Eve Plumb‘s 12-year-old heart skipped a beat when The Monkees’ Davy Jones said he would marry her when she “grew up”.
Eve & Davy Jones
The then-child star hung out with the musician as her dad, Neely Plumb, “signed the band to RCA” Records, and she admitted his innocent compliment would not go down well today.
Eve, 68, recalled when she would “go and listen to The Monkees record, and Davy Jones used to say, ‘Well, I’m going to marry you when you grow up'” on the latest episode of the Pop Culture Preservation Society podcast.
The actress added to hosts Carolyn Cochrane, Kristin Nilsen, and Michelle Newman, “So he’s saying that to a 10- or 12-year-old kid. Now that’s just too creepy now, but it was really fine then.”
Eve thought she had a shot at marrying Davy, saying with a laugh, “It seemed like a possibility. Why not? At 10 or 12, you don’t know how your life is going to be. You know you want to grow up, but there’s no idea. There’s nothing to draw on.”
Getting Davy Jones
The Brady Bunch’s Eve beat her on-screen sibling, Maureen McCormick, 69 (Marcia Brady), in meeting the pop star, having forged a connection with him long before the singer made a guest appearance in the hit 1971 episode, Getting Davy Jones.
The beloved episode sees Jan Brady (Eve) give her sister the idea of booking Davy for her school’s junior prom after the former showed Marcia a newspaper story of the I’m a Believer hitmaker performing in their hometown.
After Marcia told her pals that she could get the singer, who died in February 2012 aged 66, the youngster spent months trying to make it happen before a successful appeal with Davy’s manager made the dream a reality.
Reminiscing
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Eve revealed that her “very hip” dad also rubbed shoulders with other big names of the day.
She shared, “He signed the Jefferson Airplane, too.”
Eve relished the episodes in which the Brady clan jetted to Hawaii or visited the Grand Canyon because she had a lot of fun shooting those scenes.
Watching The Brady Bunch
But sometimes she would feel uncomfortable sitting down with her parents and watching The Brady Bunch, which Eve starred in from 1969 until 1974.
The star explained, “I would watch it every week it was on. My mom, dad, and I would watch it. [But], it was hard to watch. It took me a while before I could really watch myself on TV.”
Eve used to fret over her screen appearance, adding, “I’m sure when you hear your voice recorded, you hear it played back, it’s like, ‘Oh!’ And you see yourself recorded, and how it looks at you. Do I look like that? Do people see me differently than that?”
“Because I don’t think I look like that.”