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The Turtles — Happy Together
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Dav3thedog
(Canberra)
Posted: May 08, 2013 - 23:21
 
Feeling very old?!
blkstd
(Champaign, IL)
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 07:50
 
very well written - I just see it/feel it. 

  coloradojohn wrote:
You are about to embark on a journey of the mind...
It is a time of innocence, of utter amazement, and your head is like, floating in the breeze, man, and your mom takes hold of your arm and you go inside the Baskin Robbins store down on the swanky Country Club Plaza and there is that sweet cream-smelling chill and all those flavors are lying there in buckets behind the glass and you drag over the little foot-stool to get high enough to get a good look at them and you stop fighting with your bonehead brother for a second and choose a two-scoop combo of Rocky Road and JaMocha Almond Fudge and THIS SONG is on the radio, and even your mom, your mom, can you believe it?, is singing along, "imagine me and you...I do..." and the world seems like a pretty nice place, at least for a moment, now forever frozen in time...and music connects it all.

 



max_p
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 07:49
 
Flo and Eddie did all those high pitched backing vocals w T, Rex back in the day...

zepher
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 07:46
 


jocelynsart
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 16:01
 
 Enjoyed reading your piece!

coloradojohn wrote:
You are about to embark on a journey of the mind...
It is a time of innocence, of utter amazement, and your head is like, floating in the breeze, man, and your mom takes hold of your arm and you go inside the Baskin Robbins store down on the swanky Country Club Plaza and there is that sweet cream-smelling chill and all those flavors are lying there in buckets behind the glass and you drag over the little foot-stool to get high enough to get a good look at them and you stop fighting with your bonehead brother for a second and choose a two-scoop combo of Rocky Road and JaMocha Almond Fudge and THIS SONG is on the radio, and even your mom, your mom, can you believe it?, is singing along, "imagine me and you...I do..." and the world seems like a pretty nice place, at least for a moment, now forever frozen in time...and music connects it all.

 



nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 07:15
 
When this came out I was dating a young woman named Geri. Recently I learned that her life has not been a bowl of cherries, to put it mildly. But I kind of like to think that when she hears this, she's reminded of happier times, and hopefully her life has straightened out and she's doing better.

bachbeet
Posted: Nov 01, 2012 - 23:03
 
Big step up from that B&S dreck.

triviagal
(Just Outside Washington DC)
Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 13:00
 
Jr. High - The Turtles, The Bee Gees & Star Trek.  memories.

leafmold
Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 12:59
 
ba ba ba ba! ba ba!!!

Jazbo
(Beautiful Valparaiso IN.)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 14:03
 
I'm a bit of a sap.....10..

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 12:41
 


The correct artwork

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 12:41
 
 Foot wrote:
Classic!  What, no date - circa 1968 I'd guess.
 

'67, I believe.

midigitguy
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 19:32
 
Very (sadly) amusing outline of the fiscal woes of the Turtles management history...
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JHN5HaUg28

Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 19:29
 
Classic!  What, no date - circa 1968 I'd guess.

n4ku
(Lexington)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 19:28
 
9 -> 10.

clwguy
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 09:54
 
An ode to RP : )

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 09:54
 
 coloradojohn wrote:
You are about to embark on a journey of the mind...
It is a time of innocence, of utter amazement, and your head is like, floating in the breeze, man, and your mom takes hold of your arm and you go inside the Baskin Robbins store down on the swanky Country Club Plaza and there is that sweet cream-smelling chill and all those flavors are lying there in buckets behind the glass and you drag over the little foot-stool to get high enough to get a good look at them and you stop fighting with your bonehead brother for a second and choose a two-scoop combo of Rocky Road and JaMocha Almond Fudge and THIS SONG is on the radio, and even your mom, your mom, can you believe it?, is singing along, "imagine me and you...I do..." and the world seems like a pretty nice place, at least for a moment, now forever frozen in time...and music connects it all.
 
Brilliant.

Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 16:11
 
True classic.

Randomax
(Wimberley, TX)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 08:21
 
 nmcvaugh wrote:

Payphone? What's those? ;-)

 

Ha!  My 19yo son was forced to pull over and use that contraption last week....he'd never even been close to one....should have seen him try to figure it all out!  I set in the car having a hardy laugh!!

spigolli
(Peachtree City, GA, USA)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 08:20
 
Flo & Eddie still tour, I saw them @ Hippiefest last summer - great show!

Randomax
(Wimberley, TX)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 08:19
 
 coloradojohn wrote:
You are about to embark on a journey of the mind...
It is a time of innocence, of utter amazement, and your head is like, floating in the breeze, man, and your mom takes hold of your arm and you go inside the Baskin Robbins store down on the swanky Country Club Plaza and there is that sweet cream-smelling chill and all those flavors are lying there in buckets behind the glass and you drag over the little foot-stool to get high enough to get a good look at them and you stop fighting with your bonehead brother for a second and choose a two-scoop combo of Rocky Road and JaMocha Almond Fudge and THIS SONG is on the radio, and even your mom, your mom, can you believe it?, is singing along, "imagine me and you...I do..." and the world seems like a pretty nice place, at least for a moment, now forever frozen in time...and music connects it all.

 

Or riding bareback with your best friend from Jr High on the parents ranch in the middle of nowhere...beautiful Texas Woods....singing this song non stop acapella at the top of our lungs....EVERYTIME this songs starts I'm on that horse....

coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Jul 16, 2011 - 23:56
 
You are about to embark on a journey of the mind...
It is a time of innocence, of utter amazement, and your head is like, floating in the breeze, man, and your mom takes hold of your arm and you go inside the Baskin Robbins store down on the swanky Country Club Plaza and there is that sweet cream-smelling chill and all those flavors are lying there in buckets behind the glass and you drag over the little foot-stool to get high enough to get a good look at them and you stop fighting with your bonehead brother for a second and choose a two-scoop combo of Rocky Road and JaMocha Almond Fudge and THIS SONG is on the radio, and even your mom, your mom, can you believe it?, is singing along, "imagine me and you...I do..." and the world seems like a pretty nice place, at least for a moment, now forever frozen in time...and music connects it all.


Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 07:52
 
 evansdad wrote:
This song reminds me of when we only had AM radio in the car...that's how old I am.
 

you and me both, pardner.  {#Lol}

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 07:25
 
There is nothing outstanding about this song, but you just can't help but like it!{#Lol}

nmcvaugh
(Austin, Texas)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 07:22
 
 diannemck56 wrote:
Call you up, invest a dime..hahaha—-it's been a long time since a payphone was a dime.  I love this song!   {#Daisy}
 
Payphone? What's those? ;-)


evansdad
(CT)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 07:22
 
This song reminds me of when we only had AM radio in the car...that's how old I am.

eswiley2
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 07:21
 
 clwguy wrote:
Holy crap, i'm old

 
 

Beats the alternative!!

eswiley2
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 07:20
 
Flashback time!!!!  They just don't make songs like this anymore.  {#Roflol}

GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 06:48
 
This resonates as a perfect piece of power pop from when I was a child. Now I hear my daughter singing along to it from some later incarnation. Pan-generational poptasticity!

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 06:32
 
I love this!
I remember my introduction to this song came off the Mothers of Invention Live at the Fillmore 1971 album.
It was in high school in "77.
What memories! 

HudValGal
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 06:32
 
A perfect 10!

WayUpNorth
(Windswept Exile)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 06:31
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
A perfect, joyous, timeless (& silly) little pop nugget.
 
{#High-five}           {#Bounce}       {#Bounce}          {#Bounce}

tphord
(State College PA)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 06:31
 
Very nice

coolpeople_rule
(Winter wonder land)
Posted: Jan 08, 2011 - 23:35
 
 clwguy wrote:
Holy crap, i'm old

 
 

It's so good it makes one sick...in a good way of course! ~



clwguy
Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 08:50
 
Holy crap, i'm old

 

ParkerH
(Naples, FL)
Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 08:50
 

So nice. So happy together! And another band named for an animal. Gotta love that.



diannemck56
(Sacramento)
Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 08:49
 
Call you up, invest a dime..hahaha—-it's been a long time since a payphone was a dime.  I love this song!   {#Daisy}

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Nov 06, 2010 - 20:06
 
"Imagine me and you...I do..."  this is fine, fine, fine....{#Group-hug}

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Nov 06, 2010 - 15:39
 
Oh, wow.  Just wow.  This song makes me happy on so many levels - it's sunny and warm and November, and now this song. Life is goood. {#Meditate}{#Sunny}

SpamNRice
(Northern, Italy)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 01:43
 
Ah, a happy place... long ago and far away...{#Meditate}

calypsus_1
Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 22:22
 

The Turtles  by RickRaven
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30264265@N07/

Much better than their AM hits would suggest.

Copyright All rights reserved

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sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 15:49
 
God help me, I love this song!

Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 15:46
 
does anyone remember ..."Imagine me and me and me and me, etc. I can't see me loving nobody but ME!" a song they used to play on Dr. Demento?

mread
(W117°12.138' N32°53.742')
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 10:29
 
How is the weather?

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 10:27
 
 gutboy wrote:


Flo and Eddie (the Turtles) appeared with Zappa and the Mothers. Its was them, not Zappa, who performed that version of Happy Togeher. Frank just gave them an unforgettable introduction (with a bullet!)
 
Bump.... with a BULLET!


ICHawk
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 10:26
 
Haven't heard this in a long while....sounds great! There's also a great a capella version of this from the late 80s' by The Nylons.

pherthyl
(Victoria, BC)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 10:26
 
This was the first song at our wedding.  Rock on.

crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 10:26
 
I think of my sisters listening to this when I was around 5 years old. Wow. Things were so simple then, for me at least. {#Propeller}

hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 10:25
 
Did you know you can sing another of their hits, "Eleanor" at the same time and harmonize, because they are exactly the same tune.

Walrus_Gumbo
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 00:05
 
Limpopoking wrote:
Whenever I hear this, I actually hear Frank Zappa's take on it (I think it was on Live at Fillmore east)... I think he liked the Turtles {#Lol}

Zappa's version is great but if you want to hear a really rousing version of this song check out the Leningrad Cowboys Total Balilika Show with back up by the Russian Red Army Choir! It's a hoot!