The Turtles Let Me Be Audio CD

Includes liner notes by Ken Barnes.

One of a series of five CDs released to celebrate the Turtles' 30th anniversary in 1995, this is a brief but nonetheless interesting collection of songs spanning the group's four-year duration. Of the hits, LET ME BE includes only 1967's "Happy Together," but the selection has any number of goodies, including the folk-poppy title track, the glorious, Spectorian "You Don't Have To Walk in the Rain," and the horn-heavy "Makin' My Mind Up."

Most delightfully, the album collects the group's intoxicating cover of "Lady-O," a song by the cult hero folkie Judee Sill. This version was instrumental in getting the singer her own contract with David Geffen's newly-formed Asylum Records, for whom she recorded two magnificent chamber-folk records before dying of an overdose in 1973. LET ME BE is available as part of the 30 YEARS OF ROCK AND ROLL: HAPPY TOGETHER box set.