Episode 143 Part 1: The Monkees

This week I talk about a group I have been kind of avoiding for a while because this group was a HUGE band from the 60's and their music is borderline "mainstream" but at the same time, they are almost "under the radar" that if you are of a certain age so you might know a few of their songs, but you might not know their history if your a Millennial or a Gen Z, so because of this, they do qualify as a group worth covering on my podcast, but I'm DEFINITELY not doing one of their most "Popular" songs that everyone knows, but instead, I"m doing somewhat of a deep cut by them that if you are not already familiar with their music, you might not know this song and just a heads up next week's episode might be pretty long because of how in depth their history is, but it's mainly because I"m sure a lot of you are going on summer vacation right now because cases are so down all across the US and it's a lot safer to travel now compared to last summer, so you can listen to next week's episode on your summer road trip that you might be on due to the current state of the pandemic (which isn't bad at all really).but here's the link to this week's song just in case you guys wanted to hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mZ_YDzoKmE You can also follow me and reach out to me on Instagram right here: https://www.instagram.com/iheartoldies/ please do also check out my EP Turquoise Apricot, here you'll be able to find 7 original songs of mine that I wrote & produced and played most of the instruments on. These are songs that were previously unreleased with the exception of 3 of them, so please do listen to these and let me know whatcha think of these songs, I would love to know if they have emotionally impacted you or if you can relate to them in anyway, or if you just like my overall style & genre that I fall into, you can do that by emailing me at [email protected], or you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/samlwilliams/turquoise-apricot Also, please do check out my cool write ups/interviews that I got recently both on Honk Magazine and ShoutoutLA. here you can read more about me and hopefully you find these write ups interesting as I reveal a lot about myself in them so you'll get a good dose of who I am both as a musician & songwriter in these two write ups if you are coming across me from the internet and you haven't me in real life. but if you do come across these and would like to meet me in real life and your based in LA, don't be afraid to get in touch with me at [email protected]. would love to meet you in person ESPECIALLY if your a fan of this podcast and you discovered me through that or through these two cool interviews/write ups: https://honkmagazine.com/sam-l-williams-talks-about-his-career-path-influence-and-new-music/ https://shoutoutla.com/meet-sam-l-williams-musician-songwriter-podcast-host/ Don't forget to also check out the official Spotify and Youtube playlists for this podcast. there you'll be able to find all of the songs that I talk about on my podcast including some of the ones that I have mentioned in interview episodes of this podcast. if you listened to these playlists and it gives you ideas for 60's songs I should cover next on my podcast that I haven't yet, please email me at [email protected], you can also reach out to me on Instagram @iheartoldies: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21f3uBS6kU4hUF6QAC5JMj?si=08bf1660f8a24fb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1sYR7xky8&list=PL66sgq_GAmRcXy8yKZJfVmAD14HUYj7Nf Please do also check the Official Redbubble Merch store for this podcast, there you'll be able to find these super cool merc...