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Phil Everly of Everly Brothers dies at 74, newspaper reports.
NBC News/ Today Entertainment ^ | 1/3/2014 | Alex Johnson

Posted on 01/03/2014 7:11:35 PM PST by Carriage Hill

Phil Everly, half of one of the most popular and influential music duos of the 1950s and '60s, the Everly Brothers, died Friday at age 74, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The Times quoted Everly's wife, Patti, as saying Everly died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after decades of smoking.

NBC News couldn't immediately reach Patti Everly to confirm the Times report, which quoted her as saying, “We are absolutely heartbroken.”

At their peak, the Everly Brothers — Phil, who was born in 1939, and Don, who was born in 1937 and survives his younger brother — hit it big in 1957 with "Bye Bye Love."

With its soaring, tight harmonies expressing dejection at lost love in an anomalously chirpy manner, the song reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop charts. It has been covered by dozens of other prominent artists as wide-ranging as Ray Charles, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Trini Lopez and Simon & Garfunkel.

That was quickly followed by two more monster hits, "Wake Up Little Susie" and "All I Have to Do Is Dream."

Hits in the 1960s included "Carly's Clown," "When Will I Be Loved" and "Cryin' in the Rain."

(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...


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To: higgmeister

Good catch!


61 posted on 01/03/2014 9:05:08 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: higgmeister

Thanks, I forgot about that song.


62 posted on 01/03/2014 9:05:56 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Inyo-Mono; carriage_hill

urwc


63 posted on 01/03/2014 9:19:18 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: EDINVA

And the late teen years of those of us even older. :-) I think I was working at Knight Campbell’s sheet music/records store in Denver when “Dream” came out - I was newly married, but still a kid. Innocent, memorable, well performed songs with real words by nice people - those were the days, my friend, as another song goes.


64 posted on 01/03/2014 9:49:13 PM PST by CatDancer (There is such a thing as a Christian Objectivist, because I am one.)
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To: CatDancer

You left out grammatically correct! Remember “It was I??”

Whole other world we grew up in. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way (not that any of us has a choice that way).


65 posted on 01/03/2014 9:57:27 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

their version in the 80s of Mark Knopflers “why Worry” is one of my favorites,


66 posted on 01/03/2014 10:26:50 PM PST by captmar-vell
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To: carriage_hill

Not only is a music legend gone, but so is the great music of that era. I loved every one of their songs. RIP Phil.


67 posted on 01/03/2014 10:27:02 PM PST by Catsrus (A)
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To: carriage_hill
Memorable music to dream by...they were heavenly to listen to. I am so happy to have been a teenager during the mid 50s to 1960. Sweet memories of sweeter people, places and things.
68 posted on 01/03/2014 10:28:50 PM PST by itssme
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To: carriage_hill

Sad news. I always loved listening to the Everlys. Saw them live around he late 80s. They still sounded great then and had produced a couple of great albums in the 80s as well.


69 posted on 01/03/2014 10:29:38 PM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: carriage_hill

I went to Christchurch, NZ, US Navy base in 1963, and the enlisted men’s club was called the “Bird Dog.” Was said to be because Kiwi girls often came to the club with one sailor, then left with another. About the year 2000, I met a girl from Christchurch who told me the “Bird Dog” club was still operational.


70 posted on 01/03/2014 10:33:19 PM PST by looois
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To: carriage_hill

I have been a huge Everly fan since I was 12. My first real teenage crush was on Phil Everly and later, before they retired, I worked for them for several years. This is a huge part of my teen and early adult years gone.

Before I became a Christian, Rock and Roll was my god and Phil Everly was my messiah. May God grant him rest.


71 posted on 01/03/2014 11:27:15 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: albie

They bring up the smoking but not the fact he was also an alcoholic.


72 posted on 01/03/2014 11:28:06 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: SevenofNine

Erin is Don’s daughter, not Phil’s. But you are correct on the rest.


73 posted on 01/03/2014 11:28:50 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: carriage_hill

It’s truly bye, bye love. It was 1958. I was 7 and my brother was 12. Someone had gotten my sisters a record player that included one 45 rpm record. It was WAKE UP, LITTLE SUZY. My brother and I learned to harmonize listening to that record over and over until we wore it out. We really could harmonize just like them. And we did until the day my brother died.

As the great ones die, they’ll never be replaced.


74 posted on 01/03/2014 11:36:07 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Moonman62

I had no idea they did LOVE HURTS first. It was a big hit by Nazareth in 1976.


75 posted on 01/03/2014 11:40:44 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXkXY_BEd4Y

Their reunion concert...some of the songs I’m reminded just how great they were. Their harmonies created a “third” voice....the voice all of us would sing along with them. We weren’t singing lead. And we weren’t singing harmony. We were singing what they sounded like together. God, thank You for sharing them with us.


76 posted on 01/04/2014 12:00:02 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: carriage_hill

The incomparable Don’t Blame Me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Aak4-SMig


77 posted on 01/04/2014 1:02:52 AM PST by Rastus
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To: ealgeone
"Love their version of let it be me."

Those lyrics, slightly adapted, were my marriage vows.

78 posted on 01/04/2014 1:31:51 AM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Genoa

The echo-effect of the Cathy’s Clown vocals always had a spooky sound to me, made me nervous just hearing it on the radio back then. Bye Phil, and thank you for the (other) music.


79 posted on 01/04/2014 2:30:31 AM PST by lee martell
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To: itssme

Amen and bigtime dittos to that sentiment.


80 posted on 01/04/2014 3:47:40 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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