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The Everly Brothers - Rock 'n Soul/Beat & Soul Audio CD

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Band: The Everly Brothers
Title: Rock 'n Soul/Beat & Soul
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Release Date: 2005-10-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: That'll Be the Day 2: So Fine 3: Maybellene 4: Dancing in the Street 5: Kansas City 6: I Got a Woman 7: Love Hurts 8: Slippin' and Slidin' 9: Susie Q 10: Hound Dog 11: I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town 12: Lonely Weekends 13: Love Is Strange 14: Money (That's What I Want) 15: What Am I Living For 16: Hi Heel Sneakers 17: See See Rider 18: Lonely Avenue 19: Man with Money 20: People Get Ready 21: My Babe 22: Walking the Dog 23: I Almost Lost My Mind 24: Girl Can't Help It 25: You're My Girl [*] 26: Don't Let the Whole World Know [*] 27: Kiss Your Man Goodbye [First Recorded Version][#][*][Version] 28: Give Me a Sweetheart [*] 29: Follow Me [*] 30: Don't Ya Even Try [*] 31: Susie Q [Italian Version][*] 32: Luna E un Pallido Sole [*] 33: Non Mi Resti Che Tu [*]

everly brothers rock'n soul/beat'n soul
I am a life long fan of the E brothers, and this offer is only one of many cds I will purchase. once again, I am so pleased to have gotten this product through amizon. Once again amizon, Great Job!!.

Two interesting 1965 albums
The biggest success that they had that year came with a song, The price of love, that made number two in the British singles charts. By 1965, the Everly brothers were no longer regulars in the singles charts and their album sales weren't great either, but they still made interesting music. It eventually appeared on their 1966 album In our image, so it's not included here even as a bonus track, although it seems perverse that their most successful 1965 recording is missing from a release featuring most of the music that Phil and Don recorded in 1965. Nevertheless, that track is available elsewhere and with 33 other tracks, 24 from the two albums and nine bonus tracks, there is plenty to interest Everly brothers fans here.

The first album, Rock `n' soul, is a covers album, although Phil and Don chose to re-interpret some songs while doing reasonably faithful covers of others. They even recorded a faster version of Love hurts, which they originally recorded at a slower tempo a few years earlier. As the album title suggests, the songs are primarily covers of rock'n'roll and soul songs. Their re-interpretation of Hound dog gives the song a very different feel. Some people will regard it as sacrilege while others will love it. I quite like it. Contrast that with the Motown classic, Dancing in the street, where you might not notice any difference in the general arrangement, but listen closely and you'll hear that they refer to music city instead of motor city. They related to Nashville rather than Detroit.

The second album, Beat `n' soul, was in every sense a follow-up to its predecessor and companion album here. It might well have been titled Rock `n' soul volume 2, though it contains one original song, Man with money, whereas the previous album contained no original material. The standout track from this album is Love is strange, a cover of a song first popularized in the fifties by Mickey and Sylvia. Released as a single, it fared poorly in America where it only made the bubbling under chart, but became a big hit in Britain, just missing the top ten.

The nine bonus tracks include some recorded in December 1964, with the remainder from 1965 like the two main albums. Three of the 1965 tracks are Italian language recordings, two of them being released together as an Italian single while the other remained in the vaults until it first appeared publicly in 1987 on a British compilation. Four of the other tracks were released on various American singles. The other two tracks were un-released at the time. One eventually made its public debut in 1984 on a British compilation while the other, making its public debut here, is the first recording of Kiss your man goodbye. Phil and Don obviously weren't satisfied with it, because they re-recorded it a couple of times before releasing a later recording on another sixties album.

The music here was, for the most part, commercially unsuccessful, but that was due in no small measure to the Everly brothers being unfashionable at the time. One might also say that the preponderance of covers didn't help their cause even though some of them were imaginative re-interpretations, but if they'd been fashionable, maybe they'd have recorded more original material instead. Who knows? In any case, while I probably won't play this CD as often as some of their other music, it's certainly fascinating to hear their radical re-interpretations of some familiar songs.

OhMyGod!!!! Fabulous!!!
But I have been an Everly fan since the very beginning. I was hestitant to buy this CD because I couldn't listen any samples of it. I had never heard of these albums because as a young married woman at the time, I didn't have money to spend on records. The reviews of this were so good, I finally odered it! WOW! Was I surprized!! The reviewer in the little brochure that came with it said "That'll Be The Day" was not a strong number. Boy was he wrong!!! I loved that beat so much that I started dancing right away. "So Fine" sent chills up and down my SPINE!!! I, also, loved "Maybelline", "Dancing in the Streets", "My Babe", "I Got a Woman", "Lonely Avenue", and "The Girl Can't Help It". I really liked the new version of "Love Hurts", too. The one I am over-the-moon about is "Hi Heel Sneaker". Hadn't heard it in almost 50 yrs. I loved Don's solo version of it. Who knew he could sing like that!!!Wonderful! "What am I Living For" harkens back to their original recordings. I had never heard "Follow Me" or "Don't Ya Even Try" before. Don't know why these 2 weren't big hits for them. I don't think they were promoted properly. I really enjoyed the 3 songs that they sang in Italian. This CD just proves that they could take any song and make it theirs! Don was especially good at this!!! I Very Highly reccommend this CD to any music lover! EB FOREVER!!.

Rock N' Soul/Beat N' Soul
Great music! The Everlys' harmonies shine through clearly on this album.

this is very golden good rock n roll that I highly recommend
a few months after "it's everly time" and "date with the Everly brothers" which were masterpieces here are again past golden recordings by the Evs. I have waited 4O years to get these fabulous recordings on cd !
two original albums from early 60's are there + some bonus tracks. inside this set are two original albums r n soul and b n soul. the first is musicaly very good (but unfortunately sound quality is by far under the level of previous warner recordings and that new cd edition does not solve the issue,now we know it came from the original masters unfortunately) while the second deserves more than 5 stars it should be 6 or 7 (amazon please open a new scale !) both for music and sound quality. if you like the evs when they are rocking you'll be jumping on your feet during all tracks : ALL are perfect, the evs voices are very strong dominating a band. . . but what a band ! it's just dynamite,see the names mentioned above by previous reviewer and that's the dream team !those who saw the evs on stage many times may have seen some "slow" and flying shows (so sad and slepless nights style) or "rocking" shows (both perfect dreams in my mind) and this (B n s) is indeed the rocking side of the everlys in full youth and strength ! rush to buy this double cd set as you won't find these cds available for a long time ! thank you warner uk that you put this box at last on the shelves just before Don and Phil are back for a tour in UK !
And I'll be there dreaming they will sing "man with money" while in Oxford ! Thierry Cordonnier.

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