Chords for The Wrecking Crew: Monkees

[B] _ [E] Mary, [B] Mary, where are you going to?
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Mary, Mary, [Bm] can I_
I think that [C#] Bert Schneider and Bob Raifelson, Bert and Bob were the _ idea men, the focus men.
And as far as I know, their idea was that they had to get a TV show going.
They hoped they could get enough musicianship in the band
for the band to be able to play out and do concerts.
The first audition was just reading from a script.
It was all about acting and comedy.
And I think the second audition was all about reading and acting and _ doing scene work.
And then there was a number of auditions, more than usual.
One of the auditions, I recall, was playing.
And everybody got to sing a song, and they set up a little kind of band area.
And _ _ it _ _ was on the I Dream of Jeannie set, as a matter of fact.
And I played Johnny B.
Goode on guitar.
_ And I don't remember, one of the other kids auditioning was [N] playing drums,
and then they'd switch, and this kid would play drums, this kid would play bass, this kid would play guitar.
I don't recall there being an enormous emphasis _ on the musical abilities.
So maybe they didn't know or care.
Maybe they thought, maybe they figured we'll get lucky.
But if they had to choose between those two,
they would have made a TV show with guys that couldn't play
rather than get guys that could play who couldn't act.
They tried the Love and Spoonful as a whole group,
[Dm] but those guys weren't _ _ entertaining enough on camera, [B] as I am. _
But, having said that, everybody that they did hire could certainly sing and or play.
[E] First record, they said, we're [B] doing a song tonight.
And [Bm] I walked in with my guitar.
_ And I [B] said, _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ what's [F#] going on?
Well, [E] we've already done the track [F#] Mickey's going to sing.
[Em] So [F#m] you invited [E] me for a recording [F#] session.
[B] [C#] Yeah.
I said, well, [B] what are you doing?
[Dm] We have [B] the record.
We just need to put a vocal on it.
[E] _ _ [Bm] I remember going in and putting on my vocals.
[E] _ _ [Bm] But [A#] those songs [B] were recorded before they [E] even cast me [B] and the other guys, [E] I'm sure.
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_ [E] _ _ [B] _ I was staggered.
I had no idea.
It makes [E] sense now.
If I were doing the [F#] project, I would do it [E] exactly the same way.
[F#] _ [E] But at the time, [F#] it didn't make any sense [E] to me.
I didn't understand.
[F#] [B] Were you upset?
Yeah, I was upset.
I thought that, I mean, I was very [D] naive.
I regard how [B] upset I was as [Em] a function of my [F#] naivety.
I thought [E] I was going to be in a recording [F#] session and play the guitar and do the things
[E] and sing the background vocals and [F#m] all the rest of that.
I had no idea that they [G#] had just gone and made [G] the tracks without us.
[B] _ Like I said, it makes perfect [E] sense now.
We were making a [B] TV show.
We didn't know how.
_ You learn your scales and then you learn your music and [F#] maybe how to [Bm] sing
and then you learn how to perform on top of that.
And making records is a whole [B] other skill [E] that requires everything [B] else there
but [Em] is not nearly good [F#] enough.
All those other skills [E] won't make [F#] a record.
[E] You need to know [F#] how to make a record.
I didn't know [E] how to make a record.
[F#] _ _ [B] One of the great treats I got from being in the [Bm] monkeys
is getting to learn how to make [B] records and how to make TV and film,
that kind of [Bm] stuff.
It was a lot of fun. _
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