CATHY'S CLOWN
THE EVERLY BROTHERS
SONGWRITER: DONALD I EVERLY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: A DATE WITH THE
EVERLY BROTHERS
LABEL: WARNER BROS. RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 1960
The Everly Brothers were an
American 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.
Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO
of Acuff-Rose Music, which
managed the group, and a growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing
tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native
U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and
Canada and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early
1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they
officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together and
continued to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014. Don died seven
years later.
The group was highly influential with the
music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s
were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar
playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles,
the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon &
Garfunkel. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked the Everly Brothers Nº 1 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos
of All Time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of
1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians
Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019,
earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm
guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit "Wake Up
Little Susie".
A Date with the Everly Brothers is the fourth
studio album by American singing duo the Everly
Brothers, released in 1960. It peaked at Nº 9 on the Billboard Pop
albums charts and reached Nº 3 in the UK.
The song "Love Hurts"
appears here for the first time. It would subsequently be covered by numerous
other artists. Other than the "Cathy's Clown"/"Always
It's You" single, all of the tracks on A Date with the Everly Brothers were
recorded in just four sessions during July 1960.
Writing for Allmusic,
critic Richie Unterberger wrote of the album "Although the material is not on the killer
level of 'It's Everly Time', there
are some very fine songs on their second Warner LP."
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown
I gotta stand tall
You know a man can't crawl
When he knows you're tellin' lies and he
hears 'em passing by
He's not a man at all
Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown
When you see me shed a tear
And you know that it's sincere
Don't you think it's kinda sad that you're
treating me so bad
Or don't you even care?
Don't want your love anymore
Don't want your kisses, that's for sure
I die each time I hear this sound
Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown
That's Cathy's clown
That's Cathy's clown.
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