Don't Ask Me to Be Friends

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"Don't Ask Me to Be Friends"
Single by The Everly Brothers
B-side "No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile"
Released 1962
FormatVinyl, 7", 45 RPM
RecordedJuly 11, 1962
Genre Pop
Length2:27
Label Warner Bros. Records
Songwriter(s) Gerry Goffin & Jack Keller [1]
The Everly Brothers singles chronology
"I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail"
(1962)
"Don't Ask Me to Be Friends"
(1962)
"Nancy's Minuet"
(1963)
"I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail"
(1962)
"Don't Ask Me to Be Friends"
(1962)
"Nancy's Minuet"
(1963)

"Don't Ask Me to Be Friends" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Jack Keller, which was released in 1962 by The Everly Brothers. The song spent 7 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 48, [2] while reaching No. 16 on Billboard's Middle-Road Singles chart. [3] [4]

Gerald Goffin was an American lyricist. Writing initially with his wife Carole King, he co-wrote many international pop hits of the early and mid-1960s, including the US No.1 hits "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl". It was later said of Goffin that his gift was "to find words that expressed what many young people were feeling but were unable to articulate."

Jack Keller (songwriter) American songwriter

Jack Walter Keller was an American composer, songwriter and record producer. He co-wrote, with Howard Greenfield and others, several pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Just Between You and Me", "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own", "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Run to Him". He also wrote the theme songs for TV series including Bewitched and Gidget, and later worked in Los Angeles – where he wrote for, and produced, The Monkees – and in Nashville.

The Everly Brothers American rock and roll band

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Isaac Donald "Don" Everly and Phillip Jason "Phil" Everly were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

The song was covered by Cliff Richard for his 1970 album Tracks 'n Grooves . [5]

Cliff Richard British pop singer, musician, and actor

Sir Cliff Richard, is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

<i>Tracks n Grooves</i> 1970 studio album by Cliff Richard

Tracks ‘n Grooves is a studio album by British singer Cliff Richard, released November 1970 on EMI Columbia label. It reached #37 in the UK Album Charts.

Chart performance

Chart (1962)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 10048
US Billboard - Middle-Road Singles16

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References

  1. Don't Ask Me to Be Friends - By: The Everly Brothers, MusicVF.com. Accessed August 10, 2015
  2. The Everly Brothers - Chart History - The Hot 100, Billboard.com. Accessed August 10, 2015
  3. The Everly Brothers - Chart History - Adult Contemporary, Billboard.com. Accessed August 10, 2015
  4. "Middle-Road Singles", Billboard , November 17, 1962. p. 38
  5. Cliff Richard – Tracks 'N Grooves, Discogs.com. Accessed August 12, 2015