They also had a collaboration with animation studio Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, dating back to when this company made the cartoon scenes in Zappa's film 200 Motels. Musical scores for films and television shows and specials For the eight months the tour was on the road, it was consistently one of the top 10 grossing tours in the country.ĭuring the summers of 20, Flo & Eddie had heavy touring schedules throughout the U.S., both as part of the Happy Together: 25th Anniversary Tour, along with the Grass Roots, the Buckingham, Mark Lindsay, and The Monkees' member Micky Dolenz (2010 only). The following year they got together with the Buckinghams, Gary Lewis and the Grass Roots, for a 1985 version. featuring Flo & Eddie (together with three other groups from the 1960s: Gary Puckett, Spanky and Our Gang, and the Association), they traveled across the U.S. Mid-1980s: "The Happy Together Tour" and its "25th Anniversary" edition in 2010 The record is a dark but whimsical take on late 1970s/early 1980s German Synth-pop, New Wave and Techno music, such as D.A.F. The couple sang backing vocals also on Bruce Springsteen's first Top Ten hit on the Billboard chart, 1980 song " Hungry Heart", while in 1982, they released a four-song EP on Rhino Records (RNEP 603) under the name Checkpoint Charlie. They also sang background vocals on "Telephone Booth", a 1974 song by Hoyt Axton.ġ980s: continuing to sing backing vocals and "Checkpoint Charlie" EP
The duo was also the house band for the Canadian TV talk show 90 Minutes Live with Peter Gzowski.
The couple was also in good relations with Alice Cooper, and they were the opening act on the "Billion Dollar Babies Tour" during the spring of 1973, going on to record background vocals for Cooper's albums From the Inside, Flush the Fashion and Zipper Catches Skin. Rex albums and were close friends of the band's vocalist Marc Bolan. The duo sang background vocals also on early T. Rex 1971 song " Get It On", singing the inadvertent extra chorus that "worked". Although this album failed to chart, the duo continued to release albums, including the more successful Flo & Eddie Illegal, Immoral and Fattening Moving Targets and Rock Steady with Flo & Eddie.ġ970s: continuing as session musicians and working as backing vocalists ĭuring the 1970s, Kaylan and Volman continued to work as session musicians. They responded to these events by recording The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie on Reprise Records with most of the other members of the Mothers of Invention. When The Mothers of Invention bandleader Frank Zappa was injured during a concert in London in 1971, Kaylan and Volman, former founders of the band The Turtles, active from 1965 to 1970, found each other at an impasse, as the group was out of action for a time. History Early-to-mid 1970s: post-Turtles duo career in the Mothers of Invention
1.4 Mid-1980s: "The Happy Together Tour" and its "25th Anniversary" edition in 2010.1.3 1980s: continuing to sing backing vocals and "Checkpoint Charlie" EP.1.2 1970s: continuing as session musicians and working as backing vocalists.1.1 Early-to-mid 1970s: post-Turtles duo career in the Mothers of Invention.
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