[Photo: Retna/Photoshot/Everett Collection]With the sad news that Davy Jones died of a heart attack at the age of 66, List of the Day looks back in appreciation to this great teen idol.

The Monkees were assembled in 1966 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for a TV series that would capitalize on that Beatles craze that had been going on for several years and showed no signs of abating. Don Kirshner was the band's musical supervisor and by album number three, Headquarters, they were no longer working together.

Davy Jones was the lone Englishman picked for the group that included Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork.

The songs picked below all features Davy Jones on lead vocals and even features a couple solo works.

Here at List of Whenever It So Happens, I've decided to condense this 17-part lookback into 1982 into just two parts. So, this list obviously must pack some punch and make up for the fact that the other 15 parts have been condensed. This list is a little heavier on the popular stuff of the era. But that doesn't mean it lacks any in its wit and wisdom. If my comments don't immediately change your life forever, be sure to contact your mom and ask for your money back. Obviously, you've been ripped off by life. Trust me, it won't be the only time.

So, let's rub our hands together and completely revise the past and make it better than it was the first time around!

It sure is swell that "Rock" and "Alternative" get their own categories, since I believe musicians who rock and those who make their music with wine bottles and banging trash cans together should each have their own category. So you can imagine my dismay upon seeing that the alternative acts listed below play their music with conventional instruments. Why, back in my day…

But what really disturbs and saddens me is to see so many old people in the rock 'n' roll category. No wonder kids today think of rock as old people music. Every time I turn on my TV, I'm met with guys in their mid-40s through 70s recalling how much fun they used to have! Now, I remember back in the 1980s, when I would see Bob Dylan or Neil Young and because they were in their 40s, they were considered "old." In a twist of evil irony, I am now older than they were when I thought they were ready for the pasture. Except I'm still a spring chicken! Point is, young people in their 20s think they will never reach 30 -- or that it's a long way from now. If you want to reach them, you need to show them people their own age making the music that is rightfully theirs.

Nowhere does it get more confusing than the Grammy's Best New Artist category. The Academy acknowledges artists when they chart. Or something like that. From the cheap seats where the logic doesn't reach, many of those who have been nominated through the years have often felt pretty old. But newness is in the eye of the beholder. To the nominees' parents, they've been around forever.

Here are the five!