But for his weight Kaylan would have been handsome. In the late 60s he wore a mustache and hat which made him look like a rotund Jack Palance playing a bandito.

When Kaylan wrote "Eleanore" he was trying to write a song which was so bad that record execs would stop bothering him to write hits. But the execs loved it.

Turtles singer Howard Kaylan (b. Howard Kaplan, 1947, New York City) was overweight when he sang "She'd Rather Be With Me" on the Ed Sullivan Show in '67. By '69 he and Turtles backup vocalist Mark Volman were just plain fat. It was as if they had stopped trying.