| "It's All Over" | ||||
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 Cover of the single released in the Netherlands | ||||
| Single by The Everly Brothers | ||||
| from the album In Our Image | ||||
| B-side | "I Used to Love You" | |||
| Released | December 1965 | |||
| Recorded | November 12, 1965 | |||
| Studio | RCA Victor, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:16 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Don Everly | |||
| Producer(s) | Dick Glasser | |||
| The Everly Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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"It's All Over" is a song by the Everly Brothers, released as a single in December 1965 from their album In Our Image .
"It's All Over" is one of the few Everly Brothers songs to feature Phil Everly on lead vocals, with Don Everly doing the harmony. [1] The song also prominently features a harpsichord played by Don Randi. The single was only released in the US and the Netherlands, with the B-side "I Used to Love You", written by Sonny Curtis. It was scheduled for release in the UK in January 1966, but was never released. [2]
Reviewed in Cash Box , "It's All Over" was described as a "soft dreamyeyed heartbreaker. Husky sad tale of a lost love has tons of tear-jerking ten-appeal". [3] In Record World , it was described as a "slow ballad paced by a harpsichord. Unusual sound will get attention for the change of pace". [4]
However, the song failed to chart in the US or the Netherlands.
| "It's All Over" | ||||
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 Cover of the single released in the Netherlands | ||||
| Single by Cliff Richard and Bernard Ebbinghouse and His Orchestra | ||||
| B-side | "Why Wasn't I Born Rich" | |||
| Released | 10 March 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 11 October 1966 [5] | |||
| Studio | EMI Studios, London | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:28 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Don Everly | |||
| Producer(s) | Norrie Paramor | |||
| Cliff Richard and Bernard Ebbinghouse and His Orchestra singles chronology | ||||
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In March 1967, Cliff Richard released a cover of the song as a single, which peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. [6]
"It's All Over" was first recorded by Richard in September 1966. However, this version remains unreleased and instead, a re-recording of the song a month later was the version released as a single. Richard's version was arranged by Bernard Ebbinghouse, whose orchestra performs all instrumentation on the track. [5] The B-side, "Why Wasn't I Born Rich", is backed by the Shadows, who wrote the song for the pantomime cast album Cinderella . [7]
Peter Jones for Record Mirror was "just a little disappointed" with "It's All Over", describing it as "very slow, low-pitched, throaty, and sentimental, but somehow Cliff doesn't really get going. However. it's a superbly professional performance". [8] Reviewing for Disc and Music Echo , Penny Valentine described the song as "very drifting stuff saved for me by the intensely well written words by Don Everly". [9]
| Chart (1967) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Kent Music Report) [10] | 65 |
| Ireland (IRMA) [11] | 11 |
| Malaysia (Radio Malaysia) [12] | 2 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [13] | 24 |
| New Zealand (Listener) [14] | 15 |
| UK Singles (OCC) [6] | 9 |
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