Here We Come. . .
PETER TORK COMES TO LAKESIDE

PETER TORK blew into fame in the sixties as a member of the TV and recording group, "The Monkees". Their exploits are legendary, outselling the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined at one point: TV episodes that were captiously rerun well into the late eighties; and stage/concert appearances that drew tens of thousands in both the 60's and late 80's. By all accounts, Peter was the most musically adept of the group, though he rarely sang lead. On screen, he was the only member to play a character different from himself; his character was the shy, offbeat one maybe not too bright. A persona in direct contrast to his own articulate and witty personality (he says!).

Before, between and since bursts of Monkee activity, Peter was and remains an actor and entertainer of unusual gifts. He plays a variety of musical genres from single folk-style with banjo, guitar and keyboard to full rock band," I love to perform. Even now that the fame quest has gone and I don't need fame, per se, performing is still very much a thing I want to do." And his recently completed album, Strange Things Have Happened, on the Beachwood label, is giving him the opportunity to do just that.

Immediately after flunking out of college twice (not easy for someone of his intellectual prowess), Peter headed for Greenwich Village in New York, then a spawning ground of talent like Seattle is today. Peter and Stephen Stills were known locally as the kids who looked alike and played in a folk group together for awhile.

Suddenly, after a few years in the village, anosmic voice in Peter's ear sent him to Southern California. Less than three months later, he was washing dishes and drawing beers at a folk-rock club in Huntington Beach when Stephen Stills told him about the auditions for "The Monkees". Peter was signed to "The Monkees" in October, 1965, and he suddenly found himself a rock idol, worshiped and wanted by millions of teens around the world. "I didn't understand it when it happened to me," he explains about his instantaneous notoriety.

Peter, comes to Lakeside for a concert that makes his music come alive for the audience. Peter is joined by his brother Nick Thorkelson.

Set Length Approximately = 100 mins.

• Milkshake (Martin Briley)
• Gettin' In
• One Trick Pony (Paul Simon)
• She Hangs Out
• Dream (The Everly Brothers)
  [Wow, a beautiful cover!]
• The Tramp
  (Written and sung by Nick)
• Stranger Things Have Happened
  (Michael Levine)
• Good Looker
  (Riley Wildflower Cummings)
• Pirates (Written and sung by Nick)
  [Alternate version.]
• I Believe You
• I'm a Believer
  (With a brief "sermon" on love
  and believing by P.T.)
• The Christmas Song
  (Written and sung by Nick)
• I Want You, I Need You
  (Ira Kosloff & Maurice Mysels)
• Pleasant Valley Sunday
  (Goffin/King)
• MGB-GT
• Lucille(A. Collins & R. Penniman)
• Cuckoo
  
• Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)
• Daydream Believer
• They Whupped Him up a Hill (Huddie Leadbetter aka Leadbelly.)