{"id":30296,"date":"2013-04-09T05:25:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=30296"},"modified":"2016-10-27T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T19:59:08","slug":"the-monkeys-did-you-know-thisthe-beatles-movie-hard-days-night-was-the-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=30296","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Monkeys&#8221; Screen Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Monkeys-Did-You-Know-This-The-Beatles-movie-Hard-Days-Night-was-the-ca\" \/><\/a><br \/>The Monkeys! Did You Know This?<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles movie &#8216;Hard Day&#8217;s Night&#8217; was the catalyst that brought the idea for this show to life. They already had the idea for the show and originally thought about using &#8216;The Lovin Spoonful&#8217; band to play the lead rolls, but they signed a record deal before the show could sign them. Davy Jones had played the roll of the artful dodger in &#8216;Oliver&#8217; on Broadway and was someone the producers wanted, but they needed 3 more band members, so they ran this add in September of 1965&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madness!! Auditions. Folk &#038; Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running Parts for 4 insane boys, age 17-21. Want spirited Ben Frank&#8217;s types. Have courage to work. Must come down for interview.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>437 applied and below are the screen tests of the final eight contenders&#8230;all four monkeys and four more finalists. Note, there is no audio on the very first short clip. Enjoy! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63nhSFFFfJ4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63nhSFFFfJ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monkees Screen Tests\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/63nhSFFFfJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Rare black and white footage of Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones auditioning for the 60s hit NBC television program The Monkees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/554610364570617\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkeys! Did You Know This? The Beatles movie &#8216;Hard Day&#8217;s Night&#8217; was the catalyst that brought the idea for this show to life. They already had the idea for the show and originally thought about using &#8216;The Lovin Spoonful&#8217; band to play the lead rolls, but they signed a record deal before the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[782,704,806],"class_list":["post-30296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-nbc","tag-producer","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}