The Turtles

On his return after two years of service, he attempted to kickstart his music career with and without the Playboys, but never really gained momentum.

His musical career was later marketed as a nostalgia act with appearances on his father's Labor Day telethons for muscular dystrophy and also featured in the Turtles.

happy together.

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Bachman Turner Overdrive, Jeff Beck, another former guitarist for Rod Stewart, Keith Moon of The Who, and Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees.

And members of Chicago, Seals and Crofts, Three Dog Night, The Tubes, and The Turtles.

Some other bands, too.

I didn't realize The Tubes were around in 1976.

I'm not going to say a 360 view, but maybe like a 180 view.

It's Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees, Olivia Newton-John before Grease was made.

Keith Moon of The Who, and Mark Vollman of The Turtles, and Flo and Eddie later on.

Yeah, that's a great group of people.

And all of our happy together friends know what that means.

We're not allowed to talk on the happy together tour.

We get in trouble if we talk on the happy together tour.

Yeah.

So we

Yeah.

And sharp as an elderly guy, like bouncing around.

You know, the way you see Ron Dante kicking his luggages into the bay of the tour bus on the Happy Together tour.

Okay.

Damian, The Turtles, Eleanor, I believe is the only, uh, song, popular song, popular hit that contains the word, the expression et cetera.

Okay.

Have you got, um, is, is vicki vercky?

Yeah, they're catchy.

They're written by the guys from the Turtles, the 60s band that does the song Happy Together.

Imagine Me and You.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And then he came back out for one of Weird Al's parts and they just sang a 100% straight up the middle cover of Happy Together by the Turtles.

Okay.

And it was

Tracks of the week.

We're going to drop a few tracks from where the Turtles, one of the UK's biggest 1960s pop hit makers, and also some of the more litiginous people in the recording industry, looking at where they get sampled in classic hip-hop and how that changed hip-hop.

Let's get loose now.

Here's a kick-ass piece of instrumental for you.

Buzzsaw by the Turtles, 1968.

Pretty easy to see why that maxed out organ and fuzzy bass would glow like pirate treasure to a producer in the Bronx with an SP-12 who's looking for a hook.

This is the first time I can remember hearing this song sampled in a hip-hop track.

There you go.

It's a little bit of a bad luck there.

But then this time, in Al's set, he did Happy Together by the Turtles.

Sure, sure, sure.

And did it as