Everly Borthers Best [Gold CD]

Everly Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Gold CD
• Label: Dcc Compact Classics
• ASIN: B00004TCGQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #385,837 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bye Bye Love

2. Wake Up Little Susie

3. All I Have to Do Is Dream

4. This Little Girl of Mine

5. Brand New Heartache

6. Hey Doll Baby

7. Claudette

8. Bird Dog

9. Devoted to You

10. Poor Jenny

11. Love of My Life

12. Problems

13. Take a Message to Mary

14. Since You Broke My Heart

15. ('Til) I Kissed You

16. When Will I Be Loved?

17. Cathy's Clown

18. Let It Be Me

Editorial Reviews

Track listing 1. Bye Bye Love 2. Wake Up Little Susie 3. All I Have to Do Is Dream 4. This Little Girl of Mine 5. Brand New Heartache 6. Hey Doll Baby 7. Claudette 8. Bird Dog 9. Devoted to You 10. Poor Jenny 11. Love of My Life 12. Problems 13. Take a Message to Mary 14. Since You Broke My Heart 15. ('Til) I Kissed You 16. When Will I Be Loved? 17. Cathy's Clown 18. Let It Be Me A superb greatest hits set from the classiest of the '50s rock acts, a duo whose bluegrass-derived harmonies and inventive guitar tunings had a profound influence on scores of rockers and folkies in their wake. The list includes the Beatles, the Searchers, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Bob Dylan, and the Eagles, and that's just scratching the surface. All the pair's hits are here, ranging from R&B-tinged rockabilly (a cover of Ray Charles' "This Little Girl of Mine"), to tremolo-guitar drenched ballads ("All I Have to Do is Dream"), to wry '50s teen angst sagas ("Wake Up Little Suzy"). They've been gorgeously remastered for this edition, and the result is the best single disc Everly Brothers compilation ever.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best ever Everly's compendium available, October 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Everly Borthers Best (Audio CD)

This long-postponed and finally newly-reissued greatest hits disc by one on the truly pioneering acts of rock is another godsend from DCC Compact Classics. All the clasics are here--"When Will I Be Loved", "Bird Dog", "Wake Up Little Suzie", et.al.---In best-ever sound. A perfect compliment to the Rhino "Cadence Classics" compilation, which it nearly duplicates in track selection, sacrificing two songs from that set but making up for it by including the immortal "Cathy's Clown", recorded later for Warner Brothers. Get both CDs and don't miss out.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but..., June 21, 2001

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Rob Damm - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everly Borthers Best (Audio CD)

Of course, the music is absolutely great. Songs like "all I have to do is dream", "Bye Bye Love", and "When Will I be Loved" are so much a part of the public imagination, it's great to sit back and listen to why they were great in the first place. The sound is wonderful, warm, spacious, a step above and beyond any other EB compilation on the market. The stereo cuts are especially great. "Send a message to mary" could be used as reference for setting up a stereo, it's so well engineered. As the cut begins you should hear the boys singing together hard left, if you are in the sweet spot, they should "feel" almost uncomfortably close, and although in perfect harmony, each voice should be clearly discernable, as if they were beside you--- bass starts in hard right, percussion *dead* center, then things get complicated-- guitar flourishes and tons of inner detail a good stereo will resolve. Whew! They don't make 'em like that anymore! The natural quality of the voice gives new meaning to the term "magical midrange" this is DCC's best project sonically since the "All Time Best of Roy Orbison" It's amazing how much info Steve Hoffman extracts from antedelluvian master tapes! My gripe? Well, I feel kind of cheated-- it could be longer with more songs, and I really, really, wish they had included more tracks in stereo! I know it's not historically correct, but it sure would sound good!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audio heaven, March 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Everly Borthers Best (Audio CD)

Sure, all the great hits are on here, but the real difference-maker over other compilations is the sound. DCC turns out a great product and this gold cd is true to form. The intricate layering of the gorgeous harmonies is right there to be heard in all its glory. Hard to believe that recordings made in the late '50s can sound this good. This is the one to buy.