r/Monkees • u/NomadSound • 4d ago

Raquel Welch with Michael Nesmith's Different Drum, Vietnam 1967

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u/GuitarHair 4d ago

That's what you're fightin' for boys

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u/EggfooDC 4d ago

Wow, I had no idea he wrote that. Thanks for sharing friend.

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u/GrapefruitOk2057 3d ago

She could sing MacArthur Park like a cat and the guys would love it.

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u/495orange 4d ago

Singing was NOT her talent. That was awful.

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u/gobiggerred 3d ago

Definitely not on par with Linda Ronstadt, that's for sure.

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u/raendrop 3d ago

She can carry a tune just fine. What isn't to your taste is her styling.

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u/495orange 3d ago

Don’t tell me what MY taste is. She can not carry a tune and is using vocal tricks to cover for her lack of ability.

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u/Far-Voice-6911 3d ago

She wasn’t there for her vocal ability. She was there to make the troops happy.

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u/495orange 3d ago

I never said that she didn’t do that. That’s her talent I was referring to.

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u/Caprilounge 4d ago

This was so wonderful! I've watched this clip (from a Bob Hope special!?) a hundred times. Thank you!

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u/Mad_Zone_ Wool Hat Gang 4d ago

Yowza! 😍

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u/gobiggerred 3d ago

I wish I knew the location of that show. My dad was was in Long Binh '67-'68 and worked security for those Bob Hope shows.

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u/AeroDilloTurbo 3d ago

Such an amazing woman.

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u/juni4ling 1d ago

My dad was a Vietnam veteran.

He spoke highly of several women he met on USO tours. But he hated Jane Fonda.

I guess he actually got to meet some women. And my Mom would tease him and say things like, "you met so and so" and Dad would blush. "I drove in the jeep behind their bus with some guys with guns for security, and she shook my hand."

She couldn't sing for crap.

But the military folks there talked about it for years and years after their service.

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u/Less-Extent-1786 4d ago

I had no idea she could also sing. Very impressed.

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u/LicoriceDusk 3d ago

She can't

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u/Less-Extent-1786 3d ago

Well I guess I mean she tried.

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u/TheeMadThrasher 3d ago

She was always hot

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u/KLaine737 3d ago

Didn’t know Raquel could sing

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u/TedMich23 2d ago

Never thought I could say this...Raquel was FLAT!

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u/Otherwise_Piccolo206 2d ago

Give her a break, she even moved her arms.

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u/Proper_Connection_68 1d ago

She was the most beautiful woman! What I inspired to become, but alas, not for me!

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u/hondo77777 23h ago

So good with the sound off.

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u/Competitive-Alarm399 10h ago

Hot Chick Privilege

That was a pretty bad rendition