Vocal Coach reacts to Everly Brothers - "All I Have To Do Is Dream/Cathy's Clown"

[@marvinwilliamson811]

Music isn't about perfection, it's about what sounds good to the listener

[@davidschecter5247]

What's amazing is how they harmonized even when sliding on the notes. Unbelievable. Families and their genetics made for some of the best singing: The Everlys, Beach Boys, and Bee Gees.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Simon and Garfunkel worked incredibly hard to replicate that. They would watch each other's mouths super close to get that tightness. They did well to emulate the Everly Brothers sound from day one as Tom and Jerry in the late 1950s. But sonically there is no substitute for a family band, that genetic match is unbeatable.

[@stewartfenton7660]

Let's not forget the Ronettes and Shangri-Las.

[@gosborg]

I completely agree. Their harmonies flowed like honey.

[@wademcginnis9361]

The Carter Family

[@nigelbase1196]

Not so sure about the beach boys 🤔

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

The Everly Brothers. So happy to see you cover them. They are absolutely pivotal to American Country and Rock music over the years.

[@detroitjack0325]

The Everly Brothers could really sing! Their harmony is second to none!

[@american_cosmic]

As much as I love the Everly Brothers, the best harmonizers of all time were the Louvin Brothers... they influenced all the harmony singers that came after them, including the Everlys.

[@elvisstilllives9990]

I’m really happy you got to the Everly Brothers. Their precision always impresses. I’d argue they are under appreciated these days.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

As Noel Gallagher rightly said in the Bee Gees documentary. You can buy any piece of gear in any music store, any guitar, amp whatever you want, but you can never buy the instrument of family members singing in perfect harmony honed over many years from childhood onward.

[@nrsvlda70]

I was 10 yrs old when these guys released Cathy’s Clown.. it was a HUGE hit! We all had transistor radios back then.. and we listened!! Loved them, and always appreciated their harmony. All I have to do is dream is my all time favorite song. Thank-you for this - it brought back great memories!!!

[@sweetfreddie]

They brought the country music influence to Rock & Roll. And yes, their tight harmony was amazing to listen to. They had a very distinctive sound so anytime you started to hear one of their records you immediately knew who they were. No one else has had that sound before them or after them.

[@bluejazzcat]

They are perfect. Nobody does like them! They are legends! Also, remember, they have American accent, almost country accent. That also makes a bit of difference. In summary, they are perfect, and I am almost sure they never had singing classes. Just talent!

[@wgandy9541]

Great to see you giving some attention to these two great singers. I've always loved their songs. Takes me back to my childhood when I hear them.

[@rustynaild4247]

Me too.

[@EddieTukkers]

lovely cometary but different times, and yet they have touched and touched the hearts of the whole world ♥

[@jeffhunt2778]

Guess who taught every pop and rock act that followed how to harmonize? Yep!

[@american_cosmic]

That would be the Louvin Brothers... they were the originals.

[@markgardner4426]

I was lucky enough to see them perform live in concert some 40 years ago. It was a wonderful show and no doubt that they could harmonize well. RIP Don and Phil.

[@dsgp7835]

I couldn't stuff my ear buds in fast enough when I saw my favorite reactor respond to The Everly Brothers. One of the most influential and unique harmonies in music history. Beth, you used the word clever and beautifully clever it is. You can plainly hear the Irish Appalachian heritage in the tenor of their voices. Thanks much Beth, they touched me as a child and do still in my late sixties.

[@Rollin_L]

I got to see the Everly Brothers live a couple of times back in the 80s, when a whole lot of artists from the 50s and 60s were touring, many in group "Oldies" tours. But the Everlys needed no other bands to fill the venue or the song list. They still sounded just like this. Thanks for covering the brothers, Beth!

[@BRIDINC1972]

My mother introduced me to the Everly Brothers when I was a kid in the 70s. Been a huge fan ever since.🤗

[@karabruce]

@BRIDINC1972 Same, my first cassette was the Everly Brother's greatest hits!

[@lifelover515]

Well done again Beth. The incomparable Everleys' music still sounds as fresh as the day it was made, and guaranteed to transport us back through the decades. RIP Don and Phil.

[@lifelover515]

@MOONLIGHT LOVE 🌙💓 It's just a standard inoffensive expression to show respect for the dead. We know they're not resting. One look at their decomposing remains will tell you that. Whether their 'souls' have 'escaped' to a better place is not for anyone to say. I'm just happy we can revisit them through their music.

[@sandersdca]

When I perform this song I get the audience to shout "gee whiz" at that part of the lyrics. They love it!

[@carlswenson5538]

Simon and Garfunkel adored the Everly Bros two part harmony. Even covered their Bye Bye Love. Paul and Art used to sit and work for hours staring at each other and how they matched the lip movements and phrasing trying to perfect it. The Everly's were the 'rockers that even parents could like. They were huge during their heyday.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Spot on.

[@ITILII]

"John and I were huge fans of the Everly Brothers, and we tried hard to model our singing on the great harmonies of Don and Phil" - Paul McCartney

[@ErnestIII83]

On the words "love" and "kisses" in Cathy's Clown, Phil is holding the note while Don is the one bending it. Very clever.

[@michaelm6948]

The Everlys were the most influential vocalists of both American and British pop music of the 60s, 70s. Lennon and McCartney, the Hollies, Simon & Garfunkel , Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby Stills & Nash, and so many more ,all worshipped at the Everly shrine. A great early influence on them was the "high lonesome sound " of Kentucky bluegrass harmony singing.

[@thomastimlin1724]

The back up band is The Crickets, the band that Buddy Holly had, and this is half a decade after Buddy's death. The Everly Brothers were major influence in harmony for McCartney and Lennon singing harmony in the Beatles- could you tell? this kind of disciplined beautiful harmony is generally surely missing in todays music, with no auto tune or studio tricks other than reverb. This is pure talent. My late younger brother and I could sing like this together, but he went into Karate and stayed with music. BTW- I'd say there is no bridge or "middle eight" in this song, these are verses, and the chorus.

[@cooldaddy2877]

The Everlys could sing, the nasal Beatles could not.

[@hermit9852]

You are correct about the beauty of harmony. If you think it is missing today, why not listen to Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig--the two lead singers of Lucius? Their harmony is gorgeous!

[@rickpaul4216]

How amazing is it that they can be this spot on in a performance on some random TV show in 1960? No Autotune here. Blood Harmony. You need to listen to "Let it Be Me" from the 1983 Reunion concert. It permeates your soul.

[@YourLocalSN1P3R]

Those were my grandpas cousins! Most of the Everlys stil alive are very musically inclined :) they have left a lasting legacy we are proud of. Rip to them both.

[@peggybosse6896]

So happy that you've evaluated the Everly Brothers. They were some of my favorites. I've always loved to hear siblings sing. My dad called it "blood harmony." My sister and I sang together when we were in our teens and our dad playing guitar. It was just so wonderful.

[@EugeneAxe]

Love the style of singing from this era. Very nostalgic sound.

[@KathrynLiz1]

I remember when these songs first hit the airwaves in the late 50s and early 60s..... Perfect harmony...they never missed...

[@SeanCleverly]

I have always loved these 2, they were just so professional, yet they came across as so layed back. Also am loving your reactions, analysis, they're truly wonderful.

[@davidstephens6462]

The Bryant's wrote almost all of their hits, often saying that they wrote specifically for their harmony style. Family harmony, especially in country and gospel, is always amazing. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, the Judd's, the Hinsons, Isaac's and Goodman's (country Gospel), even Alabama, who's vocal ensemble are first cousins, have the best harmonies. Love it when you turn back time for reaction/analysis. Much love from Atlanta little Miss Cutie!!!

[@v-g-z3689]

Man, I´m so glad you covered the Everly Brothers, they get so little attention amongst us young people.

[@GayJayU26]

Nine weeks at number one we all really loved it at the time.

[@rs-ye7kw]

When I was growing up in the '50's and early 60's nearly every country singer sang "through their nose" as it was called then. You described the technical aspects of that style very well.

[@elijah8867]

I heard someone say once that their harmonies were so tight it was hard to tell which was the melody line and which was the harmony. They were so good because they worked so hard at it. And it helps to have a good song to begin with. Something that's lacking in today's music.

[@rickkaylor8554]

They are so young here and were so good. Sad to think they have left us. They influenced so many other singers.

[@AnneEloiseOfCNY]

It was 1962, I was 10. My family was at a now closed amusement park near NYC, called America land. We were all seated at picnic tables. I wanted to go to the performance area next to us. But due to an abundance of caution, my family wouldn't let me wander over there alone. So from the side, I watched the Every Brothers. This wasn't my parent's music, it was mine. They were in their prime, the two handsome harmonious brothers. I treasure this slice of rock n roll history I saw live! And anytime I want, I can close my eyes, and still see them singing there. 🎶🎵🎸

[@BethRoars]

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[@NOAHCASAS]

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[@jhberg17]

Nobody better than the Everly Brothers

[@77loneranger]

You're listening to vocal perfection, Beth.

[@billdomitilli8125]

Back in the Clean World I was 9 when I first heard this, and recognized it as great. I was right.

[@willieboy3011]

Gosh, I was just a kid then living in woods, no AC, lousy TV reception, but we had 45 and 33 LP. "Cathy's Clown" was one of my favorites.

[@RobtJude]

Funny to me when she called them out for being nasal on the word "ANYTIME" to me it was just their southern accent coming through "YA ALL"

[@williamcole9040]

Bit critical about the nose sound…..this is the greatest duo in pop history. Legends.

[@Tmanaz480]

I think she wasn't so much criticizing them as warning everyone else "don't try this at home."

[@kapwapoedolomitetalabritne8841]

Phil and Don Everly are my all time favorite duo

[@bella-xp7qd]

They had a feud and didn't talk since 1973. Only appeared on stage to sing. They made up in 19863. after 16 years of hits, then "sealing it with a hug," Phil Everly said. Although their number of hit records declined in the late 1980s, they had successful concert tours in the U.S. and Europe.Aug 23, 2021 Teen idols back in the day. Love ❤️ their music

[@weinerschnitzelrock1]

The "twang" is the "thang"--In fifties you heard it on a car am speaker--up to a monster juke-box. Their voices cut thru it ! Can get every word !

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

This is one of the songs we listened to in high school class of 1959, when music was music and men and women dress up when on stage !!!

[@aBeatleFan4ever]

Beth - Simon & Garfunkel have said that they were trying to sound like the Everly Brothers with their wonderful harmonies. Lennon & McCartney also loved the Everly Brothers' amazing harmonies and wanted very much to emulate them with their own harmonies in The Beatles. McCartney loved Phil and Don Everly so much - that he wrote a song for them (On the Wings of a Nightingale) and he also included their names as part of the lyrics in his song "Let 'Em In".

[@rayjennings3637]

Always loved listening to the Everley Brothers. If I play a CD or two in the car and I'm on my own, I always prefer to sing the harmony line. I find it more satisfying and easier for some reason.

[@johntellefson4363]

If you check out their biographies, you read that they were performing together since childhood, first as a family gospel music group on an Iowa radio station. They were pros at 16.

[@simonjerryncf1987]

These brothers knew harmonies.

[@EchoesDaBear]

Thanks for this Beth! I see Everly Brothers...I click! It was my father that introduced me to this duo when I was a young lad, and I've loved them ever since! They set the benchmark for what incredible harmonies could be, and were idolized, mimicked and expanded upon by future greats like The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Beach Boys, and countless others. Tight is an understatement. These two are one mind! I would love your next song to be Ebony Eyes - my dad's personal favourite! Cheers.

[@dasreich8307]

Dear Odin I love a beautiful redhead. ❤️ Now on to the Everly's. Their influence reached into the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and so many others. Truly, they are in the hierarchy of Pop and Rock music history.

[@otakubancho6655]

I've loved The Everly Brothers since I was a little kid,especially Wake up Little Susie!💖💖💖

[@kennethgianetti4590]

You comment on their "E" vowels. That's their Kentucky roots coming through. A wonderful regional US accent.

[@orsie200]

I had the amazing experience of meeting them. Phil was adorable. Don was more stand-offish. They worked together since childhood. I miss them terribly.

[@PoboyNCoke]

It sounds like they're southern and it showes up in the accent. They're saying 'can't' with a long a sound. That's southern accents. Love that harmony

[@patjackson1657]

Even after they became famous, they continued to share a microphone. During instrumental parts, they back away from the mic to give them room for thos big Gibsons!

[@roycekillian9084]

The Everly Brothers are great at using songs to tell story

[@michaelhawkins7389]

The music of the Everly Brothers influenced the Beatles, who referred to themselves as "the British Everly Brothers, when Paul McCartney and John Lennon went hitchhiking south to win a talent competition. They based the vocal arrangement of "Please Please Me" on "Cathy's Clown". McCartney also referred to 'Phil and Don' in the lyrics to "Let 'Em In" from the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound.

[@MigdaliaTomalinas-os2nz]

I really enjoy their harmonizing. What I find interesting is the echo in their voices. How is that sound achieved? It’s so different.

[@jimijamessegoviafeerick1355]

Phil and Don sooo classic and sooo good ! 🎶🎵🎸

[@jeffclinton9289]

They started on kma radio in shenandoah, iowa, on their family's live radio show when they were small children. I am from a nearby town and their family were friends with my family. They layer moved back tk kentucky where their parents were from when live radio was repalced with disc jockeys and from there to nashville when phil graduated high school.

[@bill.godwin-austen]

I remember when both of these were playing on all the "Top 40" radio stations all the time. I always enjoyed the Everly Brothers.

[@DavidB-2268]

I had the pleasure of seeing them on their reunion tour in 1984. They sounded just as good then as they did originally. Such a shame that their personal differences drove such a wedge between them. But I know from personal experience that family ain't always easy.

[@mrjoepad1]

Saw them too in 84 and agree. They sounded great after all those years.

[@kajlennartsson4234]

Thanks for the reaction. I recommend Aha singing a Everly Broders Cover. Crying in rain. Lots of love from Sweden

[@happyolddude]

Beth, for your interest their backing group are The Crickets who were with Buddy Holly. Holly and the Everly's were great friends.

[@christinestromberg4057]

This song is one of the Everley Brothers songs that my sister and I used to sing when the family band played in clubs, back in the day. Bye Bye Love was another, but my father loved to hear us do Take a Message to Mary. As you say, brothers, or sisers, find it much esier to sing harmonies together. We loved the Everlys.

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

I've read that the Everly Brothers' style of music had it's roots in the "high lonesome sound" of Appalachian music.

[@donaldweigandt4051]

1959 high school freshman in love with this girl Cathy two years ahead of me .this song was on the radio in those days and I was just a pup totally infatuated with Cathy and this song.

[@roywall8169]

Don and Phil were so great at harmonies.

[@nolantomlinson7554]

I strongly suggest the group The Browns. The Song is The Three Bells. They were another family group with tight harmony.

[@hookalakah]

Can't beat blood harmony, Beth. There's nothing like it.

[@brucewasenius3643]

Saw them Summer of ‘71. Still great!

[@fallingfornewyorkstate7671]

Their singing in a "Dreamy" mode. 😊

[@MrSuzuki1187]

What a sweet song! It was my favorite in 1958 (?) when I was 8 years old.

[@MrSuzuki1187]

Back in the 1950s-1960s, country music was played on the rock and roll stations and those of my generation bought the records. They were called crossover country hits.

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Their Dad Ike was a very good musician who played in Merle Travis post war band. These guys had outstanding musical influences from early childhood.

[@אורןשפר-ר4נ]

For me, the Everly Brothers' important place in music is mainly because they were the biggest influence on Simon and Garfunkel, and they even got the brothers to reunite for a joint performance after being at odds for three years.

[@thomasmason3359]

I grew up listening to the Everly Brothers and to me they harmonize better than any two people I havw ever heard. I am 77yrs old and these days I listen to Symphonic Metal.

[@timothywayne3813]

The harmonies are so great, but I also love that drum on Cathy's Clown.

[@howardmarkert8150]

The Everly Brothers were a big influence on The Beach Boys and the entire California Surfing Sound of the 1960s and early 1970s.

[@Frank-sm9yl]

My dad sang and played with them in the studio in Des Moines. The drove up with ma and pa from about 2 hours away from Shenandoah. Dad didn't want to go to Nashville with them. Later my dad would play " hillbilly rock-'n'-roll " on his Epiphone guitar and sing just like the everly brothers.

[@mgonzales56]

The Everly Brother's were great. I'm not sure if you know this, but The Beatles were great fans of the Everly's and they wanted to copy their harmonies. That is why there are so many harmonies in Beatles' songs. Also, I really enjoy hearing you disect music, and of course I'm a big fan of yours.

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

The Beatles styled "Please Please Me" after this Song. Phil, (the high tenor) HOLDS the note while Don (The lower tenor) sings part of his line in unison & then MANUEVERS under Phil. Their high pitched tone of voices, (the most important, along with their intonation & phrasing is incredibly good. It's almost too perfect. LOL

[@robertreese3523]

Who is the vocal coach? She is beautiful and has a voice to match.

[@jhberg17]

They are the standard by which all are judged.

[@mojomegaman]

Best music reactions on KZbin right here!

[@stubfin1]

Trivial note: The background band is the post Buddy Holly Chrickets.

[@RedVynil]

A couple other duets you might want to hear is Chad & Jeremy and Peter & Gordon. England's answer to The Everly Brothers was The Dowland Brothers. Two of the guys in that band eventually started the prog rock band, King Crimson.

[@aldoyle2125]

The Everlys are the gold standard of popular music.

[@crashcorrigan9733]

The beginning drum entry to the song "Cathy's Clown" was actually borrowed from the beginning entry of the classical "Grand Canyon Suite."

[@gregoryclemen1870]

they sounded just as good live, as they did in the studio, that shows real talent, those guys were on the cutting edge of music in their day. just remember there was no computers, drum machines, or auto-tune back in those days, and yes they did influence other up in coming bands. those guys put" KENTUCKY" on the map. they really knew how to "BEND THE NOTES"!!!! while staying "ON KEY". the other big thing was, they played music that was not offensive( pop music with a country twist), so their music was played on main stream radio!!!!!!. true rock & roll was blues mixed with country music. look at what we are stuck with now in terms of music---- total garbage!!!!!!!!.

[@willieboy3011]

Cathy's Clown was so much a favorite of mine then. Thanks for this. Reba McEntire does a good version too. I bet Beth could do this one also.

[@raye402]

Look who’s backing them ‘The Crickets ‘ c/w Jerry Alison !!! 🇬🇧👍🇺🇸

[@barryhambly7711]

No auto tune That's for sure 😃 When I want you!! actually is written as dropping a tone from "When" and coming back to "You" which is not that noticeable when they are singing it but quite noticeable when others sing although not all come back to the note. I always wonder if it was written like that originally or it was just how they sang it and then the music was written like it for publication .

[@laurengaudette7497]

Beth, I hope you get the chance to react to "Let It Be Me." Such a beautiful song! Love listening to the Everly Brothers! Such an important group for many popular singers!

[@professorD72]

My Mom’s favorite! Thank you Beth ❤

[@firedoc5]

I have heard a few covers of "All I Have to do is Dream". Some made a valent effort, but none quite as good as the Everly's is. It's one of my all-time favorites of that era. It's that "slide" they can do together is just so iconic of them. And of course, with my sister Kathy, we had occasionally goad some of her boyfriends with. And yes, some were clowns.

[@dannyc.jewell8788]

Nice you got a chance to sit in with The Everly Brothers

[@maryannanderson2213]

If you want to hear beautiful harmony on the part of the Everly Brothers, you should listen to "Kentucky" which, in my opinion, is their most beautiful song. Singers from that time were "so precise" because they practiced and practiced and practiced and practiced. My father, who was not a professional singer, belonged to a men's gospel quartet when he was in college, and he once told me that they NEVER sang a new song in public until they had practiced it at least a hundred times. They wanted every word, every sound, every bit of harmony, every syllable to be perfect and they practiced until they got it perfect. My father has been dead since 1969 but his head would have exploded if he could have used a time machine to catapult himself into the 2000's and could have seen lazy singers using autotune to get their sound halfway decent.