Explicit Deleted!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (69033)
United States
August 21, 2021 9:20pm CST
I just got a note from the Musicians Hall of Fame. They have announced that Don Everly has died.
That just sucks.
Don, like yesterday's musical passing Tom T. Hall, was a Kentuckian. The town he was born in, Brownie, doesn't exist any longer. The nearest town to claim the Everly Brothers is Central City, and claim them, they do! There's Everly Brothers Boulevard, a monument, and other tributes to their native sons.
Phil and Don didn't change music. They just brought the best of music -- country, rockabilly, and harmony -- to a very wide audience. With hits like "Bye Bye Love," "All I Have to Do Is Dream," and "Wake Up Little Susie," the Everly Brothers were major stars in country and rock. They are in both halls of fame, and rightfully so.
The brothers weren't very "brotherly" in later years, which is sad. It kept a new generation from getting to see them.
Phil died of emphysema in 2014. And now Don joins his brother in death.
Don Everly was 84.
Phil and Don on the Ed Sullivan Show while still in the Marine Corps:
19 people like this
16 responses
@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
@sjvg1976 Amen, it is one of my favorite old tunes up their with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens. Chubby Checker/. Neat stuff people take for granted. None of that is even possible because the music was not supposed to happen, these old bands like this were punk before punk was even a thing
. Society here cursed and scoffed that this music rock n roll was here and staying. , there is a movie think they need to do a more modern one and tell us how it really was,
5 people like this
@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
Whats one more just for fun's
6 people like this
@sjvg1976 (41290)
• Delhi, India
22 Aug 21
@crossbones27 the music is classy. I would love to listen to the song infinite times.
5 people like this
@betlynfrnds (4069)
• United States
22 Aug 21
Awwww, what a shame. The Everly Brothers was a nice group and a good era for music.
5 people like this
@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
My friends wife got to see Kentucky for the first time. I told her how you could see Cincinnati and the river from Kentucky and see blue grass . She said she was visiting Ohio, , then a day later back in California from Kentucky. Haha, means she checked it out. How neat and sorry about the boys, they sound pretty neat I love old songs like that.
4 people like this
@FourWalls (69033)
• United States
22 Aug 21
Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones did an album called Foreverly which was based on the Everlys' album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.
7 people like this
@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
22 Aug 21
@FourWalls Nice, I always enjoy when the punkers go country for a minute, its rather educational and just neat,.
5 people like this
@LindaOHio (181821)
• United States
22 Aug 21
Sorry to hear this. Surprise! Surprise! I know who they were; and I love their music.
4 people like this
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
22 Aug 21
they had harmony - so amazing. so sad. two days in a row with bad news.
4 people like this
@BarBaraPrz (47676)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
22 Aug 21
Sibling harmony is the best.
4 people like this
@FourWalls (69033)
• United States
22 Aug 21
And both from Kentucky. My brother said “Somebody watch Loretta.” No kidding.
2 people like this
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
22 Aug 21
@FourWalls lots of great music in Kentucky@
2 people like this
@RasmaSandra (80783)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Aug 21
And that band up there in the sky better start making more from for everyone, They'll be a duo again singing up above,
1 person likes this
@dgobucks226 (35744)
•
24 Aug 21
Oh What Harmonies!!! Hope they can find that brotherly love again as a singing duo in heaven.
1 person likes this
@Awaluddin (8)
• Indonesia
23 Aug 21
I have always loved their harmony.
Was feel to fly until the sky.
1 person likes this