The Turtles

American psychedelic folk/rock band with pop sensibilities. Formed in 1965, they broke up in 1971. Jim Tucker left the band after their third album. Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman later became members of Frank Zappa's The Mothers Of Invention. During the '70s they were also known as the producers Flo & Eddie. Classmates Volman and Kaylan had already been in several school bands together in California when they founded The Tyrtles, with a phonetic joke in the name as The Beatles and The Byrds also had at the time. By the time they really broke through, they had already replaced the y in their name with a u.