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Release and commercial performance. The Turtles performing "Happy Together" on The Ed Sullivan Show, May 14, 1967. The band performed on several TV shows due to the success of the song. "Happy Together" was released as a single in January 1967, backed with the Warren Zevon -penned "Like the Seasons".
- "Like the Seasons"
- January 1967
- January 1967
"Outside Chance" (Zevon) (single A-side) – 2:08 "We'll Meet Again" (Burnett, Griffin) (single mix B-side) – 2:08 "Can I Get to Know You Better" (Barri, Sloan) (single A-side) – 2:38 "You Know What I Mean" (Bonner, Gordon) – 1:59 "Happy Together" (Bonner, Gordon) (mono single mix) – 2:50
- Late 1966 – April 1967
- Pop
- April 1967
- Desperadoes Under The Eaves (1976) Zevon’s songs were usually drawn from his own life and observations. “I realise how personal what I’m saying is, but I don’t know any other way of doing it.
- Keep Me In Your Heart (2003) As Zevon was dying he spent a lot of time during his illness working in a home studio on his final album, The Wind. Its closing song, Keep Me In Your Heart, was co-written with Jorge Calderón and featured the brilliant veteran drummer Jim Keltner, who remembered the emotionally-charged atmosphere when it came to recording the song.
- Accidentally Like A Martyr (1978) Zevon’s ex-wife Crystal said that when she was compiling the book I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, she was shocked by “the degree of excess, the degree of torment, the degree of obsession” revealed in the story of the musician’s personal life.
- Excitable Boy (1978) “We had to be truly twisted to get Warren, and I mean that in a good way,” said singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt. She could easily have been talking about his dark masterpiece Excitable Boy.
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The Turtles made one of his songs, ''Like the Seasons,'' the B side of the hit single ''Happy Together,'' providing royalties that paid his rent for years. Mr. Zevon's first album,...
Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) [1] was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner".
Sep 8, 2003 · Warren Zevon, a singer and songwriter who came up with hard-boiled stories and tender confessions of love, died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 56. The cause was cancer, which was...
Aug 24, 2014 · Posted on August 24, 2014. by Marty Willson-Piper. in Album Of The Day, Video Of The Day. Happy Together by The Turtles was the first full priced album I ever bought. I had already picked up Donovan’s Universal Soldier – I vaguely remember that I bought it in Marple, a town close to where I lived.
