WALK RIGHT
BACK
THE EVERLY
BROTHERS
SONGWRITER:
SONNY CURTIS
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: THE
EVERLY BROTHERS
LABEL: WARNER
BROS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1960
"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 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!" …
In 1971, the song was
covered by Harry Nilsson and in 1978, it was a country hit for Anne Murray.
Murray also performed a version of her song on The Muppet Show.
Mud recorded the song for
their Rock On album in 1978.
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
Walk right back to me this minute
I'm so lonesome every day
I'm so lonesome every day
I'm so lonesome every day.
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