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Jim Pons
Santa Monica, United States
Jim Pons is credited on 644 releases across 161 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

644
Pressings credited
161
Albums
7
Decades active
212
In collections
Biography
Jim Pons (born March 14, 1943) is an American bassist, author, singer, and video director who most notably played for the Leaves (1964–1967), the Turtles (1967–1970), and the Mothers of Invention (1970–1971), and Flo & Eddie (1971–1973). After leaving the music scene in 1973, he worked as a video director for the New York Jets, and briefly the Jacksonville Jaguars. Pons designed the Jets team logo that was used from 1978 to 1997.
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Credited work
644 releases · 161 albums · active 1965–2025
- Performance · 1,114
- Other credits · 115
- Production · 35
Studios: Pauley Pavilion · Fillmore East · UMRK · Sunset Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968)
1972

Fillmore East - June 1971
1971

200 Motels
1971

Some Time In New York City
1972

Happy Together
1967

Just Another Band From L.A.
1972

Blow In The Wind
2001

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3
1989

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Sampler)
1988

Moving Targets
1976

Greatest Hits
2001

Judee Sill
1971

Where The Action Is! (Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965-1968)
2009

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6
1992

The Turtles Greatest Hits
1982

Finer Moments
2012

Playground Psychotics
1992

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1
1988

The Turtles! More Golden Hits
1970

Present The Battle Of The Bands
1968

The Mothers 1971
2022

Carnegie Hall
2011

Save The Turtles: The Turtles Greatest Hits
2009

"Happy Together Again!"
1974
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Turtles
- Frank Zappa
- The Leaves
- Rex Gildo
- Judee Sill
- The Mothers
- Hootenanny Singers
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