The Everly Brothers Sing

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The Everly Brothers Sing
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1967
RecordedNovember 12, 1965 - June 22, 1967
Genre
Label Warner Bros. [2]
Producer Dick Glasser
The Everly Brothers chronology
The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers
(1967)
The Everly Brothers Sing
(1967)
Roots
(1968)
Professional ratings
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The Everly Brothers Sing is an album by the Everly Brothers, released by Warner Bros. in 1967. [4] It was re-released on CD by Collectors' Choice Music in 2005.

Contents

The album includes their last Top 40 hit, "Bowling Green." [5] It was also their last Top 100 hit until 1984. [6]

Critical reception

Billboard praised the album, singling out "Bowling Green" and the duo's cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale." [7]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Bowling Green" (Terry Slater, Jacqueline Ertel) – 2:50
  2. "A Voice Within" (Terry Slater) – 2:23
  3. "I Don't Want to Love You" (Don Everly, Phil Everly) – 2:48
  4. "It's All Over" (Don Everly) – 2:23
  5. "Deliver Me" (Daniel Moore) – 2:35
  6. "Talking to the Flowers" (Terry Slater) – 2:57

Side two

  1. "Mary Jane" (Terry Slater) – 3:01
  2. "I'm Finding It Rough" (Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Chris Thomas) – 2:47
  3. "Do You" (Terry Slater) – 2:47
  4. "Somebody Help Me" (Jackie Edwards) – 2:01
  5. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid) – 4:55
  6. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) – 2:28

Personnel

Technical

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