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- Date Released: January 1, 1959
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock/Pop Rockabilly, Pop
- Label: Barnaby Records / IODA
The early hits from one of early rock and roll's most famous groups.
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We Say...
In the vinyl reaches of my record collection, nestled deep within a section I think of as Golden Age (though it means I, too, am turning 24karat) is a Cadence album featuring two visages of sculptural classicism, posed against a blue background that emphasizes their royalty to a youthful obsessive setting forth on his music collecting odyssey. It is the first album I ever bought, and though I don't remember where (possibly Klein's department store in Manhattan's Union Square), I do enjoy the thought that I couldn't believe I was getting so many hits in one place. And you didn't have to lift the needle for each one! I played it on a record player that I received for Christmas of 1958 in the shape of a conga drum; I don't have that phonograph anymore, but I still have the tattered and worn twelve-inch disc, scarred with many listenings and "All I Have to Do Is Dream"-ings.
The Best of the Everly Brothers is truly a magnificent collection. Covering Don and Phil's remarkable oeuvre in a year and a half of meteoric rise, each cut, a or b side, is a slice of what made the duo so irresistible. Here are the close country harmonies that stopped just short of piercing, which the Beatles would understand and extend; the percussive acoustic guitars that took naturally to open G tuning, a sound which the Rolling Stones Keith Richards' would seize upon; and the inventive songwriting courtesy of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, not only expressing teenage infatuation ("Problems," "Wake Up Little Susie," "Bird Dog") but resonating far beyond the 'twixt-twelve-and-twenty years: "Devoted to You" is exquisite in its bended knee pledge of fealty.
The Everlys would make many more hits after their first Greatest assemblage, but in this album, you can hear their excitement as they find themselves, as I found them. -
They Say...
The Everly Brothers' Cadence sides of the late '50s feature some of the duo's best work. Shooting to stardom in their wake, the Brothers' many Cadence highlights include "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is Dream," "Problems," and "When Will I Be Loved." All of these were represented on the original 12-song LP, which also provided a heavy dose of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant's incredible songs -- on top of a handful of classics authored by the Everlys themselves -- not to mention the chance to hear of some of the best Nashville players of the day. Maybe not as attractive as Rhino's Everly roundups (one features both the Cadence sides and their subsequent Warner Bros. hit), this original Cadence compilation still holds up nicely after almost half-a-century.
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Bye Bye Love |
2:24 |
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| 02. | |
I Wonder If I Care As Much |
2:17 |
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| 03. | |
Wake Up Little Susie |
2:06 |
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| 04. | |
Maybe Tomorrow |
2:09 |
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| 05. | |
Should We Tell Him |
2:07 |
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| 06. | |
This Little Girl Of Mine |
2:17 |
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| 07. | |
All I Have To Do Is Dream |
2:21 |
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| 08. | |
Claudette |
2:13 |
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| 09. | |
Bird Dog |
2:17 |
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Devoted to You |
2:25 |
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| 11. | |
Problems |
1:59 |
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| 12. | |
Love Of My Life |
2:07 |
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12 Total Tracks, 26:42 Total Length
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