"Peter Tork, Monkees' Musician, Dies at 77"

I had to learn to like The Monkees because, when they had their TV show 50 years ago, we only had one TV.

In those days, I was 14 and my sister MaryAnn, 13, and I had to "share" what we watched, by order of my mom.  MaryAnn therefore learned to like some of "my" shows, (Batman," "Lost in Space") and vice versa ("The Monkees," "That Girl."). There were no VCRs, DVD players, streaming or ANY of that in those long ago times.  If you wanted to watch a show, you'd better be in front of the TV when it came on!!

And our apartment was SMALL, so when someone else was watching "their" show in the living room, YOU watched it TOO....like it or not.

.................It wasn't hard to learn to like The Monkees!!

Peter Tork was part of a very charming, entertaining group who gave America good clean, innocent fun and cute music.  (Sure, we knew they were ripping off the "earlier" version of the Beatles, but we didn't care because at THAT point we weren't into the "newer" version of the Brits yet!!) I actually have three CDs by the Monkees and listened to them only recently.  Except for that track about "Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky" (I believe it was PETER on that track), the albums were / are GREAT.

So long, Peter Tork...yet another part of my (and so many others') childhood is gone.

And, I'm going to give MaryAnn a call now...