RIP Davy Jones
Davy Jones of the Monkees has died at the age of 66.
Of course I remember Jones and the Monkees and their Bieber-foreshadowing cuteness, and although I wasn’t much of a fan I did like “I’m a Believer.”
Did I say I wasn’t much of a fan? Not of the Monkees. But I was a huge Davy Jones fan before there even were any Monkees, because I was a Broadway baby who’d been taken to see the show “Oliver,” and was blown away by how great Jones was as the Artful Dodger, a role he originated in London and took to Broadway. He stole the show with just the right combination of gruffness, roughness, softness, and charm.
YouTube’s got only one blurry clip of him doing the Dodger, on the Ed Sullivan Show. It captures at least a tiny bit of his flair in the role:
Neo – something you may have missed: “RIP, Lynn D. “Buck” Compton, First lieutenant in Easy Company, parachuted into France on D-Day, awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart (his story was depicted in the Band of Brothers)”
He died on Sat and was 90 years old. He was part of a 3 man team who prosecuted Sirhan Sirhan. I suppose we won’t see the outpouring that we saw for Whitney Houston…
Call ye not Artful Dodger from the vasty deep lest he arise and paste in ye olde 75,000 word memoir of the relationship between Oliver, Dickens, and the great takeover of the global consciousness by communists disguised as ragamuffin pickpockets from Victorian England.
JuliB,
Thanks for the info. You are correct, only a few will remember of the life of Lt. Compton. This is the era of tabloid heroes and villians. A time of frivolous BS pretendng to be wisdom. Thank you Buck and the many thousands of others who put their lives on the line during that crucial time.