The Everly Brothers Sing
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1967
RecordedNovember 12, 1965 - June 22, 1967
Genre
LabelWarner Bros.[2]
ProducerDick Glasser
The Everly Brothers chronology
The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers
(1967)
The Everly Brothers Sing
(1967)
Roots
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

The Everly Brothers Sing is an album by the Everly Brothers, released by Warner Bros. in 1967.[4] It was re-released on CD by Collectors' Choice Music in 2005.

The album includes their last Top 40 hit, "Bowling Green."[5] It was also their last Top 100 hit until 1984.[6]

Critical reception

Billboard praised the album, singling out "Bowling Green" and the duo's cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale."[7]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Bowling Green" (Terry Slater, Jacqueline Ertel) – 2:50
  2. "A Voice Within" (Terry Slater) – 2:23
  3. "I Don't Want to Love You" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) – 2:48
  4. "It's All Over" (Don Everly) – 2:23
  5. "Deliver Me" (Daniel Moore) – 2:35
  6. "Talking to the Flowers" (Terry Slater) – 2:57

Side two

  1. "Mary Jane" (Terry Slater) – 3:01
  2. "I'm Finding It Rough" (Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Chris Thomas) – 2:47
  3. "Do You" (Terry Slater) – 2:47
  4. "Somebody Help Me" (Jackie Edwards) – 2:01
  5. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid) – 4:55
  6. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) – 2:28

Personnel

  • Don Everly – guitar, vocals
  • Phil Everly – guitar, vocals
  • Al Capps – guitar; arrangement on "Bowling Green"
  • Terry Slater – bass guitar
  • Al Casey, Glen Campbell, Jay Lacy - guitar on "Bowling Green"
  • Chuck Berghofer - bass guitar on "Bowling Green"
  • Don Randi - keyboards on "Bowling Green"
  • Hal Blaine, Jon Sargent - drums on "Bowling Green"
  • Jules Jacob - brass on "Bowling Green"
  • Jay Migliori - woodwind on "Bowling Green"
  • James Burton - guitar on "Bowling Green" and "It's All Over"[8]
  • Billy Strange, Gene Page - arrangements
Technical

References

  1. 1 2 3 AllMusic review
  2. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 via Google Books.
  3. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 via Google Books.
  4. The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Fireside. 1995. p. 337.
  5. "The Everly Brothers". Billboard.
  6. Stein, Sadie (October 2, 2015). "Close Harmony".
  7. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (August 19, 1967). "Album Reviews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  8. Down in the Bottom, The Everly Brothers, The Country Rock Sessions 1966-1968, CD, Cherry Red Records, London, England, liner notes, 2020



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