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The Everly Brothers - Two Yanks in England Audio CD

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The Everly Brothers Band: The Everly Brothers
Title: Two Yanks in England
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Release Date: 2005-08-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Somebody Help Me 2: So Lonely 3: Kiss Your Man Goodbye 4: Signs That Will Never Change 5: Like Everytime Before 6: Pretty Flamingo 7: I�ve Been Wrong Before 8: Have You Ever Loved Somebody 9: The Collector 10: Don�t Run And Hide 11: Fifi The Flea 12: Hard, Hard Year

Everly Brothers Sing Hollies
The Hollies covers include "So Lonely", "Signs That Will Never Change", "Like Everytime Before", "I've Been Wrong Before", "Have You Ever Loved Somebody", "Don't Run And Hide", "Fifi The Flea", and "Hard Hard Year". Great album! Eight of the twelve songs are Hollies covers, which is pretty great since I love both The Hollies and The Everly Brothers. This album also has a Manfred Mann cover, "Pretty Flamingo". This is a fantastic album that The Everly Brothers did in the UK. They made the songs different from the originals with their unique voices and though it's not really The Everly Brothers' "style", it's still a wonderful album to own.


A very good and rare Everly record

The Everlys had deeply inspired the Beatles and, at this period of time, the beatles had inspired the Everlys in return. This is a very rare and good Everly CD; buy it while you can !
The style is not country, it's a rocking one it's also quite unique (no other Everly record has such a sound) It was NOT recorded in USA but in UK during the musical Bristish "invasion" (early sixties).
It includes one master piece sung by Don only "The collector" but almost all tracks are very good anyway !
Rush ! Thierry Cordonnier from France.


Great Sleeper Album
But nothing is amiss here. I'd always passed over this album because I assumed it was too far out of the Everly's range, stylistically, that perhaps it was a reach for them. I was pleasantly surprised by the strength of the material as well as the performances on this album. I believe this ranks up there with some of their better material ("It's Everly Time", IMHO, being the penultimate vision).

"Kiss Your Man Goodbye" is a classic. "So Lonely", and "Somebody Help Me" are the Brit rockers - but there are plenty of plaintive moments here too: "Hard, Hard Year"; even comi-tragedies, "Fifi The Flea". Some of the other songs are filled with some dated sixties imagery (with a touch of Petula Clark uptown swank - shudder, shudder): "Pretty Flamingo" and "Signs That Will Never Change", although the latter has a great structure. "The Collector" is also a great tune.

The best of the Everly's material utilized backing musicians who understood the songs, and this is most definitely the case here - the musicianship encourages repeated listenings. Great arrangements, magnificent sound engineering and overall production quality.

I'm very pleased that this album is currently available on CD - if you are a Hollies or Everly fan, snatch it up while it's hot. If you are new to the Everly's, or looking for their hits, perhaps this isn't the place to start. If you've heard a couple of their better known albums, give this a spin.

Although it is a cohesive album, the material here isn't as strong lyrically as it is melodically, falling to the safety of genericism at times, but never cliche. Even if the Everly's were it's disciples, this whole album reeks faintly of playing to a trend, following it and not leading. But overall their message here transcends the time that has passed since it was recorded. .


Everly Brothers sing The Hollies...plus
The Everlys were searching for material, and The Hollies were on an upswing with their hit formula, so naturally the two collaborated on this project. This is the infamous album that resulted from a chance meeting between The Everly Brothers and The Hollies. 8 of the 12 tracks are Hollies tunes, with slightly different arrangements. "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" is particularly effective, with Don's vocal delivery a delight. Excellent studio players involved, apparently Jimmy Page and a couple of Hollies were in the studio for these sessions. The whole album plays through very smoothly. The Everlys' sole self-penned tune, "Kiss Your Man Goodbye" shows that they hadn't lost their touch. Bossa Nova rhythms permeate "Like Everytime Before", a great Hollies song that got limited release back in the '60s (as a B-side and on a "Greatest Hits" compilation in Germany only), despite being a superior tune. "The Collector", another of the 4 non-Hollies tunes, is quite beautiful. Very good listening here. .


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