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The Everly Brothers - The Very Best of the Everly Brothers Audio CD

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The Everly Brothers Band: The Everly Brothers
Title: The Very Best of the Everly Brothers
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Bye Bye Love 2: ('Til) I Kissed You 3: Wake Up Little Susie 4: Crying in the Rain 5: Walk Right Back 6: Cathy's Clown 7: Bird Dog 8: All I Have to Do Is Dream 9: Devoted to You 10: Lucille 11: So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) 12: Ebony Eyes

Yes, 6 songs are re-recordings
The label wanted to capitalize on the Everly's Cadence past, and the result was a Best Of LP that featured Don and Phil re-making 6 Cadence classics, paired with 6 early great Warner Brothers recordings. This is an album from 1964, when the Everly Brothers were on the Warner label.

The 6 re-makes are 'Wake Up Little Suzie,' 'Bye Bye Love,' 'Bird Dog,' '(Til) I Kissed You,' 'All I Have To Do Is Dream,' and 'Devoted to You. ' As already noted by an earlier reviewer, these are remarkably good remakes. I cannot claim that any is better than the original, but each is very good, and 2 or 3 of them are as good as the originals. If you are a big fan of the Everlys and already own the original Cadence recordings, you still will want this CD to hear the Everlys recasting a handful of their early hits just before the British Invasion wiped almost everybody else off the American charts. And if you want a 1 disc best of the Everlys, this may be better for you than the 1 disc Cadence Classics because you get 'Cathy's Clown,' which remains my favorite Everly Brothers song.


Good but unoriginal
The CD is good but it should indicate on product pages that these are not original recordings. This is the Everly Brothers re-recording their hits. "Til I Kissed You" is always a good song, but again if you want originals pass on this CD. .


The exception to the rule...
Normally I hate albums with phony re-recorded versions of original songs. This is the one and ONLY re-recorded hits package I have ever liked or would recommend to anyone. But the re-recorded songs on this album are something special, actually IMPROVING on the originals! Don and Phil took special pains to insure that these songs would remain absolutely faithful to the originals, recruiting many of the original session musicians along with song writer Boudleaux Bryant and producer Wesley Rose on hand in the studio. Together they remade 6 classics from the Cadence era (the 6 other songs featured here from their Warner years are the original versions). The Everly's still had those magic vocals and the musicians were well-rehearsed and up to the task. What's so great about these remakes is that they've managed to maintain the soul of the originals while making vast improvements to the overall sound quality. The music is full, rich, and blends beautifully with those awesome Everly Brothers 2-part harmonies. All the songs included here are in true stereo except "Ebony Eyes" which is rechanneled. Are they 100% indistinguishable from the originals? Well, no. So I can't recommend this to someone who just wants the originals. For those folks, I recommend picking up "All-Time Original Hits" instead. But for those who want to hear a little something more from the Everly's, this is a great choice. I only wish they included a few more of their early Cadence hits since these are without a doubt the best remakes I have ever heard. Like I said, the exception to the rule.


You Can Do Better....
re-recordings of the 1950's Cadence tracks, you can pass on this one. Unless you're actually looking for the 1964 Warner Bros. As re-recordings go, these are excellent, but most folks would rather have the original hit versions. For the best domestic single-disc compilation, pick up Rhino's "All Time Original Hits" from 1999. "Original Hits" features the original versions of the Everly's biggest hits, including classics like "Let It Be Me" and "When Will I Be Loved" that are conspicuously absent from Warner's old "Very Best Of" album. My only knock on "All Time Original Hits" is that there was plenty of room for lesser gems like "Claudette", "Gone, Gone, Gone" and "Bowling Green" that seldom appear on Everly "Best Of" discs.


They're COOL!
The Everly Brothers was Disgust their Song "Bye Bye Love" or "(Til)i kissed You. They sounds Like McBride & the Ride and Deanna Jarrett. Don's two Daughters, Dana And Mercedes smile at uncle Phil, He said "you Like It?".


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