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The Everly Brothers - All-Time Original Hits Audio CD

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The Everly Brothers Band: The Everly Brothers
Title: All-Time Original Hits
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Release Date: 1999-11-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Bye Bye Love 2: Wake Up Little Susie 3: All I Have to Do Is Dream 4: Bird Dog 5: Devoted to You 6: Problems 7: Take a Message to Mary 8: ('Til) I Kissed You 9: Let It Be Me 10: When Will I Be Loved? 11: Cathy's Clown 12: So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) 13: Ebony Eyes 14: Walk Right Back 15: That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be) 16: Crying in the Rain

The Singers With Nice Hair
During that time young male singers like Ricky Nelson, Bobby Dee, Fabian, Conway Twitty and the singers under review, the Everly Brothers, emerged or were pushed forward to fill in the blanks. There was a time in my youth, in the late 1950's, just after the hullabaloo of the original emergence of rock&roll as a threat to national security with the rise of the likes of Bill Halley, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and the like had subsided and before the British invasion that revitalized rock had surfaced teenage popular music hit a bump in the road. This was a period where there was a conscious effort to tone down, sweeten up and bastardize rock. Although the Everly Brothers cannot be said to have been the cultural force behind that movement, after all they just wanted to sing, make money and be popular with the girls, they certainly benefited from this shift in the popular music industry. Other more sinister adult forces led the charge to this homogenized music.

That said, on their own terms the brothers were hardly the worst of the lot in presenting this kind of music to their teenage public, especially those adoring, dreamy-eyed white suburban girls whose allegiance drove their material up the pop charts. Some of their work, included for your inspection here, can and should be considered classics of this dark period in American teenage music. While the Everly Brothers on their best days will never have the force of Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Elvis' "Jailhouse Rock" or Jerry Lee's "Breathless', their clean, well produced music and okay instrumentation will survive on the second or third echelon of the rock pantheon.

Who, from that generation, can forget the panic lyrics that drive the story line of "Wake Up Little Susie" or the very danceable "All I Have To Do Is Dream" and "Let It Be Me". Teen angst, meaning not having a boy or girl friend is well represented by "Crying In The Rain" and "Cathy's Clown". Can't you just visualize those old school gym dances now. Ya, that is what the brothers were successfully catering to don't you know. For those of us who could not dance, were girl-shy or lacked the proper boffo- haired appearance of the singers of the period we got our chances later but for those guys handy with a slick comb this was their time-and the Everlys'.

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A great album, with a great sound
Having grown up in the Midwest, the brothers were discovered there, and went on to have a short, if influential career. The Everly Brothers are a real slice of American rock-and-roll history. This compilation, which was put together by Rhino Records in 1999, has sixteen of their best originals - everything is here from Bye Bye Love to Cathy's Clown, and includes my favorite, Walk Right Back.

Overall, I found this to be a great album, with a great sound. I don't know if the songs were remastered or anything like that, but I do know that they sound great to me, and have given me hours of listening pleasure. I highly recommend this album to everyone who likes good music!.


Wonderful nostalgia
I practically knew all the songs on here. I'm 28 years old and grew up listening to the Everly Brothers since my mother loved them. Since I can't find the classic oldies on my oldies station, this CD works well in the car. .


all-time original hits by the everly brothers
great listening every trip in the car. many of the very best they did. Would like more of their songs. {if they exist}.


Para escucharlo una y orta vez.

Muy disfrutable. Este CD es exelente ya que contiene 16 de susu mejores exitos con una calidad de sonido estupenda.


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