The Everly Brothers Sing

1967 studio album by The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers Sing is an album by the Everly Brothers, released by Warner Bros. in 1967.^[4] It was re-released on CD by Collectors' Choice Music in 2005.

The album includes their last Top 40 hit, "Bowling Green."^[5] It was also their last Top 100 hit until 1984.^[6]

Critical reception

Billboard praised the album, singling out "Bowling Green" and the duo's cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale."^[7]

Track listing

Side One

1. "Bowling Green" (Terry Slater, Jacqueline Ertel) – 2:50
2. "A Voice Within" (Terry Slater) – 2:23
3. "I Don't Want to Love You" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) – 2:48
4. "It's All Over" (Don Everly) – 2:23
5. "Deliver Me" (Daniel Moore) – 2:35
6. "Talking to the Flowers" (Terry Slater) – 2:57

Side two

1. "Mary Jane" (Terry Slater) – 3:01
2. "I'm Finding It Rough" (Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Chris Thomas) – 2:47
3. "Do You" (Terry Slater) – 2:47
4. "Somebody Help Me" (Jackie Edwards) – 2:01
5. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid) – 4:55
6. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) – 2:28

Personnel

• Don Everly – guitar, vocals
• Phil Everly – guitar, vocals
• Al Capps – guitar; arrangement on "Bowling Green"
• Terry Slater – bass guitar
• Al Casey, Glen Campbell, Jay Lacy - guitar on "Bowling Green"
• Chuck Berghofer - bass guitar on "Bowling Green"
• Don Randi - keyboards on "Bowling Green"
• Hal Blaine, Jon Sargent - drums on "Bowling Green"
• Jules Jacob - brass on "Bowling Green"
• Jay Migliori - woodwind on "Bowling Green"
• James Burton - guitar on "Bowling Green" and "It's All Over"^[8]
• Billy Strange, Gene Page - arrangements

Technical

• Eddie Brackett, Wally Heider - engineer
• Ed Thrasher - art direction

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 – via Google Books.
3. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
4. The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. Fireside. 1995. p. 337.
5. "The Everly Brothers". Billboard.
6. Stein, Sadie (October 2, 2015). "Close Harmony".
7. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (August 19, 1967). "Album Reviews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
8. Down in the Bottom, The Everly Brothers, The Country Rock Sessions 1966-1968, CD, Cherry Red Records, London, England, liner notes, 2020