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Was so sad to hear about Davy Jones death.

12 years ago

It was quite a shock. He is only 6 years older than me! I couldn't decide which one was my favorite, him or Micky Dolenz. I was a big fan of The Monkees when I was a teen. I had all their records and would play them over and over. Probably drove my Mom crazy! I still like their songs.

Clare

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annie1992
12 years ago
Clare, my grandmother's favorite was "Last Train to Clarksville" and she was a LOT older than me, so maybe your Mom actually secretly liked them. (grin)

I'm also sad about Davey Jones. He was my favorite, I thought he was so cute, the "grooviest".

Annie
sally2_gw
12 years ago
I, too, was a big fan of the Monkees. I was just the right age for them. Davey Jones was the one celebrity I ever wrote a fan letter to. No, he didn't respond, but that didn't dim my true love for him. *Sigh*

Sally
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doucanoe
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OMG..I hadn't heard this news! So sad...he was my first love!

(Heading to google the story....)

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centralcacyclist
12 years ago
He was my first crush, too. The news story took me back to 5th grade. We girls would get together and play records and teach each other dance steps. Mostly to the Monkees.

Davy was everyone's favorite. I think partly because he was "fun-sized" like us. :)

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lpinkmountain
12 years ago
Me too Eileen! Only I was in third grade. My best friend lived across the street and she shared a room with her two sisters. They had a record player in there, and three single beds. We all stood up on those beds and go go danced to the Monkees, just like the kids on "American Bandstand." :) Her mom made a collage with three girls go go dancing (white boots and all!) and 45 records, all glued to the bedroom wall. My friend and her sisters had blond, brown and black hair, just like the girls in the collage. We used to pretend we were them. Me with the dark brown hair always wished I was the blond one!

Or we used to play "Charlie Brown, Let Me Down" on the teeter totter. That's when you hold someone to the up side of the teeter totter until they say they will give you something you want. The first thing anyone ever wanted was "Davy Jones!" I've been an anglophile ever since, lol! Looking back at old clips its very evident that he was a true performer, his background in the theater really showed. Too bad he was so short, I'm sure that held him back somewhat in the roles he could get. (In the pre Tom Cruise days, lol!). But it did make him able to become a jockey, which apparently he loved doing too.

You know as I got older I used to scratch my head and wonder why I was ever attracted to Davy Jones. My god, I thought, he looks like a girl! :) No "girly boys" for me as I got older. But now, when I'm twice Davy's age in his heyday, that wide-eyed innocent look has gained back its appeal. Sadly, Davy lost it and so have I! Still it's nice to reminisce with those who also "remember when . . . "
Gina_W
12 years ago
Too young...

Did you know that David Bowie's real name is David Jones but he changed it since there was already a famous Davey Jones? He took the name Bowie from Jim Bowie, the famous frontiersman. Though it was pronounced differently.

My two youngest brothers had Davey Jones haircuts and my mom dressed the boys in those clothes too - striped bell bottoms, fringed vests and such. I balked at the fringed vests. I preferred Vogue magazine to Tiger Beat!
sally2_gw
12 years ago
Eileen, you and I must be the same age, as I think I was in the 5th grade when the Monkees were big and my friends and I were so in love with Davey Jones. Lpink, I love your story.

Speaking of short, did you know that Robert Redford is only 5'8" tall? I don't think Paul Newman was all that tall, either. Short can definitely be sexy!

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centralcacyclist
12 years ago
It was 5th or 6th grade, probably 5th. There is a blur there in my mind. Life was simpler when I wore bobby socks and and shorts under my dresses so I could play on the monkey bars.

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annie1992
12 years ago
I was in grade school too, I still remember hearing "I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog", and I think that was a release in 1966. I would have been 11 then.

Hardly anyone remembers that song, but for some reason it stuck in my head, I can still hear it. I had to look it up on YouTube for Elery, he insisted that he had never heard of it at all.

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