Star Collector...The Monkees

[@60srecords]

I used to dream about these guys alll the time when im was a child back in the 60s..

[@shelleywantiez7964]

Peter is simply ab adorable hippie child. He's always so happy-go-lucky.

[@pattibrooks1907]

I love THe MOnkees davy was my very first love and my favorite MOnkee !

[@LetticiaRosado]

This is the one song I cannot get out of my head...FOR A LONG TIME!!!! Fabulous!

[@scotttosta7941]

I am a BIG fan of the monkees.😊

[@loikmg]

This was a great monkees song and clip from the show. I like the ending of this film clip, and the episode when there playing this song, motorcycling racing with the biker gang.

[@lonestarfriend]

I like focusing on the keyboards in this song. Great work here.

[@R0BIMUSPRIME]

Wow! Am I ever ready to hit the hookah! Nice way of working the hat in there too Mike!

[@lindsaywarden1746]

Oh dear! Here I am, nearly 70

[@kerrys5682]

I love the Monkees!!

[@IrrationalTendencies]

This is my favorite Monkees song.. Micky- ahhh :) so cute. lol. I saw him and he was busy so i was going to leave him be, but he stopped talking to the other person and grabbed my hand, then he smiled at me and was like "Hiiii~" I melted. XD Peter kissed my mom so I don't really think i can look at him the same way again. Full on tongue right in front of me.

[@shelleywantiez7964]

Attached boy Peter!!!!

[@LetticiaRosado]

Luv ya, Davy. R.I.P. :(

[@babys0382]

Lol! Gotta love davie and mickey.

[@redspice55]

Just watched this video on TV after the episode "Hitting The High Seas" . Love this video.

[@KUTVgroucho]

@Gowansgroupie The Frodis Caper is my all-time fave Monkees episode, possibly the most bizarre 30 minutes of prime time TV in 1968. You can almost smell the weed burning in the background!

[@JohnWick74]

I love the monkees!!! Misu Davy! :-( x

[@carolcjh1]

@carolcjh1 Also: It's called "Hitting the High Seas." It was on last weekend during the marathon and I recorded it.

[@redspice55]

I watched that episode just now. It was on CHCH. They show The Monkees every morning at 11:30 am.

[@OakForestBoys]

I love Pete's baseline

[@ButterflyWolf]

I'm only 15, but when I was about 7 or 8 I watched the Monkees in the 90's

[@carolcjh1]

@deshahubbell It's the one about the pirate ship.

[@Boldshane]

This song made me wanna go out and buy a tambourine more than anything

[@redspice55]

I begged my dad to buy me a tambourine back then, and he did. But not the exact kind Davy had. Mine, the hole was covered up. At least I had a tambourine.

[@plymouthbelvedere]

If I'm not mistaken, this song contains the first use of a Moog synth in a Top 40 record.

[@ammethystz]

i absolutely love this!

[@moxie96]

@metalicult for me this show was on durring summer vacations from school in the morning. I now own the box set.

[@Suckerfly]

Yes you did. It's one of the very first uses of a synthesiser in a pop song. If not for a release by a lesser known band a little earlier, The Monkees use of the synthesiser on Star Collector and Daily Nightly on the Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd. album would be its first appearance on a pop record.

[@dlc41669]

Peter (1942) is the oldest, then Mike (1943), Micky (1945-Mar) & Davy (1945-Dec). Davy & Mike share a birthday.

[@MrRETEROROB]

kinda fun the way they made fun of themselves. R.I.P Mr Jones.

[@redspice55]

RIP Davy and Peter. So hard to believe they're both gone. 😥💔

[@joelovesthewiggles7621]

Monkes de volta ao Brasil

[@doglover3415]

loved this

[@InflatablePlane]

WOOOOAH! Nicely done! Very trippy :) Thanks for posting :D

[@wallofvideo]

they're wearing the same outfits they wear for the "daily nightly" clip. i wonder if this was filmed on the same day.

[@joshuasweeney19]

@etrax2000 By the time they recorded this, they weren't being controlled musically. NO WAY would a Moog have been used if Don Kirschner, ScreenGems, and Jeff Barry were still in control. To hear the difference listen to Kirschner's versions of Valleri and She Hangs Out.

[@spyderj1999]

@usctoni That is tooooo cool!!! :-)

[@1995beatlesfan]

Nice verison

[@Gowansgroupie]

It was called The Frodis Caper.

[@Yashirow]

The Monkees \o\

[@freeinallthings]

And you're her stepping stone.

[@dixgun]

I was just going to ask what epi this was from. Thanks will look for The Frodis Caper and For Pete's Sake.

[@66LifesMistress77]

@destiny9034 Peter's always hot!

[@bassetgirl2]

It Monkees Mind Their Manor

[@SanasSweetMode]

does mtv still do Monkees marathons?

[@Khultan]

Life was never simple. Wake up.

[@inhibitors]

This makes me want to drop Tubesock acid again and just goof off about the place! Placido!

[@KSMShanti7]

this is from an episode where aliens came to earth and abducted Micky and made a robot version of him, to spy on the Monkees and other humans so they could take over the world... some1 must have been high when they wrote that lol

[@redspice55]

The episode I saw "The High Seas" played it at the end.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

where is the 'hello'?

[@eljaywolf]

that would be "For Pete's Sake", i think.

[@freeinallthings]

Actually Moog was first top 40ed by the Doors in Strange Days. Don't accuse the Monkees of anything original except Mike's Elephant Parts.

[@cherylhulting1301]

I love the Doors, but the Monkees actually first used the Moog on their album "Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius and Jones Ltd," which waa released in 1967, ahead of "Strange Days." Micky in fact introduced John Lennon to the instrument, which led to the Beatles incorporating it into some of their psychedelic-era material. Give credit where credit is due.

[@jityr2]

Is this a dubbed copy of the psychedelic version? Because most You tube videos of the psychedelic version have the audio disabled by the copyright owner.

[@frankd1965]

circa 1968

[@gage992112]

Yeah....groupies.

[@Something6000]

Reiko the Zombie Shop

[@FoxTreatment]

This song is in no way dirty. It is about a guy being chased by a girl who only likes him for his fame and fortune. If he stops being sucessful she will leave, so he has no respect for her and will not start a relationship with her. It was the Monkees' way of rejecting the superficial aspects of stardom. Cuddly Toy is a bit dirty, but I still love it!

[@redspice55]

Star Collector was written by Gerry Goffin & Carol King.

[@beatlefancraig67]

Rockin around the automatic backing synthesiser until it got overheated & way out of tune & out of sync!, when I first watched this many years ago I thought the whole thing was gonna explode?, no it just simply fizzled out to nothing!, you actually hear it on the record?... classic!🎶

[@Khultan]

You really what the sound of DJV?!?

[@paisleybabee]

@FoxTreatment um They're called groupies listen closer ;)

[@freeinallthings]

Or better informed? Mike was the one with the creative streak. Pete turned into a good musician. Mickey could sing and Dave had to be whipped into shape to play some percussion. They all developed chemistry. Originality, not so much.

[@cherylhulting1301]

😂 Peter Tork was the band's best musician. He started formally studying music at age nine with playing piano. He went on to study music at Carleton College in Minnesota and played in the folk scenes in NYC and LA long before he joined the Monkees. He was already a very competent musician who played multiple instruments at the time of hire for the show. By the way, Micky Dolenz also played guitar and fronted two bands in LA before joining the show as well. Try not to brag about getting these things wrong.

[@FoxTreatment]

@TheMonkeesRock It's about a boy seducing a girl and then dumping her afterwards. "You're not the only cuddely toy that was ever enjoyed by any boy." Haha, not exactly as innocent as it sounds. I don't like the anti-feminist attitude, but we have to remember that it was 1960s. Unfortunately, popular music today seems to have gotten a lot worse in that department.

[@redspice55]

And it was written by Harry Nilsson.

[@cherylhulting1301]

I've never liked that song. It really lacks empathy and yeah, not exactly a feminist sentiment. They weren't able to "cute it up" for me by having Davy Jones sing it. 🙄