![]() ![]() A shame to see the series being taken over by self-serving cigar-chomping record executives. Eight weeks later the show went to Hawaii for a two-parter which paid for itself by promoting the hell out of singer Don Ho - including a weirdly out of place music video. Strange that the credits list future convicted murderer Phil Spector as "Steve Davis" yet a fawning Jeannie addresses him by his real name. A very attractive, appealing comic actress totally overshadowed by gorgeous Barbara Eden. ![]() She gets more lines and close-ups than usual. At least Emmaline Henry is given a chance to shine and show some personality and charm. The rest of the cast is shoved aside, having no purpose in this hack script. A segment so disconnected from the series that Jeannie is shoe-horned in (via an implausible excuse) to play drums so the audience won't feel completely alienated by what is essentially an infomercial for a pop group. He had some success, having written, played guitar, and sung backup vocals on 1958’s To Know Him Is to Love Him (which hit the top of the pop charts that year) as part of the Teddy Bears and he worked for a time as part of the. Jäit mulle uniin written by Pertti Reponen Finnish 1974. Phil Spector was really more of a back-tier session musician, songwriter, and occasional producer when he started his own Philles Records imprint in 1961. Dream Lover written by Jo De Clercq Dutch October 23, 2015. ![]() Geen zorgen written by Willy Smets Dutch 1982. Dream Lover written by Bobby Darin English March 5, 1959. All that was missing was a wacky Monkees-style montage. An adaptation is a musical work, which uses elements (music or lyrics) from another musical work. (There's even an instrumental version of "Last Train to Clarksville".) Of course, the band is given plenty of screen time to perform their latest single (a tepid, forgettable ditty) for Phil Spector, no less. A shamelessly cynical hijacking of the series to promote clean-cut Boyce & Hart, writers of hit songs for fellow NBC series The Monkees. The terrible title might as well be "Jeannie, the Hip Hop Gangsta" for all it has to do with hippies or being hip. ![]()
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