ALBUMS: ‘T.Rextasty — The Best of T. Rex, 1970-1973 (1985); The Turtles Greatest Hits (1983)
MVC Rating: T. Rex; 4.0/$$$$$; Turtles, 4.0/$$$$$
Again, another package deal in the ‘T’s. Note: I feel like I will be in the U’s in the next week barring the occasional ‘S’ that keep popping up. From the U’s we have UVWXYZ. Don’t get too excited, I snuck a peek and I have a fair amount left (83 is what is registered (that number beside the title) But I will most certainly have surplus. More on that later.
The Turtles and T. Rex. Seems like a mismatch to me but don’t underestimate a turtle. Both of these groups were light psychedelia/pop/folk. Both had one song each that was career defining.
For T. Rex it was Bang a Gong (Let’s Get It On.) Fun Fact: Members of the Turtles played on some T. Rex songs, including contributing backing vocals on ‘Bang a Gong.’
For the Turtles, their career song was ‘Happy Together,’ a spectacularly catchy and hummable song that spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.
T. Rex were huge in the UK where Bang a Gong was atop the charts for weeks. In the US, the song ‘Bang a Gong’ reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Bolan was killed in a car accident in which he was a passenger in 1977. Members of the Turtles joined Frank Zappa’s band for a time in the 1970s.