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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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KEYWORDS: everlybrothers; music; obituary; phil
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Another music legend of the 50s & 60s is gone.

Some of their hits: "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", "Carly's Clown", "Cryin' in the Rain".

1 posted on 01/03/2014 7:11:35 PM PST by Carriage Hill
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To: carriage_hill

“Bird Dog”. One of my favorites.


2 posted on 01/03/2014 7:13:28 PM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: carriage_hill

Phil & Don. Great music makers who had a great influence on The Beatles.


3 posted on 01/03/2014 7:15:32 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: carriage_hill

Wasn’t it “Cathy’s Clown”?


4 posted on 01/03/2014 7:15:35 PM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: 7thson

I saw them twice in La Crosse, WI


5 posted on 01/03/2014 7:16:13 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: carriage_hill

If my memory is correct I think at one time he was Axal Rose of Gun & Rose father in law at the time his daughter Erin Everly marry Axel she was inspiration of Sweet Child of mine


6 posted on 01/03/2014 7:16:42 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: carriage_hill

R.I.P.

Always enjoyed the Everly’s music.


7 posted on 01/03/2014 7:18:12 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: carriage_hill

I grew up with the Everly Bros. music..
nothing like it today...

we are loosing all the great ones..
prayers for his family...


8 posted on 01/03/2014 7:20:03 PM PST by haircutter
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To: carriage_hill

died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after decades of smoking.”

...always trying to sell us on the evils of tobacco and how Philip Morris etc are the evil empire. Worthy of destroying...


9 posted on 01/03/2014 7:22:11 PM PST by albie
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To: carriage_hill
Hits in the 1960s included "Carly's Clown,"

It did?

10 posted on 01/03/2014 7:23:30 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: carriage_hill

For those who never heard their music:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Everly+Brothers/Everly+Brothers+20+Greatest+Hits/Bird+Dog


11 posted on 01/03/2014 7:26:15 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: carriage_hill
Since no one has mentioned it yet:

They were both Marines.

From an era where almost all "celebrities" served in uniform.

Now we have draft dodgers like Clintoon and the Kenyan usurper.............

12 posted on 01/03/2014 7:28:44 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: carriage_hill

Love their version of let it be me.


13 posted on 01/03/2014 7:30:37 PM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Genoa

It was Cathy’s Clown, I still have the 45.

Dream is one of the greatest pop ballads ever. They were rockabilly royalty.


14 posted on 01/03/2014 7:31:19 PM PST by Argus
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To: carriage_hill

I was so wishing those two would make up and start touring. What beautiful harmonies.


15 posted on 01/03/2014 7:32:42 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: 7thson

It’s one of the early ones I remember...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US49tQbYsg0


16 posted on 01/03/2014 7:34:36 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Argus

A couple of handsome young fellas.


17 posted on 01/03/2014 7:34:55 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: carriage_hill

Both brothers went through MCRD San Diego in 1961.

RIP Marine

Semper fi


18 posted on 01/03/2014 7:35:04 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: carriage_hill

Ah ***damnit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up, s***! When did that happen?
-Jack Colton


19 posted on 01/03/2014 7:35:45 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Genoa

It was Cathy’s Clown; I just cut & pasted it from the article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgo3Lkns5s


20 posted on 01/03/2014 7:36:10 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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