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Article: The Everly Brothers
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The Everly Brothers
Singers, songwriters, guitarists
For the Record
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Selected discography
Sources
The Everly Brothers, Phil and Don, have been summed up as
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two primordial presences from the dawn of rock history, without whose precise vocal harmonics
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there would have been no McCartney and Lennon, no Simon and Garfunkel, no California country-rock sound
”
by Jim Jerome of
People
magazine. Singers on their parents
’
country radio show since childhood, the Everly Brothers crossed over to the field of popular music with their 1957 smash,
“
Bye, Bye, Love.
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Soon renowned for the harmonious blending of their voices, they had a string of hits ...