Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is another entry in my series The Everlasting First, this time recalling my introduction to the music of the Turtles.
Given how much I've always loved the Turtles, I guess it's a little surprising that this is the only time I've written about the group for this blog. They were a Featured Act one week on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio several years back, and I think I reviewed Sundazed Records' Turtles reissues when I was freelancing for Goldmine. My favorite Turtles track is "Love In The City," with "Outside Chance" (written by Warren Zevon) and "Grim Reaper Of Love" right up there, too. The hits are great, but there is so much more to the Turtles than just their most popular stuff.
I started The Everlasting First on this blog in 2016, designed as an A-Z series reminiscing about my discoveries of various recording acts, comic book superheroes, and other touchstones of my life in pop culture. It was intended as a sort-of sequel to my 1960s memoir Singers, Superheroes, And Songs On The Radio, and I figured I'd blow through the alphabet in a matter of months. More than five years later, I'm only up to "T." But I've enjoyed the journey so far.
Having now completed the Turtles, Tarzan, and Quick Takes For T (music and comics) entries, this is the first point in The Everlasting First where I haven't made a promise for what will come next. U is for the Undertones? Uncle Scrooge? Those seem the most likely, but I haven't committed to either of them yet.
So let's stick with T for...today. And today, my secret origin as a fan of the Turtles provides the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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