Fred Niles Studios To Be Demolished (Monkees 'Rainbow Room' Scenes)

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  1. WayOutWardell

    WayOutWardell Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    The former Fred Niles Studio building here in Chicago is being demolished, to be replaced with the new corporate HQ for McDonald's.

    It's where the 'rainbow room' scenes used in Monkees episodes were filmed.

    ... the producers of the Monkees television show booked time for the band at the Fred Niles Studios, a giant film and production studio facility in Chicago's West Loop area. (Fun fact: The building that was once Fred Niles Studios is now the home of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios. Previously, long before Fred Niles converted the building, it was the location for Chicago's Second Regiment Armory.)
    Inside Fred Niles Studios was a production area known as the Rainbow Room, a largely robin's egg blue-colored room with multiple thick stripes of color painted vertically on the walls, curving out from the center of the room. On August 2nd, 1967, The Monkees filmed most of the music sequences that would later be included in much of the second season of "The Monkees" episodes. Among the music videos shot in the Rainbow Room that day were: "Pleasant Valley Sunday," "Randy Scouse Git," "Love is Only Sleeping," "She Hangs Out," and most famously, "Daydream Believer."
    Being bored with using the psychedelic Rainbow Room all day, the band and the Chicago film crew used different backgrounds to then record a video for Mike Nesmith's "What Am I Doing Hanging Round." Some of the completed versions of these songs were not even ready yet, so the band sang over the basic tracks of the recordings at the time. A promotional photo session also took place within the Rainbow Room.
     
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    Effin McDonalds.....
     
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