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  • “You Just May Be The One” (Monkees Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Thursday, October 27th, 2011

    Originally posted 2008-02-21 15:19:04.

    By Jim Fusco:

    Welcome to another “new bands week” edition of the Laptop Sessions! Today’s song comes from a band that’s anything but “new”, but since I haven’t played a song from them before, I figured this would be the week to bust one out!

    This song, as I’ve mentioned before, ranks as my second favorite song of all time, right behind “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better” by the Byrds. But, if you listen to this song and the Byrds song, you’ll hear that they’re very similar. They both have pretty much the same chords, and “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better” wins because of its great guitar solo and its harmonies.

    “You Just May Be The One” is the song I play for people when I get the tired old “the Monkees didn’t write their own songs or play their own instruments” line. Well, on this song, they did both. In fact, on the entire “Headquarters” album, they did both. These guys were very talented, especially Michael Nesmith, the writer and lead singer of this tune.

    I hope you’ll agree that this is one of the best, and we welcome the Monkees to the Laptop Sessions!

    Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 2″:



  • “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” (The Monkees Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Friday, June 25th, 2010

    Originally posted 2008-03-28 15:45:26.

    By Jim Fusco:

    Welcome to your Friday edition of the Laptop Sessions with me, Jim Fusco!

    Today, I’m doing a great tune written by Neil Diamond, but performed by the Monkees, “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You”. Not only does this song have a great message (like “it’s not all my fault, but SOME of it is”), but has a catchy tune and chord progression.

    Actually, it’s that classic 3-chord Neil Diamond style, just shifted up a few frets on a capo.

    I hope you like my whistling solo in the middle there! :-)

    BIG things are happening at Fusco-Moore Productions and I hope you’ll visit the blog (and our newly completed other suite of websites) today!

    Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 3″:



  • “The Girl I Knew Somewhere” (Monkees Acoustic Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Thursday, August 7th, 2008

    By Jim Fusco:

    This video was recorded a few weeks ago in my big Monkees phase, which was brought on by getting the deluxe edition of the Monkees album “Headquarters”.  While the album as a whole isn’t perfect (there are more than a couple throwaway tracks), there are some great band-written songs, especially those by Mike Nesmith.  Actually, this song is sung by drummer Mickey Dolenz, which I think is the right choice. One of the bonus tracks on the CD is the original sung by Nesmith, but it’s in a lower key and is nowhere near as upbeat. My second-favorite song of all time in “You Just May Be The One” is on this album.

    I couldn’t get “The Girl I Knew Somewhere” out of my head.  I’ve known the song for so many years, but never knew how to play it.  So, I started by teaching myself that deceptively simple riff and then the whole song took off from there.

    Tomorrow will truly be a day of mourning after Jeff’s imminent crushing Homerun Derby defeat at the hands of the future 3-time (in a row) champion, Jim Fusco.  I plan on doubling Jeff’s total…from all three prior games combined.

    For now, enjoy this edition of the Laptop Sessions and this great Monkees acoustic cover song.  I hope you’ll come back tomorrow for the next long-awaited Chris Moore cover song.  Maybe Chris will do Patsy Cline’s “I’m Sorry” to console Jeff…



  • “That Was Then, This Is Now” (Monkees Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008

    By Jim Fusco:

    Welcome to your Saturday dose of The Laptop Sessions, brought to you by http://fusco-moore.com .

    Today, I’m doing a fairly-unknown song that’s technically only by Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork, but billed as the Monkees. This song was on their first greatest hits CD in the late eighties and actually continues to make appearances on “Best Of” albums. I love this song and I’ve known it for many years now. Actually, the Monkees were my favorite band before I found out about the Beach Boys. I LOVED that Monkees Greatest Hits CD when I was like 4, and I find that I still love all the songs today.

    They didn’t write this song, but in a few weeks, I’ll be putting another Monkees song that they did write (by Michael Nesmith) on http://laptopsessions.com .

    We also did a radio show on our free internet radio station, WCJM Internet Radio at http://wcjm.com , called the “That Was Then, This Is Now” Show. This show not only featured this song, but also featured songs (and comedy skits) that give a look at bands both then and now.

    I think this Session may fall under the same category that my most famous, “I’m So Lonely”, video falls under: the over-produced and way-too-eighties-sounding songs that I took and made into an acoustic song. These versions always tend to come out the best because you can just LISTEN to the real song and cut through the production.

    That’s why I’m always a big fan of people that use production to make the song the best it can sound, but not just “make” the song. That’s why Brian Wilson is so great: he wrote (and writes) great songs, then uses the production to make them shine even better. But, they’d still be great songs without all the instrumentation, which is what I try to prove with these cover songs on the Laptop Sessions.

    On a slightly different note, I think it’s obvious by now that we’re doing all of these cover songs because we’re songwriters and the only way we can think of people showing interest in our original music is to play other people’s songs right along with it. I figure, if you like the same songs I like and I write similar songs to the songs I like (in general, of course), you’ll like my music by the transitive property!

    With that said, I hope you’re checking out our weekly “Original Wednesday” songs and going to our original music website at http://fusco-moore.com/music or http://moumusic.com . We have some pretty great stuff- we’re not looking to make a fortune, although we are looking for people to pay….attention!!

    Thanks for watching today’s Laptop Session and stay tuned for Chris’ new song tomorrow!

    Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 4″:



Monkees Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

Known for their classic sixties songs, such as “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I’m a Believer,” and “Daydream Believer,” the Monkees were a popular new music group that famously had its own television show between 1966 and 1968 – you may recall the theme song, “Hey, hey, we’re the monkees!” As the band progressed, the members of the band began to contribute to the songwriting duties, adding to their overall ability and effectiveness. They allowed other artists, such as Neil Diamond, to record cover songs of their material to much success. Many music reviewers have been quick to dismiss this pre-Beatlemania pop group, yet their contributions to the pop music sound of the sixties was integral. Laptop Sessions songwriter and contributor Jim Fusco has already begun tapping into the Monkees catalog of what was once new rock music, varying his choices for his cover songs from as early as the sixties to as recently as the eighties.


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