The Monkees (TV series) project by his agent. Englishman Davy Jones was a former jockey who had achieved some initial success on the musical stage, appearing with the cast of "Oliver!" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the night of the Beatles' live American debut. He was appearing in Columbia Pictures productions and recording for the Colpix record label and had been identified in advance as a potential star for the series. Texan Michael Nesmith's mother Bette Nesmith Graham had invented a correction fluid and founded the company that became Liquid Paper. He had served a brief stint in the U.S. Air Force and had
33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee Jack Good and director Art Fisher's script for " Revolutions per Monkee", calling it "too sloppy, too fairy-tale like," while Davy Jones felt that, for a TV special starring the Monkees, it emphasized rather largely the guest cast over the group itself. Peter Tork, in liner notes for "The Monkees Anthology" CD compilation, called "" "the TV Version of "Head"". Tork was, at one point, the only Monkee working on "Head"; but, ironically enough, it would be Tork that would buy out his Monkees contract at the end of production of " Revolutions per Monkee" (on December 20, 1968), reportedly