The Everly Brothers sang a lot of my favourite love songs. When I was a teenager, my brother had a long playing record of them that someone lent him, and I just loved their singing, music and harmony. On the record cover there was a photo of them on a motor bike, with a guitar hanging on the back of the guy on the back seat. It felt so exciting to me. I just loved their style of music.
This song was on the record and I loved it. It kind of summed up the swinging rock and roll era of the time. It is one of my favourite love songs.
I only heard this song in my old age, but I love it. It has such nice words.
This song was also on the record. I have heard other singers doing this song, but I like the Everly Brother’s version the most. Unfortunately, a lot of their songs are sad or negative, but they sing them so well and the music is so good, that they feel like happy songs.
Bye Bye Love – my favourite love song by The Everly Brothers
I think this was the only song of The Everly Brothers that I used to sing. I remember singing it during the interval of the Rock Band Contest at the Salisbury Agricultural Show back in 1964. They had a big revolving stage, and I came on playing the guitar and mouth organ, and singing this song. I had two keys on the mouth organ, C and G, and had it on a piece of home made wire attached to my guitar. The markings on the mouth organ were very small, and I came out playing in the wrong key! Anyway, it was a lot of fun. Thousands of people. I was still at high school at the time and it was hard going back to school after all that fun.
This song is about a couple who fall asleep in the movie show. One day when this record was playing, my mother got angry and said: “I don’t want this record in the house anymore.” So my brother had to give it back to whoever he got it from. I think it may have been this song. My parents were very religious and didn’t allow us to go to movies. It was classified as a big sin. But I still love the way they sing.
This song is about school days, and they were a hit while I was at school, so it all felt up to date at the time.
This is a “live” recording at their reunion. This song is also on the Dream songs page, when they were young.
This is from a TV show, but the quality of the pictures is not too good, but I like their singing when they were young.
I only heard this song in the 90′s, but in the 60′s I wrote a song about a guy missing his plane because he was late. Another guy took his seat, and the plane crashed. Then in the 70′s I was singing in South Africa, and a lady told me this story. She and her husband were America, and he was supposed to catch a plane to meet up with her, but he missed the plane, and the plane crashed. He then called their maid in South Africa, and told her he is still alive because he missed the plane. His wife waiting at the airport heard the news that the plane had crashed, and phoned her maid in South Africa to tell her the bad news, and the maid was able to set her mind a ease with the good news, that her husband was still alive.
I heard this song on the radio the other day and really liked it, so I am adding it on here. Today is the 22nd of January, 2011, and I just feel like adding a comment here. Many people have wished me a “Happy New Year” recently, and I grew up in a church that used to pray in the new year at midnight on December 31st. However, many years ago when I was in Rome, the Holy Spirit spoke to me in Saint Peter’s Basilica, and the Holy Spirit changed a lot of my thinking. Back in 1979 when we came to Canada, I studied a little bit of the Roman systems, and found out that it was Julius Caesar that brought January into the Calender. January is named after an idol that he worshiped as his god of beginnings and endings. When I was a little boy I remember Mrs. Edna Dell stood up at the one midnight prayer meeting and said: “We look backwards to what God has done, and forward to what He is going to do.” That is what Julius Caesar’s idol was, two faces, looking forward and backward! I have been in so many churches that believe so strongly in January, yet it is all based on idolatry. The reason God kicked the Israelites out of Israel is because of idolatry. In fact, in the Bible, God said that we are not even supposed to mention the names of other gods. Exodus 23,13. God is a jealous God. Over the years I have had so many people angry with me because of these things, but I am telling the truth. Jesus said we must give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God. God has a new year in the Bible, but nobody believes the Word of God anymore. Exodus 12,2.
Some of the favourite love songs by the Everly Brothers have been taken off the YouTube. I guess they were illegal.