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Live onstage in '67

3/30/2018

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(Photos courtesy of Iris' Little Monkees Corner)

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Bobby Hart interviewed on "Texas Prairie" podcast

3/30/2018

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Episode #16! Exclusive Bobby Hart Interview! Monkees Songwriter! Rare Boyce & Hart Monkees Covers!

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Post cereals, cardboard singles, and "The Monkees Golden Hits"

3/30/2018

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In the fall of 1969, The Monkees television series premiered in syndication on CBS. Post Foods quickly conducted a cross-promotional exercise through their various cereal products like Alpha-Bits, Honeycomb, and Frosted Rice Krinkles by releasing Monkees cardboard singles that were printed onto the outside of the cereals' boxes.

Sometime in 1970, Post began a special offer for The Monkees Golden Hits, which collected all of the cereal box singles onto one exclusive vinyl LP that was unavailable in record stores. A coupon inside their cereal boxes advertised the album, which could be purchased for $1.50 and 2 box tops from any of the Post cereals.

Thanks a lot to Monkees collector Ed Reilly for sharing scans of the coupon found inside an Alpha-Bits box below:

Issued by The Monkees' label Colgems Records, The Monkees Golden Hits is hard to find nowadays in mint condition and is a sought-after collectible:

(The Monkees Golden Hits images courtesy of Monkee45s.net)

Read more about the Monkees cereal box singles in the archives of the Live Almanac

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Praise for "Head" Blu-ray audio

3/30/2018

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Monkees Head Blu-ray Wows With Surround Wonderment

Purchase your copy of THE MONKEES - THE COMPLETE SERIES on Blu-ray!

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Davy Jones and Monte Landis together in 1986

3/30/2018

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Thank you very much to Jeff Gehringer for sharing these great photos of Davy Jones and Monte Landis at the 1986 Los Angeles Monkees convention. Monte, of course, is well known to Monkees fans, appearing in seven different episodes of the television series, perhaps most notably in "The Devil and Peter Tork."

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"Zilch" podcast examines Monkees books

3/30/2018

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Zilch #113: A Trip to the Monkees Library!

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"Infinite Tuesday" coming to paperback this spring

3/28/2018

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Michael Nesmith's book, Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff, was issued in April 2017 in various formats, including hardback and Kindle editions, on iTunes, and as an audio download via Penguin Random House and Audible. And now, on April 17, 2018, Infinite Tuesday will arrive in paperback with a brand new cover:

Michael Nesmith Infinite Tuesday paperback

Read more about Michael Nesmith's Infinite Tuesday in the archives of the Live Almanac

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The Monkees rehearse in late 1966

3/24/2018

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The Monkees performed their very first concerts between December 1966 and May 1967, appearing at such venues as the Cow Palace in San Francisco and Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The photos below document their late 1966 rehearsal sessions.

(Photo courtesy of "Listen to the Band" box set booklet)

(From the March 1967 issue of Monkees Monthly)

(From the May 1967 issue of Monkees Monthly)

(From a Japanese Monkees photo book)

(From a 1967 Japanese Monkees photo book)

These great color photos below are courtesy of Iris' Little Monkees Corner, and were originally published in the September 1967 issue of the German publication Teenbeat. Iris has a wonderful Monkees website featuring clippings and photos from German publications, and much, much more. Iris and I communicate via Twitter and the Live Almanac gives her website a full endorsement. Do be sure to swing by and give it a look!

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First Season video performance of the original version of "Valleri"

3/23/2018

Monkees Farewell Tour

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