I had three Turtles songs on my mixtape — "She'd Rather Be With Me" (which I covered here), "The Guide for the Married Man" (which we'll get to) and this one…"Happy Together." The song was written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon and legend has it that every other recording artist in the world had been offered the song, passed on it and been chagrined when The Turtles grabbed it up and had a very big hit with it.
Here they are on The Ed Sullivan Show performing it in 1967. It's hard to believe that when some adults saw this, they said things like, "Those hippies should get haircuts and get jobs."