I think I’m going to cry.
Please PING others.
A lot of well-known artists and famous Americans have died since New Year’s Eve. Is the Rapture coming?
There were country predecessors, there were rock and country followers, no one was better, no one was purer!
Everly Brothers- “All I Have To Do Is Dream/Cathy’s Clown” 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYe9eDqxe8
I feel for Don. I just lost my second younger brother on Christmas Day. He was buried at a Veterans Cemetery in Michigan on Monday with full military honors. Damn Agent Orange.
This is from their arguably best album “Roots” on WB Records, which the stupid Woodstock Generation rejected ,ignored, which contributed to their splitting up.
Sing Me back Home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htfq9I0Sgus
Bye bye love
"Wake up little Suzie, we've gotta go home."
("We've both been sound asleep...")
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I have no idea who was the top seller but the Everly Brothers were my favorite group when I was a kid. They were really good.
He was an incredible talent, the Everlys and the Louvin Brothers were unrepeatable American treasures.
Too bad the Everlys' career, much like Elvis Presley's, was horribly mismanaged through the 1960s.
Voices that were made for beautiful rockabilly, country and gospel singing were forced to record endless hours of saccharine, forgettable pap.
Their comeback album, Roots, with its cover of "Mama Tried", was incredible.
God rest his soul.
I saw that CD today on the counter at Starbucks. It got me thinking about the Everly Brothers, which I hadn't done in a long time. And then this news.
I saw the Everly Brothers in concert about 30 years, just after they reunited. What a great sound they had.
The Everly’s did not record a song I didn’t love. Blood harmony is strong. Rest in Peace Phil.
“Illinois”. Written by Randy Newman. It doesn’t get better than this. Also from “Roots”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cabkl15_8Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puvf9vuskM
Published on May 8, 2012
Songs of Innocence and Experience (1984), part of the BBC Arena series, shows the Everly Brothers as they trace their lineage, starting in their coal mining hometown of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky. With performances from the Everly’s and their family.
“Christmas Eve Can Kill You”. Written by Dennis Linde: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xl_kMvlzV0
COPD is pretty nasty. My 86 year old father-in-law was diagnosed earlier this year and now has to go everywhere attached to an oxygen supply. He was a former chain smoker and even though he quit smoking cigarettes 30 years ago, he still developed the symptoms.
RIP Mr. Phil Everly!
Ray Manzarek of the Doors will never play that creepy organ music again. That one dude who drummed for those two rock bands - gone forever! Bob Welch with those Ebony Eyes and Donna Summer, both dead and gone.
Half the Beatles and 2/3 of the BeeGees dead dead dead. Andy Gibb too. Davy Jones of the Monkees is now in, well, Davy Jones' locker. So is Gerry Rafferty and Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols. Doug Fieder of the Knack, can you believe that? That's the dude who sang "My Sharona" in the summer of 1979 and dealt a death blow to disco.
And the list of the dead go on and on. John Stewart, Al Wilson, Wilson Pickett, Debbie Harry, Andrew Gold, Warren Zevon, Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone.
I can keep going but I think I made my point. We are very quickly running out of musicians and soon there will be no more music being made unless we find a way to make it stop.
Oh no. What a shame. I’ve been listening to them my whole life.
RIP.