In 1967, The Turtles followed up their first hit — "Happy Together" — with this tune, "She'd Rather Be With Me." I do not understand the visuals of this video at all. I have a vague memory of them performing it on some show with a lot of real cute ladies dancing around, which of course made sense…but I don't see a clip of that on YouTube.
I really liked The Turtles, partly for their music but mainly because at least the two lead performers — Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman — seemed to be pretty funny guys who never took their act too seriously. They were the only one of those groups who were more interesting when talking to Dick Clark than when singing on his program. I'll show you how funny they could be in a moment but first, here's one of their songs which I had on my becoming-infamous mixtape, "She'd Rather Be With Me"…
Okay, great song. Now, here's a clip I featured here a long time ago. This video starts with a clip from "Happy Together" which I'll feature here in full in a future mixtape post. It's followed by Volman and Kaylan explaining about the group's managerial problems. An awful lot of groups had problems like this but I doubt many (or even any) of them could laugh about it like this…