![]() ![]() ![]() The Wrecking Crew), leaving the four Monkees to act in the show and to drift into the recording studio to add lead vocals to already finished backing tracks. Musical director Don Kirchner insisted chose not only to use their own slew ofīrill Building professional songwriters (including Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond,Ĭarol King and the pair who wrote many of The Monkee’s classics, Tommy BoyceĪnd Bobby Hart) but session musicians to actually play on the recordings (often Greenwich Village guitarist and the other a promising Los Angeles singer/songwriter Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones were initially cast as a band of characters (or rather, characters who were in a band) butĬolgems producer and Monkees creator Bob Rafelson didn’t care that of thoseįour young men who could sing and act, one was already a locally-known Undertone of The Monkees chaotic existence it was also their The battle for creative control-and respect-had been the
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