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THE MONKEES: THE DAY BY DAY STORY OF THE 60's TV POP SENSATION
Andrew Sandoval
ISBN: 1592233724
Paperback, 288 pages
June 10, 2005
Monkee Mania: The True Story of the Monkees
Glenn A. Baker
ISBN: 0-312-00003-0 (pbbk)
ISBN NO. 0-85965-256-4 (reprint)
The Monkees Tale
Eric Lefcowitz
ISBN: 0-86719-338-7
The Monkees Scrapbook
Ed Finn and T. Bone
ISBN: 0-86719-356-5
The Monkees Photo Album
Joe Russo
ISBN: (none)
THE MONKEES - A Manufactured Image:
The Ultimate Reference Guide to Monkee Memories & Memorabilia
Edward Reilly, Maggie McManus and William Chadwick
Popular Culture Ink.
ISBN:1-56075-032-4
Mutant Monkees Meet the Masters of the Multimedia Manipulation Machine
Davy Jones and Alan Green
ISBN: 0-9631235-0-5.
Hey Hey We're The Monkees
Published by: General Publishing Group
ISBN 1-57544-012-1
The Monkees, Memories & the Magic
Edward Wincentsen,
Wynn Publishing
ISBN: 0-9642808-8-4.
The Monkees Collectible Price Guide
Marty Eck
Published by: Antique Trader
ISBN: 0930625188
The Monkees: An Outsider's Perspective
Jim Duriga
Published by: Seneca-Secor Books; (June 6, 2003)
ISBN: 1889991279
The Ultimate Monkees Trivia Book
Ellen L. Puerzer
Published by: Puerzer Publishing (July 1987)
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Monkees Bios
I'm A Believer: My Life of Monkees, Music, and Madness
Micky Dolenz & Mark Bego
ISBN: 1-56282-847-9
They Made A Monkee Out Of Me
Davy Jones
ISBN: 0-9618614-0-1
Total Control: THe Michael Nesmith Story
Randi Massingill
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Books - Original 1960s era
The Monkees
Gene Fawcett and Howard Liss
A Popular Library Book
#50-8026
The Monkees Go Mod
Patrick O'Connor
A Popular Library Book
#60-8046
Love Letters To The Monkees
Selected by Bill Adler
Illustrated by Jack Davis
Popular Library, 1967
#60-8049
The Monkees Go Ape
Bill Adler
Who's Got The Button?
William Johnston
Western Publishing Company, Inc 1968
The Monkees Annual
(1967, 1968, 1969) [three different books]
Century 21 Publishing Ltd. & City Magazines Ltd.
94 pages, hardbound (similar to a magazine only hardcover)
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Books Containing Significant Section on The Monkees
Stu Who: Forty Years of Navigating the Minefields of the Music Business
Publisher: Cisum Press; (October 1, 2002)
ISBN: 0972036334
Autobiography of Grammy Award winning composer and record producer
Stu Phillips. Stu composed scores for dozen of
movies and television series, including the background music for all but four
episodes of the Monkees TV series. This book includes his experience with
the show and includes a picture of Davy that no one else in the world has!
Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
by Aniko Bodroghkozy.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
Chapter 2: The Counterculture on TV contains a 10 page
analysis of The Chaperone episode as a satire of the military.
Photo of Micky in drag with the General.
Are You Ready For the Country?
by Peter Dogget.
Two or three chapters about Mike Nesmith's role in the
60s/70s country-rock scene, including The First National
Band and his Monkees era country rock.
Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew
Hal Blaine and David Goggin
one chapter with anectodes
When The Music Mattered
Bruce Pollock
one chapter with Peter interview and anecdotes from headquarters session
Inside Pop -- America's Top Ten Groups
David Dachs
1968 Scholastic Book Services.
one chapter (#5) on band, series and guys themselves
Favorite Pop/Rock Lyrics
edited by Jerry L Walker
(c) 1973, 1969 Scholastic Magzines Inc.
lyrics to Tapioca Tundra and Daydream Believer
Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley?
1984?
individual chapters on Micky and Peter
Waiting for the Sun
a couple of pages on the Monkees
American Hit Radio
Thomas Ryan
Prima Publishing 1996
pages on six Monkees tunes plus comments from the Monkees
The Lost Lennon Interviews
Geoffrey Giuliano
interview with Peter
The Jimi Hendrix Companion: Three Decades of Commentary
by Chris Potash
1996
Contains an interview with Peter, Micky and Mike from "Guitar World" regarding the Monkees tour with Hendrix
Marilyn Beck's Hollywood
rare post-Monkees interview with Davy
The Films of Jack Nicholson
by Douglas Brodie
a chapter on HEAD with pictures
Kaleidescope Eyes: Psychedelic Music From the 1960s to the 1990s
by Jim DeRogatis
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
ISBN: 1-85702-599-7
Reference: pp. 186-187... Number One on the author's list of "one-hit wonders" (psychedelically speaking) is The Monkees' "Porpoise
Song". The author, a former Sr. Editor at Rolling Stone Magazine plus nice info
TV Rock
by Mark Bego
Paperjacks Inc
Copyright Aug. 1988
ISBN 0-7701-0982-9
23 pages covering the series and 33 1/3
Cult TV
John Java
1985, St. Martins Press
ISBN 0-312-17848-4 (paperback)
Contains 4 pages on the Monkees TV series
Files Magazine Spotlight on the Monkees
Editor, Hal Schuster
1986, PsiFi Movie Press (paperback)
ISBN 1-55698-005-1
The All-Stars From Rock & Roll's Hall Of Fame Rock 100
by David Dalton & Lenny Kaye
1977
couple of pages on the Monkees
Off The Record
by Joe Smith
1988
couple of pages with Mike interview
Ticket To Ride
by Denny Somach, Kathkeen Somach & Kevin Gunn
1989
couple of pages on individual interviews with Davy, Peter & Micky
Who's Your Fave Rave?
by Randi Reisfield and Danny Fields
Boulevard Books
ISBN: 157297253X
Aug 1997
compilation of 16 magazine heartthrobs. pages 99-102
FLiP's Groovy Guide to the Groups
by the editors of SLiP Magazine
Signet Books, 1969
each guy gets 2-3 pages for bio and pictures
10,000 Secrets of 101 Stars
Compiled by Liz Dagucon
The Laufer Company / TiGER beat
1972
-2 pages on each of the guys. A phot and brief bio.
Stars and their Cars
by George Barris
The Laufer Company / TiGER beat
1973
three pages on the Monkeemobile design and creation
Rhino Presents The Greatest Rock & Roll Stories
by Art Fein
General Publishing Group (1996)
ISBN: 1-881649-75-X
This book has several "scoop" stories on what _really_ happened
in rock&roll history including: "Stephen Stills Flunks Monkees
Audition","Monkees Annouce They're 'Plastic'","Hendrix Booted
from Monkees Tour by DAR (Not)" and a bit about the Plaster Casters.
Lamparski's Whatever Became of...? 2nd Annual
by Richard Lamparski
Bantam Books, New York
1977
-has Peter Tork chapter p 264-271 with B&W photos
Something to Write Home About
Mar. 31, 2003.
A collection of personal baseball memories told in
handwritten letters from well-known personalities,
including one from Peter Tork.
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Journal Articles
Journal of Popular Film and Television
"The Monkees and the Deconstruction of Television Realism"
by Laura Goostree
Summer 1988, Vol. 16, #2
Nine Page article on the tv show
Today's Chiropractic
Sept./Oct. 1997 issue.
Davy Jones: Still a Believer
Cover concert photo of Davy in red.
Central PA
Dec. 2000 issue.
Monkee in the Middle of Nowhere
On Davy Jones living in Pennsylvnia
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