some Davy

[davemerrill]

Just after we put Found Sound to bed last week we found out that Davy Jones from the Monkees died. I am not the biggest Monkees fan in the world, mostly because there are some enormously enthusiastic Monkees fans out there, but I enjoyed the TV show and have a good whack of their records, even some of their post-Monkees work, and Davy was maybe the most determinedly show-bizzy of the gang, having been on the stage and already signed to Columbia as casting for the show took place. Anyway he was British and in 1966 this meant he was a done deal. But if he quit touring and performing for two minutes after the Monkees went off the air, I haven't seen evidence of it - quite the opposite, you couldn't keep him off the stage or away from an audience, whether it was a state fair or Disney World or racing horses or several Monkees reunions, and that's a kind of work ethic that we really don't see every day in show biz.



Anyway, have a listen to some tracks from his second solo album and from his cameo in the Brady Bunch movie and let's remember him as he was, with that unmistakeable voice, entertaining the heck out of an audience somewhere.