights movement than anyone.

They were Milli Vanilla a generation before Milli Vanilli, and I for one will never forgive them.

But until such time as we animals can finally throw off the yoke of our oppressors, and lift our heads in unbridled freedom with our human partners, ...the revolution will continue!

In bitterness, brotherhood, and struggle,

I am MISTER Ed

3/30/2009 3:46:15 PM

Peter Tork, who is my next door neighbor, is recovering from surgery at the moment. He had a rare mouth cancer, but I think the prognosis is encouraging.

Just an FYI for Monkee fans tuning in here who weren't aware.

Best,

Kev-

3/30/2009 4:19:41 PM

Where are the modern day versions of band producing songs like this?

3/30/2009 5:34:51 PM

Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter. This is my favorite for so many reasons, structure/arrangement is magnificent. Did you know that HH actually made a whole movie about it? Just saw it on TV a couple of years ago - I wasn't aware of it. Nice movie in which you get to see the song story enacted. Plus the song is played several times, one extended.

For the Monkees I like Hey Hey We're the Monkees. Love those minors.

3/30/2009 6:56:15 PM ---- Updated 3/30/2009 7:03:21 PM

Mrs Brown was a song the Hermits did as a joke and they only did it in rehearsals to warm up and have a giggle. One day their manager heard them do it and forced them to release it as a single even though the the band never dreamed it would a huge hit. Wait a minute..maybe the song was Henry the 8th!!! Chalk it up to too much mind altering in the late 60's and lost memory cells!

3/30/2009 7:42:22 PM ---- Updated 3/30/2009 7:44:49 PM

Yes I like the Monkees, hard not to. They had the best writers of the day in their corner. The "project" was also trying to emulate what The Beatles were doing. I say project because the Monkees were a marketing machine putting out an excellent product. There were many talented people pulling strings.They have many excellent tracks, I am sure the Beatles themselves took notice. They actually met in a bar once, however the Beatles were tripping on LSD at the time :)

You asked where music like this was these days :) Here is a comment I received.

"hard to pick one track by this guy to put on my station ... also very hard to categorise him .. a lot of the material sounds like a touch of the Mersey Beat mixed with The Monkees (hope he takes that as the compliment it is intended as)"

That comment made me smile when I read it, I never thought of myself that way. I love the Beatles, so It kind of makes sense... :)

Regards,

Jeff

3/30/2009 8:00:36 PM

Lovely comment everyone, I never realised they were so popular.

Henery the 8th was actually written in 1910 as an old Music Hall song and Mrs Brown was written 1963 for Joe Brown (and the Bruvvers) on the birth of his daughter and was also a stage play song. Am&a

3/30/2009 9:38:19 PM

Some of my other favorite British Invasion songs we're

"From A Window" and "Little Children" by Billy J Kramer And The Dakotas
and "Ferry 'Cross The Mersey and "I Like It" by Gerry and the Pacemakers.

3/30/2009 9:42:21 PM

I'm gonna knock on your door

Ring on your bell

tap on your window too----HH

I still play this one with my IHC students ---great for percussion!!!

The Monkees--- Day Dream Believer-----refer back to Bananas post

3/31/2009 12:47:05 AM

I think my top 2 songs for each group are...

Monkees: "Daydream Believer", "Pleasant Valley Sunday"

Hermans Hermits: "Kind of a Hush" (amazing melody) and "Into Something Good"

3/31/2009 12:52:43 AM

"No Milk Today" -- HH

"Here Comes Tomorrow" -- Monkees

3/31/2009 2:10:22 AM

Ok Mr Ed

I feel I have to call you out on this one, I am actually a cultural object and proud of it, albeit a stuffed monkey mass produced but I have feelings and a rose, so careful who you call a human I might just decide to get thorny about this,

Actually Ive been talking to King Kong and he shares many of your sentiments, he feels totally exploited, I tried to get him involved in some monkey business but he says hes happy with his job as a branch manager and dosent want any heat from the man

anyway Ive always said we primates have to stick together, species is thicker than genus

3/31/2009 3:49:26 AM

Last Train to Clarksville

I still remember how crushed I was reading the Saturday Evening Post article that 'outed' the Monkee's as a 'fake' band. They were my favorite at the time.

HH - Kind of a Hush
Henry the 8th

My wife does a great impression.

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