The Monkees - The Door Into Summer (Official Live Video)

[@robertokinks7251]

No one can sing this song better than Mike Nesmith. what a great song.

[@icemediapro]

Mike was always underrated vocally. Love his voice and singing style.

[@steve_bal4]

I was not expecting this to sound this great, the music is crisp and the backing vocals are perfect, and then Mike and Mickey's voices, like they were still in their 20's!

[@noraleebauthuesstewart1936]

It is indeed outstanding.

[@carolharris2357]

I didn't see Mickey who had the original great harmonies.

[@noraleebauthuesstewart1936]

@@carolharris2357 I believe that's Mickey on the left of Nez (Michael's right, lol). Mickey is wearing black slacks, jacket, and fedora 😀🤠

[@sanchoproudfoot2]

Nicky’s sister Coco (singing backup) is supplying some of the harmony vocals along with Micky.

[@benjaminpensiero8519]

@@sanchoproudfoot2 I thought that was her. Thanks for confirming. She goes all the way back to the ‘60s with the Monkees. Great voice. Nice to see Coco out there belting it out with Micky and Nez.

[@rosa-j6u]

This is my all time favorite Monkees song.

[@davidphillips1358]

Same title as my favorite Heinlein novella.

[@colinmonahan9350]

Best backup band the Monkees have ever toured with!!!! By far!!!!

[@sfpincchicago]

Keeping it in the family.

[@LarryJames-w9x]

They still had the fantastic harmonies! Amazing. Right to the end!

[@amywinstead9344]

Gets me teary eyed seeing Mike doing this live. Never seen a live version. Better than the original. RIP Mike.

[@AmericanEnglishBrent]

Mike’s voice sounds strong. Those backing vocals and that bassist. Wow!

[@StuartJebbitt]

That's John Billings. Great bass player

[@AmericanEnglishBrent]

Stuart Jebbitt Really makes the songs pop. He’s great.

[@wileycoyote64]

The back up vocals are Mickys sister Coco and Mikes daughter in law Circi Link She is as talented as she is beautiful

[@CorduroyPaco]

When I saw the Mike and Micky show in Toronto Mike's voice blew me away with how amazing it was (and obviously Micky's voice is always so great)...I had never seen Mike live and he delivered in a big way...it was so amazing...one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life!

[@LiamGWilickMusic]

THE WHOLE BAND KICKS ASS!

[@xAlbinopiratex]

God I miss him, I hope he's making all the music that makes him happy where ever he is now 🕊✨❤

[@JLegend64]

I've always loved this song. The song brings back so many memories. Thank you Mike, you were fantastic. RIP.

[@jonr4259]

Been watching a lot of these Monkee videos of late. Nez sounded great

[@marjoriecohn3868]

Just heard Michael passed. Thanks for the amazing music.

[@amb1245]

Oh, Nesmito. Gracias. Heinlen had a short story called “Door Into Summer” and a reminder of this brought me here. May the Supreme Being grant you the door to eternal happiness and peace (and incidentally, all of us.).💚 Thank you, Michael Blessing. 💚✝️💟⚛️

[@catherinechurko4041]

It made me think of Ray Bradbury's short story "A Scent of Sasparilla" (or very close - Scent & Sasparilla being the operative words!). 👍

[@79goldmaster1]

This is beautiful. Always loved this song. Mike's singing is superb. RIP Mike ! Thanks for the music !!

[@aloikari7745]

Christian's production and band direction is proof that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...magical music and a great tribute to his father's understated vocal power. It's real. This beats the hell out of any of the canned machine crap programmed music coming out these days.

[@jamesrobinson4028]

You'll be missed Mike.

[@CorduroyPaco]

Hands down my favourite Monkees song and this performance is magical. Nez's voice is amazing and the band just kills it. So fantastic!

[@Mellissandria]

It is a magical performance...

[@davidphillips1358]

My favorite too! Saw them in Albany NY just after Peter died.

[@SteveMikre44]

My absolute favorite Monkees song...🐵🙊🙈🙉🎸🎵

[@davidhaney1394]

RIP Mike . You`ll always be the best Monkee !

[@joelwright4317]

Certainly not among their well known tracks to the casual pop/rock music listener, but I think the best song they ever did.

[@magneto7930]

I've known it since the 60s, it's one of my favorites. But yes, I know what you're saying.

[@bealestdrums]

Agreed, but I was about 14. I always loved this one. Mike was really the only real credited musician. He was established even before the monkees. Old “wool hat”.

[@aloikari7745]

Great song, great vocals all around, and Mike was a prolific songwriter, although he didn't write this one. I think a buddy of his did. The secret weapon musician of the band was actually Peter. He was proficient on multiple instruments - electric guitar, fingerstyle acoustic, keyboards (Bach to Jerry Lee Lewis), bass, 5 string banjo, French horn, maybe others. His musicianship is often obscured by his dim-witted personna needed for the TV show character. Live performances revealed his talents.

[@vancestephenson1659]

Completely agree!

[@catherineferguson7646]

When this was recorded on a 4 member Monkee band on an early album, it was a less well done song. I guess the way it it is arranged here is so much better and rich. I love it too.

[@roman14032]

WOW! i mean, this song is OLD, its an old forgotten deep cut from a VERY derided act from a LONG TIME AGO AND ITS JUST AWESOME its a stroke of genius to use mickey's sister as a back up singer, its like having two mickey's harmonizing with mike AND THAT BLEND AS ALWAYS BEEN SPECIAL and the lyrics are great in a Dylanish scrambled up metaphors kinda way its just so great, its 2021and one of the best live bands in the world is THE MONKEES!! god i love it

[@charlesoliva8174]

This man is 76 years old here - and he can still hit all the notes - amazing!!

[@donnapearman4651]

*I definitely agree.I love him when he was cute.

[@denisehoward177]

@@donnapearman4651 Always cute.

[@Mellissandria]

I've noticed that's something Rick Springfield can't do these days...Maybe not even Micky. Mike had the range and kept it all his days.

[@nickilock9172]

CHRISTIAN!!! You are amazing! This MIX!!!

[@lloydthompsonart]

Drug my hand across my tablet and was brought to this. Such a beautiful song and the sound, my god. So much love for The Monkees.

[@marksman48]

Sound as good as it did 50 years ago. I see Nes' son and Micky's sister in the band.

[@davedaugherty6096]

Wow...just WOW! 53 years later and this song sounds better than ever.

[@stephenl9473]

Most underrated monkee song ever of their best album

[@OlymPigs2010]

......EXCELLENT !!! (*That Drummer Is Intense !)

[@blueskye6372]

Nice. Rest in Paradise Michael.

[@WillieBeard]

Timeless…for 3 and a half minutes we were all young again. Thank you.

[@jamesart9]

Jesus studio quality sound live. A very rare thing. And I didn't realise Mike could sing so well live. Brilliant.

[@orangehornet57]

How nice! The Monkees are one group that couldn't just perform the hit singles. Many deep cuts were just as popular. They didn't have this many folks on the original record. RIP Mike, Peter, and Davy. Micky, please stay healthy!

[@andyinoregon]

Just superb vocals and musicianship on display here! Mike's voice hadn't aged a day in the past 50 years.

[@ElizIndRhythm]

I have always loved this song, but it is really haunting me and feeling super relevant during this difficult time.

[@deecalvin4486]

You are so right. Completely agreed.

[@RozitaVideo]

This is probably the best live recent version of this song. I think it's my favorite Monkees song.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

How wonderful! Can barely see, the tears are flowing like a river. Thank you God!! Thank you for these men. We have been blessed.

[@exclamationpointman3852]

GOOD GRIEF THAT SOUNDED GOOD LIVE!!! RESPECT ON THAT BAND, GREAT SINGERS - LOVE THIS!!!

[@Tari004]

I can't say anything new... this is such a beautiful version & it's LIVE!!! It makes my heart hurt that Mike has passed. Love seeing Christian up there too! RIP Mike, Peter & Davy! Thank you

[@tastymouse]

Michael's voice sounds just the same, or better than it did in the 60s! Bravo!

[@clairemcquarrie8227]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing! He still sounds the same! Awesome as ever!!!

[@TheWendybird123]

Yes, and he's singing it in the same key as the original recording... no cheating by lowering the key!

[@camerondodge2070]

The Nez still sounds awesome. Also, this is the most productive the guys have been in years. 2 studio albums and 1 live album. Just wow.

[@michaelrose5614]

Let's petition for a dvd.

[@deecalvin4486]

Yes!!!

[@peterspokes4579]

Thank you Michael for it all...

[@fbello18]

I looooove that song - since the very day I first heard it.

[@claringbud7525]

You and I both!!

[@TheKagemaru]

Me too.

[@magneto7930]

I'm with you there!

[@jillianaprati108]

That’s how I feel about most of Mikes songs.

[@claringbud7525]

@@jillianaprati108 Yes!

[@jamesage24]

I'm still baffled as to why this song wasn't a single. Double A-side with Love is only Sleeping!

[@magneto7930]

Love is Only Sleeping was considered for a single but the idea was dropped.

[@kevinheffernan6729]

@@magneto7930, I don’t have any direct information or evidence on this, and I hope that historians examining the economic aspects of their career can eventually clear things up, but it seems that Colgems generally limited single releases to their more upbeat songs (the irony of “Pleasant Valley Sunday” notwithstanding) and showcased their darker and more mature material as deep cuts on the LPs. “Sleeping” walks the tightrope between these two modes and probably seemed like an unsafe bet to the suits. Again, where are you historians? We need to find out!

[@gerardhennessy3586]

Wonderful! Who said The Monkees were a cartoon band? They were always way, way more than that. and it is both joyful and poignant to watch this marvellous performance knowing that Mike Nesmith has since died. He looks so healthy, happy and full of joie-de-vivre here. I have always loved Door Into Summer with its gentle, trippy vibe and its colourful psychedelic imagery. Like an instant magic carpet ride back to 1967 when the world was young and the hippy dream was alive and well. Great to see Mickey Dolenz too. Now the last member left to us. He is the guardian of their wonderful legacy. and will be so in his always gracious, articulate and considered way. God bless him, and all those who have left us.

[@frizzlefrap]

Mike!!!! --------- you are one awesome dude ----------- miss the group, a lot! --------- loved you guys while growing up and thanks for all the great memories!

[@1ofus]

I'm crying right now. This sounds so good. And the feels ... OMG

[@magneto7930]

I'm both crying and smiling!😊

[@dawnpericles1136]

Can’t get through singing along without crying …

[@darrenpagliuca2270]

I can't stand how amazing the outro is on this song! So many vocal layers, Bass guitars lines, drum fills! It has it all! i can listen to this over and over! Love it!

[@catherinechurko4041]

It's always been a magical, poignant song one of my favs of theirs

[@kevinheffernan6729]

The musicianship throughout the entire set on this tour was absolutely superb. If you get a chance to hear the live version of “Goin’ Down” from this period, the arrangement and performances will knock you out of your seat.

[@marelize9726]

Still have a crush on Michael. I could listen to him all day. Oh wait ... I do! Keep singing and we’ll keep listening! Love you! 👼❤️🥰

[@spotlightkid7041]

RIP Mike Nesmith, Thank You for all the great songs. You will be missed.

[@brillbruiser2762]

Thank you for the best childhood memories being a kid in the 60's and 70's. I took my son to the Monkees 50th Anniversary show, floor seats center stage row 2, we had a blast. LEGENDS.

[@TinaICXCNIKA]

Beautiful visually, too...wow. RIP Michael (David and Peter, too). 🙏🏻

[@suechildress1802]

My first concert at 11 - The Monkees in Minneapolis 8/4/1967. So many emotions hearing this. 🙂😭 Age has not changed Mike's voice. But my first crush was Davy Jones. 😍❤

[@dianegraziadei6362]

RIP Papa Nez. Miss you.

[@brianm.armstrong70]

I was on their security detail at their first reunion in Canada. I actually have several special autographed items etc. Davy let me on the tour bus with them in Cleveland! Ironically, he had his fatal heart attack at our old winter racing training grounds in Florida! Great bunch of guys. Mike didn't tour in those days, as he was a busy performer and TV executive. We are all getting old and it's time to ride off into the sunset! Thanks for the memories George "Circus Boy" D. and Mike! RIP Pete and Davy....

[@jtataryn]

This has always been the very best of all Monkees songs, and it's still marvelous. The song of the summer...every summer.

[@jsullivan2112]

Might be my favourite Monkees tune. The Girl I Knew Somewhere is up there too.

[@kevinheffernan6729]

“Somewhere” is a great tune, written by Nez, the first self-written song they ever recorded, and an absolutely crucial moment in their artistic evolution and well-fought battle for creative control.

[@magneto7930]

I love this song! It's definitely one of my favorite Monkees songs. Pisces was a great album, along with Headquarters, the 2 essentials!

[@DWTardis11]

So true, both are really great albums.

[@Blackedoutewoks]

Also Birds and the Bees....

[@standardranchstash221]

And Instant Replay.

[@magneto7930]

Well, there's a lot of great music on all of their albums, but those 2 represent much of their own creativity as a group.

[@bandcouver]

@@magneto7930 Also having The Turtles' bass player ,Chip Douglas, producing and sometimes playing bass on both albums was a very god fit.

[@tambyrlane]

That drummer is fantastic!

[@skeletonpete]

A personal fave, rendered perfectly.

[@andrewcarden74]

Papa Nez looked very pleased! I Love this song!

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

He looks like he misses his guitar.

[@SteveMikre44]

This has always been my favorite Monkees song...

[@chiefinspector7280]

What a send off!!!!!

[@GH3K3]

I just discovered this live album on Tidal, and then I came here to get a link to share with my sister, and discovered this video. The entire show is really flawless; I was just so astounded at what a fantastic backing band they got together for this show. Reminds me of the Wondermints with Brian Wilson for the Pet Sounds LP; just as good if not better. To hear the "deep cuts" of the Monkees' self-directed LPs FINALLY get their full due live was just enchanting as hell. Awesome performance!

[@DIESEL0759]

People love to talk shit about The Monkees because they "didn't pay their dues" (allegedly) by doing garage bands and gigs in bars and such, but the truth of it is that all four men had plenty of experience in other groups or musical endeavours long before The Monkees. Just because they didn't know each other as teens and decide to form a band at age 12 is just an excuse from people that don't know anything about the group, and is also hypocritical, since Timberlake wasn't performing in his garage at age 12. He came from a casting call. Britney, Spice Girls, any "boy band", Christina Aguilera, TLC, every last one of them was recruited specifically for their looks and then cultivated by a producer on how to look and act. Just like The Monkees. They didn't play their own instruments? None of the dance-pop groups above even know HOW to play one at all! The Monkees have done live concerts for more than 30 years. To paraphrase Mike before first live concert in 1967, "I'm about to go out in front of 50,000 fans! If I don't know how to play my instrument, we're in a lot of trouble!" Having virtuosos studio musicians cut your album tracks is certainly nothing new. It's still a thing even today. Studio time is expensive. It's why musicians build their own studios. Saves a lot of money. If you have a group of touring musicians who are fluent in several different genres and are widely considered experts or "the cream of the crop", if you will, why wouldn't you have them play on the album? It gets it done faster, which saves money, which means more money on album sales.

[@kevinheffernan6729]

@@DIESEL0759, great points all!! For an incredibly detailed and extensive account of the central and virtually mandatory use of outside session musicians across the entire Los Angeles-based pop music industry of the 1960s, I recommend the great 2008 documentary film, The Wrecking Crew. If we are going to dismiss the Monkees for their use of session musicians, we will want to condemn and mock the Byrds as well, because they did not play a single note on their signature hit single, “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Those duties were performed by the highly disciplined and trained guitarist Paul Blaine, bassist Carole Kaye, and the other killer session players from The Wrecking Crew. It’s important to remember that before the Monkees, Mike was an accomplished hit songwriter and record producer, and Peter was a virtuoso on over a dozen instruments. This leaves Davey, who was a lauded veteran from Broadway musicals, and Mickey, who had been a television actor for years but who also brought to their recordings an impressive vocal range and unique and expressive musical phrasing that made him the band’s first de facto lead singer. It was fashionable to denigrate Davey as merely a pretty face, but he had performed in the smash hit “Oliver” as a baritone, and when he joined the band, he had to train himself virtually overnight to sing two octaves above the vocal range he had used for virtually his entire professional life. I just don’t see how, by any reasonable standard, these four young men had not more than “paid their dues.”

[@DIESEL0759]

@@kevinheffernan6729 Micky played guitar in LA bands for a while by his own admission, and Davy had SOME experience on drums, but no one wanted to put the 5'2" Davy in the back on drums. Additionally, to add to your comment on Micky, it was his voice that was so much "the sound" of the Monkees that even at the height of tensions within the band, the others gave their songs to Micky to sing (one of the best examples is Peter Tork's "For Pete's Sake", the closing theme for Season 2 of the show. By the way, The Wrecking Crew is a GREAT doc. I particularly liked how it went into "Hal Blaine Strikes Again", whom I think you're erroneously thinking of when you mention "Paul Blaine", as the name sounds similar and no mention of The Wrecking Crew has a guitarist (or anyone else) named Paul. That notwithstanding, the use of session musicians persists today. It's hardly exclusively a 1960s thing. It's just much more accepted now than it was in the 1960s. Also in your list of bands to mock, you can mock The Beach Boys, since they didn't play their own instruments in the studio. The Wrecking Crew's Wikipedia page goes into great detail on all the groups they played on albums, usually documented by Hal's famous stamp. For The Monkees, Mike Nesmith played guitar and bass, and was noted to be a better bassist than guitarist and Peter played guitar, bass, banjo, harpsichord, keyboards and probably more. That's just what he's been seen playing on Monkees albums. In one of The Monkees reissue albums, it was noted that if the band was set up on actual musical ability, it would be Mike on bass, Peter on guitar, Davy on drums, and Micky as frontman. It also notes that right handed Micky got his first lessons from a LEFT HANDED drummer, leading him to set up his kit essentially "backwards" for years before being properly taught.

[@MM1717mm]

man ive loved this tune since about 1976 (when i first heard it on monkee reruns) .. shoutout to the drummer for bringin it on this 🥁👍👍

[@geofbrit59]

What an excellent take of a mysterious song from one of my top fave albums. MONKEES FOREVER!

[@adrylegs]

WOW! Super! Thank you Mike, and Micky.

[@LegalEagleGurl]

Thank you Michael and Micky for your wonderful music that has always brought me to my happy place even in times of darkness and despair-especially with this COVID-19 pandemic. We Monkees fans love you and your music more than you’ll ever know! And a big shout out and gratefulness to the band and especially, to Andrew Sandoval for putting this all together! 💖🎵

[@magneto7930]

Beautifully said! This performance put a big smile on my face!

[@user-xu4ow3bu6f]

I could not have put it better and echo your sentiments 100%. We are all better in our hearts because we have the monkeys forever

[@jananderson672]

Mike nails it.Glad we have a good example of his voice before his untimely death. Loved ya,Michael.

[@lauriemathews7974]

One of my favorite Papa Nez tunes!!

[@deborah2561]

How come Mike is still hot in his 70’s!!!!!!

[@znrgybalance8703]

Damn! That was good. No. That was great! The layers of different instruments so clear they resonate with perfection. Nez's sang it true to the record with back up singers perfect pitch. I'm going to rate this my all time favorite Monkees song! I saw them in 86 at the Forum but don't remember much. I wish I could've seen them again and again. Thank goodness for KZbin!!

[@liv2drum57]

Its one of their deeper tracks but I've always loved this song !! I had a stack of Monkees 45s back in the day. Will never forget how special it was (and still is).

[@ttintagel]

I missed it this year, but there is a day every year around here when the spring storms are over and the days are a certain length, and the air gets a certain quality to it and I say to myself, “Today we went through the door into summer.” And then I go and listen to this song.

[@lisaknell1809]

Wow, Mike and Mickey sound great! Sounds so much like the original recording. RIP Peter and Davy, you are missed 😢❤️

[@kevinheffernan6729]

When they performed their tributes to the departed Davey and Peter, there wasn’t a dry in the house.

[@TobcioccLeyton]

this is so wonderful, love the Monkees

[@Trans909]

Wow! Those harmonies are AWESOME!

[@Quarrymen69]

Probably my favorite Monkees tune. Superb. Love that Mike is playing with Mickey.

[@forasec]

yep 2 yrs later, gotta keep it in my repertoire. it gives me chils, a performance where the bands on fire the singing is to the record, the harmonizing is beautiful spot on. and lastly, the joy it brought nez

[@edwardhenry3158]

Oh my God how I missed this I don’t know this is one of my favorite Monkees songs of all time RIP Mr. Michael Nesmith Davy Jones and Mr. Peter Tork I wish Mike would have joined up with these guys when they first started the reunion and kept on going with all of them Mickey what can I say you’re still out there doing it I know it must be hard long live the monkeys I was five years old when the TV show came out they were my band and inspired me to pick up drums first then later I switch to bass guitar my father took me to a fairgrounds or someplace I can’t remember in Florida I think it was 1968 I’m 61 years old now memories a little not what it used to be but I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix open for the Monkees after I saw Jimi I was like who is this guy and I forgot all about the monkeys but I still love them they got me into Music then came The Beatles the stones and so on and so forth but this recording is absolutely dynamite the background vocals the tightness of the band it just blew me away I know all the monkees fans out there still wish they were all here but they’re in rock ‘n’ roll heaven I got a chance to see Mickey Peter and Davey probably 10 years ago they still put on a good show but I kept saying I wish Mike was up there

[@markmcintosh1832]

Rips my heart out every time ❤️

[@MsAhmebah2000]

TY Michael love your voice still

[@Emachine789]

really really great

[@pamelahill196]

Love the Monkees! Mike & Micky!

[@richardansley]

Just discovered this great song! What a tune 😊

[@SteveDronzewski]

My absolute favorite Monkees song. Fantastic version!

[@karenmorgan9495]

AWESOME! I love this song and Michael Nesmith. So talented and so handsome

[@sueleochasadowski2756]

Triple WOW, just mind blowing..talk about riding a sound wave through your entire aura !

[@paulpont9357]

The Monkees are one eternal 1966 super groop

[@timklein3962]

What a great recreation of that awesome 67 hit; and Mike sounds the same too; what an awesome talented group; they still got it !!

[@iagreewithyoubub]

This was the concert of a lifetime for me because I never got to see them when I was younger. Thank you, thank you for sharing while we're all stuck at home. Stay safe everyone!

[@bgcs6275]

RIP Mike! 💙💛💚💜🧡

[@tawsvo]

Man....this song has incredible staying power. Love these guys.

[@angelaackerman8934]

Sounds great!

[@royrush5374]

One of my favorite Monkees songs. Love the backup singer hitting Davies high notes.

[@PapagenoMF]

I think Micky hit all the high notes. Davy's register was lower.

[@jessedickison9117]

I think Hairy Mo was talking about back in the 60's.

[@conorfurlong]

Everything about this is wondrous.

[@vincenzoridente9994]

Great live version Mike sounds awesome

[@rachelharvey9405]

Amazing. Love him so much. Beautiful song, sung by a man with a voice that goes right to the soul.

[@邱偉立]

wonderful

[@blackmore4]

One of the best songs of all time from one of the best albums of all time from my favourite group ever :)

[@gerardothielen4310]

What a Great song...

[@tamaraclaw]

One of my favorite Monkees songs. R.I.P. Mike 12/10/21; you can see the family resemblance in Christian.

[@kellyhiggins337]

I still connect with these guys after all this time. A true sign of a classic!