The Monkees Present | "Peter's Still Missing!"

#classicrock #60smusic #themonkees Click on the link for more videos featuring The Monkees    • The Monkees   Join me as I shine the album spotlight on the eighth album release by the Monkees, the 60's made for TV group. Former child actors Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz, singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith and Folk musician Peter Tork were hired as actors to play musicians in a TV show. After providing only vocals on the first two albums, the group won a battle to play the instruments and select the songs on their third and fourth album. The Monkees Present is the second of two 1969 releases from the band reduced to a trio following the December 1968 departure of Peter Tork. This album is a collection for songs from the vault dating back to 1966 and new songs featuring the Monkees recording separately. This is last Monkees studio album to make the Billboard Charts until Pool it! in 1986. The Monkees Present Micky David & Michael only made it #100 in 1969. This is the last Monkees album to feature Michael Nesmith until 1996's Justus. This album contains songwriting contributions from Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Bill Chadwick Michael Martin Murphey and of course Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Michael Nesmith. One month before this album's release, CBS TV began airing reruns of The Monkees TV Series. Eight of the twelve tracks from the LP were edited into the episodes. During this era, The Monkees made appearances on The Johnny Cash Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Happening 69 and Laugh-In. #classicrock #60smusic #themonkees #vinylstory