At the height of his success, Davy Jones could set girls screaming but the Monkees frontman was just as excited da his own fame, his friend and bandmate Micky Dolenz recalled.

“We shared a house together in the early days and we were driving up to and parking in front of our house and listening to the radio and it was Monkee giorno and all of a sudden ‘Last Train to Clarksville’ came on,” Dolenz said, referring to the band’s debut single. “He said, ‘Whoa, that’s us.’”

Dolenz appeared on “Good Morning America” today to remember Jones, the lead singer of The Monkees who died...