Davy Jones
Born	December 30, 1945 Manchester, England

Davy Jones (born David Thomas Jones December 30, 1945) is an English-born actor and singer, best known as a member of The Monkees. He is twice divorced with four children: Talia Elizabeth (October 2 1968) and Sarah Lee (July 3 1971) with first wife Linda, and Jessica Lillian (September 4 1981) and Annabel Charlotte (June 26 1988) with second wife Anita.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 U.S. & Foreign-only Singles 1.2 U.S. & Foreign-only Albums 2 Trivia 3 External links

Career

Jones was born in Manchester, England. His father had hopes for him as a jockey, but Jones was more interested in being in show business, and as a teenager he appeared on British TV soap operas, including Coronation Street. He appeared to great acclaim in the musical Oliver! as the Artful Dodger, playing the role both in London and on Broadway, where he was nominated for a Tony Award. (When the film of the musical was made in 1968, Jones was at the height of his TV success and too heavily committed to take the part. He was also 22 years old.) He then toured in another musical adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic, Pickwick, and did some American television as well as recording three singles. As part of the Oliver! cast, Jones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on the same night that the Beatles made their American TV debut.

Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems (then the television division of Columbia Pictures) signed Jones to a contract, following his Ed Sullivan appearance. A pair of American television appearances followed, in episodes of Ben Casey and The Farmer's Daughter. He also recorded a single and album for Colpix Records, which charted but weren't huge hits.

From 1965 to 1970, Jones was a member of The Monkees, a pop-rock group formed expressly for a TV show of the same name. With Screen Gems producing the series, Jones was shortlisted for auditions, but still had to meet producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider's standards. As a Monkee, Jones sang lead vocals on many of the group's songs, including "I Wanna Be Free" and "Daydream Believer". After the show went off the air and the group disbanded, he continued to perform solo, later joining with fellow-Monkee Micky Dolenz and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart as a short-lived group.

In recent years, Jones has performed with his former bandmates in reunion tours and has appeared in several productions of Oliver! as Fagin. He has also continued to race horses with some success in his native England, United Kingdom, while residing in Beavertown, Pennsylvania, United States.

In the summer of 2006, Davy recorded "Your Personal Penguin", written by children's author Sandra Boynton as a companion piece to her new board book of the same title.

U.S. & Foreign-only Singles

Date	Label/Catalog #	Titles (A-side / B-side)	Billboard Top Singles	Cashbox	Notes
??/1965	Colpix CP-764	Dream Girl / Take Me To Paradise	-	-	Credited as "David Jones."
??/1965	Colpix CP-784	What Are We Going To Do? / This Bouquet	93	94	Credited as "Mr. David Jones."
??/1965	Colpix CP-793	The Girl From Chelsea / Theme For A New Love	-	-	Credited as "David Jones."
04/1971	Bell 986	Do It In The Name Of Love / Lady Jane	-	-	By Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones.
06/1971	Bell 45-111	Rainy Jane / Welcome To My Love	52	32
10/1971	Bell 45-136	I Really Love You / Sittin' In The Apple Tree	-	98
11/1971	Bell 45-159	Girl / Take My Love	-	-
01/1972	Bell 45-178	I'll Believe In You / Road To Love	-	-
??/1972	MGM K14458	You're A Lady / Who Was It	-	-
??/1973	MGM K14524	Rubberene / Rubberene	-	-	This single was released as a promo copy only.
05/1978	Warner Brothers 17161	(Hey Ra Ra Ra) Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse / You Don't Have To Be A Country Boy To Sing A Country Song	-	-	Issued in England only to commemorate Mickey Mouse's 50th Birthday
05/1981	Japan JAS-2007	It's Now / How Do You Know	-	-	Released in Japan only.
06/1981	Japan JAS-2010	Dance Gypsy / Can She Do It (Like She Dances)	-	-	Released in Japan only.
03/1982	Pioneer K-1517	Sixteen (Baby, You'll Soon Be Sixteen) / Baby, Hold Out	-	-	Released in Japan only.
12/1984	No Label JJ2001	I'll Love You Forever / When I Look Back On Christmas	-	-	Released in England only.
??/1987	Powderworks 374	After Your Heart / Hippy Hippy Shake	-	-	Released in Australia only.

NOTES: Davy recorded two singles with former Monkee Micky Dolenz and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart under the group name "Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart" on Capitol Records in 1975. They were "I Remember The Feeling"/"You & I" (Capitol 4180) and "I Love You (And I'm Glad That I Said It)"/"Savin' My Love For You" (Capitol 4271). Jones also released a single with Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork in 1976 titled "Christmas Is My Time of Year" / "White Christmas" (Christmas CDS-700/701) which saw a rerelease in 1986 (Christmas CDS-702/703). Lastly, Jones had an EP release in the UK with Micky Dolenz culling tracks from their performance in Harry Nilsson's "The Point" performance in London in 1978: "Lifeline" (Jones) / "It's A Jungle Out There" (Dolenz) / "Gotta Get Up" (Jones & Dolenz). It was released as MCA 348.

U.S. & Foreign-only Albums

Date	Label/Catalog #	Titles (A-side / B-side)	Billboard Top Singles	Cashbox	Notes
??/1965	Colpix CP-784 (mono) / Colpix SCP-784 (stereo)	David Jones	185	-	Credited as "David Jones."
06/1971	Bell 6067	Davy Jones	-	-
01/1978	MCA MCF2826	The Point	-	-	Jones sings most of the songs on this original cast recording of Harry Nilsson's stage performance of "The Point." Album was initially released in England only, followed by a release in Japan.
06/1981	Japan JAL-1003	Davy Jones Live	-	-	Released in Japan only.
03/1982	Pioneer K-10025	Hello Davy (Davy Jones Live)	-	-	Released in Japan only. According to some sources, this is an unauthorized LP release, with the audio having been lifted from the Japanese-released laserdisc of this concert.

NOTES: Davy recorded an album with former Monkee Micky Dolenz and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart under the group name "Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart" on Capitol Records in 1975. The self-titled album was released as Capitol ST-11513. Also, Davy had released a number of albums in cassette- and/or CD-only formats, including "Davy Jones Sings The Monkees and More," "It's Christmas Time Again," "JustMe," "JustMe 2" and the archival 4-album "Just For The Record" set.

Trivia

• David Bowie's original name was David (Robert) Jones: he changed his name to avoid confusion with Davy Jones, whose career was peaking as Bowie's was beginning.
• In the fall of 1967, both The Monkees and Star Trek were beginning their second seasons on NBC. While the former was quite successful, Star Trek's ratings were sagging. In an attempt to add "teen appeal" to Star Trek, NBC asked Gene Roddenberry to add a new character that looked like one of the Monkees. The result was the role of Pavel Chekov, played by Walter Koenig, who bore a resemblance to Jones at the time. (This was sometimes enhanced with a long-hair wig.)
• Jones guest starred in an episode of the television series The Brady Bunch as himself, as well as the spin-off film, The Brady Bunch Movie.
• In an interview segment aired on the Monkees TV show, Jones claimed that when he had recently flown home to visit his gravely ill father in England, his father had refused to let him in the house due to Jones' long hair. Jones said that he had gotten two haircuts, neither of which satisfied his father. Finally, Jones bought his father a house so his father could not turn him away!
• In another interview from the show, Jones said he had been touring continuously for six years, since he was fourteen.
• Jones shares the same birthday (three years apart) with Monkee bandmate Michael Nesmith. He also lived with Nesmith and his family in Hollywood, in the early Monkees days.
• Jones's seasonal residence is located in Beavertown, Pennsylvania.
• Jones was in an episode of the G4 television show Code Monkeys in Davy Jones Locker
• Jones is actually good friends with long time fan Susan Duckworth.

External links

• Official Web Site
• Davy Jones (actor) at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Jones, Davy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	actor, singer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Manchester, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH