A Date with the Everly Brothers

A Date with the Everly Brothers
Studio album by the Everly Brothers
Released	October 1960
Recorded	March 18, 1960 July 8–13, 1960, July 27, 1960
Length	27:55
Label	Warner Bros.
The Everly Brothers chronology
It's Everly Time (1960) A Date with the Everly Brothers (1960) Both Sides of an Evening (1961)
Singles from A Date with the Everly Brothers
"Cathy's Clown" Released: April 1960

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. ^[1]

Legacy

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

Writing for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger stated, "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." ^[2]

The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . ^[4]

Track listing

Side One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Made to Love"	Phil Everly	2:05
2.	"That's Just Too Much"	Don Everly, Phil Everly	2:40
3.	"Stick With Me Baby"	Mel Tillis	1:57
4.	"Baby What You Want Me to Do"	Jimmy Reed	2:20
5.	"Sigh, Cry, Almost Die"	Everly, Everly	2:18
6.	"Always It's You"	Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant	2:30

Side Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Love Hurts"	Boudleaux Bryant	2:23
2.	"Lucille"	Albert Collins, Richard Penniman	2:32
3.	"So How Come (No One Loves Me)"	Bryant, Bryant	2:18
4.	"Donna, Donna"	Bryant, Bryant	2:15
5.	"A Change of Heart"	Bryant, Bryant	2:07
6.	"Cathy's Clown"	Don Everly	2:25

Personnel

• Don Everly  – guitar, vocals
• Phil Everly  – guitar, vocals

References

1. Liner Notes: A Date with the Everly Brothers by Richie Unterberger. Reissue by Collectors' Choice Music.
2. Unterberger, Richie. "A Date with the Everly Brothers > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved October 2, 2015.
3. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
4. ^ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN   978-0-7893-2074-2.