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The Everly Brothers - It's Everly Time/A Date with the Everly Brothers Audio CD

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The Everly Brothers Band: The Everly Brothers
Title: It's Everly Time/A Date with the Everly Brothers
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Release Date: 2006-08-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) 2: Just in Case 3: Memories Are Made of This 4: That's What You Do to Me 5: Sleepless Nights 6: What Kind of Girl Are You 7: Oh True Love 8: Carol Jane 9: Some Sweet Day 10: Nashville Blues 11: You Thrill Me (Through and Through) 12: I Want You to Know 13: Made to Love 14: That's Just Too Much 15: Stick With Me Baby 16: Baby, What You Want Me to Do 17: Sigh, Cry, Almost Die 18: Always It's You 19: Love Hurts 20: Lucille 21: So How Come (No One Loves Me) 22: Donna Donna 23: Change of Heart 24: Cathy's Clown 25: Ebony Eyes [*] 26: Walk Right Back [*] 27: Temptation [Single Version][*] 28: Silent Treatment [*] 29: Temptation [First Recorded Version][*] 30: Stick With Me Baby [First Recorded Version][*] 31: Why Not [*]

Kentucky duo at the peak of their career
They started very successfully and this album presents their first two albums for Warners, plus other tracks recorded then, but not necessarily released then. The Everly brothers had several hits on the Cadence label, notably Bye bye love and All I have to do is dream, before signing to Warners in 1960. Every track here was recorded between March and November of 1960, in the days when it didn't take long to record each song to the required quality standard.

The first album (It's Everly time) begins with So sad to watch good love go bad, one of their classic hits. Most of the other songs were written by the Bryants. One of these, Sleepless nights, is pure magic. I believe it to be, along with Love Hurts (see later), the best song they recorded that wasn't released as a single by them. It has since been covered by (among others) Emmylou Harris on her Pieces of the sky album, and by the Judds on their River of time album.

The second album (A date with the Everly Brothers - studio album, despite the title) includes Lucille, a cover of the Little Richard classic which they also had a hit with, and ends with Cathy's clown. Despite being the biggest hit they ever had, there are very few covers compared to some of their other hits. The most notable, by far, is Reba McEntire's country version, in which the words are adapted to take Cathy's view of the situation. The other important song here, Love Hurts, has been recorded by many artists in many different musical styles, and has been a pop hit for other artists, including Nazareth.

The bonus tracks include singles not released on either of the LP's - Ebony eyes, Walk right back and two versions of Temptation - and other tracks which remained in the vaults at the time, though all were eventually released except one of the versions of Temptation, available here for the first time. Actually, the rare version sounds like an inferior version of the famous version.

The tracks not specifically mentioned all fit the general Everly sound of the time, and it is these tracks that are the real reason to buy this. While none of them are outstanding, they are all very enjoyable.

Sleepless nights and the famous tracks can all be found on Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers On Warner Brothers, 1960-1969, although if you're only interested in the early part of their sixties music, you might prefer this twofer anyway.


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