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Mark Volman, a founding member of the \u201960s pop-rock group The Turtles<\/a>, has died at age 78.<\/p>\n In a statement shared on Facebook<\/a>, Volman\u2019s lawyer Evan Cohen shared a statement confirming that the singer had died. \u201cI am sorry to report that my long-time friend and client, Mark Volman of The Turtles and Flo & Eddie (and a couple of years in the Mothers of Invention), has died at the age of 78,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMark and bandmate Howard Kaylan stepped up and set an example for decades, standing up for the rights of musicians in various legal actions, which had a great impact on the progression of the law in several different areas (including sampling, and the eventual protection of 60s recordings under the Music Modernization Act).\u201d<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2020, Volman confirmed in an interview with People<\/a> <\/em>that he had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, and opened up about how he was living with the disease. \u201cI got hit by the knowledge that this was going to create a whole new part of my life,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018OK, whatever\u2019s going to happen will happen, but I\u2019ll go as far as I can.’\u201d<\/p>\n Alongside fellow band founder Howard Kaylan, Volman helped lead The Turtles through a prosperous career in the late 1960s, where the band released a number of hits. Over the course of the band\u2019s career, they notched 17 career entries on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> and earned five top 10 hits.<\/p>\n \u201cHappy Together,\u201d widely considered to be the band\u2019s signature song, was their sole No. 1 hit on the chart, spending three weeks at the summit in 1967. The band famously earned their first chart entry with a rock cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Me Babe,\u201d which also went on to be their first top 10 hit after it peaked at No. 8 on the chart in 1965.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Volman, a founding member of the \u201960s pop-rock group The Turtles, has died at age 78. In a statement shared on Facebook, Volman\u2019s lawyer Evan Cohen shared a statement confirming that the singer had died. \u201cI am sorry to report that my long-time friend and client, Mark Volman of The Turtles and Flo & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[314415,363427,311659,363429,363426,363424,363428,363425],"class_list":["post-2000302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard-hot-100","tag-evan-cohen","tag-facebook","tag-flo-eddie","tag-howard-kaylan","tag-mark-volman","tag-the-mothers-of-invention","tag-the-turtles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mark-Volman-Co-Founder-of-Pop-Rock-Hitmakers-The-Turtles-Dies-at.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}