<p>scout59 - Me too! I thought Bobby Sherman was a total dream boat. (My Mom must have agreed because she insisted the TV be tuned into his Seattle show) And I also had a poster of David Cassidy in my room.</p>
<p>I remember watching the Monkeys on Sat mornings. Loved it!</p>
<p>I was only a member of both the Davy Jones and Bobby Sherman fan clubs; unlike Marcia Brady who was the President of the Davy Jones club ;)</p>
<p>Tiger Beat posters plastered my wall with Davy, Bobby, and my other two favorites, Mark Lester and Jack Wilde from Oliver (the movie.)</p>
<p>Davy Jones and Herman of the Hermits… my two middle school crushes. Loved those accents.</p>
<p>So sad…I know people always put the Monkees down as the “prefab four” but I think that a lot of their music has held up well and has real merit. Davy was such a cutie and much too young to die.</p>
<p>Another piece of my childhood gone…:(</p>
<p>For those that have XM radio, Cousin Brucie on the 60’s on 6 is doing a tribute to Davy today/tonight. Tommy James had called in while I was listening in the car about an hour ago.</p>
<p>So sad that I am going to have to explain to my 22 year old DD who Davy Jones was.
The Monkees were crazy innocent fun.<br>
He also brought the tambourine some well deserved attention! RIP Mr. Jones.</p>
<p>I loved Davy Jones. How sad! BTW, do you know Bobby Sherman is now a reserve officer with the LAPD?</p>
<p>Oh my gosh. Davy Jones, Bobby Sherman, David Cassidy, Mark Lester and Jack Wilde. The memories!!! </p>
<p>I know all the Monkees songs by heart, but I have a special place in my heart for “I think I love you”.</p>
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<p>Me too!!! I have a Herman’s Hermits playlist on my iPod…I really should put a Monkees one together.</p>
<p>My first crush. Sigh. I was a Daydream Believer! RIP Davey. </p>
<p>Love Donny Osmond too. Got to meet him! He’s as precious in person as you might expect.</p>
<p>The Monkees was my first live rock concert. I think it was 1969. My dad took me. This was after Hendrix was dropped from the tour.</p>
<p>^^^^^^</p>
<p>Gosh, I can’t think of two performers more different than the Monkees and Hendrix.</p>
<p>I balance you out, emerald. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was my first rock concert - Nov '68. I had never heard of Jimi Hendrix. They told me he was a black singer, so I figured that he was probably a soul singer like Jerry Butler or Wilson Pickett. Needless to say, I figured wrong.</p>
<p>Sad!!! adored him, though Bobby Sherman was totally my first big crush. Loved the Monkees music–still do–I have an undying affection for mid60s bubblegum. (which prefigures a lot of the 80s sound, which i think is why I like 80s music so much.)</p>
<p>My kids know who Davy Jones is from the Brady Bunch movie.</p>
<p>I guess it was 1967. I was 9. Even though I lived in Seattle, Hendrix wasn’t really on my playlist.
[Monkees</a> tour](<a href=“http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=498]Monkees”>http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=498)</p>
<p>Oh, how sad. We just saw him in concert. It was a hoot.</p>
<p>Emeraldkitty, thanks for the link. I never knew these two groups toured together for awhile. I can see why it didn’t work out.</p>
<p>Even though Micky Dolenz was my heart throb, it is still too early to lose Davy Jones!</p>
<p>I have always loved the Monkees, thought they had some great songs.</p>
<p>Wasn’t “I think I love you” David Cassidy and the Partridge Family?
Good song though.</p>
<p>Can’t believe cute Davy is gone - so young! Rest in peace. He was a talented guy.</p>
<p>I was really too young to be a Monkees fan but was by default because I shared a bedroom with my sister who was ten years older than me. I watched the Monkees tv show regularly w/ her. I remember thinking the show was silly with the music playing and them running around doing crazy stuff. I hung out in our bedroom listening to records w/ her and her teenage friends as much as they would allow. She drove me to sch. elem. sch. every day fr. 1968-1970 with the backseat full of her friends and the radio blasting. Her car was a ragged little green Renault with big yellow daisies painted all over it. I prob. knew the words to more late 60’s music than any other kid in second grade! </p>
<p>DH was dragged to a Monkees concert with his older sister when he was about ten. He remembers not being able to hear the music at all because of all the screaming girls drowning it out.</p>
<p>My true adolescent heart throb was David Cassidy.</p>