They were very popular everywhere in the late 1950s and early 1960s. But by the middle of the 1960s, their popularity dropped a lot in the US. However, while the only had one Top 40 hit in the US from 1963 to 1968, they had ten such hits in Britain. Most dramatically, "The Price of Love" was a number two hit in Britain in 1965, but it didn't even make the top 100 in the US. So perhaps it's not that surprising that the Everly Brothers capitalized on this by promoting themselves more in Britain.
For this album, I've limited the source material to just actual BBC sessions. The Everly Brothers were on TV and radio a lot, especially in the US, so if I started including that stuff, this would turn into a very different thing. Perhaps I'll explore more of that at a different time. Most of these are BBC radio sessions, but the last two songs are from a BBC TV show.
In terms of sound quality, this is all pretty good, even though everything here is officially unreleased. There was another session I didn't use at all due to poor sound quality. (And there's at least one additional lost session.) Furthermore, there was a fair amount of repetition of some of their big hits. I've only included one version of each. If there was more than one, I chose the version with the better sound quality.
Happily, only two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles due to BBC DJs talking over the music. I used the usual X-Minus technique to wipe out the talking while keeping the underlying music.
In case you're not an Everly Brothers fan, this is a good place to get started. By chance, this has virtually all of their classics, including some of the ones from the 1950s.
This album is 40 minutes long.
01 Wake Up Little Susie (Everly Brothers)
02 Walk Right Back (Everly Brothers)
03 Baby What Do You Want Me to Do (Everly Brothers)
04 All I Have to Do Is Dream (Everly Brothers)
05 So Sad [To Watch Good Love Go Bad] [Edit] (Everly Brothers)
06 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town [Edit] (Everly Brothers)
07 Till I Kissed You (Everly Brothers)
08 Cathy's Clown (Everly Brothers)
09 The Price of Love (Everly Brothers)
10 Gone, Gone, Gone (Everly Brothers)
11 Let It Be Me (Everly Brothers)
12 Lucille (Everly Brothers)
13 Bowling Green (Everly Brothers)
14 Susie Q (Everly Brothers)
15 Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers)
16 Stories We Could Tell (Everly Brothers)
17 The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Everly Brothers)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15289764/TEverlyBrs_1963-1972_BBSessions_atse.zip.html
The cover photo shows the brothers on the TV show "Thank Your Lucky Stars" in Britain in 1965.
Thank Your Lucky Stars wasn't a BBC tv show - it ran on the commercial channel ITV.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that clarification. But note that I didn't say it was a BBC TV show, just that it was a TV show.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the wonderful BBC uploads. Most of them I really love!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. Another great BBC collection.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this one. I've found so many great things on this site usually when I'm trying to dig into the nitty gritty recordings of certain artists. Do you know the actual dates for their sessions? One of the original CDs says some were from 1963 but I always figured they went over in 1965 (as your title suggests) for some of the early tracks. Also, I'd love to have some lossless files but I figure that could be asking too much (especially a D'Abo Years Manfred Mann outtakes set I'm pretty sure I found on this site). Anyways, thanks again for everything!
ReplyDeleteGlad you like the site. Sorry, no FLAC files. All the source info for all albums are contained in the mp3 tags. Here is the relevant tag for this album:
Delete01 Wake Up Little Susie - 1963 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 9-7-1963
02 Walk Right Back - 1963 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 9-7-1963
03 Baby What Do You Want Me to Do - 1963 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 9-7-1963
04 All I Have to Do Is Dream - 1963 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 9-7-1963
05 So Sad [To Watch Good Love Go Bad] [Edit] - 1965 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 10-9-1965
06 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town [Edit] - 1965 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 10-9-1965
07 Till I Kissed You - 1965 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 10-9-1965
08 Cathy's Clown - 1965 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 10-9-1965
09 The Price of Love - 1965 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 10-9-1965
10 Gone, Gone, Gone - 1965 - Saturday Club, BBC, London, Britain, 10-9-1965
11 Let It Be Me - 1968 - Top of the Pops, BBC, London, Britain, 5-3-1968
12 Lucille - 1968 - Top of the Pops, BBC, London, Britain, 5-3-1968
13 Bowling Green - 1968 - Top of the Pops, BBC, London, Britain, 5-3-1968
14 Susie Q - 1968 - Top of the Pops, BBC, London, Britain, 5-3-1968
15 Bye Bye Love - 1968 - Top of the Pops, BBC, London, Britain, 5-3-1968
16 Stories We Could Tell - 1972 - The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC TV Show), London, Britain, 9-19-1972
17 The Brand New Tennessee Waltz - 1972 - The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC TV Show), London, Britain, 9-19-1972