As Biography reports, the result was The Monkees, almost immediately reviled as The Prefab Four. The casting call went out for young men who did cute, could sing, and could crack wise. (A pattern? You bet there was a pattern.)
Stephen Stills, later of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, tried out, but was rejected, mostly because of his teeth. He advised his fellow musician, Peter Tork, to audition, and Tork, a working musician and multi-instrumentalist (but no actor), got a part. He was the spacey one. Mike Nesmith, another working musician and a Texan, was cast, too, as the sort-of Lennon-esque figure. An actual Brit, Davy Jones, was diminutive — he'd planned at one point to be a jockey — and ultra-cute. He had an adorable English accent, too — McCartney, with neither the height nor the bass. He'd been a child actor in musical theater, so he checked a couple of boxes for them.
Just one more. Lo: Micky Dolenz was musical (check) — he'd been playing guitar for a while, he told Forbes in an August 2020 interview, starting with classical and morphing into folk and then rock.
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