RIP Phil Everly

Yes, I was sorry to hear the news too. I remember singing with my friends at school in the playground 'Cathy's Clown', thinking we were harmonising like they did.

My cousin (6 years older) used to play the Everley Brothers, among others, so they were part of my introduction to pop music. Such a sweet sound.

What were your favourite songs? I love Dream, Living Too Close To The Ground and Let It Be Me. Their harmonies were really amazing, always in tune and perfect diction, so you could hear every word. We have the Arena documentary and watched it again just before Christmas.

Ah, sad to hear this news. My favourites were Cathy's Clown and When Will I Be Loved.

So, we are spending this wet morning listening to the songs while we make the year's marmalade. Need to add Walk Right Back and Dream River to the favourite's list.

And of course the very appropriate So Sad.

Found the original thread now . Loved the Everlys

Some lovely tributes on Twitter. Great to see their influence on the Beatles acknowledged. Nice quote from Bob Dylan too, "they started it all".

Part of my teenage years we loved them and their sound,remembering :
Bye Bye Love
Wake uo Little Susie
The Price of Love
Ebony Eyes
and so so many more,thanks Everley's

Wake Up Little Susie (spelling) ^^

Which was banned on some radio stations for being risqué glammanana!
KatyK if you set your bookmark to the Active page you can see what is already there. Not that it matters, he deserves two threads!

My all time greatest too, not just for the singing but also their guitar playing - fantastic - which is why The Price of Love would be my pick as favourite track. Sister, friend and I saw them in Edinburgh on the Reunion tour. We sang along to every number, the soundtrack of our teenage years, with tears pouring down our faces, so emotional. It is notable that there are no Everlys' 'tribute' acts on the circuit. No one can emulate their unique sound.

Yes I remember that happening Mamie it happened to quite a few recording artists then didn't it.
The Troggs : I Can't Control Myself
The R Stones : Lets Spend the Night Together
Ricky Valence : Tell Laura I Love Her, this was banned because it sang a bout a young girl dying in a stock car race.
Such a change in attitude now when a lot of music is threaded with questionable expletives.

I do hope the Beeb will show the Arena documentary again. There are recordings of them singing with their parents and their Dad singing with his brothers who were miners and sang this fantastic gospel / folk / hillbilly mixture. There is a huge family reunion in Kentucky and a wonderful bit with Chet Atkins where he plays an amazing riff and Don just says, "I can't do that".

This was the first news I heard on the Radio this morning. I also loved their harmonies. A real backdrop to my teenage years.

My sister and I would dance to the Everly brothers music. Our favourite was Bye Bye Love...

We were talking about them at Christmas when a friend asked who was your schooldays heart throb. Hers was Elvis, mine The Everly Brothers though I think it was more their music than them personally.

I haven't seen the Arena programme, I'll keep a lookout for it.

'My sister and I would dance to the Everly brothers music' - Ditto, Soop that was another great thing about their music. A good steady rhythm that was very danceable, often a slow jive.

They were the best ever at close harmony - never been anyone to beat them. I went to see them live in about 1960 or 61 and only one of them turned up! He sang on stage on his own but it just wasn't the same!

Granny23 Yes...a slow jive...with my father shouting..."bloody awful row"...but then he said the same of Elvis and the rest. What did he know...

Wake Up Little Susie was a favourite. My sister being a Susan.

At the beginning of December I made a compilation CD of not so well known Christmas music. I downloaded the Everly Brothers, 'Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella.' I'd never heard it before and everyone liked it.

Cathy's Clown and Walk Right Back were my favourites.

Oh thank you Mamie I didn't know you could to that.

Mamie I love and always loved the Everley Brothers, even in the days of rock 'n roll when it was not that cool to admit to being a fan. I do hope they re-run that documentary which includes the family, will look out for it, is sounds wonderful.

RIP Phil. As someone said recently, if only 'RIP' stood for 'Repeat If Possible'.