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The Turtles
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When conversation turns to the greatest pop bands of the '60s (as it does with an alarming frequency around the iTunes offices), the usual suspects never fail to get called out: the Beatles, the Beach Boys, et al. Sadly, it's in conversations like these that one of the finest pop bands of the era is, time and again, glossed over. Consider our [i]Turtles[/i] Essentials an injustice made right. Combining the folk-rock of the Byrds with shades of baroque pop and one [i]serious[/i] blast of good ol' Southern California sunshine, the five-piece lit up the charts (and our hearts) through the end of the decade, before dissolving — Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman going on to join the Mothers of Invention and eventually form Flo & Eddie. But that's just a bunch of history. What matters is the Turtles' music — and we've got plenty of that right here.