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On November 14, 7a Records will fill in a missing chapter of the Davy Jones story.  Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings premieres on CD the handful of singles recorded by the Monkees' resident song-and-dance man for the MGM Records label - including both mono and stereo mixes and a rare Japan-only single side - and, for good measure, adds all of Jones' tracks recorded for the original London cast recording of Harry Nilsson's The Point.  This release follows the label's 2015 collection of Micky Dolenz's MGM output.

After Jones and Micky Dolenz recorded their final session as The Monkees on September 22, 1970, Davy embarked on one of the most varied decades of his career.  It encompassed memorable television appearances, stage productions on both sides of the Atlantic, films, extensive touring, and solo music-all of which proved there was life after The Monkees.  Following a stint on Bell Records (sister label to The Monkees' longtime Colgems home following Columbia Pictures' purchase of Bell in March 1969), Davy joined Micky at MGM Records in 1972- then under the leadership of Mike Curb and producer/label veep Tony Scotti.  During his brief time at MGM, Davy recorded tunes by Alan O'Day (the whimsical "Rubberene"), Gilbert O'Sullivan (the bouncy "Who Was It?"), and Peter Skellern (the ballad "You're a Lady").  He cut "You're a Lady" both in English and Japanese, and both versions are included on Music and Memories.

Though his MGM recordings weren't met with much commercial success, Davy didn't waste any time dwelling on it.  He jumped into a mini-tour of Lionel Bart's Oliver! which played Los Angeles and San Francisco, reprising his Tony Award-nominated role of The Artful Dodger opposite Ron Moody, who created the role of Fagin in the musical's 1960 London production.  A couple of years later, in 1975, Davy teamed with old friends Micky Dolenz, Tommy Boyce, and Bobby Hart as Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, and Hart: "the guys who wrote 'em and the guys who sang 'em."  The foursome recorded studio and live albums and toured extensively in North America and Southeast Asia to delighted audiences.

By 1977, Davy was ready for new adventures-and so was Micky.  The duo jumped into a stage musical of Tom Sawyer at the Sacramento Music Circus and then decamped to the U.K. for the production which finally gave Jones the opportunity to record an original cast album.  (Though he opened Oliver! on Broadway, he wasn't heard on its cast recording which was made during the show's pre-Broadway tour.  Davy departed the 1965 tryout of Pickwick before the show hit New York where it went unrecorded.)  That musical was Harry Nilsson's The Point.  Based on Nilsson's 1970 album and subsequent animated TV special, the musical had previously played a limited engagement at London's Mermaid Theatre with dancer-actor Wayne Sleep.  For the new run at the Mermaid, Davy starred as Oblio while Micky portrayed The Count's Kid and The Leafman.  Music and Memories features all of the songs performed by Jones in The Point and recorded on its MCA Records cast album, among them "Me and My Arrow," "Think About Your Troubles," "Life Line," and the duet with Dolenz of "Gotta Get Up."

All 13 tracks have been newly remastered for this release, while a 16-page full-color booklet features new liner notes by TSD's Joe Marchese as well as previously unpublished photos of the Manchester Cowboy.  Compiling some of the rarest and longest-unavailable tracks in the Davy Jones discography, Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings fills in a major gap in the late artist's catalogue.  You'll find the track listing and pre-order links below.  Look for this collection on November 14 from 7a Records.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Davy Jones, Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings (7a Records 7A072, 2025)

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1. You're A Lady (English Version)
2. Who Was It? (Stereo Version)
3. Rubberene (Stereo Version)
4. Me And My Arrow
5. Think About Your Troubles
6. Blanket For a Sail
7. Life Line
8. O.V. Waltz
9. Are You Sleeping?
10. Gotta Get Up (With Micky Dolenz)
11. You're A Lady (Japanese Version)
12. Who Was It? (Mono Version)
13. Rubberene (Mono Version)

Tracks 1-2 & 11-12 from MGM single K 14458, 1972
Tracks 3 & 13 from MGM single K 14524, 1973
Tracks 4-10 from The Point: Original London Cast Recording, MCA MCF 2826, 1978
Track 11 from MGM (Japan) single DM 1237, 1972​