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The Monkees :: Thirty-Three and One-Third Revolutions per Monkee (02x00)
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| Title: | Thirty-Three and One-Third Revolutions per Monkee |
| Episode: | Season 2 Special |
| Original Airdate: | Monday April 14th, 1969 |
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The Monkees evolution is mythologicalized in this pyschodelic salute to Darwinism.
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The Monkees went into production of 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee on the day after their last full concert as a quartet, at The Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan.
| NBC went on strike just as the 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee cast and crew were about to commence recording, thus forcing them to switch taping locations to MGM's studios. Production was done on the fly through remote trucks parked right outside.
| The Monkees were unhappy with Jack Good and Art Fisher's script for 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, calling it "Too sloppy, too fairy-tale like." Davy Jones criticized the script for focusing more on the supporting cast than The Monkees.
| For the "Listen To Te Band' climax, Jack Good sent a couple of buses down to the Sunset Strip and rounded up about 100 hippies to be in the audience.
| This was the last performance as a quartet The Monkees ever gave. Peter Tork, reportedly suffering from exhaustion, bought out his Monkees' contract at the end of production. The Monkees would not be seen on network TV as a foursome 28 years.
| Negotiations were originally made in early 1968 for The Monkees to star in three NBC specials to air in 1969; 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee was the first. But they scrapped plans for the other 2 after deciding the first one was too subversive---and after a network engineer accidentally presented 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee out of sequence, making it more confusing than it already was.
| 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee's Pacific time competition was the 41st Academy Awards. On the east coast, it battled The Avengers and Peyton Place on ABC, and the second half of Gunsmoke and a Hello Lucy episode on CBS. Both coasts sandwiched 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee between I Dream Of Jeannie and The Monday Night Movie.
| Hawaiian broadcast of 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee was delayed for two weeks, finally airing on April 28. It was telecast in Great Britain on May 24 on BBC2.
| In the 1990's, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee was released by Rhino Home Video in two different versions. The version of 33 1/3 released in January of 1997 is on file at The Museum Of Television & Radio in New York City.
| Backing tracks for 33 1/3's songs were cut in December 1968 at Western Recorders studios in Los Angeles on 1-inch, 8 track tape by noted Producer Bones Howe. They were then transferred, unfinished, to the 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee sound stage at MGM, where The Monkees dubbed their lead vocals live during the TV tapings. The songs were never fully dubbed in the studio, and the multi-track tapes are assumed lost.
| Executive Producer Ward Sylvester was the only member of the original production crew from The Monkees present at the videotaping of 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee.
| Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner went on to form BBS Productions (Bob, Bert, Steve), which churned out such classics as Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show, Drive, He Said, The King Of Marvin Gardens and Hearts And Minds.
| "Teardrop City," (b/w "A Man Without A Dream") The Monkees' ninth single, was released February 8, 1969, two months before the broadcast of 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee. The Monkees' seventh album, Instant Replay, was released on February 15Th. They were the first recordings released that did not include Peter Tork.
| "Listen To The Band," which The Monkees performed in the special, was issued on the A-side of their single (b/w "Someday Man") 12 days after the special aired.
| Mike Murphy's "I Prithee (Do Not Ask For Love)" was previously recorded on November 17, 1966, during a session for the More Of The Monkees album. It featured Micky Dolenz on lead vocalsbut was not released, despite being performed during the group's first tour in the winter of 1966/67. The first version remained unreleased until 1990, when it became part of Rhino's Missing Links Volume 2. A similar take of "Do Not Ask For Love" can be heard on Rhino's 2001 Monkees Music Box.
| Commercials for Aerowax, Easy-On, American Oil, Woolite and for an NBC Don Ho Special aired during the broadcast of 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee.
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Featured Songs |
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Arnold and the Moon Express | Only The Fittest Shall Survive | | | •Clara Ward Singers | Dry Bones | | | •Davy | Goldilocks Sometime | | | •Davy | String For My Kite | | | •Entire Cast | Listen To The Band | | | •Jerry Lee Lewis | Down The Line | | | •Little Richard | Long Tall Sally | | | •Micky&Julie Driscoll | I'm a Believer | | | •The Monkees | Wind Up Man | | | •The Monkees | Darwin | | | •The Monkees | I Go Ape | | | •The Monkees | Little Darlin | | | •Monkees with Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Le | At the Hop | | | •Monkees with Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Le | I'm Ready | | | •Monkees with Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Le | Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On | | | •Monkees with Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Le | Tutti Frutti | | | •Monkees with Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Le | Shake a Tail Feather | | | •Monkees with Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Le | Blue Monday | | | •Nez | Naked Persimmon | | | •Peter | Prithee | | | •Peter | Bach's Toccata in D | | | •Peter | California Here I Come | | | •The Trinity | Come On Up | |
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(The Monkees are trapped by aliens in tubes)
Groovy Alien: Silly boys, brute force will get you no where. You're not here now, your minds are free! Use them, think yourselves out. Relax...relax...relax, feel your bodies sinking, and your spirits rising! Rising out of your heads, floating away into your own world of fantasy! Floating away into your own world of fantasy! Floating away into your own world of fantasy!
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