R.I.P. Rock Legend Don Everly

[Gidney N Cloyd]

https://www.noise11.com/news/rock-legend-don-everly-19-january-1939-to-21-august-2021-20210822
Sounds like he passed a couple days ago and it's just now getting around.
Rocky Mountain Mike also reporting.

[ChazII]

1. Bye, Bye Love

May Don rest in peace.

[elleng]

4. ;-)

[DURHAM D]

2. He endorsed Hillary in 2016.

Rest in peace.

[Cha]

8. Mahalo.. Good to know.. I love that stuff!

It's so strange and emotional to see my music favorites when I was young.. being old and passing on.

[Hoyt]

3. Darn. I was a little young to become a big fan, but I liked a lot of

their songs and musicians who incorporated their style later.

[GoodRaisin]

5. Yup. I'm just old enough to remember hearing some of those tunes on AM radio. nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. They were immeasurably influential on so many other musicians.

[myccrider]

36. I was a child in the 50s, but remember their songs from that time very well.

They crossed over with Country Western stations, which was the music I was raised on. I learned to sing harmony listening to them.

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I once worked with a cousin of the Everly Brothers

There was a family resemblance, but no musical talent of which i was aware.

[Beacool]

9. I'm sorry to hear of his passing.

May Don rest in peace.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. R.I.P. "Cathy's Clown" was my favorite.

[SunSeeker]

17. A great song. And they wrote it themselves!

Their songwriting and heavenly harmonies inspired bands like the Beach Boys and the Beatles.

[Johnny2X2X]

30. So ahead of their time.

Just seeing the film from so long ago is amazing.

[mountain grammy]

11. Rest In Peace

[Mr.Bill]

12. In the Early 60s when their career was not doing so well

I saw them play at a car show, of all places. They were really very good and left an impression on me. Their opening act was a couple of comedians I had never heard of called Rowan and Martin.

[crickets]

19. Wow. The fickle finger of fate blessed you that day. nt

[CentralMass]

25. You bet your sweet bippy.

[myohmy2]

13. sad...

...I liked their harmony...

...we're getting old...

...

[regnaD kciN]

20. I'll do my crying in the rain...

[luvs2sing]

35. Still my favorite.

[SunSeeker]

14. He was amazing, the way he created those angelic harmonies with his brother Phil...

Best thing to ever come out of Kentucky.

[William Seger]

23. Some of the best harmony ever recorded

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Their voices blended well, and they were pitch-perfect, but that's true of a lot of groups. The unique thing about their harmony was that their timing and phrasing was so identical -- even during those incredible slides! -- I always said it sounded like one person singing with two sets of vocal cords. I don't know if that came naturally to them, but most singers would need to put in hours and hours of practice to sing anywhere near that much alike.

[SunSeeker]

28. I think it helped that they were brothers and sang together since they were little kids.

I think that was also the secret behind the Beach Boys' (brothers Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson, cousin Mike Love) incredible harmonies as well.

[2naSalit]

15. ...

[alfredo]

16. Don was a wild man, and according to my wife, a nice guy.

She was friends with his wife.

The guys at Brown’s Diner will miss you.

[crickets]

18. Suddenly I remember summers at Y camp listening to tons of '50s tunes over the PA.

One of the camp directors loved music and connected the PA to a stereo system as excuse to play it constantly. It seemed a little odd at the time, in the late sixties, to be immersed in the music of the American Graffiti era for two weeks every August, several years in a row. A song or two would play after announcements calling us to one activity or another. We heard lots of the Everly Brothers. Those songs are wrapped around some very fond memories.

[John1956PA]

21. My favorite of theirs is "On the Wings of a Nightingale" (1984) written by Paul McCartney. n/t

[SunSeeker]

34. Perfect Everly Brothers song. Paul must have written it with their harmonies in mind.

[Demovictory9]

22. RIP

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. RIP

[Straw Man]

26. There's a story that just might be too good to be true.

A lot of their hits were written by the husband/wife team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. Supposedly the rivalry between the brothers was so great that the writers would split up to intro the songs to the brothers separately, telling each one that his was the lead part and that his brother's part was the harmony.

The joke of it all is that with those perfect two-part harmonies, neither is the lead: the melody lines are inextricable, and it's impossible to perform those songs correctly with only one voice.

[SunSeeker]

27. The Every Brothers wrote their biggest hit, Cathy's Clown, themselves. nt

[Straw Man]

32. True.

But the Bryants wrote "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have To Do Is Dream," "Take a Message To Mary," "Bird Dog," "Devoted To You," and "Love Hurts," among others.

[SunSeeker]

33. Yes, the Bryants were prolific songwriters! But so we're the Everly Brothers.

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As much as I love the Everly Brothers, I think Nazareth did the best version of Love Hurts.

But Cathy's Clown is not the only song the Everly Brothers wrote.
Don Everly wrote some of their most popular songs, including “Cathy’s Clown” (1960), as well as “(’Til) I Kissed You” (1959),  and “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)” (1960). Phil Everly’s compositions included “When Will I Be Loved” (1960), later covered by Linda Ronstadt.

[Totally Tunsie]

29. Rest well, Don.

And my personal favorite of theirs:

[denbot]

31. Cathy's Clown

Family thing, nuff said..

On Edit; Tom Petty loved these guys/band...