THE
PRICE OF LOVE
THE
EVERLY BROTHERS
SONGWRITERS: DONALD EVERLY & PHIL EVERLY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: IN OUR IMAGE
LABEL: WARNER RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY ROCK
YEAR: 1966
The Everly Brothers were an American country rock duo,
known for steel-string
acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly(February
1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly(January 19, 1939
– January 3, 2014), the duo combined elements of rock and roll, country and pop, becoming
pioneers of country rock.
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 promote 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.
In Our Image is an album by The Everly
Brothers, originally released in 1966.
Several of the songs had appeared on singles
in 1965, where their biggest success came in the United Kingdom off the back of "The Price Of Love" (present on this
album) and "Love Is Strange"
(from Beat & Soul), the
former of which ascended to Nº 2 on the UK Charts, but only Nº 104 in America.
Included
on the album also was the flipside for "The Price Of Love", "It
Only Costs A Dime", a self-written piece.
In December of that year, the final single
"It's All Over"
appeared, in an arrangement containing harpsichord and vocals. In a break from the usual routine, however, this song would feature
Phil singing the principle vocal line and Don singing the harmony line a third
lower. The song would later be covered by Cliff Richard.
Revisiting their classic style of singing,
they recorded the Sonny Curtis-written
"I Used To Love You". Curtis, former member of The Crickets, had
previously written another Everly Brothers hit single, "Walk Right Back".
For the first 45 release of 1966, they
visited the songwriting partnership of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, with a
rendition of "Glitter And Gold". This arrangement, featuring fuzz
guitar and harpsichord, was backed with another Brill Building number, the Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller-written
"Lovey Kravezit".
With hardly enough time to gauge the success
of this single "(You Got) The
Power of Love" (written by Delaney Bramlett and Joey Cooper), containing Motown influences aplenty and backed
with "Leave My Girl Alone", was to hit the stores.
Filling out the album, "The Doll House
Is Empty" (later to become Warner Brothers single 5689 in February 1966),
the mainstream-orientated "(Why Am I) Chained To A Memory" (Edward A.
Snyder/Richard Ahlert) and "June Is As Cold As December" from Marge Barton.
Wine is sweet and gin
is bitter
You drink all you can but you won´t forget her
You talk too much, you laugh too loud
You see her face in every crowd
That´s the price of
love, the price of love
The debt you pay with tears and pain
The price of love, the price of love
Costs you more when you´re to blame
Kiss one girl, you
kiss another
You kiss themall but you won´t recover
You´re dancing slow, you´re dancing fast
You´re happy now but that won´t last
That´s the price of
love, the price of love
The debt you pay with tears and pain
The price of love, the price of love
Costs you more when you´re to blame
That´s the price of
love, the price of love
The debt you pay with tears and pain
The price of love, the price of love
Costs you more when you´re to blame
That´s the price of
love, the price of love
The debt you pay with tears and pain
The price of love, the price of love
Costs you more when you´re to blame
Wine is sweet and gin
is bitter
You drink all you can but you won´t forget her.
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