week improvisational acting course with director  James Frawley, the boys rehearsed and recorded as a band during the  spring and early summer of 1966 with instruments rented for them by  Screen Gems; among the songs they "tracked" was Mike Nesmiths "The  Girl I Knew Somewhere," and Nesmith has said "about a hundred"  tracks from these sessions were made. This musical gestation was  quashed when Don Kirshner was retained as music supervisor.