It’s the sound of a collection of individual personalities, working together but to their own agendas.Īnother style which we’re going to look at soon is the girl group sound. One singer will be taking a bass melody, another will be singing a falsetto line, and so on. There, there might be a lead singer, but everyone involved has their own important role to play, singing separate backing vocal lines that intertwine. One, which we’ve already seen, is the vocal group sound - the sound of doo-wop. But what we’ve not discussed is that there are multiple different types of harmony that we see in the music of that period. We’ve talked before about how vocal harmonies are no longer a big part of rock music, but were essential to it in the fifties and sixties. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. I’d recommend this one, because as well as all the hits up to 1962 it has the complete Songs our Daddy Taught Us. There are many, many cheap compilations of the Everly Brothers’ early material available. The Everlypedia is a series of PDFs containing articles on anything related to the Everly Brothers, in alphabetical order. How Nashville Became Music City by Michael Kosser has a good amount of information on the Bryants. Ike’s Boys by Phyllis Karp is the only full-length bio, and I relied on that in the absence of anything else, but it’s been out of print for nearly thirty years, and is not worth the exorbitant price it goes for second-hand.
There are no first-rate biographies of the Everly Brothers in print, at least in English (apparently there’s a decent one in French, but I don’t speak French well enough for that). Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Short Fat Fannie” by Larry Williams.Īs always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on November 11, 2019Įpisode fifty-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Bye Bye Love” by The Everly Brotherss, and at the history of country close harmony.
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