The Everly Brothers: "Bye Bye Love" - Vinyl Friday #64
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2024
- Much like with the ELO miniseries, I feel as though I'm sneaking a Beatles Vinyl Friday in through the back door here. I mean...we're really digging into the DNA of the Beatles on this one, aren't we?
I don't have a great gauge on how popular the Everly Brothers are now, so I have no idea whether or not this will be a popular episode, but putting this one together has been singularly interesting for me. It took ages to make, because I was having such a good time combing through archival footage and interviews. I don't think I've learned so much making a VF as I have in the production of this one, and I hope there's something in here that's of interest to you too!
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My mother loved The Everly Brothers! Good memories of her listening to them while cleaning the house. :D
I love those harmonies.
Fantastic video! Love hearing you talk about music. Just pulled out my Everly Bros. album a few days ago. Nice to see you talk about this today.
I am glad you included First Aid Kit in your sibling list. I have been a fan of their music for a number of years now and I am just infatuated with their music. They are like a modern day female version of The Everly Brothers. You did leave out The Mills Brothers. They would emulate instruments with their voices. As usual I enjoyed the video, very insightful.
you've landed the plane today with these guys AND that t-shirt AND so far i've only seen the thumbnail.
Here I am, just beginning my travels through your musicological insights, and very much enjoying that, when -- Bye Bye Love?? That record was "my first song" -- in the sense that it was the first song I heard that was a personal treasure. I do remember two things on the radio before it -- a pipe band playing 'Scotland the Brave' and Guy Mitchell's 'Singing the Blues' but they were songs that grownups liked as well, that families liked together. When 7 year old me heard Bye Bye Love it was a direct electrical connection (first stirrings of Individuation?, or is that stretching things? nevermind), an intoxication that craved private repetition. Amazing. And -bonus!- my record collection began a few years later with two 45s, one of which was .... 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?' by Lonnie Donegan. [BTW, is 'Donny Lonegan' {10:43) an easter egg or a slip o'the tongue? Nice one, either way.] Thanks. Now I'm moving on to Revolver track two!
Thank you. As a geographer and a music, appreciator I visited the Everly Brothers shrine in Clarinda, Iowa it is a waist high piece of rock with a thoughtful plaque on it
Great t-shirt!!
Cool analysis!
Another wonderful video! My favourite singing siblings (singblings?), apart from the brilliant ones you listed, are The Carpenters and The Corrs.
I can't believe I forgot the Carpenters!
Excellent episode as usual. The Everlys are usually overlooked in their influence on the Beatles n favor of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard et al but as you documented John & Paul acknowledged it. The Everlys just weren't macho enough for a lot of 60s rock fans (although their spiritual heirs Simon & Garfunkel were huge). If you combine the Everlys & Buddy Holly you have most of the sound of the early Lennon-McCartney songs.
Paul McCartney wrote their reunion song On the Wings of a Nightingale (1984)
that was thematically interesting and placed the everly brothers in context. i've always responded to the themes of sadness and rejection in their music ' it makes me cry to see love die, so sad to watch good love go bad'. what y'know it makes me feel great! i think they're pop/ rock n roll royalty. for the beatles i would say buddy holly was an essential influence too.
not sure that african american influence is was the only game in town. there are traditions of folk and music Hall in the beatles backstory. even the stones, so heavily into blues, could write a song like as tears go by: quite european.
sibling stars: the davies brothers, an antipodean shout for the finn brothers ( only talking sense is cool), the shulman brothers in gentle giant. my own favourites the bronte sisters: i think they did the original wuthering heights and sweet jane eyre way before the velvets. charlotte was on bass i think.
it's great to see this shift into broad themes and the sock thing is beginning to find it's feet.
African American influence definitely isn't the only game in town, agreed. I was listening to a podcast about country music yesterday, and the host rightly pointed out that country music's other parent is, of course, Celtic folk music (the fiddle being one of the most significant contributions there).
Thanks for the nod to Oceania. My band recorded our first album in Neil Finn's studio. He popped his head in to see who was using the studio, and told us he liked the band name. Haha, our claim to fame.
yeah they are very similar 😂 Don is the one with darker hair, and the young one, Phil, is a little bit taller 1:57
Love yer music nerdity (is that a word?) How bout The Korgis? I always liked "Something About The Beatles" by them. ☺
Just giving it a listen now. I think it was the theme song to a Beatles podcast by the same name. Very catchy!
English Settlement t-shirt!
For another sibling group: the Roches
Ooooh! Good one!!
Jackson Five, Osmond's, Gladys Knight and the Pips. Don has dark hair, Phil's is lighter.
Try playing The Beatles' version of Chains back to back with the Everlys' When Will I Be Loved. I don't think The Beatles will even have known that the Everlys had recorded a version of Chains because the latter ultimately rejected the song (perhaps because of this similarity?) - their version was only released later. I think The Beatles had only heard The Cookies' version, which was _very_ new when they recorded theirs.
I know who did you miss, The Von Trapp children 😅😂
Watched your video again... and just thought of Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas.
and since you mentioned the Andrew Sisters... why not the Lennon Sisters.
Then there's The Osmond Brothers... and Donnie & Marie.
Also noticed that I left out Jerry Lee Lewis (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On") which I meant to include on that early R&R list - so I edited it in.
Also wanted to say that my favorite Everly Brothers records are.... "Cathy's Clown", "Till I Kissed You" and "Walk Right Back".
Would enjoy hearing you talk about any of them.
And that Paul McCartney wrote a song for the Everly Brothers ("On the Wings of a Nightingale") which they recorded and released in 1984. It git to #41 in the UK, #50 in the US - and #9 on the US adult contemporary chart.
Billie Eilish! Well done.
I saw a Graham Nash interview about hearing the Everly brothers for the first time. He had already partnered up with Allan Clarke to work on harmonies for the Hollies. They knew they were pretty good. Real good. The two of them were strolling across an auditorium and over the speakers came the Everly Brothers. They both stopped walking to listen to this music. It literally stopped them in their tracks. • One other TRUE story. I live in Orange County California. That is the home of Knott's Berry farm. Which is in turn the home of the John Wayne Theater. My high school pal was working as an usher in the John Wayne Theater the night when the Every Brother broke up ON STAGE. Since then they got back together - several times.
Here's their AMAZING live performance of the Marc Knopfler gem "Why Worry". czcams.com/video/oIiXoo6TSBs/video.htmlsi=pK52oR8MFJSjfmLc
That would have been an incredible thing to witness!
Your dad said The Jackson Five
Good one, Dad!
cowsills
Seriously, The Carpenters
Bird Dog
Ann and Nancy Wilson of "Heart"
Mona and Lisa Wagner of the MonaLisa Twins. They do amazing Beatles covers: czcams.com/video/jXc-c4qTXmA/video.html
And also some wonderful originals. This was written after the loss of their grandmother: czcams.com/video/iPzUcGPAtR0/video.html
"As does pretty much everything that's nice to listen to; let's be honest." Woah... I think there would be a lot of fans of classical music that might say otherwise... I'd think people like Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Berlioz, Schubert, Schuman, Mendelssohn, Listz, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Debussy and Rachmaninoff just might have something to say about that. And these people from not that long ago... as well: Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, Rogers and Hammerstein, Richard Rogers, Cole Porter...
Like... spork (half spoon - half fork).
John & Paul were very obviously trying to sing together like Phil & Don. As were Simon and Garfunkel... and soooo many other people who listened to the Everly Brothers records in the late 1950s and and early 1960s.
My mom LOVED the Everly Brothers... and I did because of her. I took my mom to see them play live in the 1980s.
I always include the Everly Brothers among the early greats of rock n roll. But... many other greats came before them - to get rock n roll going. Here's my general timeline...
There were a lot of great R&B records before R&R. I'd list Ray Charles' "I Got A Woman" as an example. Recorded in November of 1954, released in December of 1954... it was #1 on the R&B chart but did not chart on the pop chart.
The first R&R record to make #1 on the pop chart was Bill Haley and his Comets "Rock Around the Clock". The song was recorded in April of 1954 and released on May 20th, 1954. But it did not sell well at all and didn't chart in the US until it was used in the movie "Blackboard Jungle" which came out in March of 1955. The song was re-issued in May of 1955 and kept building in popularity until it finally reached #1 on July 9th, 1955 - and it stayed at the top for 8 weeks. The song had top 20 popularity in the UK before it was in the movie, reaching #17 in January of 1955. It made a big comeback and went to #1 in November of 1955 in the UK.
Fats Domino recorded "Ain't That A Shame" in March of 1955 and it came out in April. It got to #10 on the pop chart.
Elvis had a song you probably know because Lennon used some of the lyric for his "Run For Your Life" song. Elvis recorded "Let's Play House" was released in April of 1955 and went to #5 on the country chart. (DNC in pop).
Chuck Berry recorded "Maybellene" in May of 1955 and it came out in July of 1955. It peaked at #5 in the US pop chart on September 10th, 1955.
Elvis released "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" in August 1955 and it became his first #1 song - on the country chart (still not pop).
Little Richard recorded "Tutti Fruitti" in September of 1955 and it was released in October. It peaked at #18 on the US pop chart.
Carl Perkins recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" in December of 1955 and it came out in January of 1956.
Elvis recorded "Heartbreak Hotel" on January 10th, 1956 and it also came out in January.
Carl's record beat Elvis's to the top 10 and the top 5... but "Heartbreak Hotel" jumped to the #1 spot in April and stayed there for 8 weeks.
Elvis had 7 #1 songs before the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" was released in March of 1957. It made it to #2 on the pop chart in June of 1957 - but never got to the top spot... blocked by Presley's "Teddy Bear".
Jerry Lee Lewis recorded "Whole Lotto Shaken Goin' On" in February of 1957 and it came out on April 15th, 1957. It peaked at #3 in September of 1957.
Buddy Holly 's first hit record ("That'll Be the Day") came along and made the top 10 in August... and got to #1 on September 23, 1957.
Everly Brothers "Wake Up Little Susie" went to #1 on October 14th, 1957... but was knocked off the top spot the next week by Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" which stayed there for 6 weeks.
Thanks for this fantastic breakdown! All worthwhile mentions. Interestingly, "Baby Let's Play House" is also on that incredible recording, taken from *the very day* that Paul and John met (isn't it incredible that this piece of history exists?!) Here it is, if you're interested: czcams.com/video/hSdgFc5g4f0/video.html
As for the classical music thing - I absolutely agree. I was being a bit facetious ;)
@@fathommusicnz - Yes... it's amazing someone captured that piece of history. I always celebrate July 6th with some Beatle music. It's a must.
Btw... I have to know - did you ever get that fly..?
@@aBeatleFan4ever I decided to show it some mercy and shooed it out of the house instead.
@@fathommusicnz AND Run for Your Life was a riff on it!