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OH, DADDY! 1
Written by: The Turtles
(Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman,
John Barbata, Jim Pons and Al Nichol).
Performed by: The L.A. Bust '66 2 (aka: The Turtles) 3 -1968.
Appears on: The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands See 2 below
(White Whale LP #WWS-7118, UA)-1968, (Rhino LP #RNLP-70156, US)-1986,
(Rhino CS #RNC-70156, US)-1986, (Repertoire CD #4332-WY,
6 Bonus Tracks, Germany)-1993 &
(Sundazed CD #SDCD-6038, 2 Bonus Tracks, US)-1994 4 .

1 "Oh Daddy!" was released in 1968 on the album, The Turtles Present the Battle
of the Bands. The album peaked at #162 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart. "Oh
Daddy!" was never released as a single.

2 The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands, is a comedic, concept-album, on
which the group pretends to be different bands (with such names as, The Bigg
Brothers, Nature's Children, The U.S. Teens, featuring Raoul, & The Fabulous
Dawgs), each with a song in a different genre. The outer covers (on all but the
Rhino reissues) show the Turtles in evening dress, playing hosts of the "show,"
while the inside gatefold shows them in different costumes for each song. The
Turtles wrote nine of the 12 songs on the original LP, with the intention of
mocking the entire spectrum of popular music. There are two bonus tracks on the
Sundazed CD re-issue of 1994.

3 At the time of this recording the band lineup was:
Howard Kaylan, born Howard Kaplan (lead vocals),
Mark Volman (lead & backup vocals, guitar, saxophone),
John Barbata (drums), Jim Pons (bass Guitar),
Al Nichol (lead guitar).

A couple of interesting side notes:
The group originally called themselves, The Crossfires from the Planet Mars, but
when they signed with White Whale Records, they changed their name to the Tyrtles
as a homage to the Byrds. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before they discovered that
people were struggling with the pronunciation of the name and changed it again --
to the correct spelling of the word. With the break-up of the Turtles in 1970,
Kaylan and Volman joined the Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa's band) as "The
Phlorescent Leech & Eddie," since the use of the Turtles name (and even their own
names) was prohibited by their contract with White Whale. Flo & Eddie, as they soon
became known, recorded albums with the Mothers and later released a series of records
on their own. Frank Zappa claimed that his association with Kaylan and Volman was
inspired by a DJ's comment that Kaylan & Volman could make the Mothers as big as the
Turtles. "If you want to be as big as the Turtles, have a few Turtles in your band,"
Zappa reportedly claimed. The collaboration with Zappa lasted until a jealous fan
attacked and seriously injured Zappa when the Mothers were performing at the Rainbow
Theatre in London in December 1971.

4 Transcribed from the track on this album.

5 Thanks to "Vin Perrelli, Branford. CT" for clarifying the lyrics on this line.