R.I.P you beautiful Texas treasure of a soul. You and your six string rifle will greatly be missed. Thank you for a lifetime of joy. Sleep sweet in paradise.
It would be no stretch, no lie, no fib, and no misrepresentation to say that between 1966 to 1975 I listened to this forgotten gem no less then 372 times! Easy!!! We damned near worn that album OUT!!!! Such great tunes I remember, but were nearly forgotten after 54 years!!! " I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog", "She Hangs Out". And about a dozen other tunes we wore the grooves out on on that 1 album alone!!!! So underrated a band in history! Hopefully these kids today will go and listen to these absolute treasures of the 60s!!! The Monkees were cool, in my opinion!!!!! R.I. P. Mr. Nesmith!! You brought me such happiness and joy in my youth!!!! And you got to live a long, fruitful life!!!! May the Monkees live forever??!!!!
He was always my favorite Monkee. I admire him for getting the others to all gang up on Don Kirshner and finally getting the chance to play their own music.
What a great time to be alive. The Monkees had a TV show. The Beatles were still together. Original Star Trek was still on. The future looked bright. On the other hand, my older brother was far off fighting in Vietnam, so that kind of sucked. Rest in Peace Mike. Thanks for being part of the soundtrack of my childhood.
@@leonakinglion3210 He did a lot of work behind the scenes for the music industry. I just saw in interview where he talks about this song, and how impressed he was with Peter's excellent banjo playing.
A highly respected, easily recognized, award-winning, influential performer/businessman who died wealthy and with all kinds of tributes from the media - you have a goofy idea of what "underrated" means. Maybe you're a fan who'd like to pretend he's an obscure performer only the cool kids know about. What else is underrated in your opinion? Eating food? Clothing? 🤨
I had to find this SONG. With Mike Nesmith passing away this morning, I just can't believe it 😞😭 and now only Mickey Dolenz remains left living. My childhood is dwindling down to nothing. Rest In Peace, Mike Nesmith, TEXAS is crying for YOU TONIGHT BOY ☮️ 🕊️💔🌹🙏🏽‼️
Not so unidentified .... anyone who knows music knows what a talent he was. He wrote a lot of great music and contributed his unique touch to so many songs.
What can I say? You were my older sister's idols, but I miss you, too ... esp Michael. The Monkees were a musical commercial product, but the chosen characters were unique - esp Michael. A great, soulful musician .... Good-bye OJ
They were a good group. I grew up watching the TV show and had all their records. Very under-rated. Have to say ,would never figured Mickey would be the only one left.
Love The Monkees. They should have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, years ago. However, I don't even feel that the hall is even relevant anymore.
Monkee or not Michael was a very unique artist. His singing is as unique as Johnny Cash or a Willie Nelson. Nobody sounds like Michael He not only helped create MTV but he created a new genre of music known as Country Rock. (Western Rock) First example being that from the first monkees album, for example "Sweet Young Thing" which predates anybody else. His music was the first to feature a Moog synthesizer. Daily Nighty' He like the rest of the Monkees still hold the record for most sold albums in a year by Billboard. He was an amazing artist. RIP Michael.
RIP Michael Nesmith. All of his songs from the Monkees were outstanding!! Underrated is certainly an overused term, but it applies to Mike in many ways.
If Nesmith hadn't joined the Monkees he surely would have been a musical legend who could have played with so many other legends. Whata' song writer!!!
The Monkees invented country-rock as early as "Papa Gene's Blues" and "Sweet Young Thing" (Nesmith's own tunes!) on their first album. By "What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round?" they were experts at a genre that no-one else had even picked up yet, outside of a couple stray tracks from the Byrds and Springfield. Add that to their pioneering use of the Moog on the "Pisces" album and you get a band that was far more innovative and cutting-edge than they are EVER given credit for. The Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame should hang its head in shame.
RIP Mike Nesmith. Love you, man. Since I was a baby plopped down in front of the TV, up through when I stole my mom's copies of the Monkees albums, and all the while you were pioneering the music video format.
@@dianasacremontes5639 good taste at 8. He's yours. He is pretty perfect; that Texan drawl of his, especially when in full force, just melts me alone. Since the time of writing however, my affections have turned toward Peter. Though, don't ask me if it is show Peter or reality Peter I am referring to. I won't chose as both have much to recommend them. A very delicious dichotomy indeed...
RIP Mike “Papa” Nez. He thought he wasn’t a good singer. I thought he was not only a great singer but a great songwriter, and a person who was able to have vision and make significant change actually happen. People like him come around only once in a lifetime. We are blessed having shared the planet with him at the same time. He changed the music industry and music in general. He couldn’t sit still and take the status quo. He saw the way it was going and didn’t want it to pass him by. Bravo, Michael Nesmith, great work, great contributions all around. ♥️
Micky is hilarious . I love him acting so goofy and waving. This spontaneity and the special connection these four had set them apart from other groups. I was a second generation fan and continued to see the Monkees through out the years . When my sister and cousin were into New Kids on the block. I idolized the Monkees and saw them in concert in 1987 when Weird Al Yankovitch opened for them. Even saw mike and micky recently. Wish I could see micky on his own but have to wait for him to come east.
I always felt sorry for Michael Nesmith. He was the only member of the group who could play his instrument. You can tell he was not happy having to tolerate the other three. He always appeared to be the outsider. He never had to pretend he was playing his guitar, you could see him playing because he didn't turn hiss guitar away when the camera was on him. Unlike Peter Dork and Micky Dolenz. He will be sorely missed. RIP
Love this song, and always have. Brought me to tears when I saw Mike play this on the Mike and Micky tour last year, which I got to watch from the front row with Mike right in front of me.
Hey, Kevin. It's Mark from I was a DJ... I got a lump in my throat Sunday night. Just saw them here in Mike's city, San Antonio. Getting a lump now as I watch this.
@@markcarrillo2445 That makes me so happy. Mike had never been in the Dayton area...ever. Closest he ever came was with the Monkees at that "infamous" Cincinnati concert when the guys escaped their handlers and just barely made it to a police car with about 5,000 teenage girls in tow. But, I finally got see him. Y'know, he "taught" me how to play guitar when I was 9 years old. I watched his hands on the fretboard on the TV show. He always "played" the right chords. So, I got him to sign a copy of "Headquarters" for me and he inscribed the card, "from your guitar teacher".
Michaell Nesmith. Mi amor platónico de niña. Siempre los ame! Hasta ahora una mujer de 66 años. Y lo sentí muchísimo la muerte de ellos. Ojalá Micki Dolenz. Nos dure mucho tiempo. Saludos desde la Ciudad de México.
There's some other tracks he may be interested in then. Imo the monkees didn't allow any of them to really flourish/show their talent. Legit musicians. Can understand their frustration with not being able to write and record their own songs. Check out material from before and after the series aired
Perfection!!! I love and miss Davy, Peter and Mike. My childhood is disappearing right before my eyes😢 Micky, I love you too, my prayers are with you ♥️🙏♥️🙏
They were all incredibly talented. You could tell Mike was never really into the rock n roll/pop stuff. This was more his country style. But that’s exactly what the producers of The Monkees wanted. Four very different individuals.
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One of my favourite Monkees tunes. A perfect fusion of finger pickin country and power pop. Mike's outstanding vocal twang sets the whole thing off.
Yep, Mike did a great job on it. It was a Michael Martin Murphy tune. The man who wrote and sang "Wildfire".
Its sad that only Mickey is left now, R.I.P. Mike Nesmith
Mickey Dolenz……my favourite
Did you know that Micky was a kid TV star in a show called "Circus Boy" back in the late '50s? Check it out here on YT. I remember the show as a kid.
RIP Mike Nesmith (1942-2021).
ya smoking dope after a triple bypass operation is NOT smart, so disappointed....
came here to sat Good-bye to Mike Nesmith, & R.I.P...
RIP. Michael. I heard Michael Martin Murphy do this song, but I knew you did it first.
Michael Murphy co-wrote the song...but yes the Monkees recorded it first.
Michael Martin Murphy wrote this.
R.I.P you beautiful Texas treasure of a soul. You and your six string rifle will greatly be missed. Thank you for a lifetime of joy. Sleep sweet in paradise.
78 is too young
goodbye mike
thanks for all the music
It would be no stretch, no lie, no fib, and no misrepresentation to say that between 1966 to 1975 I listened to this forgotten gem no less then 372 times! Easy!!! We damned near worn that album OUT!!!! Such great tunes I remember, but were nearly forgotten after 54 years!!! " I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog", "She Hangs Out". And about a dozen other tunes we wore the grooves out on on that 1 album alone!!!! So underrated a band in history! Hopefully these kids today will go and listen to these absolute treasures of the 60s!!! The Monkees were cool, in my opinion!!!!! R.I. P. Mr. Nesmith!! You brought me such happiness and joy in my youth!!!! And you got to live a long, fruitful life!!!! May the Monkees live forever??!!!!
Yes! I still have two of my vinyls ☮️
No problem with that I do the same
Ditto, and I turned 10 in ‘75! 😂 Mickey Dolenz was my inspiration for becoming a drummer. 🥁
I love them even more now than I did in 1967, when I was 12 ! Still have all my original albums.
All true . I feel the same will always love them
More country than today’s country music
Todays country is yuk
Michael Martin Murphy wrote it.
RIP: Mike Nesmith
He was always my favorite Monkee. I admire him for getting the others to all gang up on Don Kirshner and finally getting the chance to play their own music.
R.I.P. Michael Nesmith 🙏
Peter Tork 🙏
Davy Jones 🙏
What a great time to be alive. The Monkees had a TV show. The Beatles were still together. Original Star Trek was still on. The future looked bright.
On the other hand, my older brother was far off fighting in Vietnam, so that kind of sucked.
Rest in Peace Mike. Thanks for being part of the soundtrack of my childhood.
Man From UNCLE was on.
Hope your brother made it back ok.
@@presto111man Yes he did, but he lost a part of his old, carefree self over there.
We'll said. Only wish my cousin had returned from the war. But,yes it was a time to remember
I think that the Beatles may have been quiet about the time the Monkees broke. It believe it was that period between Revolver and St Peper's.
Goodnight MIke, goodnight.... RIP
RIP Michael Nesmith. Underrated genius.
Indeed he is
@@leonakinglion3210 He did a lot of work behind the scenes for the music industry. I just saw in interview where he talks about this song, and how impressed he was with Peter's excellent banjo playing.
Oh look, another person saying an artist is underrated. That never happens. Very original comment Johnny
@@AhtoRashied In Nesmith's case he truly was.
A highly respected, easily recognized, award-winning, influential performer/businessman who died wealthy and with all kinds of tributes from the media - you have a goofy idea of what "underrated" means.
Maybe you're a fan who'd like to pretend he's an obscure performer only the cool kids know about. What else is underrated in your opinion? Eating food? Clothing? 🤨
I had to find this SONG. With Mike Nesmith passing away this morning, I just can't believe it 😞😭 and now only Mickey Dolenz remains left living. My childhood is dwindling down to nothing. Rest In Peace, Mike Nesmith, TEXAS is crying for YOU TONIGHT BOY ☮️ 🕊️💔🌹🙏🏽‼️
Mike was an unidentified genius. He’ll be missed
*_Repo Man_* 🎥 🎞️
He was gifted
Not so unidentified .... anyone who knows music knows what a talent he was.
He wrote a lot of great music and contributed his unique touch to so many songs.
He wrote Different Drum.
even tho he stayed fairly stoic he sang with passion
What can I say? You were my older sister's idols, but I miss you, too ... esp Michael. The Monkees were a musical commercial product, but the chosen characters were unique - esp Michael. A great, soulful musician ....
Good-bye
OJ
R.I.P. Michael, thanks for the music and the laughs from the T.V. show.
Nesmith was a progressive Country Western singer ahead of his time.
Michael Nesmith is the Godfather of Country Rock.
Michael Martin Murphy tune. The original cosmic cowboy.
Well said.
Folk, not Country and Western.
He and Gram Parsons were pioneers of Cosmic Country!
I'd always though Michael Nesmith had wrote it, since it had some of his Texas country style to it...not that it diminishes its appeal, a classic
And then there was one, RIP Mike.
It should always be remembered that for almost two years in the mid sixties the Monkees actually outsold the Beatles. No mean feat.
He didn't get enough credit for his ability to sing and play... This is a wonderful song.
R.I.P Mike Nesmith. I had such a childhood crush on you.
May God accept Mike into his loving embrace. So sad at Mike's passing
RIP to Mike Nesmith😇😢🥀💐
my favorite "Monkee" because he was the most country and the best singer and the best looking and the smartest. :D
This is one of my favorite songs he sings. Love his voice. RIP Mike Nesmith
This song and also "Sometimes Love Is Only Sleeping". Also "Sweet Young Thing" All favorite Mike Nesmith songs!!
Me too
They were a good group. I grew up watching the TV show and had all their records. Very under-rated. Have to say ,would never figured Mickey would be the only one left.
I loved how Mike sang this song RIP Mike
My first loves. (and im only 38 lol) I miss Nez so freaking much. And of course Davy and Peter
I miss you my favorite Monkee. Thank you for your deadpan humor and music.
Anyone Else Still Watching?😎
Me in dec.
Oh, yes. We used to watch the Monkees on TV.
Love The Monkees. They should have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, years ago. However, I don't even feel that the hall is even relevant anymore.
Monkee or not Michael was a very unique artist. His singing is as unique as Johnny Cash or a Willie Nelson. Nobody sounds like Michael
He not only helped create MTV but he created a new genre of music known as Country Rock. (Western Rock) First example being that from the first monkees album, for example "Sweet Young Thing" which predates anybody else. His music was the first to feature a Moog synthesizer. Daily Nighty' He like the rest of the Monkees still hold the record for most sold albums in a year by Billboard. He was an amazing artist. RIP Michael.
Always a son of Texas.
RIP Michael Nesmith. All of his songs from the Monkees were outstanding!! Underrated is certainly an overused term, but it applies to Mike in many ways.
If there ever was a song that was written FOR Michael Nesmith, this was it......I was very surprised when I saw that he did not write it himself.
Me too!
me three
Ive always thought Mike wrote it as well,
Me 5! 2018 tour with Mickey and Peter, Mickey introduced it as a song that sounds like he wrote it but he didn't.
Time does not diminish the era and feeling that the Monkees music brings us at such an era where all is topsyturvy!
✌❤
He just passed and I'll imagine some folks will be watching this clip. Either again or for the first time. This is a good one.
He's been called the inventor of country rock. I'll take that. Peace.
God bless and Rest in Peace. Saturday mornings in the 80s was always Monkees re-runs
He don't have to hang around no more. Forever Young, Papa Nez.
Papa Nez? Really?
Rest in Peace, Mike.
love mike he was the best
Mike is COOL.✌❤
DAMM MIKE COULD HAVE HAD A GREAT SOLO CAREER!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Mike Nesmith and The Monkees for making me smile on a dreary day. Say hi to Davey and Peter for me....
If Nesmith hadn't joined the Monkees he surely would have been a musical legend who could have played with so many other legends. Whata' song writer!!!
I wish I could have these days back. They were the best
Will always love Mike
R.I.P Mike, You brought us such joy, sing to the angels
I was happily surprised to learn that this song was co-written by Michael Martin Murphey.
RIP Michael Nesmith.
Michael Nesmith was a genuine musical guru who's talent had no limits
The Monkees invented country-rock as early as "Papa Gene's Blues" and "Sweet Young Thing" (Nesmith's own tunes!) on their first album. By "What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round?" they were experts at a genre that no-one else had even picked up yet, outside of a couple stray tracks from the Byrds and Springfield. Add that to their pioneering use of the Moog on the "Pisces" album and you get a band that was far more innovative and cutting-edge than they are EVER given credit for. The Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame should hang its head in shame.
RIP Mike Nesmith!
RIP Mike Nesmith. Love you, man. Since I was a baby plopped down in front of the TV, up through when I stole my mom's copies of the Monkees albums, and all the while you were pioneering the music video format.
R.I.P. Mike Nesmith
My God. Mike's voice. His coolness. That crescendo. He's about to make me leave Davy. And I've been fateful for over 30 years.
you girl remain faithful to Dave...Mike is mine! just mine since I was 8
@@dianasacremontes5639 good taste at 8. He's yours. He is pretty perfect; that Texan drawl of his, especially when in full force, just melts me alone.
Since the time of writing however, my affections have turned toward Peter. Though, don't ask me if it is show Peter or reality Peter I am referring to. I won't chose as both have much to recommend them. A very delicious dichotomy indeed...
@@ncb6487 hahaha what a very delightful subtle sense of semiserious humor of yours!!
O totally agree.
I always loved Mike Nesmith and his Texan accent.Davy Jones was also cute.I picked Mike over Davy
Mum made a wool hat for me to wear just like Mikes. He was my favorite. My favorite song was aunties municipal court
John Ferguson:blue or green?
Mike rocks! He's the anchor of the Monkees.
Mike is the COOLEST.✌❤
Omg sad to hear of his passing RIP Michael Nesmith🙁
One of my fav monkees songs sung by Mike. Found out he died this morning and im grief stricken, mike is my fav monkee and ill miss him for sure
I'll miss you forever, Mike. RIP
Aw, poor Mike has passed away! I love this song.
THE UNFORGETTABLE MR. MIKE NESMITH OF THE MONKEES ! REST IN PEACE ! WHAT A VOICE !
RIP Mike “Papa” Nez. He thought he wasn’t a good singer. I thought he was not only a great singer but a great songwriter, and a person who was able to have vision and make significant change actually happen. People like him come around only once in a lifetime. We are blessed having shared the planet with him at the same time. He changed the music industry and music in general. He couldn’t sit still and take the status quo. He saw the way it was going and didn’t want it to pass him by. Bravo, Michael Nesmith, great work, great contributions all around. ♥️
You said it all. Did he really not like his voice? So many singers don't seem to
@@katethomas5712 iKR? He had such a beautiful voice. As a singer, I get it, you’re always comparing. He was very humble, too.
I remember the Monkees from day one. At one time I had every album of theirs wished I still had them
RIP Mike, Peter, and Davy!
i loved Mike Nesmith and as a young girl i put my best dress on to watch The Monkees
Micky is hilarious . I love him acting so goofy and waving. This spontaneity and the special connection these four had set them apart from other groups. I was a second generation fan and continued to see the Monkees through out the years . When my sister and cousin were into New Kids on the block. I idolized the Monkees and saw them in concert in 1987 when Weird Al Yankovitch opened for them. Even saw mike and micky recently. Wish I could see micky on his own but have to wait for him to come east.
I’m So Sorry To Hear Michael Nesmith’ s Passed Away! RI P.
Mike was so talented, Monkees, first official music video, Grammy for a video record, came up with the concept for MTV. Legend.
I always felt sorry for Michael Nesmith. He was the only member of the group who could play his instrument. You can tell he was not happy having to tolerate the other three. He always appeared to be the outsider. He never had to pretend he was playing his guitar, you could see him playing because he didn't turn hiss guitar away when the camera was on him. Unlike Peter Dork and Micky Dolenz. He will be sorely missed. RIP
What a great voice michael Nesmith has !
The coolest.✌❤
@annierose me too
Country Monkees. Sweet
Love this song, and always have. Brought me to tears when I saw Mike play this on the Mike and Micky tour last year, which I got to watch from the front row with Mike right in front of me.
Hey, Kevin. It's Mark from I was a DJ... I got a lump in my throat Sunday night. Just saw them here in Mike's city, San Antonio. Getting a lump now as I watch this.
@@markcarrillo2445 That makes me so happy. Mike had never been in the Dayton area...ever. Closest he ever came was with the Monkees at that "infamous" Cincinnati concert when the guys escaped their handlers and just barely made it to a police car with about 5,000 teenage girls in tow. But, I finally got see him. Y'know, he "taught" me how to play guitar when I was 9 years old. I watched his hands on the fretboard on the TV show. He always "played" the right chords. So, I got him to sign a copy of "Headquarters" for me and he inscribed the card, "from your guitar teacher".
Nice!!!
I saw Mike in 2013 in Dallas, Texas and it was without a doubt one of the best shows I've ever seen!!
Gees I knew Davey Jones gone didn't no Mike was 2 rip Mike u had some great singles
THE BANJO 🪕 REALLY SETS THIS SONG OFF !
How many of you were waving back at Micky? LOL Hard to believe only one Monkee is still with us. RIP Nez, Davy and Peter.
I definitely was waving back 😅
Mike catching someone’s eye and not being impressed and also not giving a shit 😂 ❤
He didn't know how, or somewhat refused, to promote his own career as well. Unimpressed even by himself!
RIP mate .. will meet you there in the land where we go when time comes.... !!!
Rest in Peace Papa Nez. Thank you for your creativity, talent and humor. You were always “the one”.
Beautiful. RIP.
R.I.P. Mike, great song man!
Michaell Nesmith. Mi amor platónico de niña. Siempre los ame! Hasta ahora una mujer de 66 años. Y lo sentí muchísimo la muerte de ellos. Ojalá Micki Dolenz. Nos dure mucho tiempo. Saludos desde la Ciudad de México.
The way that Dolenz manages to keep the beat whilst waving to an imaginary train is quite extraordinary.
My favorite Monkee's song.
Many sources blast Mike's voice, but it's perfect in this song. His voice is so natural.
It's shit.
@@tomthomas9708 Okay. Maybe they should have asked you to sing it then.
Haters gonna hate. Ainters gonna aint. Nez is priceless.
@@tomthomas9708 If you don't like the Monkees why are you here?
@@brucetracy8456 I'll do what I like thanks. How does fuck off sound?
The Monkees sent this positive energy into the universe I love these guys
And still can't stop thinking (of you, Mike) when I hear some whistle cryin'
Mike’s playing the beautiful Gretsch. Even my musical snob husband loves the Nesmith Monkees stuff.
There's some other tracks he may be interested in then. Imo the monkees didn't allow any of them to really flourish/show their talent. Legit musicians. Can understand their frustration with not being able to write and record their own songs. Check out material from before and after the series aired
A great musician in his own right.
I'm A HUGE music snob (as are most musicians) and The Monkees rank right up there with The Beatles to me.
Gretsch made that 12-string special for Mike, then about 10 years ago gave him a new model.
The music world is emptier. Love the Monkees.
Love his smile at 2:23 I'm really gonna miss him RIP Michael
Great song, it should have been a single
Perfection!!! I love and miss Davy, Peter and Mike. My childhood is disappearing right before my eyes😢 Micky, I love you too, my prayers are with you ♥️🙏♥️🙏
Rest in peace, Michael Nesmith. I was, and am, a true fan.
Davy jones and Michael Nesmith shared the same birthday December 30. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Mike was years ahead of his time, a tremendous talent and guy....I'm heartbroken that he's no longer with us..
They were all incredibly talented. You could tell Mike was never really into the rock n roll/pop stuff. This was more his country style. But that’s exactly what the producers of The Monkees wanted. Four very different individuals.
My favorite Mike song☮️
Love the Bass good song great singer