Daydream Believer

[PalJoey]

Daydream Believer#1

Posted: 2/5/08 at 3:07pm

Take a break from politics and come back to a day when a daydream believer and a homecoming queen could cheer up Sleepy Jean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxz_JBuyF4I

Maybe that day is coming back.

[Bluemoon]

re: Daydream Believer#2

Posted: 2/5/08 at 3:13pm

I thought Sleepy Jean WAS the Homecoming queen.

Ahhhh... Mickey Dolenz. My first celebrity crush.

[PalJoey]

re: Daydream Believer#2

Posted: 2/5/08 at 3:26pm

Davy Jones, mine.

I think you're right about Sleepy Jean. I could never understand those lyrics--they just made me feel good.

[mominator]

re: Daydream Believer#3

Posted: 2/5/08 at 4:37pm

THANKS!!!! PJ. you have made this very chilly and rainy Super Tuesday so much better BGG and I LOVE that song (does that mean that I get Peter?)

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[PalJoey]

re: Daydream Believer#4

Posted: 2/5/08 at 4:42pm

Poor Mike. He was too craggy to be cute.

[peach]

re: Daydream Believer#5

Posted: 2/5/08 at 4:43pm

I always had a fondness for the geeky Peter Tork.

[mominator]

re: Daydream Believer#6

Posted: 2/5/08 at 4:44pm

Actually BGG likes Mike.... So I think it is all good.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[Chevstriss]

re: Daydream Believer#7

Posted: 2/5/08 at 6:16pm

didn't Davey have a background in musical theatre/music hall in england before being drafted into the Monkees?

I'd fire you... if you weren't so g*dd*mn beautiful out there. - Blades of Glory blog

[PalJoey]

re: Daydream Believer#8

Posted: 2/5/08 at 6:22pm

He played the Artful Dodger in Oliver! in London and on Broadway. He appeared with the Broadway cast on the Ed Sullivan Show the same night the Beatles debuted in America.

[mominator]

re: Daydream Believer#9

Posted: 2/5/08 at 6:46pm

And isn't it also true that David Bowie had to change his name (his given name was David Jones)?

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[Jon]

re: Daydream Believer#10

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:22pm

Yes, Bowie's real name is David Jones.

I actually SAW Davy as the Artful Dodger - it was my firast Broadway show -I was five years old!

By the way, the guy who wrote Daydream Believer died recently.

[ClumsyDude15]

re: Daydream Believer#11

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:25pm

I love that song!



I once caught a Monkees marathon on Nick at Nite and I became obesssed with them. Yeah, I was a weird kid.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

[mauriposa]

re: Daydream Believer#12

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:34pm

Thanks, PJ! I needed that.

[mauriposa]

re: Daydream Believer#13

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:36pm

P.S. Clumsy, I did, too. Micky was my favorite.

[ClumsyDude15]

re: Daydream Believer#14

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:37pm

"P.S. Clumsy, I did, too. Micky was my favorite"

Mickey was my favorite too!

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

[Chevstriss]

re: Daydream Believer#15

Posted: 2/6/08 at 3:40pm

Davy Jones gave me fangirl feelings when the show debuted and I was 6 yrs old.

then at 11 I had fangirl feelings for Richard Chamberlain when his Hamlet appeared on Halmark Hall of Fame and we even had a classroom study along guide w/ PICS.

then at 14 I had GROWN UP WOMAN FEELINGS every time Marjoe appeared on cop shows as crazed junkie hippie of the week. and game shows. and Circus of the Stars and Johnny Carson. and Fantasy Island.

I think i watched too much TV.

I'd fire you... if you weren't so g*dd*mn beautiful out there. - Blades of Glory blog

Updated On: 2/6/08 at 03:40 PM

[Jon]

re: Daydream Believer#16

Posted: 2/6/08 at 6:30pm

Mickey was, like Davy, a former child actor.

Mickey has been quoted as saying, "The Monkees were two actors (himself and Davy) who had to learn how to be rock musicians, and two rock musicians (Mike and Peter) who had to learn how to act."