Sometimes bands fall out with their label and will slyly try to sabotage the working relationship. The Turtles did just that, and still made the Top 10. Co-front man Howard Kaylan said the label kept pestering them for another “Happy Together” so he inverted that melody while writing insipid lyrics. “Elenore, gee I think you’re swell...you’re my pride and joy, etcetera”?? Yet it became a hit! Listen closeły and you’ll hear a very primitive Moog synthesizer after the first chorus.
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YOU BABY was a bit that way too
...a deliberately half-assed "contract" song randomly thrown together ("happily together"?)
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