The Turtles

American psychedelic folk/rock band with pop sensibilities. Formed in 1965, they broke up in 1971. [a1436269] left the band after their third album. [a271690] and [a271688] later became members of [a92623]'s [a=The Mothers Of Invention]. During the '70s they were also known as the producers [a296019]. 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 [a82730] and [a215471] also had at the time. By the time they really broke through, they had already replaced the y in their name with a u.