Watching this it's so obvious Peter wanted to play guitar more than anything. And as another poster already noted, the right guys got the gig. I can't imagine subbing Davy, Peter, Micky or Mike for any of the others.
To think Stephen Stills was originally considered. He didn't have that manic attitude...or did he? Guess we'll never know, but thanks Stephen for recommending Peter Torkelson.
Peter said he was pissed off at the beginning when he found out they would not record the music as they used session muscians. He wanted to play guitar yes.
OMG, Mike Nesmith psychoanalyzing himself mercilessly. Mickey Dolenz's kidding dodges. Davy Jones politely weaving around questions that have no relation to where he's coming from. Peter Tork's self-effacing defensiveness. How the producers managed to get these four to keep from cracking each other up and work, I don't know how. It's fascinating and makes me ponder, generalizing rather, how vacant American men of today are by comparison. No quickness upstairs. None. These boys were amazing. TFP.
Western people have becomed 'dumbed-down' since then for sure, but really-switched-on people like those four have always been a special minority. Same here in Australia.
Forest Lawn Cemetery existed long before Los Angeles existed .... There have been many Forest Lawn Cemeteries ..... That's where all the dead people live .....
1971SuperLead Dark brown hair, slightly slanted eyes, perfectly straight nose, dimpled mouth, slim but not boney, chipper Texan accent, flawless skin, and the legs that go on forever. . .oh yes and he's confident and intelligent, but without the other attributes I listed, I don't know if I would pay him quite so much mind.
Douglas John Liquid Paper didn't start making money until after The Monkees were famous. I wrote my first research paper for high school on an old typewriter in the early 90's. I didn't really know how to type and the whole thing was practically covered with white out. I had no clue it had anything to do with one of the Monkees. My parents finally bought a word processor after that.
I was fortunately able to get a chance to see them in concert not once but 3 different times and they're a great band . RIP MIKE DAVY AND PETER GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN
I will say, Raybert picked the right guys. The other applicants were mooks. Peter is a lot brighter than the character he played on the show---and a better actor than he's generally given credit for.
+sneezepal Peter is my favorite Monkee, as far as comedy goes. To me, he was always this gentle funny soul. Then I met him in person and realized that none of that is an act. He is a gentle, funny soul, a true flower child.
Peter used to sing in the folk clubs in Greenwich Village before he was a Monkee. He was actually recommended by Stephen Stills who had been rejected as a Monkee.
Having had his own tv show years before and been on probably 100s of auditions, and at this point was in 4 different pilots, he knew how to nail an audition. The way he grabbed Davy's hat from him at the door way would have clinched it for me.
Davy, Micky, Mike and Peter all just had the right chemistry together. They also later had proven they had great musical talent as well. Maybe someday, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can hold off inducting a Hip Hop star and put this band in where they belong.
Only problem is they hardly wrote their own music, Neal diamond wrote a bunch of their hits. the ones they did write, well it was a bit strange, even for psychedelic rock.
True. He was already signed to Columbia and released a solo record on the Colpix label (which eventually morphed into Colgems - The Monkees label their original records were released on). They were trying to find a suitable vehicle for him and The Monkees turned out to be it. IIRC, Davy in his autobiography claimed that one show they tried developing for him involved a British boy and his look-a-like American cousin getting into sitcom hi-jinks together. That became The Patty Duke Show. My guess would be Patty could do a better pseudo English accent than Davy could pull off an American one. Mike also had a bit of an advantage since he was also signed to Colpix in 1965 (and recorded and released a few singles) and was performing at The Troubadour - where Bob Rafelson and Bert Schnieder saw him perform.
Mickey and Davy were hired first. Mickey had been in a tv show called Circus Boy for 2 years. Davy had some acting in England before he came to America
For not having been a professional actor before this, Mike is very good, always has a vulnerability to him. Micky and Davy definitely worked well together. Peter played it a little straight, probably nerves, but he always had an innocent look working for him, and they really did a good job of having four personalities and blending them together.
Actually Mike had a fair amount of stage acting experience prior to his Monkees audition. He had also traveled the country playing the folk club circuit so he was comfortable in front of an audience.
@@PlumbPitiful Oh really? Then I have to wonder about this story about Micky supposedly auditioning for the role of the Fonz in _Happy Days_ (he lost out on that, in case you're the one in a billion who doesn't know that Henry Winkler got it).
@girlzeyeview They are like headshots in motion (vs. a still photo), MOS (without sound), and the director or producer is giving them directions - turn to your left, turn to your right, act mad, act silly, etc., to see how they look in close up on camera.
I absolutely love this. The right four were finally chosen. Peter, dear Peter, ever the musician; Mickey and Davy the performers; Mike the sardonic joker.
I'm so happy it was them. Second generation fan. I have seen home videos of myself saying their names when I was six months old. (it was in reruns and my mom and aunt were HUGE fans) Love to Micky and RIP to the other "fellas". ❤️
i like mikes answer to the question why do you play music, and how he says "what i think is what i am". i like mickys joke about making people sick in front of a doctors office, don't know why that guy told him not to use that joke. i just loved davys interview and his shaving joke. i really enjoyed peters screen test , he seems smart and you could tell he was nervous, i like how he made the guitar sound like a banjo.
I'm so glad they picked the 4 they did. Any other combination wouldn't have changed rock and roll history the way The Monkees did I doubt any other combination would have made the move from actors to musicians, much less have been so great at it. I appreciate the fact that The Monkees were always only those 4. They never tried to make anyone else a Monkee even when some quit. They have my respect for that and for so much more too. RIP Nez, Pete, Davy. And then there was one. ML&R for you all.
The interplay between Jones and Dolenz around 12:00 is really good. It's like they were already brothers (they said later they were like brothers) already. Nesmith is pretty good too.
My mom was a huge fan of The Monkees in the 60s. I was a huge fan of The Monkees in the 80s. I had every single one of their albums on tape. My mom had most of them on record. Mom got a letter back from Peter Tork when she wrote to him in the 60s. We went to their reunion concert in 1987. We waited for their tour busses to leave after the concert and Mickey and Davy waved at us, and Davy blew me a kiss. Then in 2000 Mickey did a free concert with his sister in a park and we went. Mickey signed my mom’s t-shirt and my magazine. I took lots of pictures. Lots of great memories of The Monkees for both of us.
Peter was gorgeous, but he didn't always photograph well. I've seen pictures of him where he looked like Adonis and others where he looked awful. His looks were very changeable, together with his hair color.
Awesome vintage tape of the monkeys I loved it . Growing up when the moneys were on tv I never missed an episode. Tks for sharing love the Monkeys . I’ll never forget there opening song was great Hey Hey were the Monkeys people say we monkey around but were to busy singing to put anybody down .🤗 💜
Wow, never saw this before...they are all so so young here and naturally talented. No wonder the guys they eventually selected became so popular and successful.....RIP Peter and Davy.
Was there ever a Briton born who could not act? Or a Southerner? Jones and Nesmith are the most relaxed and natural in the little sketches, and there's a distinct charm to Tork and Dolenz that stands out. The producers chose well. It suddenly seems so striking that they were so young. Those were the days when everyone left home by 18 to sink or swim and to find one's tribe.
This is AWESOME!!! Seeing different actors and the Final Four playing different parts. Awesome! AND YOU KNOW there's a hot blonde that they should have chosen
When I was very young the Monkees were my fav & Davy my fav of the four. At the time I thought Mike looked old which is hilarious now when I watch this. He was married at the time which would have seemed "old" to a young girl...
Funny, how the two guys in the record shop scene in each test group ended up together: Mickey & Peter, then Mike & Davy. What's sadder is that the two who approach Mr. Whipple (Don't squeeze the Charmin) first are now gone. Travel In Peace (T.I.P.) Davy and Peter.
Some stuff not everyone knows about Mike Nesmith (who graduated my high school in Dallas -- a few years ahead of me) -- 1) his mom got rich while Mike was a kid by inventing Liquid Paper, a typewriter correction fluid (younger readers may have to google that whole concept). 2) he's a pretty fair songwriter having written, among other things, Linda Ronstadt's hit "Different Drum" 3) he won the first Grammy ever awarded for Long Form Music Video 4) he is considered the inventor of MTV
@@Peter-vk3dq Liquid Paper was a very profitable business by the mid-60's, before the Monkees happened. So, no, she wasn't yet "rich", but she was knocking at the door and making a nice living.
Circus Boy featuring Mickey Dolenz was my favourite tv programme when I was a boy. I used to watch it with my dad. We both loved it. Donkey's years later I saw Dolenz and Jones in a kind of panto at a theatre in London. Can't remember the title.
Micky mentioned in an interview that Steve Stills auditioned but was turned down. Micky joked it was because Still’s teeth didn’t look good on camera.. Still’s pal, Peter Tork , got the job. Stills in the band would have certainly been interesting!
Mike wore the hat to his first audition because he was in a rush that morning and hadn't had the chance to wash his hair. It ended up working in his favor because it made him stand out. The Producers kept saying "bring back the guy in the wool hat". It was actually even the name of his character in the pilot episode: the band's "manager" called him Wool Hat instead of Mike.
To have made it this far, those unknown guys would have had to have beat out a lot of other hopefuls and yet the distance between the Monkees and them is remarkable! They picked the right guys.
This screen test is so funny, I couldn't stop laughing! I never heard of the monkees! You never heard of the monkees?! You never heard of the monkees?! *All together* you never heard of the monkees?! No what do they sound like? Ooooo! A a a aahh! Ooooo! A a a aahh! I'll take it! And it's pretty neat how peter walked in to the room playing the sneaking tune!
Would have been great if the last shot had been the chosen four in a scene together; like how they mixed the four around, so that they were in different scenes together.
4:08 the guy on the right is Michael Burns I think. He guest starred in Bonanza "The Troble with Jamie". Also with James Can, Harrison Ford, Jan Michael Vincent in "Journey to Shilo" and had a ton of appearances on TV shows for decades.
The Monkees came on the scene when I was in about 5th grade. All the girls and most of the boys had their favorite Beatle and pictures of them all over. When Monkees came out it all switched over to everyone’s favorite Monkee and pictures of them all over.
Watching this it's so obvious Peter wanted to play guitar more than anything. And as another poster already noted, the right guys got the gig. I can't imagine subbing Davy, Peter, Micky or Mike for any of the others.
To think Stephen Stills was originally considered. He didn't have that manic attitude...or did he?
Guess we'll never know, but thanks Stephen for recommending Peter Torkelson.
Peter said he was pissed off at the beginning when he found out they would not record the music as they used session muscians. He wanted to play guitar yes.
I think there should have been 5 of them.Michael Burns would've been a Natch too.
@@susanmccormick6022 They wanted four members like The Beatles
Very, very very true! The show would not have been the same (or even worth watching) without them.
OMG, Mike Nesmith psychoanalyzing himself mercilessly. Mickey Dolenz's kidding dodges. Davy Jones politely weaving around questions that have no relation to where he's coming from. Peter Tork's self-effacing defensiveness. How the producers managed to get these four to keep from cracking each other up and work, I don't know how. It's fascinating and makes me ponder, generalizing rather, how vacant American men of today are by comparison. No quickness upstairs. None. These boys were amazing. TFP.
To be fair, the boys were all just doing bits of vaudeville infused with oppositionalism.
$$$ is serious. so is being in the lion's pit.
Western people have becomed 'dumbed-down' since then for sure, but really-switched-on people like those four have always been a special minority. Same here in Australia.
And cute too!
@@designstudio8013
Mike was a little hyper, I thought.
Micky: "I was a box boy at Forest Lawn."
Quick, subtle, and very funny. If you don't know, Forest Lawn is a large Los Angeles cemetery.
Its been a long time since I have heard any Forest Lawn jokes. This sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield line:)
Cool. Thanks so much for that.
i stood outside a drs office makin ppl sick lol
That was a great improv! Micky was the fastest on his feet; he had the most crack comic timing of all of the group.
Forest Lawn Cemetery existed long before Los Angeles existed .... There have been many Forest Lawn Cemeteries ..... That's where all the dead people live .....
You can really see Davy and Micky's acting chemistry from the start! I am glad that the four that were picked were picked.
Perfectly chosen. They had amazing chemistry and the best comedic timing. Mike is a genius!
How will I ever find love or get married if my only true love is Michael Nesmith?!? He's the same age as my grandmother. Why is life so unfair!?
lol if you only knew how many feel the exact same way. Heartbreak
I know how you feel. My heart will always belong to Peter.
He was always my fave too.
Wow, I am a lot younger than Michael Nesmith. You cheered me up just knowing that my age is not a deterrent.
Well...maybe he can marry your grandmother and you could be his step granddaughter...That's one way to win...
The delivery in those screen tests are remarkable. It really does make it quite clear about ability and charisma.
There's something ridiculous attractive about mike nesmith.
Confidence and intelligence.
1971SuperLead Dark brown hair, slightly slanted eyes, perfectly straight nose, dimpled mouth, slim but not boney, chipper Texan accent, flawless skin, and the legs that go on forever. . .oh yes and he's confident and intelligent, but without the other attributes I listed, I don't know if I would pay him quite so much mind.
Hyperballad89 He's the heir to the whiteout fortune? So he really didn't need to do anything. He just like doing stuff.
Douglas John Liquid Paper didn't start making money until after The Monkees were famous. I wrote my first research paper for high school on an old typewriter in the early 90's. I didn't really know how to type and the whole thing was practically covered with white out. I had no clue it had anything to do with one of the Monkees. My parents finally bought a word processor after that.
GingerGilligan Michael's one physical flaw was his receding temples, which he cleverly disguised in the interview.
Rest in peace Peter: '(
I can't believe Micky is the only one left by now... R.I.P Davy, Peter and Mike
Such a shame. He's the biggest asshole of the bunch.
@@salozmen29 really... why????
@@DilfTheVampire Ummm maybe all the rape allegations and how he screwed his bandmates over with money and name rights
@@salozmen29 what happened??
I was fortunately able to get a chance to see them in concert not once but 3 different times and they're a great band . RIP MIKE DAVY AND PETER GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN
I will say, Raybert picked the right guys. The other applicants were mooks. Peter is a lot brighter than the character he played on the show---and a better actor than he's generally given credit for.
And he sang really well in that one bit, too.
+sneezepal Peter is my favorite Monkee, as far as comedy goes. To me, he was always this gentle funny soul. Then I met him in person and realized that none of that is an act. He is a gentle, funny soul, a true flower child.
I wouldn't say it sucked. I would say it's a testament to his acting ability. And it was a vital role for the chemistry of the show.
sneezepal MOOKS! Groovy man, groovy!
Peter used to sing in the folk clubs in Greenwich Village before he was a Monkee. He was actually recommended by Stephen Stills who had been rejected as a Monkee.
They were all so naturally funny and comfortable with themselves.
Micky's so cute in a teenage-boy kind of way.
There's an undertow of Leonardo DiCaprio w/him. I see Nesmith, I think Nat Wolff.
I see Matthew Perry… ❤ can’t be serious for a second! ❤
Rip Peter Tork you will be missed 💕💕
Having had his own tv show years before and been on probably 100s of auditions, and at this point was in 4 different pilots, he knew how to nail an audition. The way he grabbed Davy's hat from him at the door way would have clinched it for me.
He completely changed that scene. I love his acting form. True talent
@@Malachishouse The two of them together- Davy's reaction to Mickey stealing the hat was spot on.
wow, seeing the other guys in the mix, they really made the right choices ;)
Davy, Micky, Mike and Peter all just had the right chemistry together. They also later had proven they had great musical talent as well. Maybe someday, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can hold off inducting a Hip Hop star and put this band in where they belong.
It would have been nice to see it happen when the band's two actual musicians were still around to appreciate it. 💔
@@sharpeslass5452 And now, there's just Micky.
@@LarryLeeMoniz I know. I'm heartbroken. The Nez was my favourite. 💔
Only problem is they hardly wrote their own music, Neal diamond wrote a bunch of their hits. the ones they did write, well it was a bit strange, even for psychedelic rock.
@@Drummerchick2003 Elvis Presley didn't write a single song. They inducted him in 1986.
You know Davy was a shoe-in. It seems like they wanted to hire him on the spot. I like Peter's audition the best.
Apparently he was the original one the show was developed for - at least according to an interview I just saw.
True. He was already signed to Columbia and released a solo record on the Colpix label (which eventually morphed into Colgems - The Monkees label their original records were released on). They were trying to find a suitable vehicle for him and The Monkees turned out to be it. IIRC, Davy in his autobiography claimed that one show they tried developing for him involved a British boy and his look-a-like American cousin getting into sitcom hi-jinks together. That became The Patty Duke Show. My guess would be Patty could do a better pseudo English accent than Davy could pull off an American one.
Mike also had a bit of an advantage since he was also signed to Colpix in 1965 (and recorded and released a few singles) and was performing at The Troubadour - where Bob Rafelson and Bert Schnieder saw him perform.
Davy was actually on the Ed Sullivan show the day the Beatles debuted on it.
Mickey and Davy were hired first. Mickey had been in a tv show called Circus Boy for 2 years. Davy had some acting in England before he came to America
Jones was an actor on broadway. He had already been nominated for a Tony for Oliver Twist. Pretty sure these tests were just a formality for him.
For not having been a professional actor before this, Mike is very good, always has a vulnerability to him. Micky and Davy definitely worked well together. Peter played it a little straight, probably nerves, but he always had an innocent look working for him, and they really did a good job of having four personalities and blending them together.
Actually Mike had a fair amount of stage acting experience prior to his Monkees audition. He had also traveled the country playing the folk club circuit so he was comfortable in front of an audience.
Mike: telling it like it is from day one. Thanks, Papa, for everything you gave us. We miss you.
So many posters need to be reminded that Charles Manson NEVER auditioned for the Monkees. He was in jail at the time. URBAN LEGEND.
Yes....started by Micky himself!
@@PlumbPitiful Oh really? Then I have to wonder about this story about Micky supposedly auditioning for the role of the Fonz in _Happy Days_ (he lost out on that, in case you're the one in a billion who doesn't know that Henry Winkler got it).
Manson did write a Beach Boys song, though.
@@mosseisleyYT No, that's actually true.
And Micky admitted in an interview he was the one to make up that rumor.
"I love you too, but I already have a dog." *goes completely unnoticed*
I can’t get over how charming Davy is 🥺
I can see WHY they got the parts.
Do you know how freaking tempted I am to hear the Colonel Nesmith story.
OH, MIKE. OH, MY LOVE. OH BABY.
They look so young! Loved watching them & loved their music.. All are charming.
Davy Jones was always my Favorite . RIP Davy !
RIP Peter.
RIP Davy.
One of my favorite shows growing up in the 60's.
Oh. My. Goodness. Davy and mike were both drop dead gorgeous!! 😍😍😍
Five foot three dynamo! Davey was destined to be a star!
Gaw! Mike at the beginning! makes me melt!!!
+Sho Mill Hahah ain't that the truth!!! 😍 such a cutie!
Yes! Lets not forget about him sticking his tongue out hahaha!
@girlzeyeview They are like headshots in motion (vs. a still photo), MOS (without sound), and the director or producer is giving them directions - turn to your left, turn to your right, act mad, act silly, etc., to see how they look in close up on camera.
Quick witted, that's what Mike is, he is a natural for the show.
I absolutely love this. The right four were finally chosen. Peter, dear Peter, ever the musician; Mickey and Davy the performers; Mike the sardonic joker.
Micky was so cute here. He’s my favorite then and now. I had a huge crush on him.. ❤️
Love Mickey's speaking voice. Cutie pie
It's so nice to see this....they were perfect together
Joseph Gordon-Levitt could have definitely played Micky Dolenz if they ever made a movie about The Monkees.
they did make a movie about the Monkees. It's called Daydream believers The Monkees story.
OMG! I was thimking the exact same thing!
Chris Pine!
Maybe Leonardo DiCaprio in his early days.
Bruno Mars
Oh dear. We nearly ended up with Davy, Mickey, SJ and Wendel.
I don't think so - far from it!
I think SJ and Wendel were just character names and not the actual names of the other people auditioning.
They picked the right guy's for that show. They all were very talented and had fun personalities.♥
I'm so happy it was them. Second generation fan. I have seen home videos of myself saying their names when I was six months old. (it was in reruns and my mom and aunt were HUGE fans) Love to Micky and RIP to the other "fellas". ❤️
This is amazing honestly I watch it nearly every day💀😂 can’t believe it was posted ten years ago- and 1.1MILLION Veiws?!!!
i like mikes answer to the question why do you play music, and how he says "what i think is what i am".
i like mickys joke about making people sick in front of a doctors office, don't know why that guy told him not to use that joke.
i just loved davys interview and his shaving joke. i really enjoyed peters screen test , he seems smart and you could tell he was nervous, i like how he made the guitar sound like a banjo.
The interviewer is a real a**s, but Mike handles him well.
RIP Mike Nesmith. 💔
I'm so glad they picked the 4 they did. Any other combination wouldn't have changed rock and roll history the way The Monkees did I doubt any other combination would have made the move from actors to musicians, much less have been so great at it. I appreciate the fact that The Monkees were always only those 4. They never tried to make anyone else a Monkee even when some quit. They have my respect for that and for so much more too. RIP Nez, Pete, Davy. And then there was one. ML&R for you all.
Davy Jones was a handsome, sweet fellow..😍😚
The interplay between Jones and Dolenz around 12:00 is really good. It's like they were already brothers (they said later they were like brothers) already. Nesmith is pretty good too.
My mom was a huge fan of The Monkees in the 60s. I was a huge fan of The Monkees in the 80s. I had every single one of their albums on tape. My mom had most of them on record. Mom got a letter back from Peter Tork when she wrote to him in the 60s. We went to their reunion concert in 1987. We waited for their tour busses to leave after the concert and Mickey and Davy waved at us, and Davy blew me a kiss. Then in 2000 Mickey did a free concert with his sister in a park and we went. Mickey signed my mom’s t-shirt and my magazine. I took lots of pictures. Lots of great memories of The Monkees for both of us.
I loved that show and I loved the guys.
The charisma of the chosen cast clearly shows miles above the other choices.
We DO love it Peter. By God we do! xxx
I love micky
After watching this I can say that none of them were top notch actors... but Mike was the best actor of them all.
They did not have to be "top notch" actors and they were more decent than the so-called talent we have to gag through today.
Worth the time. Now I understand why I loved Peter Tork. Oh, such a talent. Makes me all wibbly-wobbly.
Gorgeous Peter Tork
Peter was gorgeous, but he didn't always photograph well. I've seen pictures of him where he looked like Adonis and others where he looked awful. His looks were very changeable, together with his hair color.
Joanne is one of my favorite songs. RIP Mike. I loved the Monkees, big crush on Peter.
Awesome vintage tape of the monkeys I loved it . Growing up when the moneys were on tv I never missed an episode. Tks for sharing love the Monkeys . I’ll never forget there opening song was great Hey Hey were the Monkeys people say we monkey around but were to busy singing to put anybody down .🤗 💜
I just made a hat like Mike's!!! It is so cute!!! I knitted it all by myself, I wish I could show it to him!
My very first record album was "The Monkees"! On Colgems label...I still have it.
Met Peter Tork at a music conference in upstate N.Y. What a super nice guy.
Wow! They were so young!
Thanks for posting this! I've been a fan of the show since its September, 1966 debut!
Wow, never saw this before...they are all so so young here and naturally talented. No wonder the guys they eventually selected became so popular and successful.....RIP Peter and Davy.
Was there ever a Briton born who could not act? Or a Southerner? Jones and Nesmith are the most relaxed and natural in the little sketches, and there's a distinct charm to Tork and Dolenz that stands out. The producers chose well. It suddenly seems so striking that they were so young. Those were the days when everyone left home by 18 to sink or swim and to find one's
tribe.
Thanks for posting. This was really interesting.
So did anyone help Vanessa??? LOL! Wonderful, classic audition footage! Thx for sharing! :)
They did lol. Watch the pilot episode
@@tiffanyrouth7450 I'm SO glad to hear they helped Vanessa! I'd heard rumors she wound up turning to drugs and prostitution
@@nickswango869 well it was touch and go there for awhile.
Mickey has such a great voice. You can hear his singing voice in his speaking voice.
This is AWESOME!!! Seeing different actors and the Final Four playing different parts. Awesome! AND YOU KNOW there's a hot blonde that they should have chosen
aw Peters is so cute! well they all are
Davy and Mickey had some damn good chemistry right off the bat.
Rip Peter Tork thankyou for the music. Now I'm a believer
When I was very young the Monkees were my fav & Davy my fav of the four. At the time I thought Mike looked old which is hilarious now when I watch this. He was married at the time which would have seemed "old" to a young girl...
It was ment to be.call them pre fab but in my eyes to do what they did not knowing each other made it more amazing!
Peter being afraid to hurt himself when he hits his hand on the table is so cute
This is a gem! Thank you, TH-cam recommendations! After many abysmal offerings, you have redeemed yourself. 🎶❤️
Funny, how the two guys in the record shop scene in each test group ended up together: Mickey & Peter, then Mike & Davy. What's sadder is that the two who approach Mr. Whipple (Don't squeeze the Charmin) first are now gone. Travel In Peace (T.I.P.) Davy and Peter.
I need more of these... so good to see them unrehearsed
Some stuff not everyone knows about Mike Nesmith (who graduated my high school in Dallas -- a few years ahead of me) --
1) his mom got rich while Mike was a kid by inventing Liquid Paper, a typewriter correction fluid (younger readers may have to google that whole concept).
2) he's a pretty fair songwriter having written, among other things, Linda Ronstadt's hit "Different Drum"
3) he won the first Grammy ever awarded for Long Form Music Video
4) he is considered the inventor of MTV
ericynot Mike’s mom didn’t get rich with Liquid Paper until after he was already a Monkee.
@@Peter-vk3dq Liquid Paper was a very profitable business by the mid-60's, before the Monkees happened. So, no, she wasn't yet "rich", but she was knocking at the door and making a nice living.
That was cool. They picked the right guys for the job, that's for sure.
NBC had the talent to pick the correct actors for their program The Monkeys. Congratulation
Circus Boy featuring Mickey Dolenz was my favourite tv programme when I was a boy. I used to watch it with my dad. We both loved it. Donkey's years later I saw Dolenz and Jones in a kind of panto at a theatre in London. Can't remember the title.
Micky mentioned in an interview that Steve Stills auditioned but was turned down. Micky joked it was because Still’s teeth didn’t look good on camera.. Still’s pal, Peter Tork , got the job. Stills in the band would have certainly been interesting!
I can just imagine The Monkees doing For What it’s Worth on Headquarters in place of For Pete’s Sake🤔
It wasn't a joke. He WAS rejected for bad hair and teeth. It was TV. Looks were very important
RIP Peter Tork :( :( :(
LOL MIKE AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sassy Mike!!!!!
"Um no because that is a very dumb story" LOLOLOOLOLOLOLOOLOLOL
This is SO cool. I never knew Mike had the hat & sideburns thing right off the rip.
Mike wore the hat to his first audition because he was in a rush that morning and hadn't had the chance to wash his hair. It ended up working in his favor because it made him stand out. The Producers kept saying "bring back the guy in the wool hat". It was actually even the name of his character in the pilot episode: the band's "manager" called him Wool Hat instead of Mike.
Really Tired 64 okay, thanks! I’d heard the Wool Hat story, but I had thought it was the producer’s idea to put the hat on him.
Rip Peter.
Mickey's wearing different colored shoes! ROFL!!
I love Mike's self confidence
To have made it this far, those unknown guys would have had to have beat out a lot of other hopefuls and yet the distance between the Monkees and them is remarkable! They picked the right guys.
Please don' t squeeze the Charmin. (You know who you are)
+Leslie Cromer Mr. Whipple!!
Now it would have been funny if one of them could have worked that line into the screen test 😂
Micky is by far the best Monkee in every way! The Monkees would have been a total flop without him.
This screen test is so funny, I couldn't stop laughing! I never heard of the monkees!
You never heard of the monkees?! You never heard of the monkees?! *All together* you never heard of the monkees?! No what do they sound like?
Ooooo! A a a aahh! Ooooo! A a a aahh!
I'll take it!
And it's pretty neat how peter walked in to the room playing the sneaking tune!
RIP Peter Tork
R.I.P. Mom
Would have been great if the last shot had been the chosen four in a scene together; like how they mixed the four around, so that they were in different scenes together.
Yeah, right? I thought that's how it would end???
4:08 the guy on the right is Michael Burns I think. He guest starred in Bonanza "The Troble with Jamie". Also with James Can, Harrison Ford, Jan Michael Vincent in "Journey to Shilo" and had a ton of appearances on TV shows for decades.
If Michael Burns was the guy in the hat with Micky, does anyone know who the other guy was? He looks so familiar yet I can't place him...
The Monkees came on the scene when I was in about 5th grade. All the girls and most of the boys had their favorite Beatle and pictures of them all over. When Monkees came out it all switched over to everyone’s favorite Monkee and pictures of them all over.
Peter’s so nervous lol
I see kids today wearing 2 different shoes. Mickey ahead of his time