...early in the Mothers' career, Reb Foster, an L.A. disk jockey (and Turtles' manager) had told Zappa, "I'd like to clean you guys up a bit and mold you.
I believe I could make you as big as The Turtles."
http://www.theturtles.com/floeddie.htmlI have fond "car radio" memories of "Happy Together"...as a kid I also had a vinyl double album from the local radio station (WRKO Boston) called "30 Now Goldens Volume 2," and "Happy Together" was on it.
I also saw Zappa with Flo & Eddie at the Boston Music Hall, and took a blind date (my brother's next door neighbor), because neither my brother nor I knew in advance that the show would be much filthier than the "Fillmore" album. At the end of the night, when he drove us both back, she got out of the car without saying a word and walked straight up to her front door without looking back. I was supposed to be going to the show with my brother. I got in the car and there she was. My brother and her dad hung out at the Boston Playboy Club until the show was over. Whatta mess of a night.
So the worlds of Zappa / Turtles / Flo & Eddie
do converge, but primarily by virtue of the fact that the guys Zappa was supposed to be "as big as" had become working members of...The Mothers of Invention.
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