The Turtles featuring Flo and Eddie, Chuck Negron (former lead singer of Three Dog Night), Gary Puckett and The Union Gap, Mark Lindsay (former lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders), and Gary Lewis and the Playboys will perform at The Pavilion at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Saturday, June 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30, $40 and $50 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.
Relive crowd-pleasing hits from the ‘60s and ‘70s, such as “Joy to the World,” “Happy Together,” “Young Girl,” “This Diamond Ring,” and more. The artists behind the music continue to perform and have teamed up for the aptly-named “Happy Together Tour.” Between them they have recorded more than 30 Top Ten hits, 64 Top 40 hits and more than 20 gold and platinum albums! Fans will enjoy a rockin’ good time with great music and great memories.
The Happy Together Tour kicks off on June 8 in Biloxi, Miss., and subsequently lands in more than fifty cities across the United States and Canada on a trek that is expected to last through early October.
The Turtles featuring Flo and Eddie have headlined and hosted all the previous Happy Together Tours and will be doing the same for this year’s shows. Gary Puckett and The Union Gap return from last year, while Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere and The Raiders, returns from 2010 and 2011. Chuck Negron, formerly of Three Dog Night, joined The Turtles featuring Flo and Eddie on 2009’s Hippiefest Tour. The relative newcomer to the Happy Together Tour is Gary Lewis and The Playboys, who shared the stage with The Turtles featuring Flo and Eddie, The Mamas and the Papas, The Grass Roots and The Buckinghams on the successful 1985 Happy Together Tour.
“Happy Together” by The Turtles hit #1 on the charts in 1967 (displacing the Beatles’ “Penny Lane”) and remains a staple on classic rock radio to this day. Although their biggest hit and signature song, it’s just one of their nine Top 40 hits, which includes popular songs such as “She’d Rather Be With Me,” “Elenore,” “You Showed Me,” and “It Ain’t Me Babe.” In 1968, far ahead of their time, they would release one of music’s first concept albums, The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, where they pretended to be 11 different bands with different names, each providing a song in a different genre. The album — which showcased their incredible range of vocal talent — spawned the hits “Elenore” and “You Showed Me” (both peaking at #6 on the Billboard charts). The band has sold over 60 million albums worldwide and continues to please audiences with their fun-filled performances.
Chuck Negron co-founded the hugely popular, multi-platinum band, Three Dog Night in 1967. The group went on to become one of the most successful bands of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s with 21 Top 40 hits and three number one songs including “Joy to the World,” “Black and White,” and “Mama Told Me (Not to Come).” The band’s first gold record was “One,” which featured Chuck on lead vocals as did “Joy to the World” and many other of the band’s biggest hits including “Old Fashioned Love Song.”
Gary Puckett and The Union Gap was one of the most successful musical groups of the sixties, boasting five Top 10 singles. Gary’s unmistakable signature voice garnered six consecutive gold records and Top 10 Billboard hits such as “Young Girl” and “Woman Woman.” In 1968, the singer and The Union Gap sold more records than any other artist including the Beatles.
“Indian Reservation” by Paul Revere and The Raiders hit #1 on the charts in 1971, selling over 4 million copies which made it the biggest selling single for Columbia Records for almost a decade. This massive hit followed quite a few that came before it including “Kicks,” “Hungry,” “Just Like Me” and “Good Thing” (as well as the Mark Lindsay Top Ten solo hit, “Arizona,” from 1970). In all, the band would achieve no less than fifteen Top 40 hits, five going Top 10. In February of this year, Mark released, “Like Nothing That You’ve Seen,” ultimately described by Little Steven on Sirius/XM Radio’s “Underground Garage” as the “coolest song in the world.” A full album will be coming out this summer.
Aficionados of ‘60s pop classics have cause to rejoice with the return of Gary Lewis and The Playboys. It was the summer of 1964 when Gary Lewis and The Playboys were discovered by producer Snuff Garrett. By the following year, they had a song go straight to the top of the charts called, “This Diamond Ring.” After the second hit titled, “Count Me In,” went to number two, Gary and the band proved they would be a continued success. They followed with more Top 10 songs such as “Save Your Heart for Me,” “Everybody Loves A Clown,” “She’s Just My Style,” “Sure Gonna Miss Her” and many more (seven in all). In 1965, Gary, himself, was Cash Box magazine’s “Male Vocalist of the Year,” winning the honor over other nominees Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. He was the first and only artist during the ‘60s to have his first seven releases reach Billboard magazine’s Top 10 on the Hot 100 chart. Still going strong, Gary released a new single last year titled, “You Can’t Go Back.”