Singer BEGGED His Band NOT to Record "CRAP" Song...Became the #1 HIT of the YEAR!--Professor of Rock

Today’s featured foursome The Monkees was cast as a fictional TV band, hired to sing and paid not to play. They were expected to follow the script, but their career would be anything but scripted. It’s the unlikely saga of four actors turned rock stars who then fought to control their musical destiny. Along the way, they scored some of the most iconic hits of the 1960s (outselling the Beatles on a few occasions)... including The Last Train to Clarksville, a secret protest song that snuck past the censors and came from their main rival’s misheard lyrics… another called (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone that was a forgotten B-side that became a garage-rock classic, and the #1 hit I'm a Believer that one of the singers called absolute Crap, begging the band not to do it… in fact he was so upset that he had to be kicked out of the studio, and yet another song where the wrong lyrics were sung due to bad penmanship. In this episode, we’re tracking the wild ride of The Monkees, a band that started out pretending—and ended up proving they were the real thing… NEXT on the Professor of Rock. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Craig M, James Smith, Ardashir Lea, j lee, Michael Bedenbaugh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's Store Van Halen OU812 Vinyl Album https://amzn.to/3tLsII2 The 80s Collection https://amzn.to/3mAekOq 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out The Professor of Rock Merch Store -http://bit.ly/ProfessorMerch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out Patron Benefits http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_... https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #60smusic #vinylstory #themonkees Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. if you ever gorged on some Hostess fruit pies as a kids, you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe below right now. I promise that you are going to love this channel. Make sure to sign up for professor of rock.com for exclusives. It’s time for another episode of our series Evolution. On this show, we tell the story of a band’s career through 5 defining tracks. Songs that will to take you from the beginning to the end of a band’s journey and showcase the evolution of their sound and artistic direction. On today’s episode, we’re featuring a band that doesn’t get the credit they deserve, and all these years later, it's clear that they definitely deserve it. I’m talking about The Monkees. And today we’re gonna give them their props as we follow their career from a manufactured boy band to legitimate artists. Alright, so we’ve featured The Monkees a few times on the channel before. So, I don’t want to be too repetitive here. But I do want to set the stage with how they were chosen as actors for the hit TV show The Monkees. This is where their evolution really begins. The idea for The Monkees came from producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, who were inspired by the Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night. Looking to cash in on Beatlemania and the growing youth market, Rafelson and Scheider held auditions for a sitcom about a struggling rock band. The casting call went out in September 1965 and 437 hopefuls responded, including iconic musicians Stephen Stills and Danny Hutton. However, in the end, the four who were chosen were guitarist-songwriter Michael Nesmith, bassist Peter Tork, former child actor Micky Dolenz, and British actor and singer Davy Jones. Handpicked to play a fictional band—they were never supposed to be actual musicians. Their job was to act like musicians on TV. As People magazine once put it, the four were selected to “clown on camera and sing catchy tunes written by top professionals.” Behind the curtain, the real musical muscle came from Don Kirshner—“The Man with the Golden Ear”—who had total control over the group’s sound. Kirshner had access to a dream team of songwriters and studio musicians.