Muhammad
Ali TKO's Ernie Terell in fifteen rounds to retain the Boxing Heavyweight
Title.
Micky
Dolenz arrives in England where he will hang out with Paul McCartney for
several days. He will also meet his
future wife, Samantha Juste, on this trip.
Mike Nesmith and his wife Phyllis will fly there this evening and arrive
the following day.
Meanwhile
back in New York City, Neil Diamond overdubs backing vocal and handclaps to his
song "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You", selected as The Monkees'
next single. (Now THAT'S kinda cool ... I never knew Neil Diamond was actually ON this record!!!)
As discussed earlier, Diamond was promised the
follow-up release after he allowed The Monkees to record his song "I'm A
Believer" (over releasing his own version of the tune) as their previous
single. (In hindsight it was a VERY good
move on Diamond's part … he probably earned more in royalties from that one
Monkees record than he ever did for any of his own recordings!)
