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.