The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers in 1965
General information
Genre (s)	Rock , pop
founding	1951, 1983
resolution	1973, 2005
Last occupation
Vocals , guitar	Don Everly († 2021)
Vocals, guitar	Phil Everly († 2014)

The Everly Brothers were an American guitar and vocal duo that became one of the most successful music duos in pop history from the mid-1950s and the most successful vocal group of the pre- Beatles era .

By 1973, the brothers Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (born February 1, 1937 in Brownie , Kentucky ; † August 21, 2021 in Nashville , Tennessee ) and Philip Jason "Phil" Everly (born January 19, 1939 in Chicago , Illinois ; † January 3, 2014 in Burbank , California ) together; After a ten-year separation, they started working together again in the studio and on the stage in 1983.

The duo reached with seven titles, the top of the US and / or British Single - charts : Wake Up Little Susie , All I Have to Do Is Dream , Claudette , Cathy's Clown , Walk Right Back , Ebony Eyes and Temptation . They mixed folk , bluegrass and hillbilly music with contemporary rock 'n' roll and created their own pop sound with their harmonic two-part singing , which was popular with such successful artists as the Beatles, the Beach Boys , the Hollies , Simon & Garfunkel and many others served as a model. They were among the ten founding members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and were ranked 33rd on Rolling Stone's list of the hundred greatest musical acts of all time in 2004 .

story

1930s to 1955: The Everly family

Phil and Don Everly came from a family who lived in Muhlenberg County , Kentucky , USA during the 1920s and 1930s . The brothers Leonard, Charlie and Isaac "Ike" Everly worked in coal mining and played guitar in their spare time. “They couldn't read music, so they played by ear,” Leonard's son, Reverend Ted Everly, later recalled. Ike Everly (1908–1975) played a guitar influenced by black music in the style of Sam McGee or Merle Travis . According to information on the History-of-Rock.com website , the brothers had their own composition in their repertoire, a combination of bluegrass and ragtime . They named the instrumental That's the Mood I'm In , but never registered their rights to it. A very similar piece of music later became a world hit for Glenn Miller and his orchestra under the title In the Mood .

On August 31, 1935, Ike Everly married the neighboring daughter Margaret Embry (* 1919). In Brownie, a small, now defunct coal-mining community about two miles east of Central City , their first son Don was born in 1937. A little later, the Everlys moved to Chicago , where their second son Phil was born in early 1939; Ike's younger brothers followed them with their families. They played their rural music in various bars and nightclubs in the big city. “My father played in honky tonks with pool tables and a small stage,” Don remembers that time. However, although they were quite successful in Chicago, Ike and Margaret decided that their children should grow up in the countryside. Ike therefore took a job a little later at the radio station KASL in Waterloo ( Iowa ).

From 1945 the Everlys lived in Shenandoah (Iowa); Ike and Margaret, who by now had made a name for themselves as country musicians in the whole of the South and Midwest of the USA, had a daily radio show in the morning program on the local station KMA. Her sons also appeared regularly on the show, Don as "Little Donnie" since he was eight and Phil as "Baby Boy Phil" since he was six. Even before 1950, the show was named The Everly Family Show .

In 1952 the family moved to the station WIKY in Evansville ( Indiana ), but remained there only one year. The triumphant advance of the record- playing disc jockey on the radio began - a group that played live music was slowly becoming an anachronism . In Tennessee , the Everlys found a new job for a short time at the station WROL in Knoxville at the end of 1953, but the concept of the family band that created the program had outlived itself. Ike Everly switched to construction, Margaret started working in a beauty salon.

1955 and 1956: New start in Nashville

By the time their parents retired from show business, Don and Phil had already graduated from high school . They moved to Nashville , where they first performed in the city's clubs. With the help of country musician and record producer Chet Atkins , an old friend of Ike's, they were able to work as a songwriter at the Acuff-Rose publishing house . One of their songs, Thou Shalt Not Steal , became a country hit (# 14 for Kitty Wells ; December 1954) so ​​the brothers could make some money on the side.

On November 9, 1955, Don and Phil made their first recordings for Columbia Records - four traditional country songs in 20 minutes, produced by Chet Atkins. In February 1956, two of these tracks were released as their first single under the name "The Everly Brothers": Keep a-Lovin 'Me and The Sun Keeps Shining . Since the demand was very limited, the collaboration between Columbia and the Everlys was not extended.

They now lived from gigs in clubs again, but traditional country music was no longer what they wanted to play - they, too, had meanwhile made acquaintance with the songs of Elvis and the sound of rhythm and blues . When looking for a new record company , her publisher Wesley Rose , who was soon to become her manager , found what she was looking for at Cadence Records . The label was created by Archie Bleyer passed, a former Swing - bandleader , who previously among others for the success of the Chordettes and Andy Williams was responsible.

1957 to 1960: Success with Cadence Records

Breakthrough with Bye Bye Love

With the change of the record company the success set in - especially because the Everlys began in 1957 to work with the songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant . They were also accompanied by a group of professional studio musicians whose instrumentation is known as the Nashville Sound . The Bryant couple wrote the song Bye Bye Love , which thirty artists and bands had already turned down, including Gordon Terry and Elvis Presley , who were also under contract with Cadence . The Everlys liked it, but they also had little choice - as Phil said, "We would have recorded every song they gave us because we got $ 68 for it" - money they needed. Don and Phil gave the song an arrangement they had created for their own song Give Me a Future and were happy with the result.

In the spring of 1957, Bleyer announced the Everlys' first Cadence single with a half-page ad in Billboard Magazine . Billboard wrote of the new release on April 20, 1957: "These Tennessee teenagers have their own pleasing sound and could go a long way in pop, country and western music." While Don and Phil toured small towns were in Florida , Mississippi and Alabama , Bye Bye Love entered the Billboard pop charts. In June and July 1957, the single was in second place for four weeks, behind number one hits by Elvis Presley (Teddy Bear) and Pat Boone ( Love Letters in the Sand ) . The song climbed to number 1 in the country charts and even to number 5 on the R&B hit list. Bye Bye Love was the Everlys' second single - and the first to sell more than a million copies. The hit also opened the doors for them to shows on radio and television. After the end of their little tour through the province, they stood on May 11, 1957 in the Grand Ole Opry in the "Mecca of Country Music", the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, in front of 4,000 people for the first time. They also appeared across the United States on the Ed Sullivan Show and Perry Como, among others .

First place with Wake Up Little Susie

Now a successor hit was needed. What could be more natural than to ask the Bryants to write him again. They offered the song Wake Up Little Susie , which Archie Bleyer didn't like. He thought the lines were indecent - to Bleyer it sounded like Susie and her boyfriend had slept together in the drive-in theater. On August 16, 1957, despite these concerns, the Everlys recorded the song, and it was released as the A-side of the next single.

Several radio station executives agreed with Bleyer's point of view and refused to play the title - which didn't change the fact that it became the Everly Brothers' first number one hit . On October 14, 1957, Wake Up Little Susie replaced Jimmie Rodgers ' Honeycomb at the top of the US charts. Don and Phil were on a 78-city tour of the United States at the time. The tour lasted nearly twelve weeks and was called The Biggest Show of Stars for '57 . In addition to the Everlys, the rock 'n' roll greats Chuck Berry , Buddy Knox , The Drifters , Paul Anka , Fats Domino , The Crickets , Eddie Cochran , LaVern Baker , Frankie Lymon and Clyde McPhatter were there. Also of Wake Up Little Susie , in just four stakes had been taken, were sold more than a million singles in the United States. The brothers were friends with Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly. In 1957 they introduced Cochran to his future fiancée, the songwriter Sharon Sheeley . Holly later wrote the song Love's Made a Fool of You for the Everly Brothers , but they never recorded it. Phil Everly was one of the pallbearers at Holly's funeral in 1959.

The next single This Little Girl of Mine missed the Top 20. The piece was to be found alongside the two big hits on the Everly Brothers' first album, which was released at the same time. With rock 'n' roll standards like Little Richard's Rip It Up or Gene Vincent's Be-Bop-A-Lula and country songs like Brand New Heartache , the brothers showed the full range of their repertoire here. The LP was simply called The Everly Brothers , but became known as The Everly Brothers - They're Off and Running , after the slogan Archie Bleyer had printed on the cover , which in German reads something like “They stormed off and unstoppable ! ”Can be translated. The LP made it into the top 20 of the Billboard charts in the United States .

"All I Have to Do Is Dream"

The Everly Brothers (Don on the left, Phil on the right) are greeted with bouquets of tulips by a woman in traditional Volendam costume after their arrival at Amsterdam Central Station (1959)

While the first two hits in Great Britain had just missed the top position ( Bye Bye Love was a number six hit, Wake Up Little Susie rose to number 2), the Everlys succeeded with their third Cadence single (which was released in Great Britain by London Records ), the final breakthrough here too. All I Have to Do Is Dream was again written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. Phil Everly heard the song as a demo version of Boudleaux Bryant and noted that even if the demo was released as a single, the song must have success - "because it's just a great, beautiful song." On March 6, 1958, the brothers took that It was number one on the Billboard hit list for four weeks from May 12th, and on the British charts for seven weeks from July 4th .

All I Have to Do Is Dream was not only a million seller for the Everlys - since then there have also been versions by Richard Chamberlain (1963), the duos Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry (1969) as well as Victoria Principal and Andy Gibb (1981) and in 1994 by Phil Everly hit the charts in a duet with Cliff Richard . In the United States, the Everly Brothers single was one of the few songs to top the pop, country, and rhythm and blues charts. In Great Britain, All I Have to Do Is Dream was published as a double A-side , so that Claudette was also listed as a number one hit from July 4, 1958 - a song that the then largely unknown Roy Orbison about his wife had written.

The break with Archie Bleyer

The hit parade successes Devoted to You , Bird Dog , Problems and Love of My Life rounded off the year 1958 for the Everly Brothers. In the British music magazine New Musical Express , Don and Phil explained the recipe for success of their songs to their fans: “They are simple, direct and to the point. Young people don't want to puzzle around the meaning of a song for long. "

Don Everly married his girlfriend Sue in 1959, which was initially hidden from fans; however, the marriage quickly failed. The year brought the brothers three top 20 hits again. At the end of the year they recorded - for the first time outside of Nashville, namely in New York , and for the first time with strings - an adaptation of the Gilbert-Bécaud chanson Je t'appartiens under the title Let It Be Me . The Everly brothers were now established stars, but were still paid according to standard by those responsible at Cadence Records. Don and Phil earned money mainly through concerts in which the record company was not allowed to have a say. The differences over the tiresome topic, but also over the right to have a say in what should be released and when, led to a break between Archie Bleyer's record company and the Everly Brothers at the end of the year; At the beginning of 1960, however, Cadence brought Let It Be Me into the charts - as the last new recording by the brothers on their old label.

1960 to 1973: hits and everyday life at Warner Bros.

The most successful single, Cathy's Clown

The single Cathy’s Clown

The new record company responsible for the productions of the Everly Brothers became Warner Bros. Pictures in 1960 - a film company that did not yet have a record department. With the change, the brothers were the first rock 'n' roll artists to receive a guarantee contract worth millions. They signed a ten-year contract with Warner Bros. Records . Initially, the change did not change her status as a hit maker. Their first hit for Warner, Cathy's Clown , brought the brothers back to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1960. With more than three million copies sold worldwide, it became the brothers' most successful single, which they had also written themselves. The first single that Warner Bros. released in Great Britain, Cathy's Clown received catalog number WB1 there . That year, the Everlys also went on tour in Great Britain, with the Crickets performing with them as an accompanying band .

The years 1960 and 1961 brought the brothers more big hits, including the British double number 1 Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes . The successor single Temptation also rose to the top position in Great Britain. This 1933 Bing Crosby track was significant to the Everly Brothers in another way : Acuff-Rose music publisher owned the rights to the song, but Wesley Rose, who was still the brothers' manager , didn't want it from them Everly Brothers in their arrangement. This led to a break between Rose and the brothers, which also meant that they no longer received any new compositions by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. Her new manager was Jack Rael, who had previously looked after Patti Page .

Military service, addiction problems, and decline

In late 1961, Don and Phil were drafted into the United States Marine Corps for six months of military service. Although she then took a six-week "comeback tour" by the US, and Warner Bros. brought a Golden Hits - album out on the Topsongs were heard that The Everly Brothers for Warner had recorded from Cathy's Clown to That's old- Fashioned (her last top 10 hit in the US); but slowly they were pushed into the second row in their home country. But they were still stars - even without the Bryants, the Everlys delivered six more top ten hits by the end of 1962.

However, star life also had its drawbacks. "Don was getting more and more stressed by the pressure of touring and making records, and he became addicted to drugs," wrote Frank Laufenberg . Don's doctor Max Jacobson had prescribed the drug Ritalin for him against the stress of the tour. Don reportedly collapsed in London while on tour in Europe . He "was excused with food poisoning and exhaustion" but had actually attempted suicide with a drug overdose . He was flown back to the USA, Phil had to finish the tour alone. Despite the troubles, Don entered into a second marriage in 1962, with the starlet Venetia Stevenson . From this marriage come the three children Stacy, Edan and Erin; Erin was briefly married to Axl Rose , the singer of Guns N 'Roses , in 1990 . In 1963 Phil also married: Jackie Ertel, the stepdaughter of Archie Bleyer, President of Cadence Records, became his wife. His son Jason also became a musician and songwriter.

After 1962, the brothers' success waned. The decline went all the faster when the Beatles, whose close harmonies were based on the singing of the Everlys, musically conquered the USA. As a result of the so-called British Invasion , the successful appearance of British interpreters in the USA in the first half of the 1960s, the brothers became quieter. In 1963 the Everly Brothers headlined with various other bands again on tour in Great Britain. With Bo Diddley , Little Richard , the little-known Rolling Stones and the German band The Rattles . Cadence Records released a collection of the original hits from the early days entitled 15 Everly Hits . In 1964 there was a Warner Bros. compilation album entitled The Very Best of the Everly Brothers , on which there were also new versions of six of their Cadence hits (newly recorded in Nashville), in addition to six original hits from the Warner era. Some of these new recordings, including Devoted to You and All I Have to Do Is Dream , are sometimes still played in place of the originals today.

Comeback, style changes and disharmony

Appearance at the Grand Gala du Disque (1965)

In Great Britain, the Everly Brothers made a small comeback in 1965 with The Price of Love , a composition of their own, and Love Is Strange and once again recorded two big hit parades. But the landscape of pop music had fundamentally changed. With albums like Rock 'n' Soul or Beat 'n' Soul (both 1965), the brothers tried to strike a balancing act between their own style and the Beat era. In 1966 they took with the Hollies as well as Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones as session musicians on the LP Two Yanks in England , to which the Hollies contributed two thirds of the titles under the collective pseudonym Ransford . On other long-playing records, the Everlys again devoted themselves increasingly to country music, for example on Roots in 1968 , a concept album that contained excerpts from The Everly Family radio broadcast from 1952 and with which they also returned to Nashville for recording.

But all these attempts were recognized, but hardly any buyers. "What was bad was none of these projects," writes Oldie market with, "the harmonies of the brothers and well represented, compelling original compositions made virtually any disc worth listening to, and especially the compilations with country songs had their appeal." Autobiographical song Bowling Green had she had her last Top 40 hit in the US in 1967. As a representative for Johnny Cash , the Everly Brothers presented their own television series on the US broadcaster ABC in 1970 . They continued to publish with Warner Bros. until 1970, after which they signed with RCA Victor , for which they recorded the country rock album Stories We Could Tell in Los Angeles in 1972 (with colleagues such as Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett , David Crosby and Graham Nash , Geoff Muldaur and Warren Zevon ) and 1973 (this time again in Nashville, and after a long time again with Chet Atkins as producer) recorded Pass the Chicken and Listen .

Neither of these albums was successful, and the atmosphere between the brothers deteriorated noticeably: "Our first joint opus for RCA was a war in the studio [...] there was an extremely high tension between us," said Phil later - and thus ultimately confirmed what the brothers had already put on record in 1961: “We are often asked whether it was not a hindrance to our career that we are brothers. You just imagine that most of the brothers have arguments; And with us it is like that if there is no harmony behind the stage, then there is usually not much of it on stage. ”The success story came to a temporary end with a bang: The Everly Brothers as a singing duo and the brothers Don and Phil privately separated in 1973.

1973 to 1983: separation and solo paths

The scandal took place on July 14, 1973 in the John Wayne Theater in Hollywood . During a concert, Phil smashed his guitar and stormed off the stage. With the words "The Everly Brothers died ten years ago." Don declared the end of the band to the horrified concert-goers. For Phil Everly, in retrospect, “the main reason we broke up […] was that we realized: we had done everything together that was possible. The time had come to try it alone. ”It was not until 1983 that they performed together again - at the Reunion concert in London's Royal Albert Hall .

As early as 1961, Don Everly had dared to go it alone as a solo artist. As Adrian Kimberly, he brought his debut single Pomp and Circumstance to number 43 on the US charts; however, further publications under this pseudonym flopped. In 1971 he made the second attempt, this time under his real name. Neither with the LP Don Everly nor with the released single Tumblin 'Tumbleweeds he was successful, although well-known musicians such as Ry Cooder and Sneaky Pete Kleinow participated.

Also before the separation, it was Phil who presented his first solo project in 1973. The folk rock album Star Spangled Springer , produced by Duane Eddy , played James Burton , Warren Zevon , Jim Horn and Earl Palmer . The song God Bless Older Ladies was released as a single - a wrong decision, because the B-side The Air That I Breathe (written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood) became a world hit a little later in a recording by the Hollies .

A year later, Don Everly released the LP Sunset Towers , on which the English band Heads, Hands & Feet accompanied him with guitarist Albert Lee , who then became one of Don's good friends. Lee was also part of the Dead Cowboys at times, which is the name of Don's tour band in those years. In 1976 there was another all-country LP by Don, Brother Jukebox , produced by his ex-manager Wesley Rose. After all, the single Yesterday Just Passed My Way Again from this album made it into the country charts for a few weeks.

But all attempts by both brothers to achieve a great pop charter success failed - even new recordings of old hits like So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) (Don, 1977) or When Will I Be Loved (Phil, 1975) did not help. However, the compilation albums of their old hits repeatedly found buyers, especially in Great Britain.

Only in November 1982 - 14 years after the last Top 40 hit by the Everly Brothers - was Phil Everly able to place a single in the lower regions of the British charts; Louise climbed to 47th position. Phil has now enjoyed some success as a solo artist; Musicians such as Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits , Terry Williams and Billy Bremner from Rockpile and keyboardist Pete Wingfield played on his album Phil Everly , which was largely recorded in London . The single She Means Nothing To Me , on which Cliff Richard was the second lead singer , brought Phil a listing in the UK top ten in early 1983. In the USA the duet was not released as a single, the song only appeared there on the album, which also briefly appeared in the charts in Great Britain.

1983 to 2005: Reunion and more

The Everly Brothers at a concert in New York (circa 1980s)

The brothers had not spoken to each other for several years when their father became seriously ill. They met in the hospital and then at the funeral. Later, the decision was made to do something together again. Since Phil had just hit the charts with Cliff Richard in the UK, and the British have always been their most loyal fans, they chose England for their comeback. Don's friend Albert Lee, whom Phil also knew well, was supposed to put together a band for them, and in the summer it became known that the Everly Brothers are giving a reunion concert.

On September 23rd, this “timeless piece of rock music” took to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Don and Phil played their big hits from the 1950s and 1960s, partly as potpourris . The concert was recorded on video and broadcast in the USA on the cable broadcaster Home Box Office . The album hit the UK charts at the concert - reason enough for the brothers to want to try again in the studio.

In February 1984, Don and Phil signed a joint contract with Polygram Records . Dave Edmunds , an avowed Everly Brothers fan, produced the album The Everly Brothers with them in his Rockfield Studios in Wales , which was named EB 84 in the USA . It contained pieces that had been composed tailor-made for the brothers by famous stars such as Jeff Lynne and Frankie Miller , and songs such as Asleep , which Don had written himself. On the Wings of a Nightingale , written by Paul McCartney for the brothers, became a hit as a single in both the US and Europe. The album was voted rock album of the year by TIME magazine in 1984.

Another album, Born Yesterday , was recorded in 1985 using the same recipe : Dave Edmunds produced a selection of songs by well-known stars such as Mark Knopfler, Bob Dylan and Sam Cooke, as well as the brothers' own compositions, including the title track, which was named the best country duet for one in 1985 Grammy nominee.

In December 1986 they appeared as guests at the Beach Boys' anniversary concert on the occasion of their 25th anniversary on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii . Together with the Beach Boys, they released the single Don't Worry Baby in 1988; the song was used in the movie Tequila Sunrise . The brothers didn't release a new studio album after 1989 when Some Hearts was released, but toured repeatedly until the mid-2000s. In 2003/04 they were guest stars of the Simon & Garfunkel concerts during the Paul and Arts Old Friends reunion tour. In recognition of their role models, Simon & Garfunkel did not make the Everly Brothers the opening act, but called them on stage during their ongoing concerts, where they were allowed to perform three of their hits.

The Everly Brothers gave their last concert on November 28, 2005 at the Regent Theater in Ipswich, England . After that, they largely withdrew from the music business.

Phil Everly (2006)

Since 2006: retirement and death of the brothers

Phil Everly, the younger of the two brothers, died on January 3, 2014 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank , California , just days before his 75th birthday. His wife announced that he died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by years of smoking .

Don Everly made occasional public appearances afterwards, in June 2018 he sang the song Bye Bye Love in a duet with Paul Simon's concert in Nashville . He died of a heart attack seven years after his brother, on August 21, 2021, at the age of 84.

Style and Influences

The sound of the Everly Brothers lives from the harmonious singing and guitar playing of the brothers. Both were accomplished instrumentalists ( guitar with steel strings); their singing sounded in the close harmony style: each brother sang a melody that could often stand for itself as a singing voice. Most of the time Don sang the main melody and Phil sang a parallel third above. “The Everlys were similar in vocal range and timbre - so similar that it is difficult to hear the individual voice even in the chorus. This gives the recording a power that was rare in the days when multitracking was not very common, "wrote Rolling Stone author Dave Marsh of Bye Bye Love . One of the best examples of this vocal technique from the brothers is their 1958 hit Devoted to You . It had its roots in centuries-old Scottish and Irish folk music , as it had been handed down in the Appalachians by duos such as the Louvin Brothers or The Blue Sky Boys .

What set the Everly brothers apart from the rock and roll stars - who were known before Bye Bye Love - was that they had their own "white" sound. Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly in front of them also played guitar-oriented music, but their entire attitude was " black ", their guitar playing was influenced by the country steel guitar, but remained in the tradition of rhythm and blues. These artists were therefore mistaken for “ blacks ” at the beginning of their careers . The guitar playing of the Everlys, however, was different - it was "white", but had a sound all of its own. It was no longer just a rhythmic background for the singing, but especially Don's guitar solos became a musical element of their own in the songs. On the authorized website everlybrothers.com it says: With Bye Bye Love a hit formula had been discovered: Boudleaux Bryant's rhythms , Felice's lyrics, Don's guitar intros and Phil's harmonies. The Bryant songwriting team began writing songs that were precisely tailored to the harmonies of the Everlys, and that had the anticipated and equally important Don guitar solo somewhere in the middle. The result was a mixture of country , rock and roll and R&B , which Don and Phil themselves described as follows: “We are not Grand Ole Opry […] we are obviously not Perry Como […] we are just pop music. But maybe you could also call us an American skiffle band. ”The arrangement of Bye Bye Love provided the“ instrumental framework ”for the entire time at Cadence Records: In the foreground next to the two voices the two acoustic guitars, supported by the rhythm section about bass , drums and piano (mostly with Floyd Cramer on the keys). The electric guitar contributed "splashes of color".

Chet Atkins , who played guitar on the early recordings of the Everly Brothers, said of Boudleaux Bryant's songs: “He had a vein for writing cute songs with lines like dream, dream, dream . They were almost like lullabies , which was a perfect match for the Everly Brothers. ”As for the lyrics on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website, “ The Bryants wrote and the Everlys sang expressively of teenage love and heartbreak as well as tragicomic situations. "In their rock lexicon , Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Barry Graves name the Bryants" two expert songwriters who were able to outline the topics of school, cinema, parental home, ice bar and band meeting with catchy formulations. "

The Everly Brothers classified their looks and their songs about teenage fears as rock & roll, but their muffled, often sad, close harmonies with full-chord acoustic guitar tones were clearly country music. Their parallel thirds go back to the Louvin Brothers, the only concession to rock & roll was the syncopation added by Chet Atkins . This mixture of country and rock and roll influences enabled the Everly Brothers to have a number of crossover hits in both the country and western and pop charts .

The Everly Brothers: Don (right) and Phil

The Everly brothers' singing style had a strong influence on the beat groups of the 1960s. Both the Beatles and the Beach Boys developed their singing style in their early works by copying Everly songs. The vocal arrangement on the Beatles song Please Please Me is based directly on that of Cathy's Clown . In addition, the sound of the Everly Brothers influenced the duo Simon & Garfunkel , the Hollies , the Byrds and the Mamas and Papas , but also musicians such as Mike Rutherford from Genesis and many others.

The Everlys wrote some of their own hits, including ('Til) I Kissed You (Don), When Will I Be Loved (Phil), Cathy's Clown and The Price of Love (both: Don and Phil together). Various artists were able to celebrate successes with cover versions of these titles by the Everly Brothers: Cathy's Clown was a hit for Reba McEntire ; When Will I Be Loved became a US top ten title for Linda Ronstadt , on which the Everly Brothers sang the backing vocals; in the country charts this recording was number one in 1975. The Norwegian band a-ha covered Crying in the Rain in 1990 on their album East of the Sun, West of the Moon . Thou Shalt Not Steal was a country hit (# 14) for Kitty Wells back in 1954 . Bryan Ferry's interpretation of The Price of Love reached number 7 as the main track of his EP Extended Play in August 1976 and again number 49 as a single A-side in a new mix in 1989. Till I Kissed You became (in this alternative spelling) in 1974 Top 20 hit in Germany for John Kincade .

In 1980 Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds recorded several hits by the Everly Brothers. The EP Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing The Everly Brothers with the titles Take a Message to Mary , Crying in the Rain , Poor Jenny and When Will I Be Loved was never officially released, it was only the first editions of the LP Seconds of Pleasure by Edmunds and Lowe's joint band, Rockpile .

Collaboration with other artists

During their entire career, both Everlys have worked together or individually again and again extensively with other artists, with whom they duets or on whose recordings they sang the backing vocals . The brothers had played on the title track of Paul Simon's bestselling album Graceland as early as 1986, long before they went on tour together .

Another example is Don Everly's duet Everytime You Leave with Emmylou Harris in 1979 on their album Blue Kentucky Girl ; he also sang with Guy Clark , Bryn Haworth and Albert Lee in the 1970s .

Phil Everly contributed his voice to JD Southers White Rhythm and Blues from the LP You're Only Lonely in 1976 . In a duet with Sondra Locke , he sang the title Don't Say You Don't Love Me No More in a cameo in the film Der Mann aus San Fernando (Every Which Way But Loose) . In 1983 Phil brought She Means Nothing to Me into the British and German top ten in a duet with Cliff Richard ; In 1994 he recorded a new version of All I Have to Do Is Dream with Sir Cliff , which also became a hit. In 2006 Phil Everly sang the duet Sweet Little Corrina with country singer Vince Gill on his album These Days . In 1988 both brothers recorded the song Don't Worry Baby with the Beach Boys .

Together with Dean Reed , Phil Everly appeared on East German television in 1979 . The show The Man from Colorado 2 , recorded in Karl-Marx-Stadt in February , aired on October 13, 1979. Phil sang two songs solo and then All I Have to Do Is Dream and Bye Bye Love in a duet with the host and presenter Reed. In 1981 Phil was also a guest star at six Dean Reed concert evenings at the Berlin Palace of the Republic , where they sang Bye Bye Love and Let It Be Me together.

In 1990 Phil Everly recorded his composition On Top of the World as a duet with the Dutch singer René Shuman. The song was released on Shuman's album Set the Clock on Rock .

Successes, prizes, awards

The Everly Brothers recorded top-40 listings in during her career 33 British and 26 Top 40 songs in the US - Charts . They have sold more than 40 million records worldwide. The Everlys sound is timeless: in Great Britain, at least one album with hits by the brothers has hit the album charts in every decade since 1960.

In 1986, the Everly Brothers were among the first ten artists to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ; in the same year they were given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Her hometown Central City ( Kentucky ) renamed Chestnut Street to Everly Brothers Boulevard at a Homecoming concert in 1988 and dedicated a memorial in front of the City building to them . In 1997 they received the Grammy for Lifetime Achievement. In 2001 they were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame , and in 2004 into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame . Also in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked her 33rd on its list of the hundred greatest musical acts of all time . In 2008, the same magazine voted the Everly Brothers at number 90 of the 100 best singers of all time .

From 1958 to 1962, the readers of the British music magazine NME voted the Everly Brothers the world's best vocal group every year. The Everly Brothers are also represented in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Jukebox Hall of Fame .

Discography (selection)

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	UK	US
1958	The Everly Brothers	-	-	US16 (3 weeks) US
1960	It's Everly Time!	-	UK2 (23 weeks) UK	US9 (10 weeks) US	first album by Warner
	The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers	-	UK4 (11 weeks) UK	US23 (19 weeks) US	compilation
	A Date with the Everly Brothers	-	UK3 (14 weeks) UK	US9 (24 weeks) US
1962	Instant party	-	UK20 (1 week) UK	-
	The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers	-	-	US35 (17 weeks) US	Best of album
1965	Beat & Soul	-	-	US141 (3 weeks) US
1970	The Everly Brothers' Original Greatest Hits	-	UK7 (16 weeks) UK	US180 (8 weeks) US	Best of album
1974	The Very Best of the Everly Brothers	-	UK43 gold (1 week)UK	US- gold US
1975	Walk Right Back with the Everlys	-	UK10 platinum (10 weeks)UK	-
1977	Living Legends	-	UK12 (10 weeks) UK	-
1982	Love hurts	-	UK22nd gold (22 weeks)UK	-
1984	The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert (UK Title: Live at the Royal Albert Hall)	-	UK47 silver (6 weeks)UK	US162 (5 weeks) US	Live album recorded in September 1983 at the Royal Albert Hall , London
	EB 84 (UK title: The Everly Brothers)	-	UK36 (4 weeks) UK	US38 (17 weeks) US	first release on Mercury Records
1986	Born Yesterday	-	-	US83 (19 weeks) US
1993	The Golden Years of the Everly Brothers - Their 24 Greatest Hits	-	UK26th silver (5 weeks)UK	-	Best of album
2002	The Definitive Everly Brothers	-	UK10 gold (9 weeks)UK	-	Best of album
2009	50 Years of Hits	-	UK23 (5 weeks) UK	-	Best of album
2014	The very best of	-	UK28 silver (5 weeks)UK	-	Best of album

shaded in gray : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1958)
• Both Sides of an Evening (1961)
• Folk Songs of the Everly Brothers (compilation, 1962)
• Christmas with the Everly Brothers (1962)
• The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits (1963)
• Gone, Gone, Gone (1964)
• The Very Best of the Everly Brothers (1964)
• Rock'n Soul (1965)
• In Our Image (1966)
• Two Yanks in England (1966)
• The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers (1967)
• The Everly Brothers Sing (1967)
• Roots (with excerpts from the radio show The Everly Family , 1968)
• The Everly Brothers Show (double live album, 1970)
• Stories We Could Tell (1972)
• Pass the Chicken and Listen (1973)
• Don And Phil's Fab 50 Treasury (1974, UK:silver)
• Some Hearts (1988)
• Country: The Everly Brothers (compilation, 2012)

CD box compilations

• Classic Everly Brothers (1992, 3-CD box with recordings from 1955 to 1960)
• Heartaches and Harmonies (1994, 4-CD box with recordings from 1951 to 1990)
• The Price of Fame (2006, 7-CD box with recordings from 1960 to 1965 and book)
• Chained to a Memory (2006, 8-CD box with recordings from 1966 to 1970 and book)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes)			Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	UK	US
1957	Bye Bye Love The Everly Brothers	-	UK6 (16 weeks) UK	US2 (27 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant 207 Rolling Stone 500 , Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Grammy Hall of Fame
	Wake Up Little Susie The Everly Brothers	DE30 (1 month) DE	UK2 (13 weeks) UK	US1 (26 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant Place 311 of the Rolling Stone 500
1958	This Little Girl of Mine The Everly Brothers	-	-	US26 (9 weeks) US	1955 a hit for Ray Charles
	All I Have to Do Is Dream -	-	UK1 (21 weeks) UK	US1 (19 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant # 141 of the Rolling Stone 500, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame
	Claudette -[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US30 (10 weeks) US	Author: Roy Orbison Double A single with All I Have to Do Is Dream
	Bird Dog -	-	UK2 (16 weeks) UK	US1 (18 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
	Devoted to You -[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US10 (14 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant B-side of Bird Dog
	Problems -	-	UK6 (12 weeks) UK	US2 (15 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
	Love of My Life -[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US40 (6 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant B-side of Problems
1959	Take a Message to Mary -	-	UK20 (10 weeks) UK	US16 (13 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
	Poor Jenny -	-	UK14 (11 weeks) UK	US22 (12 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, in US B-side of Take a Message to Mary
	('Til) I Kissed You -	-	UK2 (15 weeks) UK	US4 (16 weeks) US	with the Crickets as backing band, author: Don Everly
1960	Let It Be Me -	-	UK13 (10 weeks) UK	US7 (15 weeks) US	Original / Author: Je t'appartiens by Gilbert Bécaud , English text: Mann Curtis
	When Will I Be Loved -	-	UK4 (16 weeks) UK	US8 (13 weeks) US	Author: Phil Everly
	Be Bop A-Lula The Everly Brothers[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US74 (5 weeks) US	B-side of When Will I Be Loved Original: Gene Vincent (1956)
	Like Strangers -	-	UK11 (10 weeks) UK	US22 (10 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
	Cathy's Clown -	DE41 (1 month) DE	UK1 (18 weeks) UK	US1 (17 weeks) US	Author: Don Everly Number 149 of the Rolling Stone 500 first published by Warner
	Always It's You -[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US56 (6 weeks) US	Authors: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant B-side of Cathy's Clown
	So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) It's Everly Time!	-	UK4 (15 weeks) UK	US7 (12 weeks) US	Author: Don Everly
	Lucille A Date with the Everly Brothers[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US21 (10 weeks) US	Double A-side with So Sad Original: Little Richard
1961	Walk Right Back -	-	UK1 (16 weeks) UK	US7 (13 weeks) US	Author: Sonny Curtis
	Ebony Eyes -[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US8 (12 weeks) US	Double A-Side with Walk Right Back Author: John D. Loudermilk
	Temptation Instant Party	-	UK1 (15 weeks) UK	US27 (6 weeks) US	1934 a hit for Bing Crosby
	Stick with Me Baby A Date with the Everly Brothers	-	-	US41 (4 weeks) US	Author: Mel Tillis
	Don't Blame Me -	-	UK20 (6 weeks) UK	US20 (8 weeks) US	1933 a hit for Ethel Waters the original comes from the musical Clowns in Clover
	Muskrat -[DE: ↑][UK: ↑]			US82 (4 weeks) US	in UK double A single with Don't Blame Me , in US quadruple single with two more songs
1962	Crying in the Rain -	-	UK6 (15 weeks) UK	US6 (13 weeks) US	Authors: Howard Greenfield , Carole King (their only collaboration) widely covered, including 1990 from A-ha
	That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be) -	-	-	US9 (11 weeks) US
	How Can I Meet Her? -	-	UK12 (10 weeks) UK	US75 (3 weeks) US	B-side of That's Old Fashioned Authors: Gerry Goffin , Jack Keller
	I'm Here to Get My Baby out of Jail -	-	-	US76 (6 weeks) US	Post-release by Cadence recorded 1958, produced by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
	Don't Ask Me to Be Friends -	-	-	US48 (7 weeks) US	Authors: Gerry Goffin, Jack Keller
	No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile -	-	UK11 (11 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Gerry Goffin, Jack Keller in US B-side of Don't Ask Me to Be Friends
1963	So It Will Always Be -	-	UK23 (11 weeks) UK	-
	It's Been Nice (Goodnight) -	-	UK26 (5 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Doc Pomus , Mort Shuman
	The Girl Sang the Blues -	-	UK25 (9 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Barry Mann , Cynthia Weil
1964	The Ferris Wheel Gone, Gone, Gone	-	UK22 (10 weeks) UK	US72 (6 weeks) US
	Gone, Gone, Gone Gone, Gone, Gone	-	UK36 (6 weeks) UK	US31 (10 weeks) US	Authors: Don and Phil Everly
1965	That'll Be the Day -	-	UK30 (4 weeks) UK	-	Original: Buddy Holly
	The Price of Love In Our Image	DE25 (2 months) DE	UK2 (14 weeks) UK	US40 (8 weeks) US	Authors: Don and Phil Everly
	I'll Never Get Over You In Our Image	-	UK35 (5 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Don and Phil Everly
	Love Is Strange Beat & Soul	-	UK11 (9 weeks) UK	-	Original: Mickey & Sylvia (1956)
1967	Bowling Green The Everly Brothers Sing	-	-	US40 (8 weeks) US
1968	It's my time, it's my time	-	UK39 (6 weeks) UK	-	Author: John D. Loudermilk
1984	On the Wings of a Nightingale EB 84	DE50 (8 weeks) DE	UK41 (11 weeks) UK	US50 (12 weeks) US	Author: Paul McCartney ; Producer: Dave Edmunds
1989	Don't Worry Baby -	DE41 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	Original: The Beach Boys; with the Beach Boys

More singles

• Keep A-Lovin 'Me / The Sun Keeps Shining (1956, only Columbia release)
• Donna, Donna (1960)
• Memories Are Made of This (1960)
• Love Hurts (1960)
• You Thrill Me (1960)

Singles in German

Like many stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Everly Brothers also sang songs in German with which they attempted “the synthesis of Nashville and Hermann Löns ”. The following singles have been released:

• Where are the beautiful days / Why (1961)
• You're not like the others / Susie (1965)
• Say goodbye / In the evening on the heath (1966)

Solo releases by Don Everly

Albums

• Don Everly (1971 A&M / Ode SP 77005 )
• Sunset Towers (1974 A & M / Ode SP 77023 )
• Brother Juke Box (1977 Hickory / ABC AH 440003 )

Singles

• Pomp and Circumstance / Black Mountain Stomp (as Adrian Kimberly, 1971)
• Tumblin 'Tumbleweeds (1971)
• Warmin 'Up the Band (1974)
• So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) (1977)

Solo releases by Phil Everly

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1983	Phil Everly	UK61 (1 week) UK

More albums

• Star Spangled Springer (1973 RCA APLI-0092 )
• Phil's Dinner (UK Title: There's Nothing Too Good for My Baby ; 1974 Pye 12104 )
• Mystic Line (1975 Pye 12121 )
• Living Alone (1979)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1982	Louise	UK47 (6 weeks) UK
1983	She Means Nothing to Me Phil Everly & Cliff Richard	UK9 (9 weeks) UK
1983	Sweet Pretender	UK79 (3 weeks) UK
1994	All I Have to Do Is Dream Cliff Richard with Phil Everly	UK14 (14 weeks) UK

More singles

• God Bless Older Ladies / The Air That I Breathe (1973)

Video albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	UK	US
2017	Reunion Concert - Live At The Royal Albert Hall	-	UK8 (131 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 10, 2017

literature

• The Everly Brothers story with the complete discography , in: Frank-Michael Goldmann (Ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , issues No. 150 / March 1993 to No. 155 / August 1993, New Media Verlag GmbH , Winsen / Luhe.
• Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits , 3rd edition, New York 1992, ISBN 0-8230-8298-9 .
• J. Buckley, M. Ellingham (Eds.): Rock - The Rough Guide (www.roughguides.com), London 1996, ISBN 1-85828-201-2 .
• Donald Clarke (Ed.): The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music , London 1989/1990, ISBN 0-14-051147-4 .
• Paul Gambaccini , Tim Rice , Jo Rice: The Guinness Book of Number One Hits , 2nd edition, Enfield 1988, ISBN 0-85112-893-9 .
• Frank Laufenberg , Ingrid Hake: Frank Laufenbergs Rock- und Pop-Lexikon, All Top-10-Hits from USA, GB, Germany, Switzerland and their interpreters , Volume 1, 5th edition (= ECON-Taschenbuch 26206), Econ, Düsseldorf / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-612-26206-8 .
• David Roberts (Ed.), Guinness World Records - British Hit Singles and Albums , 19th Ed., Guinness World Records Ltd., Essex 2006, ISBN 1-904994-10-5 .
• MC Strong: The Great Rock Discography , 3rd ed., Edinburgh / Ffm. 1996, ISBN 0-86241-604-3 .
• Joel Whitburn: The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums , revised and enlarged ed., New York 1991, ISBN 0-8230-7534-6 .
• Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles , Record Research Inc., Menomonee Falls / Wisconsin 1994, ISBN 0-89820-104-7 .
• various authors: The NME Rock'n'Roll Years , revised and updated reprint, London 1992, ISBN 0-600-57602-7 .

Web links

Commons : The Everly Brothers  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Everly Brothers at Discogs
• The Everly Brothers at Rock'n'Roll AG
• Discography (1956 to late 1964) with Rockin 'Country Style (English), with audio samples of some songs
• Everly Brothers -Net (fansite )
• The Everly Brothers Biography in Rolling Stone Magazine

Notes and sources

1. ↑ "But they couldn't read music so they played by ear." Ted Everly, quoted from the biography on the authorized fan club website , viewed on March 4, 2007
2. ↑ ^{a b} “Parents Ike and Margaret Everly well-known in south and midwest; Ike in particular as black-infl. guitarist in the same mold as Sam McGee, Merle Travis, etc. “; Donald Clarke (Ed.): The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music , London 1989/1990, ISBN 0-14-051147-4 , p. 395
3. ↑ "It seems that the brothers had composed an instrumental combining bluegrass and ragtime called 'That's The Mood I'm In.' Due to their lack of knowledge of the business side of music, they never copyright it. Later it was altered a bit and became a hit for Glen Miller as 'In The Mood' under another writers name. ” History-of-Rock.com , viewed on March 16, 2007. The origin of In the Mood is indeed controversial; According to Donald Clarke's MusicWeb Encyclopedia of Pop Music ( Memento of November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), the British journalist CH Rolph believed that he had heard the title played by a cinema orchestra as early as 1919; it is certain that Wingy Manone recorded the song Tar Paper Stomp in 1930 with the same riff .
4. ↑ Everly Brothers Childhood Home - Congratulations on the 100th birthday of Margaret Embry on Facebook. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
5. ↑ John Shearer (USA Today): Everly Brothers' mother, 99, recalls Bearden, Cas Walker and the ducktails. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
6. ^ "I remember my father playing in Chicago in a country western honky-tonk with pool tables and a little bandstand" Don recalls; according to biography on everlybrothers.com, as above
7. ^ "[...] their father contacted old friend Chet Atkins", MC Strong: The Great Rock Discography , 3rd ed., Edinburgh / Ffm. 1996, ISBN 0-86241-604-3 , p. 274
8. ↑ Frank-Michael Goldmann (Ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, March 1993, p. 8
9. ^ Photograph of the label of this single
10. ↑ quoted from Frank-Michael Goldmann (ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, March 1993, p. 10
11. ↑ "The Tennessee teenagers have a distinctive, appealing sound and could click big in the Pop as well as C & W field.", Quoted from the biography on everlybrothers.com , as above
12. ↑ "Wake up little Susie, we both went sound asleep, wake up little Susie and weep, the movie's over, it's three o'clock, and we're in trouble deep - what're we gonna tell your mama, what're we gonna tell your pop, what're we gonna tell our friends when they say 'ooh lala' " it's three o'clock and we're deep in the ink. What do we tell your mom and dad and our friends when they say 'oh la la'. "
13. ↑ Buddy Holly's biography at Think-of-Me.de ( memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), viewed March 21, 2007
14. ↑ Phil Everly: "... they could have put Boudleaux's out and it would have been a hit. It's just a great, great song. It's beautiful. "; according to everlybrothers.com , as above
15. ^ The NME Rock'n'Roll Years , revised and updated reprint, London 1992, ISBN 0-600-57602-7 , p. 56
16. ↑ ^{a b} Frank Laufenberg, Ingrid Hake: Frank Laufenbergs Rock- und Pop-Lexikon, all top 10 hits from the USA, GB, Germany, Switzerland and their performers , p. 486
17. ↑ see The NME Rock 'n' Roll Years , revised and updated reprint, London 1992, ISBN 0-600-57602-7 , p. 111
18. ↑ Biography of Achim Reichel at GermanRock.de ( Memento from December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Frank-Michael Goldmann (Ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, May 1993, p. 14
20. ↑ quoted from Frank-Michael Goldmann (ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, May 1993, p. 15
21. ↑ "We're often asked whether the fact that we're brothers has ever been a handicap in our careers. The way they figure it is that most brothers quarrel, and in our case if there's no harmony behind the scenes, it's not very likely that there'll be much on stage. ”, The Everly Brothers, March 1961, quoted from: The NME Rock'n'Roll Years , revised and updated reprint, London 1992, ISBN 0-600-57602-7 , p. 92
22. ↑ quoted from Frank-Michael Goldmann (ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, May 1993, p. 15
23. ↑ Frank-Michael Goldmann (Ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, August 1993, p. 13
24. ↑ Frank-Michael Goldmann (Ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, May 1993, p. 14
25. ↑ THE BEACH BOYS - Concierto 25 aniversario en Waikiki - 1986 - Subtitulado en español - 1ª parte
26. ↑ Everly Brothers Bird dog on SWR4 , sighted March 21, 2007
27. ^ The Everly Brothers Concert Setlists. Accessed April 1, 2019 . 
28. ↑ US Musician Phil Everly dies aged 74 , on bbc.co.uk
29. ↑ Paul Simon gets to be 'Phil Everly for a night,' singing with Don, during farewell show . In: The Tennessean . ( tennessean.com [accessed July 22, 2018]).
30. ↑ David Hinckley: RIP Don Everly: Life Wasn't Always Heavenly, But the Music Was Always Angelic. August 22, 2021, accessed August 22, 2021 . 
31. ↑ Dave Marsh: The Heart of Rock & Soul - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made , New York 1989, pp. 166/167
32. ↑ See Bill Bush: "Don Everly - Rock's Acoustic Rhythm Pioneer," in Guitar Player , 1991; Online version viewed April 28, 2007
33. ^ "With 'Bye Bye Love', a hit formula had been discovered: Boudleaux's rhythms, Felice's lyrics, Don's guitar intros, and Phil's harmony. The Bryant songwriting team began composing songs tailored to The Everlys' harmonies while providing the expected and important Don Everly solo somewhere in the middle. "Biography on www.everlybrothers.com , as above
34. ↑ Grand Ole Opry is a synonym for “pure country music”, Perry Como for the “soft”, white popular music of the 1950s. “We're not Grand Ole Opry… we're obviously not Perry Como… we're just pop music. But, you could call us an American skiffle group! ”, The Everly Brothers, November 1960, quoted from: The NME Rock 'n' Roll Years , revised and updated reprint, London 1992, ISBN 0-600-57602-7 , p 88; At that time, British skiffle artists like Lonnie Donegan were also very successful in the USA.
35. ↑ Frank-Michael Goldmann (Ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, March 1993, p. 11
36. ↑ cf. Frank-Michael Goldmann (ed.): Oldie-Markt - Europe's largest magazine for record collectors , New Media Verlag GmbH, Winsen / Luhe, March 1993.
37. ^ "He got into a thing of writing these little songs with lines such as 'dream, dream, dream'. They were almost like lullabies, you know, which fitted The Everly Brothers perfectly. “, Quoted from everlybrothers.com , as above
38. ^ "The Bryants wrote and the Everlys sang eloquently of teenage devotion and heartbreak, as well as tragicomic situations." Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
39. ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos / Barry Graves: RoRoRo Rock-Lexikon , updated and expanded edition, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-499-16177-X , p. 132; also: Biography of the Everly Brothers ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), musicline.de, viewed March 21, 2007
40. ↑ Phil Hardy / Dave Laing, The Faber Companion To 20th Century Popular Music , 1995, p. 302
41. ↑ see Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties , London 1997, ISBN 1-85702-684-5 , p. 293
42. ^ See Charles L. Granata: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times: Brian Wilson and the Making of 'Pet Sounds' , Chicago 2003, ISBN 1-55652-507-9 , pp. 35-36
43. ^ Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties , London 1997, ISBN 1-85702-684-5 , p. 55
44. ↑ see Frank Laufenberg, Ingrid Hake: Frank Laufenbergs Rock- und Pop-Lexikon, all top 10 hits from the USA, GB, Germany, Switzerland and their performers ; Siegfried Schmidt-Joos / Barry Graves: RoRoRo Rock-Lexikon , updated and expanded edition, Hamburg 1975, ISBN 3-499-16177-X , among others.
45. ↑ "In a way, his sister, who was listening to Elvis and the Everly Brothers at the time, influenced Mike's musical tastes." Biography Mike Rutherford , Genesis Fan Club; Online version viewed January 19, 2009
46. ↑ see album on Amazon
47. ↑ see allmusic.com
48. ^ Dean Reed website , viewed March 22, 2007
49. ↑ according to everlybrothers.com , as above
50. ↑ 'The Everly Brothers' ( December 24, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ) on the Vocal Group Hall of Fame website
51. ↑ according to 100 Greatest Artists of All Time ( memento July 30, 2007 on WebCite ), Rolling Stone Magazine , issue 946
52. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 . 
53. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE UK
54. ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
55. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
56. ^ Emerson, Ken (2005) Always Magic In The Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era, Viking, New York, ISBN 0-670-03456-8 , p. 111
57. ↑ Ulrich von Berg on "In the evening on the Heide", in Die Zeit , issue 4/2001, online version ( memento of October 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) viewed on March 21, 2007
58. ↑ see cover photo at RateYourMusic.com
59. ↑ see cover photo at RateYourMusic.com
60. ↑ see cover photo at RateYourMusic.com
61. ↑ ^{a b} Phil Everly in the British charts (OCC)

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