Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for March 12, 2012

He was too busy singing to put anybody down.

That’s how Tink look when I first met her, only she had blondhair in the shape of a pony-tail and wore a pretty dress.

Great tribute!

R.I.P., Davy.

Given that Fritzi Ritz started in 1922, she was more likely to run into King Kong when she was 11 than any other monkeys…

I was 11 in ‘65, so, somehow, I’m as old as Fritzy Ritz!

It’s hard to believe he was in his 20’s when the show first started, and he still had that smooth “baby face” and at the time, I thought he was a teenager. I was only 7 in 1965.

I was also 11 in 1965. We used to watch the Monkees every week and if memory serves, there was a strip featuring them in one of the weekly comics that was about at the time in which Mike Nesmith was called Woolhat.

Come on…. give us old timers a break. I remember when Nancy first arrived at Fritzi’s house, in the 20’s. She was already a “Babe” when she and Nancy came back east in the 30’s I think she was around well before the "Monkees started “fooling around”.

Actually, before the Monkees started “Monkeying around”

I was a little older but recall their Saturday morning TV show as being mainly intended for Aunt Fritzi-type pre-teen girls [we called them teenie-boppers back then]. But they made some good music that will endure long after they are all gone.

i’m going to be generous to fritzi and assume she’s watching the monkees on mtv or nickelodeon in the 1980s.

my stupid local newspaper (the wichita eagle) didn’t run a thing about davy jones.

Nice tribute to Mr. Jones! My wife and I enjoyed the Monkees as kids in the 60s, as young marrieds in the 80s, and we still enjoy them today.

I had the pleasure of seeing Davy perform at a local casino about 10 days before he passed. Lots of jokes and funny stories along with the songs, a terrific entertainer. I had a great time. A big fan of Davy and The Monkees since ’66.

no small number of guys liked the Monkeys also. i was one.

I became a fan of the Monkees in the early 80’s as a kid, I sought out every album on Cassette (sadly they were stolen) and I am now trying to rebuild my collection on CD. My all time favorite song is SHE, but I LOVE all theire songs. Hard to believe the band actually came out of the show and not the other way around. Davy Jones you will be missed, you are and always will be loved.

heck..it was hard to beleive Davy was 66!!! or was it 62??

the Biography channel had an hour or so long tribute to Davy..Davy has been in the show Biz for Quite a while before the Monkees…He was real good, too….i still can’t beleive Davy was 66..or was it 62? i still see him young…..yeah i watched some of that Antenna t.v. tribute to the Monkees…took me back to when i was…..oh…i am not gonna give my age away..LOL

R.I.P. Davey – you were and are, still loved.

AshburnStadium METV in the states aired some Brady Bunch and Love American Style episodes with Davy in them.

Fritzi was a rugrat probably back in the nineteen-teens, or earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzi_Ritz

Nice tribute Guy.

I was a kid in the 80s, so I’ve only heard of the Monkees anecdotally.

That might just have been me on today’s Nancy strip. I was 11 when I gave my heart to Davy Jones back in ’69. I used to watch the Monkees reruns on some cable channel. I almost had a nervous breakdown when I found out Davy was married with a little girl. Some snobby girl in my class gave me the bad news. But I go over it. Rest in Peace, Davy.

Actually, the Monkees came after the Beatles, who were the Fab Four. It was a marketing ploy to cash in on the popularity of the British Invasion groups

“The Monkees” ran for two years on NBC at 7:30 pm Monday nights. THEN, after the show was cancelled, CBS ran it at noon on Saturdays for several years. The Monkees did some touring, still, at this time. Oddly, it was Peter Tork, not Michael Nesmith, who stayed out of the group at this time. (Nesmith’s mother might not’ve invented Liquid Paper yet, which seems to be part of why Michael left and Peter rejoined for the 1980s comeback.)

The Saturday Morning series on CBS were just reruns of the NBC prime-time show .

I was 15 and did not want to watch the Monkees, but had to because my little sisters wanted to. Then in one episode during the comedy montage, Mike was wrestling with a small stuffed tiger. i laughed until my sides hurt. from that day forward I was a fan. Interestingly, my favorite song is “Cuddly Toy”