1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die - #27. Everly Brothers - A Date With the Everly Brothers (1960)

Everly Brothers - A Date With the Everly Brothers (1960)



Track Listing (standout tracks in bold)



1. Made To Love

2. That's Just Too Much

3. Stick With Me Baby

4. Baby What You Want Me To Do

5. Sigh Cry Almost Die

6. Always It's You

7. Love Hurts

8. Lucille

9. So How Come

10. Donna Donna

11. Change Of Heart

12. Cathy's Clown



Just a fine album. Great material and some very fine songs on the Everly Brothers (Phil and Don) on their second Warner LP released in 1960. It includes one of their best known songs "Cathy's Clown". It also includes their rocking cover of Little Richard's "Lucille," "Love Hurts" (which preceded Roy Orbison's hit version and of course later hit by Nazareth in the 70's), and "So How Come" (covered by the Beatles in 1963 on the BBC). In fact - you can hear the influences that the Everly Brothers had on the Beatles listening to this album. There is a nice innocence to this music. It's like they want to break loose but keep it clean and close to the vest. The very thing that Beatles did with this material.
Some of the songs are written by one or both of the brothers: "Cathy's Clown", "Made To Love" (a hit for Eddie Hodges), "Sigh, Cry, Almost Die", and"That's Just Too Much" but most of the songs are written by Boudleaux Bryant and his wife Felice Bryant who wrote most of the hits for The Everly Brothers. Add in a an early Mel Tillis song, "Stick With Me Baby", and you have a collection of songs that while nonessential to collectors are very good examples of well crafted sometimes not often heard songs that are hard not to listen to and well worth the time.
Highly recommended.

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