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people anyway. The people
who are not 'Jewish and in
show business are not aware
how much Jewish they have in
them."
The group played a packed
"Cobo Theater" when it ap-
peared this spring in Detroit
and to a full house at Ann Ar-
bor's Hill Auditorium. Kaylan
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ing popularity to "oldies but
goodies' radio stations that
play hits from the bygone rock
• era.
"'Oldies but goodies' rridio
has kept songs like Happy To-
gether in circulation to the
• Howard Kaylan
point where if I listen to an
members of the group for var- oldies station for a day, I can
ious periods before its demise. Pretty much guarantee myself
Worse still, Kaylan remarks, I'm going to hear that song and
corn- a few other Turtle records.
is the move the record co
pany made after The Turtles What
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does that mean? In rock
n'
roll's
brief history of 25-odd
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disbanded.
In 1970; following the Years the classics are still the
group's dissolution, the corn- _classics. Happy Together will
pany released The Turtles' outlive me."
version of an old Barry . Kevin O'Neill, morning air
McGuire protest song, Eve of • personality and program di-
Destruction. The song charted,
barely, but Kaylan was livid.
"They (White Whale) actu-
ally released it after The Tur-
tles broke up in 1970 and it hit
the charts and it pissed us off.
We recorded the thingln 1965.
They had' no right and they
'added insult to injury to put
out this old' turkey and it
charted. Ultimately, we sued
them. We got whatever cash
they had left, all of our mas-
ters and the name Turtles
forever and , all time . . . In
order to get the name Turtles
it cost us $150,000 of our own
•money and only since 1983 has
th name Turtles been in the •Mark Volman
black."
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Kaylan said what the group

makes today with the "Happy
Together" tour is comparable
if not greater than the fees it
commanded in the 1960s. The
Turtles as a group were never
making money until two years
• ago. Now we release those
things (Turtles records) all
over the, world." The records
have since been released on a
label called Rhino.
The record business has
seen a lot of Jewish per-
sonalities in its ranks, from
the heads of record companies
like Aristies live Davis to the
performers, musicians, pro.
motion people, technicians,
and the record retailers. Has
Velman's and • ltaylan's
Jewish background had any
effect on theirJnvolvement in
the business?
neverthought it did any.
thing except add a little
schmaltz to the old mixture

rector of the all-oldies station,
WKSG-FM (102.7), said The
Turtlea' continuing popularity
stems from the era that they
represent.
The era you get the most
requests forts the '608. You get
a lot of ,requests for Wooly
Bully,ChapelofLose, and The
Turtles are included in that.
The Turtles were one of the big
'60s groups. HappyTogether is
one of the most requested
songs we ever, get, Anybody
who grew up during the '60s
you lived through The Turtles'
music."
O'Neill said Turtles' songs
remain, popular became they
were memorahle,11 you were
doing anything at all in the
60s, Happy Together was a
part of it. .,, We a real up
tempo *AL We a real happy
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