You showed me the byrds
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They sample you and put it out again and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ And we called bullshit and said, ‘Wait, just one goddamn minute. “ De La Soul sampled ‘You Showed Me’ and we just said, ‘Wait a minute, this can’t be right.’ And everybody was saying, ‘No, no, this is the new music and that’s what they do. The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands (1968) Watch them perform “Happy Together” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967 But we wanted to live the good life, and we could afford to do it at the time.”
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We were spending so much money it was certainly more than we were making.
YOU SHOWED ME THE BYRDS DRIVERS
We were working out of Chicago in the Astor Tower hotel, where we had two floors of rooms and two 24-hour drivers waiting for us to go wherever we wanted. By the time ‘Happy Together’ had hit, we had our own plane.
YOU SHOWED ME THE BYRDS FULL
I wanted a beard, but I just couldn’t grow a full beard. “That was one of the first actual rock videos ever made and shown in America. And every time they tried something like that it was totally unhip.” There were so many inside jokes and the record company wanted to be a part of it to show their hipness. They took two of our favorite names at the time- Babatunde Olatunji and Dwight Frye, from the Dracula movies-and combined them into Dwight Tunji. “The Dwight Tunji Trio was a name the owners of the record company-Lee Laseff and Ted Feigin-gave to themselves so they could be a part of the sessions, whether it was singing or doing claps or other background things. It’s deeper and more recognizable, especially on our records.” Al Nichol couldn’t afford a Rickenbacker but he could afford a Danelectro 12-string, and the next morning he bought that. Tambourine Man’ and our jaws hit the ground. We went as a group to see the Byrds play for the first time. We were not the first to do it, but we certainly were the second to do it. And all of a sudden folk-rock-thanks to the Byrds-became a genre unto itself. It was all folk, and the songs that I was writing, like ‘Wandering Kind’ and ‘Let the Cold Winds Blow,’ and shit I did in high school, we wound up recording as the Turtles, because they were folk. Our main influences, at least for Mark and me, were Bud and Travis, the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary and Tom Rush. “The music we were playing in high school led us to the Byrds. Now more than ever, it’s time for the Turtles to be recognized for their collective genius. It Ain’t Me Babe, You Baby, Happy Together, The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands, Turtle Soup and Wooden Head are all crucial building blocks in the construction of California sunshine pop. Any music fan who has ever explored their catalog outside the lines of the obvious material will no doubt attest to the band’s long-players.īest Classic Bands had the opportunity to speak at length with Kaylan – who was born on J– about his favorite moments from each album, sharing revealing and enjoyable anecdotes on these six treasures. The Turtles are indeed largely known as a singles group, but their impact stretches far beyond their greatest hits collections. The Turtles in an early promo photo (from Howard Kaylan’s Facebook page)Īs lead singer of The Turtles, Howard Kaylan has enjoyed a front row seat to the history of rock ’n’ roll for over 50 years as his group, co-piloted by his longtime creative partner Mark Volman, enjoyed a streak of top 10 singles between 1965-69: “It Ain’t Me Babe,” “She’d Rather Be With Me,” “Happy Together” (which reached #1 in 1967), “Elenore” and “You Showed Me.” They were the bridge connecting the twin towers of Los Angeles pop by pairing the folk-rock of the Byrds with the impeccable melodies of the Beach Boys while delivering it with a humor and grace entirely their own.
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