The Turtles are an American rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, later known as Flo & Eddie. The band had several Top 40 hits beginning in 1965 with their cover version of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe”. They scored their biggest and best-known hit in 1967 with the song “Happy Together”.
The sextet (later, quintet) first started as a surf music act named the Crossfires, releasing a obscured single in a local label, then signed to White Whale Records and adopted the folk rock genre, exemplified in their debut album (in which included “It Ain’t Me Babe”).
After a marginal success with their second album, The Turtles changed their style to a sunshine pop group, scoring their only number one hit with the psychedelic “Happy Together”, and Top 10 hits “She’d Rather Be with Me”, “Elenore” and “You Showed Me”, also becoming one of the few acts of the genre who scored more than one hit.
But after their commercial waning, which began in late 1968, and many conflicts with White Whale, the band broke up in 1970. Kaylan and Volman later found long-lasting success as session musicians, billed as the comedic vocal duo “Flo & Eddie”. In 2010, a reconstituted version of the band, “the Turtles Featuring Flo & Eddie”, began performing live shows again.