@@maxsdad538 just saw Mark last Thursday as part of the "Happy Together" your. He looks rough. Howie hasn't toured since 2018. It would have been great to see them both together. Their chemistry was a legend
The Turtles were an awesome group back then along with The Young Rascals, the Animals, the Doors, too many name all of them here....a lot of you young kids missed a tremendous time...
Found myself smiling throughout this performance. Wow, great vocals and melody. Takes me back to my childhood when everything in my world was happy and carefree.
They called it "bubble gum" music because of its simplicity. My feelings about The Turtles are that they sing of happy times, and a spirit of positivism. I think I love their music. It's swell.
ELENORE was supposedly a parody of their earlier hit HAPPY TOGETHER. Hey! Turtles did perform at a White House party in Nixon era because they're Tricia's favorite band. ☺
Someone said it 4yrs ago that the more he listened to The Turtles,the more he realised what a great band they were. Well said and I echo his sentiments. Great stuff!
I really love The Turtles and especially this song, as my name is Eleanor☺️. Really all of their songs are Great!!! It is good easy listening sing along with music. No trashy words, when music was innocent. They call it bubble gum music... I just call it good music my opinion only...❤️✌🏼️
The Turtles really did not qualify as bubble gum. That was the Archies, the Monkees, Partridge Family, etc. The Turtles were genuine rock musicians who wrote and played original songs. They played live and toured the US, England and Europe. I don't know about Australia, though.
That Howard Kaylan, what an incredible voice. Mark Volman was not too shabby either. This song, Elenore, requires very high notes, and both these guys hit the nail right on.
Remember it in 10/1968 when I was in 6th grade listening to Philly's Famous 56 WFIL @ 11 yrs. old , earlier that year my uncle was kia in NAM mid-3/1968 10days B-4 my 11th bday!
The Turtles were a fantastic live band, and this is no mime performance. I heard people tell me that they sounded so close to their records live it was amazing . .No Tapes!
Yes they did sound like their records. Caught them in the 70’s in Memphis at the coliseum as an opening act for the 3 Dog Night. I have to say I was glad to hear and see the Turtles and in my opinion were better than 3 Dog Night. Of course the draw was 3 Dog Night because I wanted to see them live also. What a great performance and memory!!
FAN BLOODY TASTIC !!!! I was 14 in "68 and that cool hit and a 1,000 more will be cherished forever , we"ll never see the likes of those times again, and "fair enough too"as the world keeps turning, however am so damn lucky to have been there in the 60's and 70's to hear, live and be a part of it all !!!
on the strength of this and 'Happy Together, the band deserved a whole lot more success. Having sampled their albums though, the material seems quite uneven
I'm a 68 year old American man, a Native of Iowa. In what I believe was the late 1960s my Father was on a business trip and snowed in, grounded at the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Turtles were there and he met them, having no idea who they were. But, for me, about 14 at the time, he had all of them sign a napkin. Sadly, over the years I lost it, but it is a great memory.
I am only 34 years old, but I grew up listening to 60's music because of my dad. I have to agree that todays music sucks. No one can write their own songs or even play an interment. The songs are amazing and I still love listening to them today.
Keith , i love your comment ,, i feel the same way as you , i adored the 60s era its music was so diverse , what a great choice we had ,,i feel very thankful to have been part of a most fantastic era ,, This classic is so nice lol Jane 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Wow....watch and listen closely...these guys really know what they are doing. Howard has an amazing voice....John B, the drummer, is absolutely nails. Very skilled, excellent song!
Loved THE TURTLES....fantastic song which makes me nostalgic of the 60's. It also makes me sad for this was one of song i shared with my good friend Elinor who loved it. May she rest in eternal peace by the side of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is me; from 1985, when I was born, i heard songs like this, Neon rainbow from The Box Tops, Hey Jude from The Beatles, She's like a rainbow from The Rolling Stones, I literally was raised on The 60's & my whole love belongs to that decade.
Flo & Eddie, man this brings back memories, I would not trade being young in the 60- 70’s for anything. What a great time to be young and free. Kids today don’t know what real freedom is.
Yeah, High School music. I used to drive to and from school in my 1960 Chevy Nova listening to such as this on the AM radio (you could buy AM/FM radios in those days; but no stations on FM yet). Listening to this takes me back to another long ago time; I can even smell things from the past, like coal burning. Today, we know all about the bands, but back then we knew nothing but which song matched which artist. No internet, no cell phones, a lot of TV was still B&W, and cable TV was still years away. Unless you lived in a city, you didn't even have broadcast TV. You rarely even knew what your favorite band looked liked.
Bonzo T Alonzo I'm 63 and I love the time I grew up in. Norman, OK, a college town, OU football was in its glory days, hippies everywhere. Our parents were thinking the world was coming to an end! Now, I get to tell my kids about Woodstock, the sexual revolution, kids being carried out of school on a bad trip from LSD, all the pot even on the high school campus in one particular bathroom at any given time. Guys protesting cause they couldn't buy beer but they were drafting them and sending them to Vietnam to kill and be killed. The music especially was good, though. We saw so many transitions in a short period of time. A person had their choice of so many styles of music and they were all great. Sometimes on a trip my husband and I will turn Our satellite radio to an oldies station and still sing every word and talk about what we were doing before we met. Of course, growing up in a college town, I had him beat. He was raised in northern OK on a farm in a small town. That had its own charm and great memories. But the music, the music is our common thread.
66thru68veteran If you listen songs from that period its much more complicated than these new songs in harmony, orchestration. They didnt used auto tune, they dont use tone of musical equipment on stage, but sound very good.
+ThefightingCelt I'd heard the band was under pressure to write something commercial, so they deliberately, sarcastically wrote the geekiest stuff they could ('gee, I think you're swell'??) - and what happens, it's their biggest hit! A great, creative band, hitmakers in spite of themselves.
Yes , probably knowing full well it would be a hit . Most pop rock groups , unlike some of the more esoteric driven solo artists , seek fame and fortune - contrary to what they say publicly during their early years . Some just use different guises in their effort to get where they want to be .
+ThefightingCelt because pop usually takes itself so seriously outside of kanye, kendrick, death grips, miley, gaga, and kesha, you don't have a lot of popular music that has even a slight sense of humor or self-awareness about its silliness kanye jams in lines that reveal him to be a massive martin lawrence dork (jerome is a terminally unhip character from the comedian's sitcom) and samples increasingly odd songs for somebody as popular as him (a popular artist would not reference obscure soul groups, krautrock bands, and king crimson), kendrick's use of skits and alternate narrative methods display both a sense of disturbing drama (the increasingly intoxicated voice on "u") and black comedy (the skits on good kid, m.A.A.d. city, the ridiculousness of k-dot interviewing tupac), death grips take the pretentions of noise music and industrial rap and filter it through 4chan injokes, miley made an entire experimental pop album where all she wanted to do was to have fun and make whatever (even if it sucked in the end), gaga's entire career is built on being silly-but-loud-and-proud (which makes her very close to Flo & Eddie's ethos), and kesha's albums are always humorous to some extent (but smarter than they appear, like the Turtles and Frank Zappa). music is just so goddamned unfun nowadays. that's not to say an album can be both deadly serious and great (look at Bowie's last album), but great albums always have a sense of humor about them, even if it's rare. nirvana's albums had songs making fun of radio-friendly pop, '60s bubblegum rock, and kurt's tryhard rebellion during his teenage years in aberdeen. the best glam rock is both cheesy as all hell and altogether innovative music. prog rock, by default, has to mix some humor in just to make the music more palatable. but think of the bands that take themselves too seriously: america. journey. eagles after hotel california. iron butterfly. they don't make interesting music. they think they're so important that they strip out any and all humor. this is why I get upset when people call kanye a "bad artist." I'm like "have you heard an America album? they're the most humorless bunch of expatriates I've heard in my life. sure, there's 'Horse with No Name,' 'Ventura Highway,' and 'Sister Golden Hair,' but trying to get through even their greatest hits? it's a total drag! at least I can laugh at the parts on yeezus that are meant to be ridiculous - all of 'I am a god,' parts of 'hold my liquor,' the weirdo references in 'bound 2' and 'on sight,' etc." to me, the Turtles work on that same principle. they know they sound like every Don Kirshner production on the radio. they know they're trying to make a stereo phil spector production. and they're led by two vocalists with a knack for making fun of everything strange about the '60s - hell, there's a reason why zappa let them join his band for three years. of course "happy together" and "elenore" are hilarious and beautiful. that's the genius of it, really.
They wrote this song as a joke. Bubble Gum music was getting popular, and their record company told them to come up with one. They weren't crazy about the idea, so they were being facetious when they gave them "Eleanor." Turns out to be one of my favorite songs of all times. I can't tell you how many times I sang it in bands, and never got sick of it. I love songs like that with big harmony. It's a great song.
Eleanor is an old woman's name, not one you'd expect in a teen love song. The lyrics are purposely banal. But the execs didn't care. They knew a hit when they heard one. Glorious melody and vocals!
A Decade before my knowledge of starting to listen to music, but wow, they really were great. I knew Happy Together growing up, but amazing songs like this as I've aged have proved how awesome this group was!
We saw Flo & Eddie on New Years Eve at the Bottom Line in NYC 15 years in a row.. It was our tradition- great times- they were so much fun live- I really miss these guys!
Apart from the excellent performance is the excellent direction. No cut, cut, cut, swoosh zoom, swoosh zoom. Just nice... long... shots... so the viewer can focus on the band's prolific talent.
The Turtles were my introduction to rock concerts. They played at my high school in Granada Hills, Ca. in early 1966 for a special assembly of sorts. Events like that were common in the Los Angeles area during the 1960's. Fun times.
One of the most overlooked and underrated bands of all time, the Turtles were a well honed house band before they broke out. Great harmonies and musicianship!
There was no Autotune and ProTools back then. I've always loved the vocals from these guys. These songs take me back to the 1960's and 1970's an era that was filled with some of the most incredible music ever produced. It was a time when we had to use our imagination. Life was so much simpler back then. I know it could never be that way again so I hold on to these songs like valuable jewelry.
Just a brilliant feel good band with great records wish I could go back to the sixties but here I am in 2024 still listening to and still singing these great songs well never relive these great times and while these artists are still with us we need to make the most of them.
I saw them in concert...at a skating rink in Downey, CA...back in '68(?). The crowd was really rude to them. Kids had brought squirt guns. It was sad. But they WERE good!
These guys were so lovely they made a great sound of the 60s ,This divine classic still looms large in my hits ,, What a beno we had xx such happy times and memories lol Jane x💗🧡💛💚💜🤎🖤❤🧡
Patti i like your comment , this very fine classic belongs in a splendid era , the 60s was some thing else , its music was so diverse , what a choice we had x i have always adored this lovely song , i always wanted to be called Ellener xx lol Jane x🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I never got to see who was singing when I was young. I'm now 58. The two lead people are so opposite. What fun to see this. Thanks TurtlesHappyTogether!
I am 58 as well! I somehow managed to see them at a reunion concert at The Beacon Theater in NYC in 1987 (I think). They were so great--just hamming it up like they were on the video and having a great time.
I lived in Southern California as a teen in the 60's. The Turtles, yes, Mark and Howard (the big hair!) .....were the playingest local band ever. We became loyal fans before they had a national hit. It was nothing but good times and music. They were/are just a fun, interesting and lively in person as they appear on YT.
I first heard this song when I was 9 years old; I thought, and still do, that it was the greatest song ever recorded. I am now 61 and still sing along to it when it is played on the radio.
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This is proof the 60's 70's best music ever
AND the 80's.
Not in the same league as 60's and 70's.
❤AMEN!!!!
And have you ever seen or heard a better Tambourine player ?
Dude just killed it on this song !
Also proves how popular Elenore was as a name in the 1960s:
Eleanor Rigby Beatles 1966
Elenore The Turtles 1968
Lady Eleanor Lindisfarne 1971
I love youtube. I can just go into one video and wind up finding my life in songs. All the old ones I grew up on.
Thank you so much,youtube!
Great song, the clasic music of 60's
Hi from.México
I'm in Mexico Missouri
Hello from Austria 😅
@veronikarolle2920 Hello from Michigan in the U.S !
Hello good neighbor ! from Florida
Yes is true, great Song ❤❤
I really wish I could go back, best time of my life.
They are best remembered by their appearances on the Lloyd Thaxton Show. Crazy times.
There are a few things that I could do over.
Saw them in 1969 at USF in Tampa. Jay and the Americans!
❤ WISH I COULD GO BACK, TO THE 60,70S, 80S, 90S,AND NOW 2024 !!!! GREAT MUSIC ALL THOUGH THE YEARS!!!! 🎉😊
The guy with the glasses is obviously enjoying himself. Putting his Heart and soul into it.
Mark Volman was quite the showman
He was a bit cringy, actually. Great voice, though.
this song wouldn't work without Mark Volman
Gotta love their lyrics, "You're my pride and joy etcetera"
"..........gee, I think your swell."
Brilliant still 2023
And to think this song was to be a throw away, a goof, a song written just to show that anything they wrote could be a hit...and it was!
And Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (as Flo & Eddie) are STILL clowning around and entertaining America, over 50 years later.
@@maxsdad538 just saw Mark last Thursday as part of the "Happy Together" your. He looks rough. Howie hasn't toured since 2018. It would have been great to see them both together. Their chemistry was a legend
souvenir des radio pirates !! merci pour le post
The more I listen to the Turtles, the more I realize how great the group was
The Turtles were an awesome group back then along with The Young Rascals, the Animals, the Doors, too many name all of them here....a lot of you young kids missed a tremendous time...
AGREE!😎
本当に、Happy TogetherとElenore大好き🎶😄 彼らは年とってもカッコいい‼️
@@peteyaskell6815 本当にtremendous timeです💕
Never like the beatles though
I was two years old and LOVE this
Best lyric "You're my pride and joy.....et cetera"
That lyric is why I so love this song.
It rates right up there with America’s “for there ain’t no one to give us pain “
Love the drums. Traditional grip. He’s got a nice feel. Love the song
Great observation! Sort of Barrett Deems style? Nice stick-twirling too!
John Barbata I believe.
He’s a great drummer--almost jazz like and uses every part of his kit…fun to watch
Fabulous song performed with brilliance. Such subtle showmanship.
Elenore was a good and surprising album by the Turtles.
Voice of a angel he has!
Found myself smiling throughout this performance. Wow, great vocals and melody. Takes me back to my childhood when everything in my world was happy and carefree.
Very under rated band, in material and vocally.
And I thought I was the only person that love this 👌👌👏👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
They called it "bubble gum" music because of its simplicity. My feelings about The Turtles are that they sing of happy times, and a spirit of positivism. I think I love their music. It's swell.
I think you're swell , , , now that's a saying I haven't heard in a long long time.
I feel good when I hear the turtle they're my favorite
ELENORE was supposedly a parody of their earlier hit HAPPY TOGETHER. Hey! Turtles did perform at a White House party in Nixon era because they're Tricia's favorite band. ☺
Not that simple musically
NOT SIMPLE AT ALL.
Barbata absolutely putting the finest of class on that kit!
Sadly, there will never be music like this again.
"I really think you're groovy, let's go out to a movie" Classic 😂
That's my best line... when I want to get Fancy 🥃😐
Best line ever
Happy (belated) 75th Birthday MARK VOLMAN! You're SWELL and thank you so very much for all the music and great times. April 19, 1947.
So happy together - another great Turtles song
Someone said it 4yrs ago that the more he listened to The Turtles,the more he realised what a great band they were. Well said and I echo his sentiments. Great stuff!
John Barbata what a phenomenal drummer R.I.P. Pal from Ireland
Love his powerhouse drumming. RIP
One of my favourite songs. From the UK
I really love The Turtles and especially this song, as my name is Eleanor☺️. Really all of their songs are Great!!! It is good easy listening sing along with music. No trashy words, when music was innocent. They call it bubble gum music... I just call it good music my opinion only...❤️✌🏼️
Nicely put
The Turtles really did not qualify as bubble gum. That was the Archies, the Monkees, Partridge Family, etc. The Turtles were genuine rock musicians who wrote and played original songs. They played live and toured the US, England and Europe. I don't know about Australia, though.
“You’re my pride and joy, etc.” - the absolute best line!
Agree.
Always puts a smile on my face
What an original lyric! If you say it to your partner, they should understand.
❤
That Howard Kaylan, what an incredible voice. Mark Volman was not too shabby either.
This song, Elenore, requires very high notes, and both these guys hit the nail right on.
There is a part of the song where they are singing together and the two voices together were just beautiful!
Remember it in 10/1968 when I was in 6th grade listening to Philly's Famous 56 WFIL @ 11 yrs. old , earlier that year my uncle was kia in NAM mid-3/1968 10days B-4 my 11th bday!
The follow up to "Happy Together"... The record company wanted more of the same sound. I think they got it.
And the two brothers sang backing vocals on T-Rex's 1971 album 'Electric Warrior'!
@@davidknowles3459 The two brothers? They have different last names.
The Turtles were a fantastic live band, and this is no mime performance. I heard people tell me that they sounded so close to their records live it was amazing . .No Tapes!
No mime - just a bunch of musicians !!!
Yes they did sound like their records. Caught them in the 70’s in Memphis at the coliseum as an opening act for the 3 Dog Night. I have to say I was glad to hear and see the Turtles and in my opinion were better than 3 Dog Night. Of course the draw was 3 Dog Night because I wanted to see them live also. What a great performance and memory!!
@@ssw1950 good mix of bands for a show.
@@ssw1950 Yes, the Turtles are a better band than 3 dog night. Turtles had quite a few big hits.
They were great, played smaller venues as well as the big ones. Fun to see in person. I was in Vietnam for this one.
RIP Johnny Barbata. Your drum fills exquisite
Amem...
He great time, and groove too!
John Barbatta on drums, a master of the craft.
FAN BLOODY TASTIC !!!! I was 14 in "68 and that cool hit and a 1,000 more will be cherished forever , we"ll never see the likes of those times again, and "fair enough too"as the world keeps turning, however am so damn lucky to have been there in the 60's and 70's to hear, live and be a part of it all !!!
The world and music sure have been going downhill since 1967. I hope we turn it around or else our kids, grandkids, and environment are doomed!
I was 11, and that couldn't be more true!
You are so lucky man... I'm 20 and all we got now is trash and our generation is wrought with bullshit
Love love love these guys 🥰😍👈
@@drivinsouth651 no doubts about that 👍
I'm here listening to this classic song 🎵
Love this song 🎵
I can't believe that I am here in the year
2025...I'm 68 .🎵
That was clearly a live performance. Difficult song to execute live and they really nailed it. Great song by one of my favorite bands.\
on the strength of this and 'Happy Together, the band deserved a whole lot more success. Having sampled their albums though, the material seems quite uneven
They did it very well Sydney town hall 1975. They were so funny and energetic too.
Howard Kalyan mentioned in his book how he never thought of himself as overly attractive, but I think he’s really handsome!
Very underrated group from the 60's. Numerous hits.
I'm a 68 year old American man, a Native of Iowa. In what I believe was the late 1960s my Father was on a business trip and snowed in, grounded at the airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Turtles were there and he met them, having no idea who they were. But, for me, about 14 at the time, he had all of them sign a napkin. Sadly, over the years I lost it, but it is a great memory.
It's March 2023 & I'm listening to a 1968 band...what a beautiful song & performance👏👏👏👏
One of my favourite songs of the sixties. Loved it from the first time I heard it.I was 8😅.
I saw the Turtles perform at an oldies show at the Majestic in San Antonio, TX back in the early 80's. Great show.
My daughter was 1 year old and I used to sing this song to her. She is 56 now and we still both like the song.
Howard such a great voice and let's throw some love to the drummer. Nice stick work. 😁
I am only 34 years old, but I grew up listening to 60's music because of my dad. I have to agree that todays music sucks. No one can write their own songs or even play an interment. The songs are amazing and I still love listening to them today.
I like songs backthen
Loved this song ,70 now still like the song fantastic band.So honoured to have lived through the 60s
Thanks mum and dad.
Keith , i love your comment ,, i feel the same way as you , i adored the 60s era its music was so diverse , what a great choice we had ,,i feel very thankful to have been part of a most fantastic era ,, This classic is so nice lol Jane
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Wow....watch and listen closely...these guys really know what they are doing. Howard has an amazing voice....John B, the drummer, is absolutely nails. Very skilled, excellent song!
Mark Volman's kick at 1:59 is everything. What a showman!
2:08 I thought so, too.🎉😂
I watch the video over and over for that reason, that kick is the best, and show it to whom ever lets me hahahah
The kick did it for me. ❤
Mark is one of the happiest men out there!
Finally, an actual LIVE take and not another bit of miming! Absolute ace choon!
Awesome song! The Turtles were GREAT!!
anotherthingRICKY[ashook]recallsitaz a#7hitin68...
Howard Kaylan and Mark Vollman from the Turtles did backing vocals for T-Rex recordings in '71-'73. They had great voices.
“Maybe we won’t watch the show “ and the sideways grin... classic.. makes me smile and chuckle every time
John Barbata’s drums sound great, and he’s KILLING it.
Yes
He's letting us know it's live, not taped. Definitely exploring the space on those hi-hats. Love it.
Yes. Rogers drums. Definitely ne and Dino Dinelli had some serious chops and great showmanship.
And he doesn't need a 1,000 Piece Drum Kit.
And the singer's voice is fantastic! Agree wholeheartedly with ye mate!!! 👍👍👍
Loved THE TURTLES....fantastic song which makes me nostalgic of the 60's. It also makes me sad for this was one of song i shared with my good friend Elinor who loved it. May she rest in eternal peace by the side of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is me; from 1985, when I was born, i heard songs like this, Neon rainbow from The Box Tops, Hey Jude from The Beatles, She's like a rainbow from The Rolling Stones, I literally was raised on The 60's & my whole love belongs to that decade.
"You're my pride and joy, et cetera....."----brilliant, just brilliant!!
+Ped Xing I know someone who recorded with these guys. The song was meant as a joke, and it is brilliant.
+Sandra Lodoen ~> True! I heard it was a parody of Happy Together. ☺
+Roy Lay you're really good at the turtle I am to
I really think you're groovy; Let's go
to a movie. Brilliant! I love it! The seeds of rap
Max A Million ~> Nice Top-40 Pop Tune! I've heard that Turtles did this song as a parody of Happy Together, their earlier hit. ☺
Flo & Eddie, man this brings back memories, I would not trade being young in the 60- 70’s for anything. What a great time to be young and free. Kids today don’t know what real freedom is.
2022 here and it still sounds great! Loved it then and thanks for the memories.
Thanks. I had a crush on a girl named Eleanor back then and you can guess the impact this song had!
Yeah, High School music. I used to drive to and from school in my 1960 Chevy Nova listening to such as this on the AM radio (you could buy AM/FM radios in those days; but no stations on FM yet). Listening to this takes me back to another long ago time; I can even smell things from the past, like coal burning. Today, we know all about the bands, but back then we knew nothing but which song matched which artist. No internet, no cell phones, a lot of TV was still B&W, and cable TV was still years away. Unless you lived in a city, you didn't even have broadcast TV. You rarely even knew what your favorite band looked liked.
I'm 60 and always loved the beat and tempo to this song. The more I age the more grateful I am to have lived during the time that I have .
Bonzo T Alonzo I'm 63 and I love the time I grew up in. Norman, OK, a college town, OU football was in its glory days, hippies everywhere. Our parents were thinking the world was coming to an end! Now, I get to tell my kids about Woodstock, the sexual revolution, kids being carried out of school on a bad trip from LSD, all the pot even on the high school campus in one particular bathroom at any given time. Guys protesting cause they couldn't buy beer but they were drafting them and sending them to Vietnam to kill and be killed. The music especially was good, though. We saw so many transitions in a short period of time. A person had their choice of so many styles of music and they were all great. Sometimes on a trip my husband and I will turn Our satellite radio to an oldies station and still sing every word and talk about what we were doing before we met. Of course, growing up in a college town, I had him beat. He was raised in northern OK on a farm in a small town. That had its own charm and great memories. But the music, the music is our common thread.
+LeAnn Cottman im
+Katy B I'm 62 and I love the sixth yss music
Katy
I'm 62 and hope we get this on the other side... nice to see It's Pat! trade the french horn for a cymbal...
Pop groups now just cannot write such catchy songs like this . The 60s was a very , very special decade for pop and rock music .
ThefightingCelt It was, because they used the ( Kiss ) Method ; Keep it simple stupid.
66thru68veteran If you listen songs from that period its much more complicated than these new songs in harmony, orchestration. They didnt used auto tune, they dont use tone of musical equipment on stage, but sound very good.
+ThefightingCelt I'd heard the band was under pressure to write something commercial, so they deliberately, sarcastically wrote the geekiest stuff they could ('gee, I think you're swell'??) - and what happens, it's their biggest hit! A great, creative band, hitmakers in spite of themselves.
Yes , probably knowing full well it would be a hit . Most pop rock groups , unlike some of the more esoteric driven solo artists , seek fame and fortune - contrary to what they say publicly during their early years . Some just use different guises in their effort to get where they want to be .
+ThefightingCelt because pop usually takes itself so seriously
outside of kanye, kendrick, death grips, miley, gaga, and kesha, you don't have a lot of popular music that has even a slight sense of humor or self-awareness about its silliness
kanye jams in lines that reveal him to be a massive martin lawrence dork (jerome is a terminally unhip character from the comedian's sitcom) and samples increasingly odd songs for somebody as popular as him (a popular artist would not reference obscure soul groups, krautrock bands, and king crimson), kendrick's use of skits and alternate narrative methods display both a sense of disturbing drama (the increasingly intoxicated voice on "u") and black comedy (the skits on good kid, m.A.A.d. city, the ridiculousness of k-dot interviewing tupac), death grips take the pretentions of noise music and industrial rap and filter it through 4chan injokes, miley made an entire experimental pop album where all she wanted to do was to have fun and make whatever (even if it sucked in the end), gaga's entire career is built on being silly-but-loud-and-proud (which makes her very close to Flo & Eddie's ethos), and kesha's albums are always humorous to some extent (but smarter than they appear, like the Turtles and Frank Zappa).
music is just so goddamned unfun nowadays. that's not to say an album can be both deadly serious and great (look at Bowie's last album), but great albums always have a sense of humor about them, even if it's rare. nirvana's albums had songs making fun of radio-friendly pop, '60s bubblegum rock, and kurt's tryhard rebellion during his teenage years in aberdeen. the best glam rock is both cheesy as all hell and altogether innovative music. prog rock, by default, has to mix some humor in just to make the music more palatable. but think of the bands that take themselves too seriously: america. journey. eagles after hotel california. iron butterfly. they don't make interesting music. they think they're so important that they strip out any and all humor.
this is why I get upset when people call kanye a "bad artist." I'm like "have you heard an America album? they're the most humorless bunch of expatriates I've heard in my life. sure, there's 'Horse with No Name,' 'Ventura Highway,' and 'Sister Golden Hair,' but trying to get through even their greatest hits? it's a total drag! at least I can laugh at the parts on yeezus that are meant to be ridiculous - all of 'I am a god,' parts of 'hold my liquor,' the weirdo references in 'bound 2' and 'on sight,' etc."
to me, the Turtles work on that same principle. they know they sound like every Don Kirshner production on the radio. they know they're trying to make a stereo phil spector production. and they're led by two vocalists with a knack for making fun of everything strange about the '60s - hell, there's a reason why zappa let them join his band for three years. of course "happy together" and "elenore" are hilarious and beautiful. that's the genius of it, really.
They wrote this song as a joke. Bubble Gum music was getting popular, and their record company told them to come up with one. They weren't crazy about the idea, so they were being facetious when they gave them "Eleanor." Turns out to be one of my favorite songs of all times. I can't tell you how many times I sang it in bands, and never got sick of it. I love songs like that with big harmony. It's a great song.
Mine too! It's a great song. I actually saw this performance on TV when I was a kid.
Eleanor is an old woman's name, not one you'd expect in a teen love song. The lyrics are purposely banal. But the execs
didn't care. They knew a hit when they heard one.
Glorious melody and vocals!
got to be a great song if they can get away with "etcetera" as a lyric!...lol.
@@broadcasttttable And they made it rhyme.
Johnny Barbata kills hit on the trap kit
A Decade before my knowledge of starting to listen to music, but wow, they really were great. I knew Happy Together growing up, but amazing songs like this as I've aged have proved how awesome this group was!
Such a MAGICAL group. Wish we could have groups back like this
We saw Flo & Eddie on New Years Eve at the Bottom Line in NYC 15 years in a row.. It was our tradition- great times- they were so much fun live- I really miss these guys!
These two vocalists have their vocals down very well. We music fans like to hear the same thing in concert as they did on the record, and they got it.
Apart from the excellent performance is the excellent direction. No cut, cut, cut, swoosh zoom, swoosh zoom. Just nice... long... shots... so the viewer can focus on the band's prolific talent.
What a great band and what a great song. To do that live and sound so good is the test of a great band.
The Turtles were my introduction to rock concerts. They played at my high school in Granada Hills, Ca. in early 1966 for a special assembly of sorts. Events like that were common in the Los Angeles area during the 1960's. Fun times.
One of the most overlooked and underrated bands of all time, the Turtles were a well honed house band before they broke out. Great harmonies and musicianship!
I absolutely love them.....at age 72.....Elvis.....CCR ....and other so called Bubble Gum music is still the best.
Love the Turtles.
Best act ever, some fun guys. Saw them twice in Sydney in the mid 70's.
Just shows you. A another golden Oldy that will never dies.......... ❤
There was no Autotune and ProTools back then. I've always loved the vocals from these guys. These songs take me back to the 1960's and 1970's an era that was filled with some of the most incredible music ever produced. It was a time when we had to use our imagination. Life was so much simpler back then. I know it could never be that way again so I hold on to these songs like valuable jewelry.
This is a fantastic live performance of a killer late-'60s hit. Well done, gentlemen.
Maravillosa canción!!!! Ocho añitos tenía yo cuando filmaron este vídeo.
Just a brilliant feel good band with great records wish I could go back to the sixties but here I am in 2024 still listening to and still singing these great songs well never relive these great times and while these artists are still with us we need to make the most of them.
Howard's voice anchors the euphoria to reality. But the background voices make it feel like they're being backup by a full orchestra!
eternamente exelente lo que le dedico a las nenas que he querido...
One of my favorite groups
Such a beautiful song. Makes me want to walk through a sunny meadow wearing a floaty dress and straw hat. 💐💚
I saw them in concert...at a skating rink in Downey, CA...back in '68(?). The crowd was really rude to them. Kids had brought squirt guns. It was sad. But they WERE good!
Love The Turtles for ages!!!! Another classic 60s groove!!!
I have this fab song on 45 vinyl - it never gets old (unlike me!)
1968. Senior year of high school. A great song by an underappreciated group. Great memories !
One of my all time faves as well......from a Turtles fan in Ireland
These guys were so lovely they made a great sound of the 60s ,This divine classic still looms large in my hits ,, What a beno we had xx such happy times and memories lol Jane x💗🧡💛💚💜🤎🖤❤🧡
One of the greatest perfect pop tunes ever written. Period
I love this song and the 60s music ! I was 9 when this song first came out in 1965 !
Patti i like your comment , this very fine classic belongs in a splendid era , the 60s was some thing else , its music was so diverse , what a choice we had x i have always adored this lovely song , i always wanted to be called Ellener xx lol Jane x🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Very pleasant and soothing. 🇬🇧
I never got to see who was singing when I was young. I'm now 58. The two lead people are so opposite. What fun to see this. Thanks TurtlesHappyTogether!
The Florescent Leech and Eddie.
I am 58 as well! I somehow managed to see them at a reunion concert at The Beacon Theater in NYC in 1987 (I think). They were so great--just hamming it up like they were on the video and having a great time.
I lived in Southern California as a teen in the 60's. The Turtles, yes, Mark and Howard (the big hair!) .....were the playingest local band ever. We became loyal fans before they had a national hit. It was nothing but good times and music. They were/are just a fun, interesting and lively in person as they appear on YT.
THEY WERE FABULOUS! THANKS
Hola gracias por la oportunidad que nos dan de escuchar estas bellas canciones de mi juventud
This song...and I cherished 60s music...was always special to me. My personal no. 1 song of the decade.
Me encantaba escuchar eleonora cuando estaba en Secundaria 1972.
I love this song, good times
Luv this song 🎉 If you’ve loved someone whose parents didn’t approve…
I first heard this song when I was 9 years old; I thought, and still do, that it was the greatest song ever recorded. I am now 61 and still sing along to it when it is played on the radio.
Fortunato che siamo tutti ....
Più passa il tempo più grande l'amore per questa musica