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...
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!
@@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
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 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. ☺
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!!
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.
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
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.
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 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 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.
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 !!!
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.
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 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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.
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!
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.
Dan i like your comment , its always lovely to hear a classic of days gone by , its all part of life xx These lovely guys do justice to a smashing song lol Jane x❤
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 my favorite Turtles tunes, despite the fact it was written as a joke. Howie admitted that he took "Happy Together" and basically inverted it to make Elenore. The line "Your my pride and joy etc." was the punchline. Still very enjoyable.
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.
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!
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.
This was a fine love song ,i do believe it was rather sexy in a nice way ,,,,,these guys were great singers i still get goose lumps every time i hear this very fine 60s classic ,, what a splendid era to live through ,those were the days lol
Johny Barbata, look him up. has played on hundreds of records and hit singles...CSNY, Neil YoungJefferson Airplane & Starship ,Joni Mitchell,Linda Ronstadt,Leon Russell etc etc.
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 was at the Turtles show at Glendora High School, 1968 I think. It was a life-changing experience. They were so great, hard to even communicate it. I was like 13.
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!
In my time of late 60s I was around 14 yrs in 1967 and the big radio station was 4 IP Greater Brisbane and the Turtles had a great sound and alot of top 40 hits!
The turtles Greatest Hits was one of the first vinyl albums I purchased as a kid. To this day and thousands of albums later it remains one of my favorites!
First off I grew up hearing this band as a teen-ager, then in my early 20's I saw Flo n Eddie as an opening act for Jimmy Buffet. Forget Jimmy. Flo n Eddie were Great!! Thank you guys for such beautiful harmonies!!
When I hear that song and I see them, something in me becomes a ghost... It hurts, enjoys and cries. A melancholy runs through my memories, and I see the sun shine brightly, under the calm of those quiet and dreamy years... where people were good. Eleonora Rilley.
This for me is one of the best pop songs ever, three minutes of pure pop joy. Howard and Mark. Invest the song with a Wagnerian grandeur. Its a masterpiece.
Nice song and ownthat was very popular then. They had a way fo singing that somehow reached me and I could feel identified with. And now nearly fifty years later I still like to hear them sing.
Love these guys their voices their range is so great. Their work Flo and Eddie w Zappa showcases such. Will always have such a special spot in my heart for these two The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie , omg but love em w The Mothers they are Perfect Together. Cute af too boot. Love love them. They bring me such joy. Impossible not to sing along. My soulmates
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!!!!
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!
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
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
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 think you're groovy, let's go out to a movie" Classic 😂
That's my best line... when I want to get Fancy 🥃😐
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
RIP Johnny Barbata. Your drum fills exquisite
Amem...
He great time, and groove too!
“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.
Awesome song! The Turtles were GREAT!!
anotherthingRICKY[ashook]recallsitaz a#7hitin68...
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!!! 👍👍👍
Takes me back to high school, summertime, driving down the road, with the radio blaring and singing this at the top of my lungs.
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 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.
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.
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.
One of my favourite songs of the sixties. Loved it from the first time I heard it.I was 8😅.
John Barbatta on drums, a master of the craft.
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.
"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. ☺
Barbata absolutely putting the finest of class on that kit!
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!
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.
The guy with the glasses is obviously enjoying himself. Putting his Heart and soul into it.
Mark Volman was quite the showman
Fabulous song performed with brilliance. Such subtle showmanship.
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.
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.
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.
“Maybe we won’t watch the show “ and the sideways grin... classic.. makes me smile and chuckle every time
I love this song, good times
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 “
Howard's voice anchors the euphoria to reality. But the background voices make it feel like they're being backup by a full orchestra!
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!
Very underrated group from the 60's. Numerous hits.
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.
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
Great song, the clasic music of 60's
Hi from.México
I'm in Mexico Missouri
You're my pride and joy etcetera . Priceless ❤
Totally underrated song. One of the best ever!😊
I loved the Turtles.
"You're my pride and joy, et cetera...." Love it !!🤣
So happy together - another great Turtles song
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.
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 👍
Give it up for John Barbata on drums!! along with Dino Danelli one of the most "underrated guys on their instruments.
He was f'n awesome drummer.
tony giovingo you got that right ^ 5
John Barbata really enjoy playing drums and had great stage personality.
He was the drummer for the Rascals.
@@marks.3303 Dino Danelli was the drummer for the Rascals. Both were exceptional drummers
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...
Howard such a great voice and let's throw some love to the drummer. Nice stick work. 😁
Everything is perfect with this video, the song, the lyrics, the costumes and et cetera :D
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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Such a MAGICAL group. Wish we could have groups back like this
Flo and Eddie the backing singers of the 70s.
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🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I saw the Turtles perform at an oldies show at the Majestic in San Antonio, TX back in the early 80's. Great show.
One of my favorite old bands. And this song is one of the many examples why.
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.
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!
Love The Turtles for ages!!!! Another classic 60s groove!!!
What a great band and what a great song. To do that live and sound so good is the test of a great band.
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!
Such a beautiful song. Makes me want to walk through a sunny meadow wearing a floaty dress and straw hat. 💐💚
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.
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!
My favorite turtles song, growing up listening to them was awesome. Still is!!!
Dan i like your comment , its always lovely to hear a classic of days gone by , its all part of life xx These lovely guys do justice to a smashing song lol Jane x❤
drummer John Barbata swinging with power
He's always been a great drummer.
An American Ringo Starr!😎
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 my favorite Turtles tunes, despite the fact it was written as a joke. Howie admitted that he took "Happy Together" and basically inverted it to make Elenore. The line "Your my pride and joy etc." was the punchline. Still very enjoyable.
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.
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!
Love Flo and Eddy-childhood memories of listening to The Turtles on WLS in the 1960s.
The drumming on this track is excellent.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.😊
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.
I loved the Turtles. They were a really good band!
This was a fine love song ,i do believe it was rather sexy in a nice way ,,,,,these guys were great singers i still get goose lumps every time i hear this very fine 60s classic ,, what a splendid era to live through ,those were the days lol
The drummer sure had his act together.
I can't tell, do the guitars even have cords? I've seen so many of the old videos from TV shows that didn't bother with them. :)
Johny Barbata, look him up. has played on hundreds of records and hit singles...CSNY, Neil YoungJefferson Airplane & Starship ,Joni Mitchell,Linda Ronstadt,Leon Russell etc etc.
Yep. This is truly a live performance.
Yes, a great job!
A great blend of music and talent!
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 could watch the drummer play drums all day long!
I was at the Turtles show at Glendora High School, 1968 I think. It was a life-changing experience. They were so great, hard to even communicate it. I was like 13.
One of the very best groups of 60's! Still sounds fresh and groovy.👍🎸🎼🎶🎵😇
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!
Howard Kaylan and Mark Vollman from the Turtles did backing vocals for T-Rex recordings in '71-'73. They had great voices.
Man-I'd forgotten about this song! Loved it back in the day.
Never gets old
One of the greatest perfect pop tunes ever written. Period
He's a beast with the tambourine. Who wouldn't want a bandmate like him?
In my time of late 60s I was around 14 yrs in 1967 and the big radio station was 4 IP Greater Brisbane and the Turtles had a great sound and alot of top 40 hits!
Just shows you. A another golden Oldy that will never dies.......... ❤
I have this fab song on 45 vinyl - it never gets old (unlike me!)
This song...and I cherished 60s music...was always special to me. My personal no. 1 song of the decade.
The turtles Greatest Hits was one of the first vinyl albums I purchased as a kid. To this day and thousands of albums later it remains one of my favorites!
First off I grew up hearing this band as a teen-ager, then in my early 20's I saw Flo n Eddie as an opening act for Jimmy Buffet. Forget Jimmy. Flo n Eddie were Great!! Thank you guys for such beautiful harmonies!!
When I hear that song and I see them, something in me becomes a ghost... It hurts, enjoys and cries. A melancholy runs through my memories, and I see the sun shine brightly, under the calm of those quiet and dreamy years... where people were good.
Eleonora Rilley.
This for me is one of the best pop songs ever, three minutes of pure pop joy. Howard and Mark. Invest the song with a Wagnerian grandeur. Its a masterpiece.
This is a fantastic live performance of a killer late-'60s hit. Well done, gentlemen.
1968. Senior year of high school. A great song by an underappreciated group. Great memories !
Nice song and ownthat was very popular then. They had a way fo singing that somehow reached me and I could feel identified with. And now nearly fifty years later I still like to hear them sing.
What's not to love about these guys! Pure genius!
I absolutely love them.....at age 72.....Elvis.....CCR ....and other so called Bubble Gum music is still the best.
Love these guys their voices their range is so great. Their work Flo and Eddie w Zappa showcases such. Will always have such a special spot in my heart for these two The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie , omg but love em w The Mothers they are Perfect Together.
Cute af too boot. Love love them. They bring me such joy. Impossible not to sing along. My soulmates
Johnny Barbata RIP. Huge part of The Turtles and loved your drumstick twirl!
I love the harmonies.