Artist
The Turtles
The Turtles is a pop-rock artist from Los Angeles, USA formed in 1965. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · Los Angeles, USA · Best pop-rock albums
- 19
- Releases
- 1965–2025
- Active years
- 1965
- Formed
Artist
The Turtles is a pop-rock artist from Los Angeles, USA formed in 1965. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · Los Angeles, USA · Best pop-rock albums
Most popular
The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands
1968 · 12 tracks
It Ain't Me Babe
1965
Happy Together
1967
Turtle Soup
1969
Wooden Head
1971
You Baby
1966
Let Me Be
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You Showed Me - The Turtles Best
2023
The Complete Original Album Collection
2016
The Complete Original Albums Collection
2016
All the Singles
2016
Save the Turtles: the Turtles Greatest Hits
2009
You Baby / Let Me Be
2005
Elenore
1993
Chalon Road
1986
20 Greatest Hits
1984
The Battle of the Bands (Deluxe Version)
1968
The Turtles were a 60s American pop-rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, later known as Flo & Eddie. The band became notable for several Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” in 1965. The band scored their biggest and best-known hit in 1967 with the song “Happy Together”. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965, the band originated in a surf-rock group called the Crossfires Renowned for their good-natured, joyously melancholic and occasionally cheeky sound, the band has delved into many genres, such as pop, psychedelic music and folk rock. A precursor to the bubblegum pop of the late 1960s and a foil to the more self-consciously hip and “serious” acts of the era, the Turtles produced at least a dozen memorable, radio-friendly chart singles but remain best known for 1967’s “Happy Together”, their only chart-topping single. The Turtles wound down their career in 1970. The two prominent singers - Howard Kaylan (“Eddie”) and Mark Volman (“Flo” a.k.a. “Phlorescent Leech”) - collaborated with Frank Zappa for a short but very intensive period of one and a half years (between 1970-72) and were the cornerstone of what w…
