After pausing to gaze at a painting as if it were a mirror, he sat down and immediately put his feet up on a desk. With a harmonica around his neck, he stormed into a casting office, banging the door loudly. Nesmith, with his twangy Texas accent and the wool hat he’d worn to his audition, became the serious but naive lead guitarist.Ī prankster by nature, he’d arrived at the audition carrying a guitar and bag of dirty laundry he said he planned to wash immediately afterward. Production began in the spring of 1979 at SamFilm, a sound-stage built and operated in Sand City, California by Sam Harrison, a Monterey Peninsula College instructor with a motion picture background. Former Monkee Mike Nesmith conceived the first music-video program as a promotional device for Warner Communications record division. Tork, a folk-rock musician, portrayed the comically clueless bass player. PopClips is a music video television program, the direct predecessor of MTV. Amazingly, Nesmith’s family is also responsible for one of the most ubiquitous office supply items in the days before computers. Appropriately, Nesmith’s Elephant Parts was the first music video to win a Grammy. Dolenz became the wacky drummer, although he had to learn to play the drums as the show went along. PopClips debuted on the cable network Nickelodeon in 1980. The first episode was a stand-alone television special which aired on.
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Michael Nesmith Creator Series Cast We don't have any cast added to this TV Show. It was a 30-minute comedy-variety series created by Michael Nesmith as a continuation of his Grammy Award -winning video production Elephant Parts, and earlier series PopClips. PopClips was preceded by the video Elephant Parts, and a second series titled Television Parts, both of which Nesmith hosted and produced. Jones, with his British accent and boyish good looks, was the group’s cute lead singer. Michael Nesmith in Television Parts is a summer TV series run by NBC in 1985.
Three others, “I’m a Believer,” “Daydream Believer” and “Last Train to Clarksville,” reached No. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. Each episode rolled out two or three new Monkees songs, six of which became Top 10 Billboard hits during the show’s two-year run. A retrospective on Nickelodeon and the show that likely inspired MTV.
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