The Everly Brothers: The Untold Truth

Country-tinged rock and roll duo The Everly Brothers, consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly and Phillip "Phil" Everly, were one of the most influential acts of the 20th century. The duo had a whopping 35 Top 100 singles, including "Cathy's Clown," "Bye Bye Love," and "Wake Up Little Susie," and were major influences on rock and roll titans like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The Fab Four, in fact, even referred to themselves as "the British Everly Brothers." But there was darkness behind the sweet smiles, magical harmonies, and clean-cut personas. This is The Everly Brothers: The Untold Truth.
#Music #Musician #RockAndRoll
Kids on the radio | 0:00
Breaking into the industry | 0:59
First hit | 1:51
Buddies with Buddy Holly | 2:48
Contract dispute | 4:02
Marine Everlys | 4:54
Drug addiction | 5:45
Parting ways | 6:47
'80s comeback | 7:32
Final years | 8:34
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[@GrungeHQ]

What's your favorite song from The Everly Brothers?

[@OhBeNice]

All I have to do is dream.

[@rainerpierre]

Cathy’s Clown

[@jackieacheson4928]

Cathy's clown. But they have lots of great songs.

[@danielhayes7967]

Wake Up Little Suzie. Don's Son had his own band. Released one album in 1992.

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

That's a tough one. I'm 38 but had older parents who introduced me to "oldies" so I tend to relate the music to my parents... I'll never forget Bye Bye Love or Wake Up Little Suzy, they remind me of my Mom

[@jmad627]

Chuck Berry said once, that I’m aware of, that nobody sang two part harmony better than the Everlys.

[@Pattiepies55]

I'm 73 and love I'll do my crying in the rain ... And ever other song they ever sang.

[@josephinepadilla4658]

I will always Love them e en if they are with god may they rest in peace will not not say good by they will always be I my heart

[@joegeorge3889]

They were the greatest singer's of the 50s and 60s their harmony together was impeccable

[@NellieKAdaba]

I agree.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

As only siblings can attain.

[@geoffreyvanvugt6227]

They invented duo close harmony. Simply the best.

[@MrPoppaGeorgio]

Never clicked on a video soooo fast. I'm 30 and I love many of their songs! Especially Cathy's clown!

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

I'm 38 and totally agree.

[@matsiesmith2425]

I went from Rock chick with a love for screaming guitars to the Everly Brothers. I fell in love with the harmonies..... My friends though I was on Drugs...... Or maybe Drinking. Nope I said... Just switched on my ears 😁💙💙

[@Aj_Nichols24]

I’m 14 and I listen to them. My favorite is all I have to do is dream

[@billbrimmer1739]

“Cryin’ in the Rain” to me was always their best single. It was hard to choose with so many great songs.

[@mariae.antonsen2183]

More på jøssåsen bilde: rain4mei than×

[@blakey4441]

They both had a great head of hair.🦱

[@alfching2499]

That’s a Relief.They wouldn’t have been any good if they had been baldies.

[@blakey4441]

@@alfching2499 They would have been hair today and gone tomorrow.😔

[@karenkelly6785]

Lol....I would still love their voices & harmony ❤️

[@standby_me]

They sure did lol, along with great voices 🤍

[@user-vm3ri7qh5x]

@@alfching2499 I've thought about that. Sadly, they probably wouldn't have been as popular if they hadn't been so good looking!

[@ellenmillere7988]

I loved their music, it was smooth and dreamy . Dream- and Bye Bye Love, and all the others. It's so sad that being famous brings so many to lives of problem relationships and addictions.

[@Suzi64grad]

I was about 10 when the Everly’s became huge! Maybe 8 or 9 when I heard them on the radio! Love at first sound! They had it all! Thanks for showcasing them! Clean cut and just nice! When Phil joined Cliff Richard I knew it was magical! ❤🎉. Their harmonies touched us! 😊

[@annemariavonroith4268]

We love them so much! I am from the Netherlands, this lovely brothers, with there fantastic songs, have been in the house. Now I am living since a long time in Germany and I have them still in the house! Very sympatic! Wonderful music!

[@kennyqlb]

I went to school with Don Jr. at SLO. I met Don Sr.. what an amazing man! Mark Draper was Jr's freshman roomate on the 1st floor of our dorm. Bobby Hatrield Jr. gave me rides home to Laguna from SLO and sometimes we would hang out in Newport Beach with his family!

[@RaoulDuke-bc1pm]

The Everly Bros. were the inspiration for the Warren Zevon classic "Werewolves of London." At the time, Warren was the Everly's bandleader and Waddy Wachtel was the guitarist in that band. One of the brothers suggested that Warren write a dance song called "Do the Werewolf." Zevon mentioned the project when Waddy stopped by his hotel room and Waddy said "You mean...Awooo?" WZ answered in the affirmative and the rest is history. From being seen with a Chinese menu to the seducing of "little old ladies" to perfect hair...Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney, jr. were Phil and Don. Draw blood.

[@mariaevans5793]

I was lucky to see them in Birmingham's NEC,in the early Nineties,I was ten rows from the front,they took my breath away with their Voices and Pure talent,I will never forget!!!!!!☺️🇬🇧

[@theresachiorazzi4571]

I can’t decide which one was cuter?Eye candy at its best.

[@wandaberrymore7071]

They were the BEST

[@almavazquez6397]

Devotion,Let it be me,Lucille,Cathy's clown,Dream,Until I kissed ya,WakeUp Little Susie...

[@doriswilliams6422]

Dream Cathy's Clown when will I be loved ? All were great We loved yall

[@loismiller8933]

Got to admit, the Everly brothers had great hair

[@lupehernandez8962]

They brought joy and still do to my life . I miss them too.

[@bryanpalmer9660]

The Everly Bros were great-,,their vocal harmonies were a big influence on artists from the Beatles to the Hollies,(who were not only big fans of the Everlys but worked with them in the 60s on their album "Two Yanks in England)and earned praise,so it has been said,from Chuck Berry Auckland New Zealand lockdown 2021

[@muffassa6739]

Bye Bye love so good I can still hear it we couldn't wait for more songs. We used to watch them on American Bandstand and many more entertainers, oh back in the old days

[@cypressHk-nx7kk]

They have to make a movie about these two💯

[@2011littlejohn1]

The most evocative song for me is Stick With Me Baby.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I am a bit young to really remember their hay day but I remember their TV show. I really miss their sound

[@johnadams5489]

The Everly Brothers are my favorite Musicians and singers from the early days of Rock n Roll. I Loved their harmonies and their songs. I saw them perform at the Albert Hall on TV when they decided to do a come back. Although Phil was a heavy smoker, he was still right on key singing the harmonies with Don during that Tour. Still one of my favorites!

[@sammccue500]

Phil passed away due to COPD from smoking.

[@MysticalMoonBaby80]

I love them both and thanks to my late mom i know and love their music... ❤

[@davidmcpherson7451]

I feel so old now! Saw them in the 90’s @ Amway Convention in Salt Lake. They were great!

[@rainerpierre]

They need to make a biopic about them. Billy Bob Thornton should write the screenplay and star in the biopic as Don and Phil’s father, Ike and Diane Lane as Don and Phil’s mother, Margaret.

[@sorblife2308]

The boyfriend from stranger things would be a perfect cast for that

[@hazeldemott90]

My favourites are Kentucky and Yves also Let It be Me.

[@eventcone]

It's seems to be an old, recurring story we hear where some talented artist(s) from a working class background gets chewed up and spat out by the music business 'machine'. Some of them do not survive, tragically. Some are never the same again. Success seems to carry a heavy price for them - but never for the business men making the money off of their talent.

[@sammccue500]

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson

[@michaelhester1328]

Every 50's thru 90's rock musician has been influenced by them!!!

[@sandra9455]

Iev. am from Brasil here we LOVE the EVERLY BROS.since 1958 to2023

[@MTGallagher]

When Will I Be Loved

[@B1jujv75]

A lot of groups or family in show business have split up over the years :) It was just not the Everly Brothers :) God Rest The Everly Brothers you are both truly missed....

[@thomasmorrisiii6713]

Let It Be Me….awesome.

[@CarolStJohn-ev9ry]

Bye By Love... I loved singing along to that one.

[@christinagreco7335]

Cathys clown is my favorite

[@wallacegeller2111]

My favorite Everly Brother song is Bye Bye Love.

[@jlh408]

I Wonder if I Care as Much & Dream

[@marlenegraham-oi3fv]

I will say goodbye and God bless you all 💜💘

[@Ozmag1508]

No “untold truths” in this video it’s all been in the public domain for years. RIP Don and Phil

[@waltersobchak7275]

Their mom is still alive at 102. Imagine that

[@annettemoyle6051]

She joined them just over 3 months later at the beginning of December,

[@bethpiercy7099]

Ebony eyes ...let it be me like strangers 😂

[@sergeantmasson3669]

Best duo in music history.

[@stephenburn1678]

Dedicated "All I have to is dream" to my girlfriend. I was 12, and they have been part of my life ever since. So sad they're gone

[@OhBeNice]

More videos about this era please 🙏🏻

[@michaelhester1328]

Dream(All I have to do is)

[@wallacegeller2111]

When I went through basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot March 1967 Recruit Platoon 149, the DI S told us that the Everly Brothers went through basic training and they were their DI S. The Everly Brothers were in the Marine Corps Reserve. The DI S also told us they had Doris Day's son for basic training. Marines who went through basic training at Paris Island, South Carolina always called us San Diego basic training as Hollywood Marines.

[@marthacantrell6953]

From all I have ever read about them, Phil was the more stable emotional and one of Don's children stated, after Phil died, that he had been the glue that held the family together.

[@ThomasClark123]

You forgot to mention one of their biggest hits "Cathy's Clown".

[@almavazquez6397]

Actually, all of them...

[@petersheely7246]

RIP Boys 😢

[@JB-pf3fx]

Phil and Don were first cousins to actor James Best whose mother was their dad's sister.

[@karenkelly6785]

I didn't know that.

[@ashleywhitaker7040]

I hadn’t known of dons death

[@sharonrodriguez9592]

Yves and Patiently And Oh So Many Years Love them all

[@marlenalinne6100]

And "It's All Over".

[@sharonrodriguez9592]

@@marlenalinne6100 never heard this one

[@marlenalinne6100]

@@sharonrodriguez9592 Phil sings lead and I love it.

[@sharonrodriguez9592]

@@marlenalinne6100 he was so beautiful

[@marlenalinne6100]

@@sharonrodriguez9592 He certainly was. Listen to "I Hope You Always Drive A Cadillac", too. It's one of the ones released after the reunion. Don sings lead, but the chorus is out of sight. They never do it during a concert because it's too long (over 5 minutes) and it really pushes Phil to the limit. But it's neat. Have you ever heard him sing backup on "On Top of the World"? I don't remember the full name of the guy who sings it, but his first name is Rene and he refers to himself as "Mr Rock n Roll". Last is "Words In Your Eyes", an early solo by Phil.

[@williamoxendine6121]

They were there with Elvis buddy holly Ricky Nelson Paul ankle Dion Bobby Rydell many more that was talent not like this crap today

[@waltersobchak7275]

Donavan and Frank and Bobby Darin

[@PatrickTengmusic]

Bees Gees was influenced by their two part harmony and that includes

[@thespicemelange.1]

I'm surprised there was no mention of him working with Tom Petty

[@annettemoyle6051]

The picture of Wesley Rose is wrong

[@ThomasDeLello]

Is that Joe B. Mauldin at 1:27 playing the bass guitar on the left...?

[@piedmonster22]

Yes, Joe B and Jerry played with the Everly's afterwards.

[@ThomasDeLello]

@@piedmonster22 But that's not Jerry at the drums this time. Buddy Holly wrote "Words Of Love" for the Everleys but he didn't pick it up. The Beatles did a superb cover of that though.

[@sammccue500]

@@piedmonster22 As well as Sonny Curtis, who played in buddy's first band, on guitar. Since J.I.'s passing he's the last remaining tie to the Crickets.

[@AladdinSaneNYC]

So Sad was a song by the Everly brothers but not their version. The superior version is by Dillard and Clark. Gene Clark sings it as it was meant to be heard: a tragedy of good love gone bad. A great song as performed by Clark (one of the original members of the Byrds). He sang it as a sad ballad, the way the Everly's should have recorded it originally. The lyrics are brilliant!!! A fave of mine...👍♐

[@brianhardy5926]

Hearing the story of the Everly Brothers, it occurred to me that this song, So Sad, actually applies to the brother's themselves. It was their love for each other that went bad, and it was so sad.

[@sammccue500]

@@brianhardy5926 It wasn't their love for each other that "went bad," it was music business burnout.

[@deputydillhole]

I feel like Buddy Holly's crash was a warning by God that most artistes didn't get or ignored completely.

[@christinehaddock5933]

I heard that they were left handed, but their father told them to play right handed

[@sammccue500]

Donald was left handed, but their father told him it was wrong, so he learned to play right-handed. Phil was right handed.

[@Bphillips2808]

What bands with "brothers" in their name weren't actually brothers? I don't know of any

[@juanbbien]

The Walker Bros , The Righteous Bros. to name but two

[@sharonrodriguez9592]

The Statler Brothers. Only two were actual brothers

[@archieburson4301]

How about the Righteous Brothers.......they were not Brothers! But they did come out with some awesome songs❤

[@7550375503]

You're showing Archie Blyer as Wesley Rose.

[@marlenalinne6100]

Joe Kelly. The guy with the space between his teeth isn't Wesley Rose OR Archie. Archie was the man standing in between them in one of the pictures.

[@7550375503]

@@marlenalinne6100Cool

[@napatony5532]

Wow.. not allowed any creative freedom ...just sick ... sad they wrote and sang some really good songs, and they had beautiful voices

[@philipbuckley759]

life is a struggle.....eh...

[@sammccue500]

More like a "B" movie. 😄

[@brianvenney7092]

M

[@waltersobchak7275]

Bye Bye Love better than any song Elvis sang.

[@PedroPlckle]

American narrative. Choose a vid with the songs on

[@deniskeller1858]

Le type qui fait les commentaires est insupportable. Il parle trop vite et le reste ne m'intéresse pas. SHUT YOUR MOUTH PLEASE.

[@starcode.roblox8611]

Who

[@FFUURRSSAANN]

No money should be given to anyone here for anything insha Allah. I ask Allah to protect us & give us safe travel including airplanes. Go live your life don’t stay home. Stop using mental illnesses as excuse to harm normal people.

[@marlenalinne6100]

NOTHING NEW HERE, FOLKS!! You may want to change the title of this to "The Same Old Crap That's Been Told Before".

[@kenchristie9214]

The Everly Brothers was the most disappointing concert I ever attended. After 2 support acts they finally came on and performed just six songs. They were on stage for barely half an hour.

[@halpcat133]

when did you see them? they have probably done thousands of concerts by then. nearly all classic musicians only do short concerts now like bob dylan. 30 minutes is good enough especially since most of their songs are short anyways. i would just be happy that i got to see such great people before it would’ve been too late.

[@kenchristie9214]

@@halpcat133 In Perth, Western Australia June 1971. Just a few months earlier they performed live on Australian Bandstand for an hour, and they were fantastic.