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Welcome to Jim's Monkees Favorites |
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| Monkees bios |
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My record collection:
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| Albums 1966-67 |
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| Albums 1968-69 |
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| 45 RPM singles |
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The Monkees Greatest
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Where are The Monkees
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The Monkees at
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Hi folks, I'm Jim Linthicum Welcome to my tribute page to the group that made me laugh back in the day when I was a nerdy looking young dude in the late 1960s..they were the clown princes of pop,that fabulous FUNtastic foursome,the pre-fab four and the TV show that became a rock and roll band....none other than...The Monkees! Their last studio album to date "Justus"(since "Pool It" in late 1986)released on Rhino in 1996 is pictured above. In 1965,plans were made by Raybert Productions and Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems TV to produce a series about a struggling young pop band hoping for the big break which they never ever got,but always remained the best of freinds through thick and thin as it was their freindship that actually kept the sitcom-portrayed band together. The Monkees in reality however were pretty much an americanized Beatles.(the series was inspired by two of the fab four's hit movies "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964 and "Help" in 1965.)Their music was written by such headliners as Neil Diamond,Neil Sedaka,Jeff Barry,Gerry Goffin and Carole King and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. The series went into production in early 1966 after a successful pilot was made in late 1965. On September 12th of 1966 "The Monkees" debuted on NBC on Monday evenings in the 7:30 pm time slot and was aired locally on NBC affilliate WIMA-TV in Lima,OH which is known nowadsys as WLIO. In addition the series was aired on Saturday evenings on WHIO-TV in Dayton,a CBS affilliate which at the time aired a little bit of NBC programming as well. Quite obviously this series was initially targeted at young teenage girls in the late 1960s,but for me it was the off the wall comedy and good time rock and roll which had a wider appeal and made me a fan in my early teens.
Their continuous romps and humourous skits using some creative,offbeat Marx Brothers/Threee Stooges hybrid humour earned its producers Robert Rafelson and Bert Schnieider an Emmy award in 1967.The series ran for two seasons then later went into Saturday morning reruns on CBS from 1969 to 1971. With the 1986 Arista release of the hit single "That Was Then...This is Now," the reruns and the group made a comeback on MTV and Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite and later on its sister channels VH-1 and Nick at Nite's TV Land in the mid-1990s. An hour-long TV special "Hey,Hey It's The Monkees" (portraying the still-strggling sitcom band in the 1990s) was aired on ABC in 1997. A TV movie "Daydream Believers:The Monkees Story" was aired in 2000 on VH-1. |
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Your's truly along the banks of the Hudson River in 2006 near the World Financial Center in New York City. |
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IN MEMORIAM JOHN C.LARSH 1945-2008 (aka Top 40 DJ legend Jack Armstrong) "YOUR LEEEEEEEE-DER!!!" WIXY,WKYC,CHUM,WKBW |
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AND GORDY PRICE (1949-2009) WMVR,WCIT,WING,WTOO,WIMT |
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Pray for America,our
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I was raised on a small farm near Port Jefferson,OH.(and now live in Piqua,OH.)
At that time America was incresingly involved in the cold war,an undeclared and controversial war in Vietnam,stuck smack dab in the middle of the Civil Rights movement,still dealing with the loss of an assassinated president(and later his brother)and a slain civil rights leader along with other radical changes which took place during the "soaring '60s." As a young teen at that time,I was torn between traditional family values and the pop culture of that day,along with struggling to fit in with other young people around me. The Monkees humour and music helped get me through those tumultuous times of puberty and coming of age.They still make me laugh over forty years later! |
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| Official Monkees site |
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"Oldies 1160" WDJO
Florence/Cincinnati |
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The Funk Brothers-the heart
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| Ready Steady Go! |
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| Shindig! |
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| Hullabaloo |
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| Paul Revere and The Raiders |
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I collect pop oldies from the 1950s through the 1970s. I am a huge oldies and blues enthusiast. I worked on the air in small town radio for twelve years before giving it up and taking a regular job so I can be at home to raise my three teenage sons. I did freelance voice over work for a former oldies station in Springfield,OH and now with Radio Maria in addition to Oldies 107 Micropower FM.. My wife Kimberly attended Edison Community College in Piqua and is an accomplished freelance commercial artist and works for a printing company in Minster,OH |
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| Batfink |
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| Speed Racer |
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| The "Upbeat" Show |
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| Jim's Oldies Links |
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| Retro Radio with Joe Madigan |
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