COW: MooooOOOooo!!
FRANK ZAPPA: That song was pretty white. DAVY JOES: Well, so am I. What can I tell ya? FZ: You've been working on your dancing though. DJ: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I've been rehearsing it. Glad you noticed that. FZ: Yeah, it doesn't leave much time for your music. You should spend more time on it because the youth of America depends on you to show the way. DJ: Yeah?
FZ: Yeah. COW: Monkees is the craziest people...................MoooOOOOO.....!!
Frank Zappa and the Monkees' Davy Jones on the studio lot in a scene from the movie Head (1968). Not sure what Zappa thought about dance, being all about music, or the music, as martinet musicians are prone to say, but he seems to think musicians should be musicians and not musician-dancers (or god forbid -- entertainers!).
Jones had a pleasingly soft singing voice for someone who came from the theatre, where he sang and danced and acted his way into the role of the "Artful Dodger" in the long-running West End production of Oliver! (1960). He was already seasoned by the time he blew up as a Monkee.
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