the turtles Archive
08 Oct 2020
Guide for the Turtles Fan: An Album-by-album Discussion with Mark Volman (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two … Turtle Soup (originally released October 1969) For their fifth album, The Turtles made a highly unconventional choice in producer: they called on British musician Ray […]
07 Oct 2020
Guide for the Turtles Fan: An Album-by-album Discussion with Mark Volman (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One … Happy Together (originally released April 1967) Only four of the 11 songs on Happy Together would be written by group members, but once again, superb […]
06 Oct 2020
Guide for the Turtles Fan: An Album-by-album Discussion with Mark Volman (Part 1 of 3)
What we need in the world today is a Guide for the Turtles Fan lead a guided tour through their six LPs as only Mark Volman can … baa … […]
11 Mar 2019
They Showed Us: ‘The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands’ at 40
By the beginning of 1968, the concept album was very much in vogue; the form was in its ascendancy, with high-profile releases like the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds (released May […]