The Definitive Everly Brothers: A Career Spanning Retrospective [Import, Original recording remastered]

Everly Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Warner Spec. Mkt. UK
• ASIN: B000066T2U
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,184 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Bye Bye Love

2. I Wonder If I Care as Much

3. Wake Up Little Susie

4. Maybe Tomorrow

5. All I Have to Do Is Dream

6. Claudette

7. Bird Dog

8. Devoted to You

9. Problems

10. Poor Jenny [European Single Version]

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. How Can I Meet Her?

2. It's Been Nice (Goodnight)

3. Love Her

4. Crying in the Rain

5. (So It Was... So It Is) So It Always Will Be

6. Stories We Could Tell

7. No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile

8. Lay It Down

9. On the Wings of a Nightingale

10. The Ferris Wheel

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Phil and Don Everly inspired all the important Rock bands that have dome along since their heyday in the late '50s, from the Beach Boys to the Beatles Their harmonies were unique and they helped to carve out a 'new' style of music that is now known as Rock 'N' Roll. Definitive is a two CD set that is a career spanning retrospective of timeless classics including, 'Wake Up Little Susie', 'Bye Bye Love', 'All I Have To Do Is Dream', 'Cathy's Clown' and many more. Also includes 'On The Wings Of A Nightingale', a song written especially for them by Paul McCartney for their mid-'80s reunion. Warner.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the fifties to the eighties, October 11, 2003

By 

Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
(TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Definitive Everly Brothers: A Career Spanning Retrospective (Audio CD)

There have been many Everly Brothers compilations, usually covering different periods of their career. Just occasionally, a compilation is released that spans their career and this double CD almost qualifies as one of them. Actually, almost all the tracks here are from their recordings with Cadence in the fifties and Warner in the sixties, though On the wings of a nightingale (from 1984) has been included. Their wonderful but unsuccessful seventies recordings are missing but this collection is aimed at the casual buyer who is mainly looking for hits - and that's exactly what they will get here.

All the classics are here including Bye bye love, Wake up little Susie, All I have to do is dream, Till I kissed you, Let it be me, Cathy's clown, So sad, Walk right back, Ebony eyes, Temptation, Crying in the rain and Price of love, together with many other fine songs including several minor hits that are often overlooked but deserve to be heard - songs like It's my time, released in the late sixties when the brothers were no longer fashionable.

All these tracks are available elsewhere though some are not easy to find. This is a superb collection with no serious omissions, except That's old fashioned, which was an American top ten hit but not a British hit. If you only want one collection of Everly Brothers music, this one has everything you will need.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Everly Brothers CD, March 8, 2007

By 

Richard Witt (Hermitage, TN USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Definitive Everly Brothers: A Career Spanning Retrospective (Audio CD)

This CD is a must if you enjoy listening to two of the great pioneers of Rock and Roll. The whole CD is of great sound quality. All songs are clear. This CD really takes me back in time. I recommend any one that enjoys old rock and roll hits to purchase this CD.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All the hits are NOT here, November 13, 2006

By 

Alex Riggle (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Definitive Everly Brothers: A Career Spanning Retrospective (Audio CD)

This doesn't have "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)", a top-10 hit in the USA. As far as I can tell that's the only Billboard top-40 hit it doesn't have.