The Turtles: Eclectic Musical Mixtures
Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 1982
While they produced some of the best pop music to emerge from California during the mid to late Sixties and had 16 American hits in less than five years, the Turtles were never orthodox pop stars.
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