reviews of the monkees: the day-by-day story of the ’60s tv pop sensation by andrew sandoval
MOJO: “The only Monkees book you need…Essential reading and a poignant primer in how the template was set for today's shooting stars…as close as you'll get to the official word…an engaging document of one of the '60s most important phenomena.”
RECORD COLLECTOR: “Stunning stuff! With an appeal to both fans of the group and lovers of 1960's music in general, it's a mighty fine book and another great example of how historical rock research should be carried out.”
GOLDMINE: “The attention to detail is clearly of the highest caliber, and the tone is authoritative…The book sets the record straight, from small details to widely held misconceptions…A must have for your music reference library, Monkees or otherwise.”
UGLY THINGS: “Sandoval has put in the hours…His book is an oversized, beautifully printed volume that piles on details that fans will want to know.”
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY: “Sandoval and designer Paul Cooper deliver a strong package, including captivating notes on Jack Nicholson's soundtrack work for the 1968 Monkees movie, Head, which was made the year before Nicholson gained recognition as an actor in Easy Rider.”
MONKEES MAKE A BILLION:
History of world's first “made for television” band gains honored entry in world's largest database.
A book tracing the history of the Monkees made the unlikely odds of one in a billion to become the milestone entry in the world's largest database. WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials, now contains information about where to find 1 billion books, journals, theses and dissertations, musical scores, computer files, CDs, DVDs and other items in thousands of libraries worldwide.
At 2:21:34 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, Aug. 11, Anne Slane, a cataloger at Worthington (Ohio) Libraries for 23 years, entered the 1 billionth holding in WorldCat for the book, The Monkees: The day-by-day story of the '60s TV pop sensation (by Andrew Sandoval published by Thunder Bay).
The Monkees were created for television 40 years ago via series of auditions that catapulted Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork to almost instant stardom. This team went on to sell millions of records, including four #1 albums and a dozen Top 40 singles. The newly published, record setting history of their fascinating career was written by Andrew Sandoval of Los Angeles, California. Sandoval spent 15 years researching the Monkees' story and frequently used the WorldCat database where his book now joins more than 61 million unique catalog records representing 1 billion items in libraries. The Bible, Mother Goose, Huckleberry Finn, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are among the top 10 titles in WorldCat, and together those 10 titles represent more than 1 million items in libraries worldwide.
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., the world's largest library cooperative, developed a shared cataloging service that first went online in 1971. The idea was for libraries in Ohio to share cataloging information from one central electronic database, now known as WorldCat. The OCLC shared cataloging model revolutionized the librarian's workflow and helped make it easy for library patrons to find and get the library materials they needed. What was once a database shared by libraries in Ohio, grew to a national union catalog, and today, is a global library resource used by more than 54,000 libraries in 96 countries.