Comments on: 100 Greatest Men: #80. The Everly Brothers

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Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:17:57 +0000

[...] The Everly Brothers come in at #80 on Country Universe’s list of country music’s 100 greatest men. [...]

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:35:50 +0000

LOVE these guys! But also loving Charlie Allen! Here’s his song “Grandpa’s Recipe” http://www.charlieallenmusic.com/index.htm

By: bob

bob — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:23:10 +0000

Great article. When you hear the name Everly you think of their great harmonies. I was 11 when Bye Bye Love became their first hit and I have 8 or 9 of their 45′s on Cadence records. “Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers” is one of the first LP’s I ever bought. I didn’t get to see them in concert til the mid 80′s at Westbury and didn’t know they were in the Country Music Hall of Fame til a few months ago.

Some other singles I would consider essential:
“Till I Kissed You”
“Let It Be Me”
“So Sad”
“Walk Right Back”
“Crying in the Rain”
“That’s Old Fashioned”
“Gone Gone Gone” (recently covered by AK/Plant)
“Bowling Green”

A few other album track favorites:
“Mention My Name in Sheboygan”, a song from the 40′s which sounds like a vaudeville tune.
“Up in Mabel’s Room” – with the line “winner or dud, you feel like a stud, up in Mabel’s room”.
“Don’t Say Goodnight”

By: Erik North

Erik North — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:53:34 +0000

Besides everything else, including their hits, the Everlys will always be important for bringing the close high-harmony vocal sound of traditional country music and bluegrass into a rock and roll context, which is why they’ve been enshrined in both Nashville and Cleveland. Some of their best stuff, in fact, includes songs not heard on the radio much, including their minor 1967 country-rock hit “Bowling Green”, and 1984′s “On The Wings Of A Nightingale” (which I believe was written by one James Paul McCartney).

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:09:49 +0000

This group is way too low on the list – while I don’t think they’d be in my top thirty they would be somewhere close to it. Whether performing country or pop material, there were few that could equal the harmonies of the Everly Brothers and few who actually disliked their music