The Everly Brothers

Bye bye love...bye bye happiness...I'm with you!

So sweet, Glenn! You're awesome! 10!

Hard to believe, but it's around 50 years ago that I first heard the Everlys. Wow! Well said, Glenn.

This brought back a lot of memories of my parents´listening to these guys´music. For my last play, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, to get the atmosphere of a department store in the Sixties, I actually used one of their songs for incidental music.

Thanks Glen for this succinct and emotive tribute.

Thanks, Patricia, Curt, Richard and John!

My mother used to sing their songs to us. Great memory!

Thanks, Anne!

Boy,,,did that take me back,,, HAPPY EASTER, my friend,,,

Thanks, Marie! June of '65 is when the song, "I'll Never Get Over You" was released on Warner Brothers. It became something of a landmark to my musical mind. H. Prichard's song, "Kentucky," was originally done by the Blue Sky Boys. The song appeared on the Everly Brothers' album entitled "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us." The words haunt me even now:

"Kentucky
You are the dearest land outside of
Heaven to me
Kentucky
I miss your Laurel and Redbud tree.
When I die
I want to rest upon a graceful
mountain so high
For that is where God will look
for me...."

My dad was born in Kentucky and enjoyed this music immensely. In 1968 the Everly Brothers released "Roots," a fabulous album containing a partial segment of the song quoted above. This album also features a heartfelt rendition of Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," a sublime Randy Newman song entitled "Illinois," a grand and noble "Sing Me Back Home," and an inspired montage of "The Everly Family (1952)," including original radio broadcast clips from the Everly program. Indelible harmonies, indeed!

Oh, my, you've lost that loving feeling, a single I played over and over with the record arm up. Your poem brought back lots of memories.

Thanks, Sarah!

One of my favorite groups too. Thanks for the memories.

Thanks, Marge!

I too loved the Everly Brothers.

Thanks, Mary Ann!