Three New Entries, With Five Going Up, Eleven Going Down & One Non Mover. This Week A Brand New Number One.

Sixties Hits Classic Countdown 5th May 1968

Another great week in the classic countdowns from Sixties Hits and Jim Richman.

Sixties Hits Classic Countdown

21st April 1966

One New Entry, With Seven Going Up, Eight Going Down & Foour Non Movers

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Here at Sixties Hits we just love reminising about the music from the past. its amazing how often classic songs of yesteryear appear in todays music in some form or another. Browse through our classic countdown list and see if you can spot anything that has been used to to make something more recent.

Two New Entries, Six Going Up, Eight Going Down & Four Non Movers

  From 1965 to 1971, Jones was a member of The Monkees, a pop-rock group formed expressly for a television show of the same name. With Screen Gems producing the series, Jones was shortlisted for auditions, as he was the only Monkee who was signed to a deal with the studio, but still had to meet producers Bob Rafelson‘s and Bert Schneider‘s standards. Jones sang lead vocals on many of the Monkees’ recordings, including “I Wanna Be Free” and “Daydream Believer“. Jones met Laramy Smith in 1967, introduced by Eirik Wangberg (then a producer and co-owner of Sound Records), and they co-produced The Children, an Austin, Texas group Jones discovered while on tour with the Monkees. A single was released on Laramie Records entitled “Picture Me”, which reached Billboard at number 2 with a bullet.

In 2001, Jones released “Just Me”, an album of his own songs, some written for the album and others originally on Monkees releases. In April 2006, Jones recorded the single “Your Personal Penguin; written by children’s author Sandra Boynton, as a companion piece to her new board book of the same title. On 1 November 2007, the Boynton book and CD titled “Blue Moo” was released and Jones is featured in both the book and CD, singing “Your Personal Penguin”. As a result of the collaboration, Jones became a close friend of Boynton. Also in 2007, Jones recorded the theme for a campy movie comedy called Sexina: Popstar PI.

 In December 2008, Yahoo Music named Jones “Number 1 teen idol of all time”.^[11] In 2009 Jones was rated second in a list of 10 best teen idols compiled by Fox News. In 2009, Jones released an album entitled “She” which is a collection of handpicked classics and standards from the 1940s through the 1970s. Also in 2009, Jones performed in the Flower Power Concert Series during Epcot‘s Flower and Garden Festival.

On the morning of February the 29^th Davy complained of  breathing difficulties, In indiantown, Florida. He was taken to the Martin Memorial Hospital, in Stuart  where he was pronounced dead. Jones is survived by his wife Jessica and four daughters.