My wife has been slightly obsessed by the Monkees lately and I have listened to an awful lot of their stuff recently.
My idea is that the Monkees were created as an animated series which ran on television for one series in 1966-1967 and that the songs were produced by session musicians with vocals provided by singers and not by the actors voicing the characters of the Monkees in the tv series. With this I will also look at what would become of Mickey Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones.