oped: The Everly Brothers hands down were the best of the best in Harmony and Vocales...they rate right up there with Buddy Holly and the Crickets for setting the tone and showing the way for all the groups that followed.
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This beautiful clip of the Everly Brothers was filmed on their UK tour in 1960 with Buddy Holly's Crickets as the backup band, less than a year and half after the plane crash that took Holly's life. The Reelin' In The Years library contains hours of iconic performances from many of the great artists of the 50s, including Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, the Platters, the Big Bopper and many more.
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Singer Phil Everly of the famed Everly Brothers has died, his widow told The Los Angeles. He was 74.
Everly
passed away Friday in the Californian city of Burbank due to
complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Patti Everly
told the newspaper.
"We are
absolutely heartbroken," she said, noting her husband's disease was
caused by cigarette smoking. "He fought long and hard."
Together
with his brother Don, who survives him, Everly rose to fame in the late
1950s and 1960s for smash hits such as "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I
Have to Do is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love."
The duo, who influenced The Beatles as well as Simon and Garfunkel, were known for their close-harmony singing.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
into which the Everly Brothers were inducted in 1986, described their
harmonies as "one of the musical treasures of the 1950s and a major
influence on the music of the 1960s."
In 1957, the Everly
Brothers signed their first record deal and soon after produced hits
that spawned the genres of pop, rock and country. They were inducted
into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Tributes poured in soon after word of Everly's death surfaced.
"Rest
in peace Phil Everly. You guys brought us a lot of pleasure back in the
day," rock and country singer-songwriter Charlie Daniels tweeted.
Commenting
as a winter snowstorm hit the northeast United States, actor and
musician John Gallagher Jr. said: "This cold night just got colder. RIP
Phil Everly. The Everly Brothers Greatest Hits was my first CD as a kid
and will always be a favorite."
"They had that sibling sound,"
said Linda Ronstadt, who recorded one of the biggest hits of her career
in 1975 with her interpretation of Everly's "When Will I Be Loved."
"The
information of your DNA is carried in your voice, and you can get a
sound (with family) that you never get with someone who's not
blood-related to you," she told the Times.
"And
they were both such good singers -- they were one of the foundations,
one of the cornerstones of the new rock 'n' roll sound."
According
to a Rolling Stone biography of the legendary performers -- hailed as
"the most important vocal duo in rock" by the magazine -- Phil and his
younger brother Don were the children of Midwestern country stars Ike
and Margaret Everly and performed on the family radio show while growing
up.
As teenagers, they headed for Nashville, Tennessee, and began their stellar career.
In
addition to his wife and brother, Everly is survived by their mother,
Margaret, sons Jason and Chris, and two granddaughters.
The Times said funeral services would be private.
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