#5- Songwriter BOBBY HART on Tommy Boyce, The Monkees, DJBH and Faith-The Monkees Pad Show,
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Legendary singer/songwriter Bobby Hart discusses the life and death of his show-biz partner, and friend, Tommy Boyce, writing and producing The Monkees, Boyce & Hart on record, TV and their 1987 reunion, Dolenz, Jones Boyce & Hart , the man who hastened the split of Boyce & Hart, and much more!
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Bobby Hart was a great interview. Humble. Clear. Honest. Historical. Direct. Informative.
Uncle Elmer as in "A Coffin Too Frequent"?
RIP Tommy Boyce. You will never be forgotten as a Great song writer and performer.
Not to mention He was quite a cutie 🥰
The best interviews are when the interviewer realizes they have a special guest and allows them to speak. It doesn’t happen enough anymore. This is a great example of how it should be done.
This is one of the best interviews I've ever heard. A fabulous piece of Monkees' history now preserved.
This was great. Thank You Bobby Hart.
These shows continue to hit it out of the park. Obviously Bobby Hart interviews are more common than the previous guests, but incredibly I learned so much I never knew before. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks,Jeff..they will keep coming as long as the audience continues to grow, as it has, and they respond and interact as viewers and commenters-as you have, otherwise there is no point..so please folks; like, share and subscribe~
Some of those memories are obviously very painful, thankyou for your candor Bobby Hart. Thankyou for the joy. Love you both.
Another great interview! My favorites off Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart are Sail on Sailor (very Eagles sounding), You Didn't Feel That Way Last Night (very Steppin' Stone), Moonfire, and the cover of Teenager In Love.
Another compelling episode! Thank You.
It’s sad that Tommy took his own life, I read about the health issues he had struggled with I hope he found peace, Tommy had such a neat personality.People who take their own life are despite for relief and feel there is no alternative it’s very sad so I cannot judge why people do this, it’s sad he couldn’t be helped…May Tommy be free of suffering and be happy in heaven. Even though at times you had some rough times with Tommy Bobby, between the two of you, you guys certainly had a friendship and creative career even friendships can have hard times But you two I’m sure had really great years between the two of you,Namaste Bobby ❤️🙏
What was he supposed to do? Let a malfunctioning body destroy him?
Love these series of programs!
I loved Tommy & Bobby's appearance on the TV Show Bewitched. They sang their song "I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind", but on the show Samantha's cousin Serena wrote it. Classic TV!
Ironically, that episode premiered on TV the night the B&H/Zsa Zsa Vegas show opened (Jan 1970)
Thanks for this very informative interview. I really enjoy your channel.
Awesome!
Excellent, interesting and informative interview. Well done!
Beautifully done, thanks!
Great interview love Bobby.
I'm glad to see that through youtube, these great writers will not be forgotten! Very good interview.
This is fabulous!!
Always loved their songs in different incarnations...thanks for endless memories !
Great interview with Bobby. Thank you for getting some info on the Capitol DJBH album. Like you mentioned it really is a great record but so very little is known about how it got made, the personnel who played on it. Any discussion about it's creation is welcome by fans.
thanks~I agree, love the record..I think it's the closest thing to a "1970's Monkees album" there is..
What an in-depth, thoughtful and respectful interview..thank you!! I'm glad Bobby has a spiritual side and I hope he studies the Bible and learns of Jesus..thank you again!!
Thank you, Rick...I thought it was important to discuss because it is so much a part of who Bobby is.
@@TheMonkeesPadPODCAST Your questions were absolutely terrific and covered areas rarely touched by interviewers. Thank you!
@@geneward779 That's my intention-so glad you enjoy the show-please help raise awareness by letting others know too-
This was great, I really enjoyed your excellent interview of Bobby ~ So glad I found your channel!
We're glad too~please spread the word to your fellow Beatles fans : )
Great show Joe!
Astounding talent him n tom
I can’t say enough about this interview. Still more proof of the incredible talent that went into creating Monkees music and the blindness and arrogance of the Rolling Stone and other self- appointed judges of 60s music.
Anyone whoever condemned The Monkees project as "untalented" was simply expressing their massive ignorance and lack of insight. Quite the contrary. It was fueled by some of the most creative, ingenious and forward-thinking artists, performers and musicians of the time.
@@TheMonkeesPadPODCAST And unfortunately the worst of the lot control the R and R Hall of Fame.
And arrogance of the Monkees
Great stuff!
Great interview!! Love you, Bobby!!! Jai Guru..👍❤️🙋♀️🙏🙏😇☮️☮️☮️
Wonderful interview. Great Pictures all through it. Thank you.
For Bobby to have Tommy not only as a song writing partner but
as a "Soul" Brother is such an amazing story. I would have loved
a friend and writing collaborator like that. Great story and memories
Bobby. 💗✝🙏
Thank you Bobby for the music and your memories Great interview! Your book was great too. Lifelong monkees fan Great Channel JR! 😊 hope the documentary can be released too!
Couple favorite Boyce and Hart songs of mine:
Out and about
Sometimes she’s a little girl
This is fascinating. Bobby, thanks for your candor. So generous. You were such a sexy fashion plate back in the day!
Love these guys, they were legendary , still are to many of us
I’ve just listened in chronological order to all of your podcasts so far. Excellent questions and delightful insights with all the guests. I’m looking forward to whoever you have on next. I’ll happily keep on listening/viewing. Still; my Special Request Guest has to be, of course, Micky Dolenz. As the last Monkee left, that would be wonderful. 🙏✨
Wow-A Monkees Pad Show binge watcher! LOL
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Great Interview !!
Thank you so much for doing this. I would love to have heard a bit more about the Candy Store Prophets. Like who each member was and what they went on to do. So much myth about the so called Wrecking Crew doing those recordings. I think it comes from Hal Blaine and Tommy Tedesco and Carole Kaye who were so busy that their collective memory was..."Yeah we did all that stuff" until the actual personnel was listed.
I heard Tommy Tedesco in 1989 in a clinic as he played Clarksville say, Oh yeah I played on all that shit. Got $40 bucks for each of those songs. Bla bla bla.
I did see that video of tommy tedesco saying that. Usually when Tommy and Bobby were producing the used themselves and their band. Louie Sheldon did play the licks on last train to clarksville. There is a video on youtube where he explains and shows how he came up with the arrangement. He also plays it live and was at a monkees show where he come up and played it live with them a few years ago. Glen Campbell also played on a lot of their early tunes. When others were producing the used the wrecking crew a lot.
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart WERE the frontmen to Candy Store Prophets band back in the day.
Good point- but I don’t blame the Wrecking Crew- I blame the critics who knew so little about music that they marginalized great artists simply because their songs were played on AM radio.
Candy store prophets is such a cool name for a band 😎
Great stuff thanks
Can't remember what song information I was awaiting but this was excellent and how refreshing to hear someone openly discuss reincarnation as valid as I've had to listen to foolish lambasting on that topic. Makes me curious about this Yogi, too. Oh and yeah, I remember that Girl I'm Out to Get You from an A & M compilation when folks were clearing out some of my grandmas extra things.
Bobby's band - The Candy Store Prophets - perfect. They opened and played for the Monkees. Boyce and Hart - so talented. The songs were incredible and still hold.
Incredible interview and interviewer! God Bless you sir.
Really enjoyed this interview. Love you Bobby 🌹
Love your channel... i appreciate your interviews, your research, your good thought-out questions and great guests...there are millions of monkees fans like myself who want to know everything about them...keep up the good work 👍
Very interesting
This was nice
Thank you
Mickey wish you would be all my ❤️💜♥️💕
I would have liked you to have asked him if "I wonder what she's doin" tonight" was ever pitched to the Monkees--it sounds a like MIcky Tune. Some question about Alice Long. Or did they stop working with the Monkees when they went out on their own? Also I'm goin to buy me a dog was also on the Farmer's Daughter before the Monkees. Also just curious, why did not they have Keith Allison also be a frontman with DJBH--obviously they'd needed a different moniker. He was kind of a star too, solo and with Paul Revere and the Raiders?
Also who were the Candy Store Prophets members and whatever became of them?
When "Gonna Buy Me A Dog" was brought up, I started to mention that it had been featured in "Farmer's Daughter" by Davy Jones, but Bobby's answer interrupted the full question. I found that most detailed questions about particular songs weren't eliciting detailed answers, so I abandoned that avenue of questioning after a few trys. Bobby reminded me these events were over 50 years ago, and he is not a student of his career as his public tends to be, which is certainly understandable.
The Monkees never really appreciated the skills of Boyce and Hart. These guys are class A songwriters and the Monkees would not have gotten to first base without them.
As I mentioned to Bobby in the interview, I felt they were both kinda "screwed" after the first album was a massive hit and Kirshner slashed their input from 7 tracks to only 2 for the second album.
The Monkees ALWAYS gave tons of credit to those guys. In fact, it's become tiresome how often Micky goes on and on about them. And who knows, really, what would've happened if they had NEVER connected with Boyce and Hart in any way. There are a lot of good song writers out there who could've filled the bill...and that's not to take anything away from them: They were in the right place at the right time, and the pop music world is lucky that it worked out that way....but it's not a provable fact that that they were the ONLY guys who could've done well in/with the same situation.
when is Gary Stroebls book coming out already lol
good job JR; thx
It is being done, I have read the manuscript... and it has a publisher...so, we'll see if 2022 will finally be the magic year
I'd like to have heard about Tommy and Bobby singing Serina's song, "Blow you a kiss in the wind" at the Cosmos Cotillion.
You get great guests and do a good job of knowing when to ask questions new sub 😌👍
thank you ZJ..we need MORE subscribers to enjoy this FAB content!
My favourite song is Alice Long
If the Monkees want to get into the RRHOF simply make a sizeable contribution to B'nai Brith in Jann Wenners name.
Antisemitic and a fan of LH Oswald nice. You’re some pos know that?
Mike Nesmith we lost this year too 💔
Monkees4Ever
they had gr8 tunes !!!!
What about Mike ? Bobby Hart forgot to talk about how Mike was in those days ?
Bobby didn't have much interaction with Mike as Nesmith generally wrote his own songs and never sang lead on anything Boyce & Hart wrote or produced. His involvement with Mike was minimal, so there were no important comments that needed to be included. Micky & Davy were his "go to" guys.
I always liked Going to buy a dog !
Great interview! Is it true that Peter didn’t want the band to perform the Monkee’s Theme song when the guys played together in concerts? I thought I remember reading that somewhere in a Monkee’s article awhile back. Thanks!
The Monkees theme recording was played upon their entrance to the stage in most 60's concerts, and was performed live, in some fashion, on stage during the reunions from 1986 onward, even if just as an instrumental. I believe in 1987 they used a recorded version that "skipped" until the Monkees set off "dynamite" to stop it.
@@TheMonkeesPadPODCAST,the skipping record "premiered " in '86.
My name is Alice Long and I’m curious where you got that name for the song.
Good interview overall, but some obvious missed opportunities.
1.Here are 2 guys booking studio time for early Monkees albums that used THE WRECKING CREW and all you could get was a blip on Louie Shelton!?
2. Tommy gets a place in Laurel Canyon at a time when Peter and Micky were partying with Mama Cass and her A list hippie music friends and you don't ask anything about it!? Plus one of those 'friends' was Stephen Stills, who also answered the ad for Monkees tryouts.
3. Don Kirshner. We know how The Monkees felt about him, what with Nez punching a hole in the wall, wishing it was Kirshner's face. But what was the feeling of Kirshner from the Boyce and Hart point of view? Especially from being relegated to only 2 compositions on Monkees second album. Then when it came time for their solo career, why are they going toHerb Alpert's A&M records instead of Kirshner signing them to his Calendar/Kirshner label...with prospects of writing and producing upcoming Archies music.
And lastly,...what was David Cassidy REALLY like? lol😀
Hmm...sometimes the people who worked on things like this don't have the most accurate memories or information (history). Seems to me The Monkees had a, um, a FEW hits after "Valerie", such as PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY and DAYDREAM BELIEVER, to say nothing of GOIN' DOWN and (In Europe) RANDY SCOUSE GIT/ALTERNATE TITLE. LISTEN TO THE BAND, TAPIOCA TUNDRA, GIRL I KNEW SOMEWHERE and a few others did pretty darn well, if not all top 10, PLUS Peter's FOR PETE'S SAKE being the closing song on the second season shows (and Michael, of course had, separately, a big hit with DIFFERENT DRUM around the same time). The guys all recording their songs at individual sessions didn't occur until after HEADQUARTERS, so I think he's not correct about suggesting that those "each going off on their own" recording sessions (paraphrasing) happened right after the 2nd album and VALERIE...(I may need to listen to this again and correct a few of the above, but I think most of it is pretty accurate...or MORE accurate than he is recalling here.)
Can't find bobby hart documentary movie anywhere, dose anyone know?
There were several public showings circa 2015, but the budget fell short of financing for music clearance fees, etc. So it may never see widespread release.
Appreciate I enjoy your show. I know I would have enjoyed that doc they were interesting writers & musicians cool sound.
The Monkees wanted to be the great Beatles, so bad. They couldn't tell that the song , Valerie was a good song.
As discussed in the episode, the Monkees' insistence (in early 1967) that all future recordings would include their input precluded it from being released at the time. It certainly would have been a hit during the first season of the TV show, and in fact was their last top 10 when it was eventually released, circa March/April 1968, after having been re-recorded.
Presley could've played a free gig in my living room and I probably wouldn't have gone to it.
One would think the continual cash flow of Days of Our Lives would have allowed both to never have to work again.
It's really not the kind of money you might think. A nice steady bonus, but not enough to support a celebrity lifestyle.
@@TheMonkeesPadPODCAST Not according to Paul Anka as the Tonight Show theme has paid his his lifestyle
i think TV show about Mr Webster was actually The Twilight Zone NOT Alfred Hitchcock Presents
There are video screen grabs from the actual show featured within the episode...it's for sure-Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
@@TheMonkeesPadPODCAST I do not recall that hitchcock episode, but I can tell you that The Twilight Zone episode “A Penny For Your Thoughts” has a similar plot and has Mr webster too
@@ericsclar905 Wow..the Hitchcock episode also has a "Mr.Frisbee" as well, but let's check out that Twilight Zone episode too! thanks for the note-
@@TheMonkeesPadPODCAST i just watched the TZ episode. It is very similar, but i was wrong about the name . . not webster as in the the hitchcock and the B-H song
The 3 guys were excellent singers but no contest instrumentally compared to the Wrecking Crew.
thats old jewish music,im jewish and i hear it
Sad to hear he rejected God's mercy and grace in favor of the reincarnation lie. 😢
when you say "he", are you referring to Tommy or Bobby