New Jersey 101.5 » The Monkees http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Sat, 18 May 2013 14:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Day In Music History http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-113/ http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-113/#comments Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:39:31 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=146480 August 4th
1967 - The Monkees find a stowaway on their plane between shows in Minneapolis and St Louis. The young female's father threatens to bring up charges for transporting a minor across state lines. 

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July 8th
1967 - The Monkees kick off their 29-date tour with The Jimi Hendrix Experience as an opening act. However, Hendrix was eventually dropped after just six shows

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1965 - The Byrds make their first nationwide Television appearance, singing "Mr. Tambourine Man" on Hullabaloo.

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1968 - The last episode of The Monkees television show airs. The idea of following the hi-jinks of a rock band's life was taken from the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night film.

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]]> http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-58/feed/ 0 The Monkees - Photo by Keystone Features / Getty Images The Top 5 Most Requested Songs On The Big Show (Weekend Of 3/10/12) http://nj1015.com/the-top-5-most-requested-songs-on-the-big-show-weekend-of-31012/ http://nj1015.com/the-top-5-most-requested-songs-on-the-big-show-weekend-of-31012/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:26:38 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=70486 Here's the Top 5 requests on The Big Joe Jersey Request Show for the weekend of 3/9, 3/10, 3/11/12.

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]]> http://nj1015.com/the-top-5-most-requested-songs-on-the-big-show-weekend-of-31012/feed/ 0 Paul Simon Photo by Keystone / Getty Images Tiger Beat, "16″ and Playboy – Your Favorite Pin-Up [POLL] http://nj1015.com/tiger-beat-and-16-magazine-your-favorite-pin-up-poll/ http://nj1015.com/tiger-beat-and-16-magazine-your-favorite-pin-up-poll/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:45:55 +0000 Ray Rossi http://nj1015.com/?p=64924 For the ladies, Tiger Beat and "16" Magazine were the bibles of growing up.

For guys, mostly it was Playboy, and they usually belonged to your father or older cousin.

(My cousin Dominick used to have stacks of them!)

As far as Tiger Beat and "16" went, my sister Laura collected them by the dozens

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]]> http://nj1015.com/davy-jones-monkees-singer-dead-at-age-66/feed/ 0 YouTube Davy Jones, Singer of The Monkees, Dead at 66 [VIDEO] http://nj1015.com/davy-jones-dead-at-age-66/ http://nj1015.com/davy-jones-dead-at-age-66/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:31:33 +0000 Tom Dunphy http://nj1015.com/?p=64888 Monkees frontman Davy Jones has died of at heart attack at age 66, TMZ reports.

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1969 - The Monkees set a new record when their second album, 'More Of The Monkees' jumped from No.122 to the top of the US chart. The album then stayed in pole position for eighteen weeks.

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1968 - The Monkees film 'Head' opened in six US cities. Reviews were harsh and the picture was a box office disaster.

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