who sings that was then this is now
The Monkees
title: That Was Then, This Is Now (song) text: That Was Then, This Is Now (song) "That Was Then, This Is Now" is a song written by Vance Brescia for his band The Mosquitos and recorded as the title track of their 1985 EP. Clive Davis of Arista records heard it and picked it to be the Monkees comeback single and theme of The Monkees 20th Anniversary Tour. The Monkees (at that point consisting of Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork) covered the song for Arista Records, who released their recording as a single and on the compilation album "Then & Now... The Best of The Monkees" in June 1986. title: That Was Then, This Is Now (song) text: 24 on the adult contemporary chart. It has since been featured on several compilation albums by The Monkees. That Was Then, This Is Now (song) "That Was Then, This Is Now" is a song written by Vance Brescia for his band The Mosquitos and recorded as the title track of their 1985 EP. Clive Davis of Arista records heard it and picked it to be the Monkees comeback single and theme of The Monkees 20th Anniversary Tour. The Monkees (at that point consisting of Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork) covered the song for Arista Records, who released their recording as title: That Was Then, This Is Now (song) text: The compilation album with three newly recorded songs was released by Arista and went platinum during the tour. “That Was Then, This Is Now” became the band's new single and a video for it was filmed at the Great Arena in Jackson, New Jersey on July 25. The video received heavy airplay on MTV, making the song a Billboard Top 20 hit the summer of 1986. The song was a surprise hit, capitalizing on Monkees nostalgia at the time, reaching number 20 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 (the band's first Top 40 hit since "D.W. Washburn" in 1968), and number title: Davy Jones (musician) text: reunited with Micky Dolenz as well as Monkees songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in 1974 as a short-lived group called Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart. A Monkees television show marathon ("Pleasant Valley Sunday") broadcast on 23 February 1986 by MTV resulted in a wave of Monkeemania not seen since the group's heyday. Jones reunited with Dolenz and Peter Tork from 1986 to 1989 to celebrate the band's renewed success and promote the 20th anniversary of the group. A new top 20 hit, "That Was Then, This Is Now" was released (though Jones did not perform on the song) as title: Martin Fry text: Martin Fry Martin David Fry (born 9 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician, and record producer. Fry's music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the pop band ABC, which released six singles that entered the Top 20 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, including "Tears Are Not Enough", "Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love", "All of My Heart", "That Was Then but This Is Now" and "When Smokey Sings". He is the only member who has been with ABC throughout its