Genre: pop
Places I remember: Five dollars from a record fair in Palmy.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: It Ain't Me Babe (weird hearing a cockney voice taking on Dylan but at least he's current and enthusiastic - it is 1965 remember)
Gear costume: Dream Girl
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: It Ain't Me Babe (weird hearing a cockney voice taking on Dylan but at least he's current and enthusiastic - it is 1965 remember)
Gear costume: Dream Girl
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4
Active compensatory factors: I only got this because it was so cheap at a record fair in Palmerston North. It is also in mint condition! Fairly amazing given it was most probably bought by a teenager keen on the Monkees.
Active compensatory factors: I only got this because it was so cheap at a record fair in Palmerston North. It is also in mint condition! Fairly amazing given it was most probably bought by a teenager keen on the Monkees.
I love The Monkees but I'm not a completist for the solo stuff from the four original members.
This is his debut solo album from 1965. That's a year before The Monkees debut album. My copy from 1967 has a Monkees era photo as Colpix were obviously keen to cash in on the band's success.
The approach is London cheeky chappy to springboard off that accent (although he was from Manchester) and his appearance in Oliver! as the Artful Dodger. So, along the way we have Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner and Any Old Iron. Yikes.
Where do they all belong? An interesting mid-sixties artifact/ curio.
Where do they all belong? An interesting mid-sixties artifact/ curio.
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