The Hollies: Very Last Day

I watched a television special about the British Invasion the other night and it mentioned this song: 



You'll also get to see a little banter amongst the band members on this live performance clip. 

The Hollies: On A Carousel

Cool early live performance of this early hit with Graham Nash on lead vocals: 

The Hollies: Long Dark Road

The pictures in this video look familiar: 

The Hollies: Pay You Back With Interest

This video has nice photographs of the band: 

The Hollies: Just One Look

This song has been recorded by several artists, the Hollies' version being the most familiar to me. 

The Hollies: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Their other biggest hit (in my mind, anyway): 



I think Google is working again... 

The Hollies: Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress

One of their biggest hits: 



Love that opening guitar riff! 

The Holiies: Dear Eloise

Here is one I only knew from listening to their Greatest Hits album: 

Dear Eloise 

This video appears to be of widescreen dimensions; I'm inconsistent with giving you the link instead, but above is the link to YouTube. 

I really like these underproduced videos as a contrast to the overproduced contemporary ones. 

The Hollies: Sorry Suzanne

The last song in yesterday's medley caught my ear - I hadn't heard it before! 

Here is a video for it, with some nice photographs of the band: 

The Hollies: Medley (BBC in Concert - 1969)

A still very young Hollies, but having already replaced Graham Nash after he left the group to help form Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Terry Sylvester is the musician who took his place. 

The Hollies: Look Through Any Window

Performance from a simpler time with an introduction by Frankie Avalon! 

The Hollies: The Air That I Breathe

Back to the Hollies; this is their version The Air That I Breathe: 

Phil Everly: The Air That I Breathe

This lovely song was recorded by Phil prior to the Hollies cover version. It was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. 

 

The Everly Brothers: On the Wings Of a Nightingale

Besides getting familiar with their double album 24 original classics around 1984, The Everly Brothers also had a reunion producing the album "EB 84" which I also purchased. It's one way I remember that I lived in Sacramento that year... 30 years ago now!

On it was this song, written by Paul McCartney: 

The Everly Brothers: Bowling Green

This song struck me the most of all the songs I wasn't already familiar with from the Original Classics album I own: 

The Everly Brothers: Gone, Gone, Gone; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Gone, Gone, Gone

This is one written by Phil and Don: 



And an excellent cover by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: 

THe Everly Brothers: Crying In The Rain

A gem written by Howard Greenfield and Carole King: 

The Everly Brothers: Walk Right Back

Here's one that was written by Sonny Curtis of the Crickets: 



Sounds familiar in some way - someone remarked that it reminds them of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon." That might be what I was thinking. 

The Everly Brothers: Love Hurts; Nazareth: Love Hurts

It wasn't even until I did a little research just now that I put together that this song was recorded by both. Of course, the version by Nazareth is much more familiar to me. 








Now that I'm older, I think I prefer the one by the Everly Brothers!

The Everly Brothers: Let It Be Me

Here's a video for this song I found on YouTube that includes the lyrics: 

The Everly Brothers: When Will I Be Loved; Linda Ronstadt: When Will I Be Loved

Here's one written by Phil: 



And the famous cover version by Linda Ronstadt: 

The Everly Brothers: ('Till) I Kissed You

Here's one written by Don: 

The Everly Brothers: Devoted to You

Listen to the precise harmonies. As far as I'm concerned, Phil and Don were the first to perfect 2-part harmony: 



If it weren't for them, there wouldn't have been a vocal template for the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, etc. to follow. 

The Everly Brothers: All I Have To Do Is Dream

I remember about 30 years ago when I was in college but on a work-school program and living in Sacramento... I bought my first music by The Everly Brothers, a double album called The Everly Brothers - 24 Original Classics. 

Looking at it now, I never noticed before how many songs were written by B. Bryant and F. Bryant. I'll have to look into that and learn about them! 

Here's one of Phil and Don's biggest hits, written by B. Bryant: 

The Everly Brothers: Wake Up Little Susie

The Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love

My gosh, this is over half a century ago! 



1957 

The Everly Brothers: Cathy's Clown

In tribute to the passing of Phil Everly yesterday, I'm going to detour into the Everly Brothers and their music for now: 



That's Phil on the left, and Don on the right. The Crickets (of Buddy Holly) are accompanying them. 

Recorded live on the Alma Cogan Show in the UK during 1961. 

The Hollies: Carrie-Ann

I've read that this song was originally called "Marianne" as in singer and icon Marianne Faithfull; they changed it because they didn't want to be so obvious. 




An additional bit of info.: I have a cousin that says she once was roommates with Marianne Faithfull... should I believe her? 

The Hollies: Bus Stop

I posted a link to a video of this song awhile ago, but I just checked and saw that it's now been blocked on YouTube; here's another performance: