http://us103.com Sat, 18 May 2013 13:37:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://us103.com/the-monkees-final-episode/ http://us103.com/the-monkees-final-episode/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:21:46 +0000 Dave Swanson http://ultimateclassicrock.com/?p=122237 On Monday, March 25, 1968, at 7:30PM, the final episode of 'The Monkees' aired over the NBC airwaves. When the television show about a rock and roll band premiered on Monday, Sept. 12, 1966, no one could have guessed the phenomenon it would become. Over the 18 months that followed, the fictitious band became a real band, and their records not only topped the charts, but even outsold the Beatles.

]]> http://us103.com/the-monkees-final-episode/feed/ 0 Rhino Home Video http://us103.com/44-years-ago-the-monkees-head-premieres/ http://us103.com/44-years-ago-the-monkees-head-premieres/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:57:51 +0000 Dave Swanson http://ultimateclassicrock.com/?p=96128 Released in theaters nationwide on Nov. 6, 1968, 'Head' was the Monkees last real hurrah as a pop phenomenon of the '60s. If you want to talk about going out in a blaze of glory, look no further. What other film has its stars jumping off a bridge to their watery death in the first five minutes? The Monkees name was not used in the offbeat advertising for the film, the movie itself had no credits at all until the very end, and the soundtrack generated zero radio hits. Some might call this a recipe for failure, while others might simply see it as the lunatics taking over the asylum.

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