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to Nashville.[11] Despite aliation with RCA, Atkins arranged for the Everly Brothers to record for Columbia
Records in early 1956. Their Keep A' Lovin' Me, which
Don wrote, opped and they were dropped.
1
1.1
History
Family and education
Don was born in Brownie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in 1937, and Phil two years later in Chicago,
Illinois. Their parents were Isaac Milford Ike Everly,
Jr. (19081975), a guitar-player, and Margaret Embry
Everly.[1][2] Actor James Best (born Jules Guy), also from
Muhlenberg County, was the son of Ikes sister. Margaret
was 15 when she married Ike, who was 26. Ike worked
in coal mines from 14 but his father encouraged him to
pursue his love of music. Ike and Margaret began singing
together.[3] The Everly brothers spent most of their childhood in Shenandoah, Iowa.[4] They attended Longfellow
Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa, for a year,[5] but
then moved to Shenandoah in 1944, where they remained
through early high school.
Ike Everly had a show on KMA and KFNF in Shenandoah in the mid-1940s, rst with his wife, and then with
their sons. The brothers sang on the radio as Little Donnie and Baby Boy Phil.[6] The family sang as the Everly
Family.[7] Ike, with guitarists Merle Travis, Mose Rager,
and Kennedy Jones, was honored in 1992 by construction
of the Four Legends Fountain in Drakesboro, Kentucky.
The family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1953,
where the brothers attended West High School. In
1955, the family moved to Madison, Tennessee, while
the brothers moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Don had
graduated from high school in 1955, and Phil attended
Peabody Demonstration School in Nashville,[8] from
which he graduated in 1957.[9] Both could now focus on
recording.[10]
1.2
1950s
1 HISTORY
skie group!
NME November 1960[16]
Around this same time, they set up their own record label,
Calliope Records, for solo projects. Using the pseudonym
Adrian Kimberly, Don recorded a big-band instrumental version of "Pomp and Circumstance" arranged by
Neal Hefti, and charted in the United States top 40 in
mid-1961. Further instrumental singles credited to Kimberly followed but none charted. Phil formed the Keestone Family Singers, which featured Glen Campbell and
Carole King. Their lone single, Melodrama, failed to
chart, and by the end of 1962, Calliope Records was no
more.
They never stopped working as a duo but their last United
States Top Ten hit was 1962s Thats Old Fashioned, a
song recorded but unreleased by the Chordettes and given
to the brothers by their old mentor, Archie Bleyer. Succeeding years saw the Everly Brothers sell fewer records
in the United States. Their enlistment in the United States Performing on the 1970 Johnny Cash summer replacement show
Marine Corps Reserve in October 1961 (rather than being drafted into the Army for two years of active service) Though their U.S. stardom had begun to wane two years
took them out of the spotlight.[17] One of their few per- before the British Invasion in 1964, their appeal remained
1.5
in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. The Everlys remained successful in the UK and Canada throughout most of the 1960s, reaching the top 40 in the United
Kingdom through 1968, and the top 10 in Canada as late
as 1967. The 1966 album Two Yanks in England was
recorded in England with the Hollies, who also wrote
many of the albums songs. 1967 brought the Everlys
nal Top US 40 hit, (Bowling Green).
3
Which Way You Can (1980) playing in the band behind
Sondras.
1.4
LEGACY
Everlys and Prine had family connections to Muhlenberg 1.7 Recent activities
County, Kentucky, and Prine was a frequent performer at
The Everly Brothers Homecoming concerts in Central On October 25, 2014, Don Everly attended the 2014 AnCity, Kentucky, over the years.
nual Music Masters as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
In 1998, the brothers recorded Cold for the Andrew paid homage to the Everly Brothers. Don took the State
his and his brothers classic
Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle Down the Theater stage and performed
[40]
hit
"Bye
Bye
Love".
Wind, and the recording was used in stage versions as
a song on the radio. This would be the nal original
recording ever made by the Everly Brothers as a band.
In 1999, Don and Edan Everly performed The Everly
Brothers for Kentucky Flood Relief.
The brothers joined Simon & Garfunkel in their Old
Friends reunion tour of 2003 and 2004. As a tribute
to the Everly Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel opened their
own show and had the Everlys come out in the middle. The live album, Old Friends: Live on Stage, contains Simon & Garfunkel discussing the Everlys inuence on their career and features all four in on Bye Bye
Love (the subsequent DVD features two extra solo performances by the Everlys). For Paul Simon, it was not the
rst time he had performed with his heroes, as in 1986,
the Everlys sang background vocals on the title track of
Simons album Graceland.
1.6
3 Legacy
The music of the Everly Brothers inuenced the Beatles, who referred to themselves as the English Everly
Brothers[37] when Paul and John went hitch-hiking south
to win a talent competition,[46] and based the vocal arrangement of "Please Please Me" on "Cathys Clown".[47]
Keith Richards called Don Everly one of the nest
rhythm players.[48] Paul Simon, who worked with the
pair on "Graceland", said, the day after Phils death: Phil
and Don were the most beautiful sounding duo I ever
heard. Both voices pristine and soulful. The Everlys were
there at the crossroads of country and R&B. They witnessed and were part of the birth of rock and roll.[6]
The Everly Brothers had 35 Billboard Top-100 singles,
26 in the top 40. They hold the record for the most Top100 singles by any duo, and trail Hall & Oates for the
most Top-40 singles by a duo. In the UK, they had 30
chart singles, 29 in the top 40, 13 top 10, and 4 at No.
1 between 1957 and 1984. They had 12 top-40 albums
between 1960 and 2009.
5
In 1986, the Everly Brothers were among the rst 10
artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
They were introduced by Neil Young, who observed that
every musical group he belonged to had tried and failed
to copy the Everly Brothers harmonies. That year, on
July 5, the Everlys returned to Shenandoah to a crowd of
8,500 for a concert, parade, street dedication, class reunion, and other activities. Concert fees were donated to
the Everly Family Scholarship Fund which gives scholarships to middle and high school students in Shenandoah.
In 1997, the brothers were awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the
Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Vocal
Group Hall of Fame in 2004.[49] Their contribution has
been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. The
Everly Brothers have a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. In 2004, Rolling Stone
Magazine ranked the Everly Brothers No. 33 of the 100
Greatest Artists of All Times.[50] They are also No. 43
on the list of UK Best selling singles artists of all time.[51]
They wrote Till I Kissed You (Don), Cathys Clown
(Don and Phil), and When Will I Be Loved (Phil).
Cathys Clown and When Will I Be Loved became
hits for Reba McEntire and Linda Ronstadt, respectively (for the latter, the Everly Brothers sang the chorus). Also, Cathys Clown was covered by the legendary
Tarney/Spencer Band. It was released as a single in 1979.
Band member Alan Tarney (former member of the Shadows) went on to be a producer for hit machines like Cli
Richard and a-ha, the Norwegian band who in turn covered Crying In The Rain in 1990 for its fourth album,
East of The Sun, West of The Moon.
5 See also
Gibson Everly Brothers Flattop
List of songs recorded by the Everly Brothers
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money for a scholarship fund for Muhlenberg County stu- [10] Everly Brothers Surprised. Richmond (VA) Timesdents. Don and Phil toured the United Kingdom in 2005,
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Gone, Gone, produced by T-Bone Burnett.
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