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Flo & Eddie ( Mark Volman , "Flo" aka "Phlorescent Leech" and Howard Kaylan , "Eddie") are a Comedy rock|comedic musical duo.
The two were the original founding members of the Top 40 rock music|rock group the Turtles . After the Turtles dissolved, Volman and Kaylan first joined the Mothers of Invention as "Phlorescent Leech & Eddie". Due to contractual restrictions made early in their career, Mark and Howard were prevented from using the name "The Turtles", as well as their own names in a musical context.cite web|url= http://www.theturtles.com/documents/history.html|title=The Turtles Website/History pt. 1|year=2006|publisher=The Turtles - Flo & Eddie, Inc.|accessdate=2008-12-26 "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie" were originally nicknames of two of the Mothers of Invention road crew that the pair appropriated.
Post-Mothers
When bandleader Frank Zappa was injured during a concert in London in 1971, Kaylan and Volman found themselves at an impasse, as the Mothers of Invention were out of action for a time. 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. http://books.google.com/books? id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC& pg=PA151& dq=%22flo+and+eddie%22+%2B+mothers& hl=en& ei=aZZETLPvPNK0ngfKnKnqDQ& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=%22flo%20and%20eddie%22%20%2B%20mothers& f=false Although it failed to chart, they continued releasing albums, including the more successful Flo & Eddie (album)|Flo & Eddie , Illegal, Immoral and Fattening , Moving Targets (album)|Moving Targets , and Rock Steady with Flo & Eddie .
In 1984, as "The Turtles ...featuring Flo & Eddie", (together with three other groups from the 1960s: Gary Puckett , Spanky and Our Gang , and The Association ), they traveled across the US and Canada as "The Happy Together Tour". The following year they got together with The Buckinghams , Gary Lewis (musician)|Gary Lewis and The Grass Roots , for a 1985 version. For the eight months the tour was on the road, it was consistently one of the top 10 grossing tours in the country. During the summers of 2010 and 2011, 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 , Mark Lindsay , The Buckinghams , and ' Monkees ' member Micky Dolenz (2010 only). cite web | url= http://neufutur.com/? p=21796 | title= Happy Together Tour Returns In Summer 2011 | date=April 30, 2011 | first=James | last=McQuistion | accessdate=2011-05-12
They also created the music for the films Down and Dirty Duck and The Adventures of the American Rabbit .
