Marcia Brady and millions of other once-teens are sad today because of the sudden death of Davy Jones, lead singer of the Beatles-copy TV band the Monkees. He allegedly suffered a heart attack in a Florida hospital.

Mr. Jones was the lead singer for some of the Monkee’s biggest hits, Like Valerie, Daydream Believer, and A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

The Martin County Sheriff’s Department said that Davy called in Wednesday morning of saying he was feeling bad and having trouble breathing. He never made it to the hospital alive, sadly.

The Monkees were a wildly popular TV band on a show that ran from 1966-68.

Shamelessly ripping off the Beatles, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, and Michael Nesmith were music-video revolutionaries and would eventually become a real band. Jimi Hendrix even opened up for them once.

He was the only English member of the band, and never minded the fact that he was often compared unfavorably to the band he blatantly emulated.

“I just wanted to be in the show, fall in love twice in each episode and kiss the girls,” he said in a recent interview.

All the other Monkees members are still alive.

Critics often made unfavorable comparisons between the Monkees and the Beatles, but according to Jones, the Beatles actually liked the band, saying even that Paul McCartney even called him once and told him to send a song to his daughter.

Jones had a few of solo records, in addition to his Monkees material.

He even hooked up with Marcia from the Brady Bunch.

Davy Jones, R.I.P.

I was reading an article in the New York Times today, about the newly-declared Presidential candidacy of Michelle Bachman, when I came to the ending paragraphs. This is priceless…

Mrs. Bachmann, who rose to prominence with her evocative quips and spirited presence in television interviews and appearances at Tea Party rallies last year, has also experienced a string of gaffes. She added a new one to the list during her visit back to Waterloo, a city that she left in 1968.

She spoke adoringly of her town, recalling the Dairy Queen, her house on East Ninth Street and the Wonder Bread Factory, where her mother picked up ingredients for her favorite mayonnaise and lettuce sandwiches. But as she stood in her old neighborhood, she misstated a piece of Iowa lore as she explained the important role that Waterloo had in shaping her character.“

John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa,” Mrs. Bachmann told Fox News’ Carl Cameron in an interview. “That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.

”The actor was actually born in Winterset, Iowa, which is about 150 miles southwest of Waterloo. It was John Wayne Gacy, known as the killer clown who raped and murdered 33 teen-age boys in the 1970s, who had lived in Waterloo.

Maybe she WAS referring to the John Wayne who lived in her town… Yikes!