Just heard Phil Everly died

[montanacowboy]

74 yrs old - LA Times reporting

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Man, I am getting so old!

When I was still in diapers, my mom put me in front of the record player (it only played 45s) and I would "bounce" up and down to "Bye, bye, love".....


Just watched it performed by them on youtube:

[senseandsensibility]

23. Thanks for that.

They were a little before my time, but thanks to my Mom I grew up listening to them. They influenced so many groups that came after them, didn't they?

[Lifelong Protester]

24. You are welcome!

Nothing transports me back to my childhood faster than a tune, and this one in particular is from my 'toddler' days!

[JanMichael]

2. He did

sad:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-phil-everly-of-the-everly-brothers-dies-at-74-20140103,0,2091176.story#axzz2pOSa8e3E

[elfin]

3. Dammit. Eom

[countryjake]

4. I just spent New Year's Day trying to drown out football with them...

Oh, now I am so sad.

R.I.P. beautiful harmony.

[elleng]

7. Thanks. Great harmony,

just had fun singing along.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. DAMMIT!!!

I was a bit young in the 50s, but I heard their music all through the 60s!!

I have a documentary about them, and Linda Ronstadt admits to having a huge crush on Don back in the day.

It's a major crying fest when the brothers patch up their differences, play a reunion concert in 1983 at the Royal Albert Hall, and lovingly sing "Let it Be Me" to each other. That is profound.

[countryjake]

6. Yes, makes me sob even harder now...

[Booster]

12. Wow. I don't usually cry when celebrities die, but this really got to me.

Ever since I turned 70 I have always said that I would start really worrying when something happened to The Everly Brothers. Phil was my favorite and I am crying now. They were the best.

[countryjake]

17. I can't get over it.

It's so sad when an old mother buries her youngest child, but this musical family just lost their tenor nightingale.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. My first kiss happened while playing that Everly Brothers record

I was 12 and she was 14, my friend's sister who was teaching me to slow dance in my room upstairs. It was in the summer of 1961 and it was one of her favorite tunes (reached no. 7 on Billboard in 1960). I love that record and it brings back a lot of memories. The Everly Brothers anglicized the tune originally written and recorded by French singing star Gilbert Becaud, "Je t'appartiens" ("I belong to you&quot from 1955.

[countryjake]

25. So many precious memories...

are wrapped up in Everly Brothers' songs for me, too.

We used to sing "Bird Dog" while we were out in a cut corn field with my mother, trying to round up some of our wayward chickens before dark. It just used to crack her up to hear us, running around with our arms spread out, herding style, all harmonizing to that tune. With our border collies' quick stopping to sit, prick up their ears and look back at us, with expressions of, "Is that really necessary".

Thanks for posting their song, and for relating your sweet story. I played that very same video just a few days ago and got my old man up from his Rose Bowl to slow dance with me. Never dreamed that I'd be crying over it, today.

I'm listening to the original Becaud version right now...simply beautiful!

[Cha]

27. Thanks countryjake.. I loved the Everlys growing up..

who didn't?!

RIP Phil Everly

[Blue_In_AK]

8. That's one of my favorite EB songs.

They had such beautiful harmonies.

[countryjake]

14. Ebony Eyes was my favorite...

I played both sides of that record to death.

[riverwalker]

9. Rest In peace

and thank you for the music and so many memories.

[jaysunb]

10. I'm saddened, but

I had to laugh when I realized this was going to be an "old folks" thread.

RIP Phil.

[Cha]

28. Yep.. the

Everlys go waaaaay back to when we were growing up!

Phil Everly

[WillowTree]

11. Very sad.

[spanone]

13. the were just so fucking good. produced by chet atkins.

didn't get any better.

[Iggo]

15. Ah, beautiful beautiful two part harmony.

Thank you, Phil.

[NCarolinawoman]

16. One #1 hit after another...

and so easy to sing along with when you heard them on the radio..Dre-am Dre-am Dream...Dream dream dreee-am..

[reformist2]

18. When I think of the 50s, I think of the Everly Bros before Elvis.

Something about their sound was more universally appealing than any other act of the time.

[raccoon]

19. Sorry to hear that. I loved the Everly Brothers. Phil was the younger one. nt

[Tanuki]

20. Love hurts

[pipi_k]

21. We had such fun...

with this song back when my kids were very young.

My daughter's name is Jennifer and we called her "Jenny".

But they saved their best for the really sad songs...

Teenaged angst:

And motherly devotion:

[bevinprescott]

26. Just heard Phil Everly died

Phil Everly, along with John Denver & Steve Jobs, will always be with me in Spirit...what wonderful contributors to humanity...they stood for LOVE, PEACE AND HUMAN DIGNITY.