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The Turtles

American psychedelic folk/rock band with pop sensibilities. Formed in 1965, they broke up in 1971. left the band after their third album. and later became members of 's The Mothers Of Invention. During the '70s they were also known as the producers . 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 and also had at the time. By the time they really broke through, they had already replaced the y in their name with a u.