Posted on 01/03/2014 6:46:57 PM PST by Revolting cat!
I am sorry for your loss and that tape is a priceless memory I am sure.
They don’t make them like they used to. Not much talent in music anymore, IMO. I am a child of the 80’s (born in 72) but ‘oldies’ always held my love and interest. In Junior High and high school, my friends listened and had posters and tshirts of Prince, Duran Duran, and A-HA while I had posters and tshirts of Buddy Holly and Everly Brothers.
Had a friend once how had a piece of the airplane Buddy was killed in. I think it ended up being donated to a museum. His father was in the area and picked it up. His father, being an old man, didn’t know who Buddy Holly was.
I’ve heard artistic types say if Buddy hadn’t died, there would have been no Elvis. And if James Dean hadn’t died there would have been no Paul Newman. I don’t think they mean Elvis and Newman took their places. They mean there was only room for so many.
It's like Joe Walsh said in an interview I saw. Nobody is actually playing an instrument anymore. A machine is doing it for them. I was born in the late 50's. I prefer music of the 1960's and most of the 70's up to the mid 1980's in some cases. Be very glad you missed Disco LOL.
I was young, but didn’t miss disco sadly. I remember a lot of music from the 1970s and my first 8 track was of Abba.
Abba wasn’t bad all things considered. At least their songs had more than the same one verse. LOL. You did miss songs like ah ah yawa em ekat ot gnimoc er’yehT. True flip side to a 45 I had.
RIP Phil, thank you for being the sound track of our lives and giving us music that every amateur singer has to try with someone else to engage in that magic called harmony.
Thanks so much!
Duane Eddy! Another favorite from the truly "good old days!"
RIP.
So, can you confirm the Salman Rushdie report that they weren’t speaking to each other after reuniting in the mid 80s? And if so, did they ever reconcile. There is a great documentary on Youtube, which you must have seen (the Everly family reunion in Kentucky is shown among other things) where Don talks about the hard times they had gaining acceptance after the Beatles came out, and how it and the road contributed to them splitting up. They toured until a few years ago, didn’t they, and only a couple of years ago I heard Don say that the Everly Brothers are over.
There are fine tributes on the WSJ, Rolling Stone mag websites, Rodney Crowell published a reminiscence on Facebook, and Cliff Richard did a short video there (Phil had recorded with both of them.) There’ll be more, I expect (I can cut and paste Rodney’s piece and Freepmail it to you if you like, I think it wouldn’t be fair to publish it here.)
It isn’t true for the most part.
They got along great in the 80’s after the reunion and even early 1990’s. The problems started again in the late 1990’s. They ‘retired’ about 2001 and stopped talking then. There were a few issues, Don wanted to record a new album, Phil wanted to do a UK/Australia tour but Don didn’t want to tour without a new recording and Phil was insisting if they did a new album that he be able to record one of his own songs and do lead on at least part of it so it was a stalemate.
Also, Phil was showing up drunk onstage (saw them in Vegas once and Phil could barely stand) which brought back a lot of old issues from the first time they broke up when Don was drinking heavily.
They did the “old friends” tour with Simon and Garfunkel and hadn’t spoken in a few years at that point but could just be fine on stage. That was the last time they performed together. There was no way they would have gotten back together.
Thank you. And I thought they were all forgotten, and until recently was hoping they’d put out another LP. (I guess that album you mention never came about?) Forgotten by the public, sure, but not by the artists, including those as young as Billie Joe and Nora Jones, as tributes keep pouring in. I’ve always known and argued on another thread recently that artists themselves have a better taste than their listeners, don’t listen much to their contemporaries on top of the charts, but more to giants from the history of rock, such as the Everlys.
On another note, 1960 was the year when a lot of others changed record companies. (Not always 1960, but thereabout.) Let’s see, Paul Anka, Duane Eddy, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, all of the above to the detriment of their careers. The Everlys did very well on the other hand.
The album never came about. Their last studio album was “Some Hearts” in 1988. Not their best work by far - Born Yesterday and EB84 were much better albums.
They did record one song for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Whistle Down the Wind” called “Cold” but it is hard to find. I have it on a promo CD where several artists (not the cast) did songs - Bonnie Tyler and some UK boy band were on there as well.
Most of the recent releases have been compilations, some with demos (just last night I was listening to the original demo of When Will I be Loved with Phil singing solo), and their part of the Old Friends Tour with S&G.
1960 saw a huge change in the music industry, not just with record labels, but with artist control, plus Elvis in the Army, Buddy’s death, JLL on the outs...a reflection of the rough year that 1959 was (I know JLL was outed in 1958 but the major fallout was in 1959 career wise).
I saw them in VEGAS 16 years ago, it was my b’day present from Mrs. LVD !
The Everly Fan Club would do a weekend conference every time they played Vegas. Saw them lots of times there and always chuckled because one of their songs from their 1972 album “Stories We Could Tell” called “I’m Tired of Singing My Songs in Las Vegas”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XacX92kk4g
Thanks for the link. I’ll have a look at it when I get access to high speed tomorrow.
Songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant wrote several of Phil and Don’s hits. What a great team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_and_Boudleaux_Bryant
“Bye Bye, Love”
“Wake Up, Little Susie”
“All I Have to Do Is Dream”
“Donna Donna”
“Brand New Heartache”
“Problems”
“Poor Jenny”
“Radio & TV”
“Oh True Love”
“Take a Message To Mary”
“Bird Dog”
“Like Strangers”
“Always It’s You”
“Love of My Life”
“Love Is All I Need”
“Lonely Island”
“Just in Case”
“Devoted to You”
“You Thrill Me”
“Some Sweet Day”
“Sleepless Nights”
“Nashville Blues”
“Love Hurts”
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