WALK
RIGHT BACK
THE EVERLY BROTHERS
SONGWRITHER: SONNY CURTIS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE GOLDEN HITS OF THE EVERLY BROTHERS
LABEL: WARNER BROTHERS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1962
The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced
rock and roll duo, known for steel-string
acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (born
February 1, 1937) and Phillip "Phil" Jason Everly (January 19, 1939 –
January 3, 2014), the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on
radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as
"The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in
high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians
like Chet Atkins, who
began to groom them for national attention.
They began writing and recording their own
music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love",
written by Felice and
Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit Nº.1 in the spring
of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by
the Bryants, including "Wake Up
Little Susie", "All I Have to
Do Is Dream", and "Problems".
In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros.
Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown",
written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The
brothers enlisted in the United States
Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output
dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)"
being their last top-10 hit.
"Walk Right Back" is a 1961 song by
Sonny Curtis that was
recorded by The Everly
Brothers, and went to No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Overseas, the song went to Nº.1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. Originally it was the B-side, then it
was changed to the A-side.
In an interview he did with Jim Liddane of
the International Songwriters Association, Sonny Curtis said about the song:
Well,
I wrote most of that one Sunday afternoon, while I was doing my basic training
in California, just after I went in the army, although I had the guitar riff
for a while, and then, Lady Luck stepped in. I never was much for guns, and
still am not really into them, but out of 250 men in our unit in basic
training, six of us fired expert, and I was one of the six!
Anyway, for firing expert, they gave me a
three-day pass, and I went straight down to Hollywood, and the Crickets were
there, and so were Don and Phil, who were doing some acting classes for
movies – they had just signed for Warner Brothers. So, J.I. (Jerry Allison of the Crickets) told me to sing the song for Don – actually I had
only one verse written – and Don called Phil down, and they worked out a
gorgeous harmony part. So, they said, 'If you write another verse. we'll record it'.
Anyway,
I went back to base, and wrote a second verse, and put it in the mail to them,
and next morning, I got a letter from J.I. to tell me that the Everlys had
already recorded the song before they got my letter – they had simply
recorded the first verse twice! And that's the version that was released, and
that's the version that was the hit!
The joke is that Perry Como and Andy Williams and a
whole bunch of others including myself, recorded the song with the second verse
included, but when Anne Murray did it in 1978, she just did the same as the Everlys, just the one
verse – and that was a big hit all over again – so maybe the second verse
was never meant to be!
(It
goes:
These
eyes of mine that gave you loving glances once before, change to shades of
cloudy gray. I want so very much to see you, just like before. I've got to know
you're coming back to stay. Please believe me when I say, 'It's great to hear
from you,' but there's a lot of things a letter just can't say, oh, me. Walk
right back to me this minute ...
I want you to tell me
why you walked out on me
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to know that since you walked out on me
Nothing seems to be the same old way
Think about the love
that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away, oh please
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me, don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to tell me
why you walked out on me
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to know that since you walked out on me
Nothing seems to be the same old way
Think about the love
that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away from me
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me, don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day
I'm so lonesome every
day
I'm so lonesome every day.
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