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The Turtles — Happy Together
Album: Happy Together
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Released: 1967
Length: 2:51
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Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right
To think about the girl you love
And hold her tight
So happy together

If I should call you up, invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
And ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be
So very fine
So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life
When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they tossed the dice
It had to be
The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life
When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they tossed the dice
It had to be
The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together

Ba, ba-ba, ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba ba
Ba ba-ba ba
Ba, ba-ba, ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba ba
Ba ba-ba ba

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they tossed the dice
It had to be
The only one for me is you
And you for me
So happy together

So happy together
How is the weather?
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together
We're happy together
So happy together
So happy together
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 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}

Been a minute since I've even seen a payphone.
I've ever thought this was The Beatles, I didn't know about the turtles. Immediately 10
Utterly uplifting music. No other art form speaks to me with such intensity, and this is one of the reasons why.
 Proclivities wrote:

Yes, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan did backing vocals with Zappa, Stephen Stills, Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, and quite a few others.

 
Volman and Kaylan were also in Zappa's movie "200 Motels." My brother rented it and I walked away from the TV about halfway through. I don't remember much about it, only that it got amateurish and tiresome. 

According to the Wikipedia article about the film, Volman and Kaylan got their nicknames "Flo and Eddie" from their work with Zappa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Motels

In 1970, Frank Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers of Invention which included British drummer Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George DukeIan UnderwoodJeff Simmons (bass, rhythm guitar), and three members of The Turtles: bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the stage name "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie", or "Flo & Eddie".
 
A classic moldy oldie that conjures happy memories. This Evel Kneivel barely clearing the picket fence on his spare-parts bike. Trying to understand some Steinbeck. Falling down through the limbs of the tree and triumphantly grabbing the next to last branch before splat. Thanks, Flo and Eddie, I wouldn't recall some of it the same without you. 
This is one of the earliest songs I remember hearing on the radio when I was a toddler.....
{#Flamed}...... didn't just love being a teenager when this came out, "happy days"
 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.

 
John-

Country Club Plaza....Kansas City?


Early teen social angst sated.
As was remarked earlier, the band's Elenore is the same song. Not kinda like it, but the same song. A joke gone horribly right. Great story about that:

Howard Kaylan of The Turtles explained: "Elenore was a parody of 'Happy Together.' It was never intended to be a straight-forward song. It was meant as an anti-love letter to White Whale (their record company), who were constantly on our backs to bring them another 'Happy Together.' So I gave them a very skewed version. Not only with the chords changed, but with all these bizarre words. It was my feeling that they would listen to how strange and stupid the song was and leave us alone. But they didn't get the joke. They thought it sounded good. Truthfully, though, the production on 'Elenore' WAS so damn good. Lyrically or not, the sound of the thing was so positive that it worked. It certainly surprised me."
Love it.  Oh, what a stab from the past.  What innocence. High school.  Dating the Homecoming Queen.  One of the first guitar songs learned.
 eswiley2 wrote:


Beats the alternative!!

 
INDEED,  BEEN THERE.....{#Eek}
On a cliff overlooking the Pacific Coast, I sang this song to my groom as part of my personal wedding vows ...
 tulfan wrote:
 max_p wrote:
Flo and Eddie did all those high pitched backing vocals w T, Rex back in the day...

 
Weren't they also in Zappa's band for a time?
 
Yes, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan did backing vocals with Zappa, Stephen Stills, Alice Cooper, Bruce Springsteen, and quite a few others.
it flashes my mind way back to Benny and I playing in the living room with our G.I. Joes while our moms sat in the kitchen smoking  away with the local radio station on  ... suburbia during the Vietnam war, race riots in the cities and students getting smacked by cops
dippy goofball tune during complicated social times 

Check out a Kiss concert video, on You Tube, from 1976 where Flo and Eddie are dressed in Kiss costumes introducing the band.  Pretty funny.


 max_p wrote:
Flo and Eddie did all those high pitched backing vocals w T, Rex back in the day...

 

Weren't they also in Zappa's band for a time?
Ain't youth grand?
Happiness is a fragile thing.  
Take care with it. 
All here at the soda shop are smiling and Happy Together, loving this tune!
Sublime pop
Feeling very old?!
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.

 


Flo and Eddie did all those high pitched backing vocals w T, Rex back in the day...

 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.

 


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.
Big step up from that B&S dreck.
Jr. High - The Turtles, The Bee Gees & Star Trek.  memories.
ba ba ba ba! ba ba!!!
I'm a bit of a sap.....10..


The correct artwork
 Foot wrote:
Classic!  What, no date - circa 1968 I'd guess.
 

'67, I believe.
Very (sadly) amusing outline of the fiscal woes of the Turtles management history...
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JHN5HaUg28
Classic!  What, no date - circa 1968 I'd guess.
9 -> 10.
An ode to RP : )
 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.
True classic.
 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!!
Flo & Eddie still tour, I saw them @ Hippiefest last summer - great show!
 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....
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.

 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}
There is nothing outstanding about this song, but you just can't help but like it!{#Lol}
 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? ;-)

This song reminds me of when we only had AM radio in the car...that's how old I am.
 clwguy wrote:
Holy crap, i'm old

 
 

Beats the alternative!!
Flashback time!!!!  They just don't make songs like this anymore.  {#Roflol}
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!
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! 
A perfect 10!
 On_The_Beach wrote:
A perfect, joyous, timeless (& silly) little pop nugget.
 
{#High-five}           {#Bounce}       {#Bounce}          {#Bounce}
Very nice
 clwguy wrote:
Holy crap, i'm old

 
 

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


Holy crap, i'm old

 

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


Call you up, invest a dime..hahaha—-it's been a long time since a payphone was a dime.  I love this song!   {#Daisy}
"Imagine me and you...I do..."  this is fine, fine, fine....{#Group-hug}
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}
Ah, a happy place... long ago and far away...{#Meditate}

The Turtles  by RickRaven
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Much better than their AM hits would suggest.

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God help me, I love this song!
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?
How is the weather?
 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!

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.
This was the first song at our wedding.  Rock on.
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}
Did you know you can sing another of their hits, "Eleanor" at the same time and harmonize, because they are exactly the same tune.
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!

Great stuff!

I really like "It Ain't Me Babe" by these guys.
That's one rockin' pop song there.

I'm going to upload that one soon.


and no it's not the greatest of.
 jktravl wrote:
ah back when the sunshine was orange
 
ha ha ha ha
 

This one takes me to a place and time that makes me smile.

am I really old enough to own this album?   sadly yes.   thanks for the trip down memory lane.
A perfect, joyous, timeless (& silly) little pop nugget.
 deniser wrote:
this song depresses me for some reason.  also, it's annoying to listen to with headphones, because the drums are only in the left ear..
 
I feel the same way about it. See my original comment below. {#Arrowd} 
this song depresses me for some reason.  also, it's annoying to listen to with headphones, because the drums are only in the left ear..
 Baby_M wrote:
For some reason, when I hear this one, I have visions of happy cartoon turtles dancing on their hind legs. {#Jump}
 


 jktravl wrote:
ah back when the sunshine was orange
 
I hear you... 3 of you, actually! {#Roflol} {#Good-vibes} {#Meditate}
 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!)
 

THX FATHER HISTORY...THOSE WAS THE DAYS MY FRIEND  THE 1960'S{#Drunk}{#Clap}
 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}
 

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!)
ah back when the sunshine was orange
Silly, poppy, overplayed. . .but I still love hearing it!  I was really surprised to hear it here.
love the drumming in this song - almost march-like

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}
I never appreciated the Turtles until I saw Flo and Eddie open for the Stephan Stills Band in the late '70s....and they KILLED!!  They got into a percussion jam with their whole band and some of the Stills band members and they were all playing pillows and marshmallows and other soft stuff that made no noise what-so-ever when they pounded on them....silent rock....what a hoot.

I recall a Turtles album also that was a "Battle of the Bands" concept where every cut was a different genre and supposed to be a different band....wish I could find it today at a garage sale.....
For some reason, when I hear this one, I have visions of happy cartoon turtles dancing on their hind legs. {#Jump}
Couldn't stand this POS then; forty-plus years has not made a difference.



If you wanna play F&E, let's hear the Mothers' Live at the Fillmore—with a bullett! "Shh-shh-SHARK!"

I think I heard this on commercial pop radio once... shouldn't we throw it off the playlist??
You can sing Eleanore at the same time and harmonize with the song.

One of the guys was bragging one time about how, when they stayed at the White House, they snorted coke off the dresser in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Sure brings back some great high school memories.
I'm suddenly hungry for a bowl of Golden Grahams
 Art_Carnage wrote:
Needs a lot more cowbell.
 
HAHAHAHA {#Cheesygrin}
 mwsteele79 wrote:
Big bowl of awesome.  Pop doesn't get any better.
 

Probably my all time favorite song of any genre. Incredible....
I can't believe I logged in just to rate this song.
It's outstanding on so many levels.
Big bowl of awesome.  Pop doesn't get any better.
Needs a lot more cowbell.
The world is a much happier place because of Flo and Eddie and Turtles. This group made so much great music, I wish you heard more of their songs and more often.
The flip side of this single 'Buzz saw' is cool..sort of like 'dirty laundry' by Henleybupanishad2012 wrote:
This song should have died in the 60s!!!
Another one of those songs that will be a hit for generations...thanks for playing
madaxeman wrote:
Sublime pop music,and yes The Mothers Live At The Filmore was sublime too."Roger Daltrey never touched me!"
Ouch.. "Roger Daltry never laid a hand on me." "It's obvious to see why!" Out, you go out, so far out, you do the Mudshark baby..
Oh Bill, you silly boy. What a classic. Loved it. (I'm old enough to remember.) Don't get carried away, now. Bay City Rollers?
More than just an 'oldie'. This one stands apart, and moreso as time goes. Good sign. 8.
It's been a real long time since I heard that. It always reminds me of seeing them open for Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Baby concert in LA in the 70's. It always blew me away what a mismatch the Turtles and Alice Cooper was.
bronorb wrote:
45 caliber?
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Not sure Charlieboy's ever heard this before, but he ran over and turned it up!
Not sure Charlieboy's ever heard this before, but he ran over and turned it up!
bupanishad2012 wrote:
This song should have died in the 60s!!!
Sorry to hear about your cardiac necrosis.
This is so AWESOME! the first time I heard this was on the Frank Zappa live at the Fillmore album where these guys sang with Frankand the band ...kind of goofing on/or with the song. F'ng awesome!
cordelia wrote:
Definitely brings back good memories - and nice to hear on RP
Definitely brings back good memories - and nice to hear on RP
MonkeyPod wrote:
Sherman! Prepare the Way-Back Machine...
Nice find! Were there such a thing...!!
SoCal on a Triumph Daytona. Thanks for the grins.
This song should have died in the 60s!!!
One of the happiest sounding pop songs. Love it.
DoctorHooey wrote:
Everybody sing along, like a big rock show!
Yeah Baby, still the very bet version of this tune EVER! Here comes the Bullit!
Everybody sing along, like a big rock show!
Sherman! Prepare the Way-Back Machine... Edit:
rtkmusic wrote:
You might need to explain the term "45" to some of the younger RP listeners...
45 caliber?
CCinSB wrote:
I have this on 45 still, the flip side is "Elenor"
You might need to explain the term "45" to some of the younger RP listeners...