{"id":465277,"date":"2026-05-02T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/465277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:14:20","slug":"eve-plumb-reveals-her-surprising-real-life-connection-to-the-monkees-davy-jones-that-predated-his-appearance-on-the-brady-bunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/465277\/","title":{"rendered":"Eve Plumb Reveals Her Surprising Real-Life Connection to The Monkees&#8217; Davy Jones That Predated His Appearance on \u201cThe Brady Bunch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Marcia Brady takes her crush on Davy Jones to the next level when she tries to get him to perform at her junior prom in a 1971 episode of The Brady Bunch<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a recent podcast appearance, Eve Plumb revealed that her family was the one with ties to the Monkees frontman in real life<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Plumb jokes about thinking she&#8217;d marry the English singer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A major Marcia Brady storyline on The Brady Bunch was plucked out of <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/brady-bunch-star-eve-plumb-went-on-date-with-tv-brother-christopher-knight-11942936\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Eve Plumb;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eve Plumb<\/a>&#8216;s own life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actress, 67, best known for her time as Jan Brady on the iconic family sitcom, appeared on the <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dcLCnVyneG8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Pop Culture Preservation Society podcast;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pop Culture Preservation Society podcast<\/a>, where she discussed her favorite episodes of the show with hosts Carolyn Cochrane, Kristin Nilsen and Michelle Newman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the April 19 appearance, Plumb shared that she loved shooting episodes that took the fictional family on location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I always like the ones where we traveled,&#8221; Plumb shared. &#8220;The Hawaii episodes, getting to go places, getting to go to the Grand Canyon, was great. Because for me, it\u2019s not necessarily the episode that I watch, it was the episode that I filmed. So for me, the Grand Canyon was fun. For me, Hawaii was fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Davy Jones on \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/459495b115c784f3a7b4f31b3b5bd846.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Davy Jones on &#8220;The Brady Bunch&#8221;<br \/>Credit: CBS via Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When the Davy Jones episode came up as a group favorite, Plumb revealed, &#8220;In real life, my father had signed the Monkees to RCA [Records] in his job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The episode, 1971&#8217;s &#8220;Getting Davy Jones,&#8221; sees Marcia with her sights set on getting <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/the-monkees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:the Monkees;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Monkees<\/a> frontman to perform at her school&#8217;s junior prom. In reality, however, it&#8217;s Plumb who had the special connection to the English musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I would go and listen to the Monkees record and Davy Jones used to say, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m going to marry you when you grow up,'&#8221; Plumb recalls. &#8220;So he&#8217;s saying that to a 10-, 12-year-old kid, which now we just don&#8217;t do. It&#8217;s just too creepy now, but it was really fine then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Asked if she thought she really had a chance of marrying Jones, she laughed, &#8220;You know, it sort of seemed like a possibility. Why not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That wasn&#8217;t the only notable musical act Plumb&#8217;s dad, music producer Neely Plumb, had signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-reflects-on-bands-formation-and-success-exclusive-11936421\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:signed Jefferson Airplane;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">signed Jefferson Airplane <\/a>too,&#8221; she shared, adding, &#8220;He was a very hip dad, on top of all the other great things about him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/brady-bunch-eve-plumb-connection-to-monkees-davy-jones-11957961\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Marcia Brady takes her crush on Davy Jones to the next level when she tries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[148886,22419,18,117,204340,19,17,204342,204341,45258,204343,204344,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-465277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-brady-bunch","9":"tag-davy-jones","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-eve-plumb","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jan-brady","16":"tag-marcia-brady","17":"tag-monkees","18":"tag-neely-plumb","19":"tag-pop-culture-preservation-society","20":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116506110590568461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}