Where is clarksville monkees

The Monkees was a fictional band populated by actors for a TV show to capitalize on the fame and fun that the Beatles captured in the movie "A Hard Day's Night. In an interview published by Songfacts , Hart explained that yes, it was a Vietnam War protest song about a young man who gets drafted. The train is taking him to an Army post, and he knows that he may die in Vietnam. At the end of the song he laments, "I don't know if I'm ever coming home.

While there were likely a lot of soldiers in those years in that situation going through Clarksville to get to Fort Campbell, the songwriters didn't know that. We were throwing out names, and when we got to 'Clarksdale,' we thought 'Clarksville' sounded even better. We couldn't be too direct with The Monkees. We couldn't really make a protest song out of it — we kind of snuck it in.

Particularly considering that Hart thought the Army's Fort Campbell post was an Air Force base, it's a good bet that he wasn't familiar with Clarksville, Tennessee. Monkees member Micky Dolenz complicated things with a interview with Rolling Stone.

He said, "It's about a guy going off to war. Frankly, it's an anti-war song. It's about a guy going to Clarksville, Tennessee, which is an Army base if I'm not mistaken. He's obviously been drafted and he says to his girlfriend, 'I don't know if I'm ever coming home. Dolenz, 73, is a vocalist and drummer, while Nesmith, 76, is a vocalist and guitarist. The Monkees outsold the Beatles in but the Beatles outsold the Monkees overall.

The Beatles sold million records while the Monkees sold 75 million records. Personal life. Dolenz has been married three times and is the father of four daughters. Nesmith and Dolenz played guitar, and Dolenz took drum lessons, so he could play drums on camera. Tork played guitar, keyboards and banjo. Jones learned to play drums and guitar, and a custom bass guitar was made specially for him. He also played percussion instruments, like tambourine.

The Monkees are an American rock and pop band originally active between and , with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. Users questions. Where is the Clarksville in the Monkees song?