Eve Plumb Reveals Real-Life Davy Jones Connection Behind Iconic ‘Brady Bunch’ Episode
Eve Plumb is finest recognized for taking part in center baby Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch. But the beloved actress as soon as dreamed of turning into Mrs. Davy Jones. While selling her 2026 memoir Happiness IncludedPlumb, 67, regarded again on her days on The Brady Bunch and mirrored on “Getting Davy Jones,” some of the iconic episodes of the Seventies sitcom.
The episode, which initially aired Dec. 10, 1971, on ABCwas about Marcia Brady’s (Maureen McCormick) determined try and get the meet the Monkees heartthrob. But in actual life, it was Plumb who had the within connection.
“In my real life, my father had signed the Monkees to RCA in his job,” Plumb advised the Pop Culture Preservation Society in a brand new interview. “And so I would go and listen to the Monkees record, and Davy Jones used to say, ‘Well you know I’m going to marry you when you grow up.’”
Plumb reiterated that there was nothing creepy about Jones’s remark, noting it was “fine” on the time. She even dished that her pre-teen self did not rule out a future marriage to the “Daydream Believer” singer.
“You know, sort of like it seemed like a possibility,” she laughed. “You know, you don’t know at 10 or 12, you don’t know how your life is going to be. You have no, you know, you want to grow up, but there’s no idea. There’s nothing to draw on and think about what this might be like.”
Eve Plumb on the “Getting Davy Jones” episode of “The Brady Bunch.’Photo by CBS Photo Archive on Getty Images
Jones’s Brady Bunch episode is one of the most memorable from the series. While he had previously met Plumb through his father, in an interview posted on Pop Goes the Culture TVthe singer mentioned he by no means “thought about” if the opposite Brady stars had been followers of his music when he made the visitor look. “I just tried to be natural when I talked to them as if I was just Davy Jones, this guy who was visiting,” he mentioned.
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Eve Plumb’s dad was a successful music producer
Plumb’s father, Neely, was a record producer and A&R executive. In the 1960s, he helped discover the Carpenters after spotting them at a “Battle of the Bands” contest. In an interview with NPR, Richard Carpenter recalled his first meeting with the A& R man. “His name was Neely Plumb – PLUMB, and I knew that name anyway because … I looked for credits, songwriter credits, producers, all that stuff on records that I’d buy. …I knew his name. And he wanted to know if we were interested in recording.”
In the new interview, Plumb said of his father, “He signed the Jefferson Airplane, too. He was a really hip dad.”
Plumb famous that his father used to take out advertisements in Variety and The Hollywood Reportr, which he designed himself. “We did have some of them,” she added. “Some of them were saved, we may have sold some at auction.”
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