The Turtles is an American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who came to be known as Flo & amp; Eddie. The band had some Top 40 hits starting with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Is not Me Babe" in 1965. They scored the biggest and most famous hit in 1967 with the song "Happy Together".
The band broke up in 1970. Kaylan and Volman later found long-term success as a session musician, billed as duo vocalist & comedy amp; Eddie. In 2010, a re-formed version of the band, Turtles Featuring Flo & amp; Eddie, started performing live again.
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History
The band, originally a rock-surf group called Crossfires, was formed in 1965 in Westchester, Los Angeles, by Kaylan's high school friends, Volman, Al Nichol, Chuck Portz, Don Murray, and Jim Tucker. With the help of KRLA and KFWB DJ and club owner Reb Foster (b) James Dennis Bruton 1936), Crossfires signed a contract with the newly formed White Whale Records. Following the prevailing musical trend, they renamed themselves as a folk rock group under the name of the Tyrtles, a deliberate misfire inspired by Byrds and The Beatles. However, the trendy spelling does not last long.
Like Byrds, Turtles achieved breakthrough success with Bob Dylan's cover track. "It Is not Me Babe" reached the Top Ten Billboard at the end of summer 1965, and was the title song of the band's first album. Their second single, "Let Me Be," reached the top 30, while their third hit, "You Baby," was on the top 20 list in early 1966. The band's second album, You Baby, failed. to reach the Top LPs Billboard charts, and some singles released in 1966, "Grim Reaper of Love" and "Can I Get to Know You Better" barely entered Billboard Hot 100. One single, tough "Outside Chance", written by Warren Zevon and featuring guitar works in the "Taxman" style of The Beatles, not at all. In 1966, Turtles made an appearance on spoof the Universal Coast spoof spy film Out of Sight, singing "She'll Come Back" on screen.
In early 1966 drummer Don Murray and bassist Chuck Portz left the group. They were replaced by Joel Larson and later John Barbata on drums, and by Chip Douglas on bass (October 1966).
The first of several major Turtles singles written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, "Happy Together", has been denied by countless players. "Happy Together", their biggest hit and their distinctive song, marks a turning point for Turtles and Chip Douglas, which provides the setting. The single replaced The Beatles' "Penny Lane" at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in spring 1967. Turtles only No. 1 stays there for three weeks. Album of the same name followed and peaked at No. 25. "Happy Together" reached # 12 on the UK singles chart. The same year saw Turtles performing the title track (composed by John Williams with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse) for Twentieth Century-Fox bedroom jokes Guides for Married Men.
Impressed by Douglas Chip studio arrangements, Michael Nesmith approached him after the Turtles show at Whiskey a Go Go and invited him to become a new producer of Monkees, as the band wanted to get out of their "artificial" studio mold. Douglas accepts and leaves Turtles. He was replaced by Jim Pons on bass.
1967 proved to be the most successful year of Turtles on the music charts. "She's Like Be Me" reached number 3 on the US charts in late spring and actually charted "Happy Together" overseas, reaching # 4 in the UK. Two Top 15 songs in a row followed: "You Know What I Mean" and "She's My Girl". Both 45s marked a certain shift in band style. Golden Hits was released later that year, charted over 10th. The same album cover for The Turtles! Golden Hits and follow-up More Golden Hits designed by Dean Torrence of Jan & amp; Dean.
In 1967, rhythm guitarist Jim Tucker left the band citing the pressure of the tour and recording new material. He moved to Grass Valley where he became an electrical contractor. He has denied that he left the band because John Lennon was rude to him as suggested by lead singer Turtles, Howard Kaylan.
The first two singles in 1968, "Sound Asleep" and "The Story of Rock and Roll", stalled somewhere in the middle of the top 100. The band's luck changed when Chip Douglas returned to work with them in the studio. In late 1968 the band released a concept album called The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands , in which the group pretended to be 11 different bands (with fantastic names including 'The Bigg Brothers', 'Nature's Children', 'American Teenagers featuring Raoul', and 'the Fabulous Dawgs'), each with a song in a different genre. The album produced two singles: "Elenore" and "You Showed Me" (both peaked at No. 6). "Elenore" also reached No. 7 on the UK chart. The 1969 hit "You Showed Me" was written by Byrds' Gene Clark and Roger (later Jim) McGuinn in 1964. Television appearances included the venue of February 1968 at The Mike Douglas Show, which they returned on the moon April 1969.
Towards the end of 1969, the group released their next album, Turtle Soup , an extremely well received LP produced by Ray Davies of Kinks. Inspired by the honored 1968 concept album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, this is a Davies production work that was only released for other bands (although Davies has previously produced a demo tape for The Iveys). Important songs include "Somewhere Friday Nite" and "Love in the City". Apart from the Soup Turtle 's positive reception from the music press, its commercial success was marginal and the band soon began to crumble.
Long disappointed by their record label and the current growing financial problems, Kaylan and Volman rejected White Whale's attempts to turn Turtles into something approaching an assembly pop act. The label apparently prompted Kaylan and Volman to fire other band members, touring with hired musicians and making recordings by adding their vocals to the backing tracks recorded by the Memphis session players. Such pressure convinced the band to record the one called "Who Would Think That I Will Marry Margaret?", Which they rejected after his release.
The Turtles ended their career in 1970 with a second compilation album, More Golden Hits , and the B-sides and rarities album, Wooden Head . With the collapse of the Turtles, White Whale Records was left with several commercial bands, and immediately stopped operating.
Post-Turtles
Kaylan and Volman (accompanied by replacement Chip Douglas, bassist Jim Pons) joined the Mothers of Invention as The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie, because of the use of the Turtles name (and even their own names in billings) was banned by their contract with White Whale. Flo & amp; Eddie , as they were soon known, recorded the album with Mother, appeared in the Frank Zappa movie 200 Motel in 1971 and then released a series of recordings of her own.
Kaylan and Volman sang backing vocals on multiple recordings by T. Rex, including their worldwide hit "Get it On (Bang A Gong)" and Electric Warrior albums and The Slider >. When the White Whale master record was sold at auction in 1974, the duo won the owners of Turtles, making them the owners of their own recording work. They immediately licensed the track to Sire Records, which issued them as a compilation called Happy Without Again .
In the mid-1970s, Kaylan and Volman started their own syndicated radio show called Flo & amp; Eddie by Fireside , originally from KMET in Los Angeles. In the 1980s, they began organizing their own radio show at KROQ-FM in Los Angeles and WXRK in New York City and recorded soundtrack music for children's shows such as Bears and Strawberry Shortcake me.
1982 saw the launch of Turtles original album via Rhino Records. The following year, Howard Kaylan appeared in the rock-and-roll Get Crazy film, starring Malcolm McDowell and Daniel Stern. Kaylan plays the role of Captain Cloud, a spiritual teacher, the long-lost leader of a hippie caravan.
In 1980, Flo and Eddie backing vocals on Alice Cooper's Flush The Fashion LP. They also sang "Hungry Heart" by Bruce Springsteen, from his album The River, and contributed vocals to the debut album of the new wave British Espionage band, produced by Roy Thomas Baker, released in 1983 by A & amp; M records.
In 1983, Kaylan and Volman officially regained the name of "The Turtles" and started the tour as Turtles... Featuring Flo and Eddie . Instead of trying to reunite with their previous bandmates, they began to showcase the star stars who had played with different groups. The year also saw the debut of previously unreleased Shell Shock albums, as well as a new retrospective CD, <20 Greatest Hits , both released by Rhino. The final compilation was followed up in 1988 with another, Wax Turtles: The Best of The Turtles, Vol. 2 , featuring the best of their "track album" and a neglected single B-side.
Pada 1985, Turtles memulai tur "Happy Together" AS dengan Grassroots, Buckinghams, Gary Lewis, dan Playboys.
In 1987, Kaylan & amp; Volman appeared in a new music video of their song "Happy Together" to promote the romantic comedy Making Mr. Right , starring John Malkovich.
The 1989 debut album by hip-hop combo De La Soul featured an unapplied sample of Turtles (in particular, intro to "You Showed Me"), in the song "Transmitting Live from Mars". Kaylan and Volman sued, winning large settlements, setting legal precedents, and causing the music industry to start carefully credited (and paying royalties for) sample work on future rap and other recordings. When they explain, "We do not hate sampling, we like sampling, if we do not get credit, we demand, and all of it (part of royalty, plus punitive damages) comes back to us!" It was not properly reported in 2009 that Volman was involved in another suit against rapper Gucci Mane for an unauthorized sample; the "Keep It Warm" sample used in Mane's "Lemonade" was removed legally before the song's release.
Happy Together's romantic comedy aired in 1989, starring Patrick Dempsey and Helen Slater. Record of the "Happy Together" Turtles featured in the film as well as the soundtrack album.
Movie 2005 Imagine Me & amp; You , the title taken from the first line of the song "Happy Together", uses the song in its final credit.
Music Club Records released the British anthology Turtles in 1991,
In 2002 the film Adaptation broadly used "Happy Together" as a tool to describe the closeness of two Kaufman brothers, both played by Nicolas Cage. The film concludes with Turtles version on top of final credit rolling and time lapse photography.
In 2009, a new Turtles compilation CD titled Save The Turtles: The Turtles Greatest Hits was published on their own FloEdCo label and distributed by Manifesto Records.
During summer 2010 to 2015, Turtles Featuring Flo & amp; Eddie toured across the United States as part of "Happy Together: 25th Anniversary Tour", an oldies concert series that retained the "Happy Together" moniker in subsequent years. They performed alongside pop stars of the 1960s and 1970s including Gary Puckett, Mitch Ryder, Mark Lindsay, Mark Farner, Gary Lewis and Micky Dolenz. The 2015 tour features Buckinghams, Cowsills, Grass Roots, and Association.
Timeline
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Discography
Studio album
Wooden Head is an album consisting of a non-existent recording, circa 1966. Chalon Road collects many songs without reply and 45 only. Shell Shock is a construction of an album recorded in 1969 that remains unfinished.
References
External links
- Official website
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