Released three months after their debut album, More of the Monkees continues the band’s trend of crafting catchy pop tunes written by a host of great songwriters and… wait, doesn’t that album cover just REEK of being a photo from a Sears catalog? Well, you’d be close. It was taken from a J.C. Penney clothing ad.…
The 1966 debut release of The Monkees is an oddity, not so much because of the quality of its contents, but in its overall creation and “purpose” as an album. It all depends on how you look at it. Is it a “band” effort? Not in the strictest sense of the word, as the assembled…
I’ve probably had a crush on Annette Funicello for as long as I can remember. Even at a young age, I began to recognize the massively awesome appeal of doe-eyed, curvy brunettes, one which has stayed with me until this very day. I mean honestly, was there ever a prettier actress than Annette in Babes…