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My first real *crush* of any kind, the first time I thought it was possible for me to have those kinds of feelings for a boy--it was on Davy Jones. He was so sweet, cute, unthreatening. It was the first time I thought I could be like all the other girls who had been having feelings for boys for a while.
All my fantasies and dreams revolved around him. Sad, I know. But it was so liberating to finally participate in the "mysteries of crushingness". So I was intensely fan-girly about it and watched the show religiously as a young teen.
I never saw the Partridge Family.
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Oh man. Davy Jones or David Cassidy? Accent or shell necklace? Daydream Believer or I Think I love you? I'm gonna have to go with the Monkees just because I know more of their stuff. And the whole accent thing. Posts: 1090 | Registered: Oct 2003
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...And now I'm gonna have, "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees! And people say we monkey around..." going in my head all day. Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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Monkees...but I am somewhat biased. I actually briefly appear in a video of theirs done in the 80s at the amusement park where I worked, and I got to meet and shake hands with Davy Jones last summer. Posts: 676 | Registered: Sep 2002
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Who was most popular? Who do you like more? Who would win in a rubmle? Who would in in a DDR battle? Who would you rather have over for dinner? Who would you rather eat for dinner? Which one is more likely to be made into a retro-cheesy movie?
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Oh, it's totally the Monkees. I remember watching reruns of the show on Nickalodeon when I was at my friend's house (cause we didn't have cable) and laughing my head off.
My friend didn't seem to get the jokes and always thought I was weird.
Oh, and does anyone remember the Brady Bunch episode with Davy Jones?
I bought my "Definitive Monkees" extravaganza CD last year and have been enjoying it tremendously ever since. I don't think that there even exists a Definitive Partridge Family CD.
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Of course I remember that Brady Bunch episode. But what I thought was even better was when they included Davy Jones (and Peter and Mickey) in the first of the Brady Bunch movies.
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Though David Cassidy was cute, you have to admit. He was so secure in his mulletude, you have to admire a man like that. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Anyway, even if I had been a Partridge Family fan, having to put up with Danny Bonaduce at my first job would have completely ruined it for me. You see, my first job when I was in high school (and during the time that the Partridge Family was running originally) was in the snack bar at a Sunday Swap meet - at that time, it was one of the largest swap meets in Southern California. And Danny B. was there almost every Sunday. When he'd come into the snack bar he was such a little jerk - it got to the point where I refused to wait on him, he was so bad.
Oh, and to whoever mentioned that there was a Partridge Family episode with Bobby Sherman - how did I miss that? I only remember the Brady Bunch episode with Davy Jones. And why do I remember any of this stuff at all? Posts: 2454 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Crazy I just watched a little bit of an episode that I found at my mother in laws yesterday.... crazy. Had to watch it for nastolgic reasons... Ah Nickelodeon back in the 80s, good stuff.
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quote:episode with Bobby Sherman - how did I miss that?
I think that was the episode in which somebody took up residence in the family's garage. They hear music from the garage and find Bobby Sherman in there playing everybody's instruments.
Or was it the episode in which some down-on-his-luck lyricist persuades the family to sing one of his songs.
Oh crap, I am so gay.
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Imagine. I am not old enough to have watched it when it first aired, but I did watch it on Saturday mornings in the early 70's.
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I'm not old enough to remember the shows and I never watched reruns, so I can't choose between them.
But I do know a bit about Davy Jones and David Cassidy, and between the two of them, I have to say I think David Cassidy was much more attractive...and that is accents considered.
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Narnia...yes, I was a Mickey sort of girl myself, back in the day. I must have been all of eleven years old.
And Skillery...thanks for the link. I do definitely remember "Getting Together", but I never had a clue that it was a "Partridge Family" spin-off.
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Born in 1980, I'm far too young to "remember" either. That's why reruns exist. I can't say I actually care much for either show, or didn't when I saw them back in high school, but the Monkees had much better music (some of it actually played by the Monkees themselves).
Favorite Monkees song: "Your Auntie Grizelda".
Well, that and "Last Train to Clarksville". But I mean, that one's kind of a given, isn't it.
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"Auntie Grizelda" is a wonderful song. Actually, the Monkees really did have some good music. They even, as you said, played some of it themselves. But you know, I wish people would quit grousing about that. At least they weren't Milli Vanilli, for goodness' sake.
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I was saying it in a teasing manner. My understanding is that it irritated them that they didn't get to play their own instruments at first. And they eventually got to, and it turned out they actually knew how after all. So it's not as though they were frauds, like certain other groups I could name.
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I know. I really didn't think it was a slam or anything. I just heard it so much back then that it's sort of an instinctive reaction, even now.
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Understandable. You hear a slam often enough, and you just get tired of hearing it. Like when people try to tell me David Bowie isn't really King of the Goblins.
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