So what do you think of The Turtles?
Yeah, me too.
I haven't thought much of The Turtles at all.
Oh sure, "Happy Together" is a good tune. It's one that I won't change the dial when it's playing on an oldies station.
My parents had a couple of singles by The Turtles, one of which was a cover version of Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."
I thought it was pretty cool as a kid, but only because it was on White Whale Records. The record company's logo was, you guessed it, a white whale. That's what made it awesome.
Other than that, I don't really have much to say about The Turtles.
But The Turtles have a lot to say about the business side of music...And perhaps people should pay attention to them
Below is a clip from You Tube featuring Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan who occasionally perform as The Turtles to this day. They detail all of the managerial problems they encountered during their heyday, and they manage to do it with a healthy sense of humor.
After the headaches of The Turles ended, Volman and Kaylan later joined Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (billed as "Flo & Eddie") around the time of the Chunga's Revenge release. They also worked as backing vocalists for a variety of artists including T-Rex, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, and many others. For the younger viewers, they were also the brainchilds behind the soundtrack albums for The Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake.
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That video is classic; who says economic slavery doesn't exist? The shame of it all for Flo & Eddie is that "Happy Together" was really the biggest action they ever saw. It's cool that they can be so whimsical about it lo these many years later; it sounds like the kind of stuff that drove two of the guys in Badfinger to suicide.
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