The Turtles
The Turtles were a pop/rock quintet from 1963 to 1969 with
varying personnel, though always featuring lead singer Howard
Kaylan and backup/harmony singer Mark Volman.
Other original members were guitarists Al Nichol and Jim
Tucker, and bass player Chuck Portz.
They began life as a surf band called The Crossfires, but by
the time their debut album was ready to release, they had become a
folk/rock group singing Bob Dylan songs, including their first hit
It Ain't Me Babe.
More characteristic of their style was the sweet pop hit You
Baby of 1966. The Turtles topped the charts with Happy
Together in 1967 (also their first British hit) and scored
several more hits - including pop classics Elenore and She'd
Rather Be With Me - before they split up at the end of the 60s
in a flurry of lawsuits and counter claims.
After the band disintegrated, Kaylan and Volman hooked up with
Frank Zappa in The Mothers Of Invention and ultimately performed
by themselves as Flo and Eddie. Today they continue to perform as
both Flo and Eddie and The Turtles.
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