From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #351 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, March 5 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 351 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: njc davy jones [Catherine McKay ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:57:25 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: njc davy jones I had to think back to my schoolgirl days. It seems so long ago. I wasn't one of those girls that swooned over the Monkees the way a lot of my friends did. But I did LOVE their TV show and I liked their music. They weren't the Beatles, but no one expected them to be. It was entertainment, pure and simple, and the TV show was lots of fun. I think even my Dad used to watch it with us kids. Peter Tork was my favourite. When you talk about the Catholic school and the nuns, it reminds me of when the Beatles first came out and some of the kids in the schoolyard used to bring fake guitars to school and sing, "She loves you, Yeah, yeah, yeah," in the schoolyard at recess. That was when I had my piano lesson, and the music room overlooked the schoolyard, so we could see them and hear them, and my piano teacher, an old nun named Sister Zita, used to get all huffy about it, I guess because they weren't Beethoven or Mozart. I agree that 66 really is too young to die. I'm not sure what the right age is, but I don't think it's 66! Welcome back, Lieve. I hope you had a fantastic time in your long trek throughout South America, and that your house was still standing and in good shape when you got home. Did Stephen Stills get his teeth fixed, I wonder? >________________________________ > From: Lieve Reckers >To: "Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" ; Vince >Cc: JMDL >Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 3:34:16 PM >Subject: Re: njc davy jones > >Yes, I knew that about David Bowie's name, I remember this being explained by >radio DJs about Bowie's name, whenever they played A Space Oddity. >And another >bit of Monkees trivia: Stephen Stills auditioned for the Monkees, but was >rejected because of his bad teeth! Anyway, it just goes to show that the >Monkees were being recruited from real musicians, not actors or models or >fame-wannabes. > >To me the Monkees evoke memories of my very first efforts to >be different and non-conformist, however naive that may seem now. I was 13 >and went to a catholic school run by nuns, and I became friends with 2 other >girls who impressed me because they seemed rather bohemian. They were heavily >into jazz ballet, and every week discussed the latest Monkees >episode, conspiratorially laughing their head off, making it part of their own >private world. >That's the way the Monkees remain engraved into my >consciousness: the first stirrings of an alternative world. A year or so >later I would discover the whole hippy phenomenon (and much more serious music >such as Joni's). > >Sorry to see Davy, or anyone else for that matter, go at the >much too young age of 66. >Lieve - back in London after a long South >American adventure > > > >>________________________________ >> From: >"Bob.Muller@Fluor.com" >>To: Vince >>Cc: JMDL >>Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2012, 13:14 >>Subject: Re: >njc davy jones >> >>And some other DJ-related trivia, the OTHER Davy Jones >(David Bowie) >>changed his name because of the Monkees' singer's popularity. >Bowie chose >>his surname after Jim Bowie, the American frontiersman and >namesake of the >>Bowie knife. >> >>Bob >> >>NP: West Side Story Soundtrack, "Gee, >Officer Krupke" >>------------------------------------------------------------ >>The information transmitted is intended only for the person >>or entity to >which it is addressed and may contain >>proprietary, business-confidential >and/or privileged material. >>If you are not the intended recipient of this >message you are >>hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, >dissemination, >>distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance >upon >>this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please >>contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. >> >>Any views >expressed in this message are those of the individual >>sender and may not >necessarily reflect the views of the company. >>------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #351 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send tojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------