Friday Flashback: The songwriting Monkee
Davy Jones and "My Love"
FRIDAY FLASHBACK to 1999:
...Between 1993 and 2003, Davy Jones (Monkees) and I worked on 40 of his original songs. Most of the work was recorded and issued on 3 albums, the best known being JUSTME and JUSTME2 (refracting on JUSTUS, the 1997 Monkees reunion). David and I had a give-and-take communication on the arrangements—sometimes he’d let me run wild with tempos and instrumentation, other times he had the song mapped out and I just topped it off. Many of the tunes were brand new while some were titles he started in 1968, designated for The Monkees but not used. Michael Nesmith is rightfully thought of at the most proficient songwriter of the Monkees camp, but after his tally, Davy Jones was actually just as prolific and had many of his original songs used as album cuts on several Monkees albums.
For “My Love” we were inspired by Hurricane Smith and Electric Light Orchestra. “My Love” was recorded in 1999 with David “Loafy” Alexander (keyboards, vocals), Aviva Maloney (saxophone), and (the late well-remembered) Jerry Renino (bass).
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