THE TURTLES - IT AIN'T ME BABE / ALMOST THERE, JULY 1965

PLAY THIS ONE LOUD AND PROUD!  The Turtles debut 45 is a truly excellent pair of heavy hitters featuring that timeless garage/folk rock sound of 1965.  This may come a bit surprising if you are only familiar with their sunshine pop smash 'Happy Together' which would knock 'Penny Lane' out of the top spot for a few weeks in early 1967.  I'll get to that soon enough...