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Flo & Eddie Howard Kaylan
Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan is an United States rock and roll musician, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band , The Turtles, and "Eddie" of 1970's rock band Flo & Eddie....
 ("Eddie") and Mark Volman
Mark Volman

Mark Volman is an United States rock and roll singer, best known as a founding member of the 1960s band The Turtles. At times during his career he has used the pseudonym "The Phlorescent Leech" ....
 ("Flo" aka "Phlorescent Leech") are a comedic
Comedy rock

Comedy rock is a term used to describe rock music that is mixed with satire or other forms of comedy. This tradition can be traced back to the earliest days of rock and roll itself, the most notable early examples being Stan Freberg who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose Purple People Eater hit #1...
 musical duo. The two were the original founding members of the Top 40 pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 group The Turtles
The Turtles

The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
. After The Turtles dissolved, Kaylan and Volman first joined the Mothers of Invention as "Phlorescent Leech & Eddie". Due to contractual restrictions made early in their career, Mark and Howard were prevented from using the name "The Turtles", as well as their own names in a musical context.

When bandleader Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
 was injured during a concert in London in 1971, Kaylan & Volman found themselves at an impasse, as the Mothers Of Invention were out of action for a time.






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Flo & Eddie Howard Kaylan
Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan is an United States rock and roll musician, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band , The Turtles, and "Eddie" of 1970's rock band Flo & Eddie....
 ("Eddie") and Mark Volman
Mark Volman

Mark Volman is an United States rock and roll singer, best known as a founding member of the 1960s band The Turtles. At times during his career he has used the pseudonym "The Phlorescent Leech" ....
 ("Flo" aka "Phlorescent Leech") are a comedic
Comedy rock

Comedy rock is a term used to describe rock music that is mixed with satire or other forms of comedy. This tradition can be traced back to the earliest days of rock and roll itself, the most notable early examples being Stan Freberg who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose Purple People Eater hit #1...
 musical duo. The two were the original founding members of the Top 40 pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 group The Turtles
The Turtles

The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
. After The Turtles dissolved, Kaylan and Volman first joined the Mothers of Invention as "Phlorescent Leech & Eddie". Due to contractual restrictions made early in their career, Mark and Howard were prevented from using the name "The Turtles", as well as their own names in a musical context.

When bandleader Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
 was injured during a concert in London in 1971, Kaylan & Volman found themselves at an impasse, as the Mothers Of Invention were out of action for a time. They responded to these events by recording The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie
The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie

The first album from Flo & Eddie. After being out of print since the '70s, it is now available on CD in a package that also includes Flo & Eddie ....
 on Reprise
Reprise

In music a reprise is the repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition such as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though it originally was simply any repeated section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs....
 with the other members of the MOI.

Although the album failed to chart, they continued releasing albums including the more successful Flo & Eddie
Flo & Eddie (album)

This is the second album from Flo & Eddie. After being out of print since the '70s, it is now available on CD in a package that also includes Flo & Eddie ....
, Illegal, Immoral and Fattening
Illegal, Immoral and Fattening

Illegal, Immoral and Fattening is a 1975 comedy rock album recorded by Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman . A majority of the album comes from live recordings, including two songs that first appeared in the 1974 film Down and Dirty Duck. Illegal, Immoral and Fattening and Moving Targets were reissued on a single compact disc in 2...
, Moving Targets, and Rock Steady with Flo & Eddie
Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie

Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie was Flo & Eddie's last album as a duo, a strait-laced collection of reggae songs recorded at Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica, including a remake of the 1967 The Turtles hit "Happy Together ." The album was released in 1981....
.

During the 1970's Kaylan and Volman continued to do session work, lending their trademark harmonies to T-Rex, John Lennon, Roger McGuinn, Hoyt Axton, Ray Manzarek, Stephen Stills, Keith Moon, David Cassidy, Alice Cooper, Tonio K., Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, The Knack, Psychedelic Furs, Sammy Hagar, Livingston Taylor, Burton Cummings, Paul Kantner, Duran Duran, The Ramones and others.

In 1984, as "The Turtles ...featuring Flo & Eddie", (together with three other groups from the 60's: Gary Puckett, Spanky & Our Gang, and The Association), they traveled across the US and Canada as "The Happy Together Tour". The following year they got together with The Buckinghams, Gary Lewis, and The Grass Roots, for a 1985 version. For the eight months the tour was on the road it was consistently one of the top 10 grossing tours in the country.

They also created the music for the films Down and Dirty Duck and The Adventures of the American Rabbit
The Adventures of the American Rabbit

The Adventures of the American Rabbit is an animated film released in 1986 by Clubhouse Pictures, and subsequently on DVD by MGM....
.

Discography

With Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
:
  • Chunga's Revenge
    Chunga's Revenge

    Chunga's Revenge is an album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970. Zappa's first effort of the 1970s marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie on a Zappa record, and signals the dawn of a controversial epoch in Zappa's history ....
     (1970)
  • Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971)
  • 200 Motels (soundtrack)
    200 Motels (soundtrack)

    The 200 Motels OST is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa's 200 Motels....
     (1971
    1971 in music

    Events*February 5 - Eric Burdon & War disband. They never performed together again until April 21, 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music....
    )
  • Just Another Band From L.A.
    Just Another Band from L.A.

    Just Another Band from L.A. is a live album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1972 . It was recorded live in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA....
     (1972)
  • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1

    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 is a double compact disc set of live tracks by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1988 under the label Rykodisc....
     (1988)
  • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3

    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 is a double compact disc collection of live recordings by Frank Zappa, spanning from December 10, 1971 to December 23, 1984....
     (1989)
  • You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6

    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 is the last of six double compact disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988....
     (1992)
  • Playground Psychotics
    Playground Psychotics

    Playground Psychotics is a two-CD live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It was originally released in 1992 through his mail order label, Barking Pumpkin, and was re-released in 1995 through Rykodisc....
     (1992)


Flo & Eddie:
  • The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie
    The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie

    The first album from Flo & Eddie. After being out of print since the '70s, it is now available on CD in a package that also includes Flo & Eddie ....
     (1972
    1972 in music

    Events*January 17 - Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee is renamed "Elvis Presley Blvd"*January 20 - Pink Floyd debuts Dark Side of the Moon during a performance at The Dome, in Brighton, but due to technical difficulties, is halted during the song 'Money'....
    )
  • Flo & Eddie
    Flo & Eddie (album)

    This is the second album from Flo & Eddie. After being out of print since the '70s, it is now available on CD in a package that also includes Flo & Eddie ....
     (1974)
  • Illegal, Immoral and Fattening
    Illegal, Immoral and Fattening

    Illegal, Immoral and Fattening is a 1975 comedy rock album recorded by Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman . A majority of the album comes from live recordings, including two songs that first appeared in the 1974 film Down and Dirty Duck. Illegal, Immoral and Fattening and Moving Targets were reissued on a single compact disc in 2...
     (1975)
  • Moving Targets (1976)
  • Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie
    Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie

    Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie was Flo & Eddie's last album as a duo, a strait-laced collection of reggae songs recorded at Bob Marley's Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica, including a remake of the 1967 The Turtles hit "Happy Together ." The album was released in 1981....
     (1981)
  • The History of Flo & Eddie and the Turtles
    The History of Flo & Eddie and the Turtles

    The History of Flo & Eddie and the Turtles was a three-LP album box set album from Flo & Eddie, issued in 1983 by Rhino Records. The first LP contained songs from their 1963 debut album Out of Control , under the band name The Crossfires, and songs from their first post-The Turtles album, The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie, from 1972...
     (1983)
  • The Best of Flo & Eddie (1987)
  • The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie Captured Live! (1992
    1992 in music

    This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992....
    )


Backing Vocals:
  • T Rex - "Get It On (T. Rex song)
    Get It On (T. Rex song)

    "Get It On" was the second UK Chart-topper song for the United Kingdom rock music group T. Rex . It was released from their best-known album, Electric Warrior....
    " single
  • Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
     - Everyone's Gone To The Movies (Demo) (1971)
  • Ray Manzarek
    Ray Manzarek

    Raymond Daniel Manzarek, Jr. or Manczarek is an United States musician, singer, record producer, film director, writer, co-founder, and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and the Doors of the 21st century since 2001....
     - The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll Now It's Out Of Control (1974)
  • Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
     - "Hungry Heart
    Hungry Heart

    "Hungry Heart" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen on his fifth album, The River . It was released as the album's first single in 1980 and became Springsteen's first big hit of his own on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
    " from The River
    The River (album)

    The River is a double album by Bruce Springsteen released in 1980 in music....
     (1980)
  • The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
    Forever Now

    Forever Now is the third album by The Psychedelic Furs. Roger Morris and Duncan Kilburn having left the band, the foursome were augmented by producer Todd Rundgren's house horn section and Flo & Eddie....
     (1982)
  • Ramones
    Ramones

    The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
     - Mondo Bizarro
    Mondo Bizarro

    Mondo Bizarro is the twelvth studio album by the American punk band the Ramones, released in 1992 . It featured their new bassist, C.J. Ramone , who replaced departed member Dee Dee Ramone....
     (1992)


Filmography

  • 200 Motels
    200 Motels

    200 Motels is a 1971 in film musical film film featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, produced at Pinewood Studios, England. Directed and written by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, with special material written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and Jeff Simmons ....
     (1971) (members of the Mothers of Invention; special material)
  • The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a video format documentary film released in 1989 in film by Frank Zappa, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels....
     (1989
    1989 in film

    Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
    ) (as themselves)
  • Down and Dirty Duck (1974) (voice work; music; additional story material)
  • The World of Strawberry Shortcake
    The World of Strawberry Shortcake

    The World of Strawberry Shortcake is an animated television special from 1980 in television, Produced by Romeo Muller, Robert L. Rosen and Fred Wolf....
     (1980) (music)
  • Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City
    Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City

    Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City is an animated television special from 1981 in television, made by Romeo Muller and Fred Wolf. This is the second to feature the American Greetings character, Strawberry Shortcake....
     (1981) (music)
  • Strawberry Shortcake
    Strawberry Shortcake

    Strawberry Shortcake is a Licensing#Artwork and character licensing owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products....
    : Pets on Parade
    Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade

    Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade is an animated television special from 1982 in television, made by Romeo Muller, Robert L. Rosen, and Fred Wolf....
     (1982) (music)
  • The Care Bears (1985) (TV series) (music)
  • The Adventures of the American Rabbit
    The Adventures of the American Rabbit

    The Adventures of the American Rabbit is an animated film released in 1986 by Clubhouse Pictures, and subsequently on DVD by MGM....
     (1986) (music)
  • Top Secret!
    Top Secret!

    Top Secret! is a 1984 in film comedy film directed by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Val Kilmer , Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Jeremy Kemp....
     (1984) (lyrics & special material)
  • Texas Detour (1978) (music & lyrics)


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