January 04, 2014
Phil Everly passes
Phil Everly, the younger member of the Everly Brothers, died Friday (Jan. 3) in Burbank, Calif. He was 74.
He died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Everly was born Jan. 19, 1939, in Chicago, where his parents, Ike and Margaret, had gone to continue their career in radio as a family singing group. Phil and his brother, Don, who was two years older, joined group while they were still kids.
The Everly family moved to Nashville in 1955. That same year, Don and Phil signed to Columbia Records but were unable to make a breakthrough on that label. In 1957, the brothers resurfaced on Cadence Records in a deal brokered by Wesley Rose of the Acuff-Rose music publishing company, for which Don had achieved a few cuts as a songwriter.
Their first single for Cadence, "Bye Bye Love," written by Acuff-Rose's Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, entered the country charts in May 1957 and quickly rose to the top, where it stayed for seven weeks.
They followed up with hits on both the Country & pop charts with "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bird Dog", "Ebony Eyes", "Crying In The Rain" and many more.
The Everlys were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1957, and many years later, their recordings of "Bye Bye Love" and "All I Have to Do Is Dream" were added to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In 2001, the brothers were made members both of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Phil's death is the first Hillbilly Heaven inductee in 2014, following a bad 2013 for Country music, when we lost the likes of George Jones, Ray Price, Tom Paul Glaser, Rita MacNeil, Patti Page, Cal smith, Slim Whitman, Jack Greene, Mindy McCready and Claude King amongst others, Celtic Music Radio's Celtic Country will celebrate the music they left behind on Sunday's programme. (12 Noon- 2pm on 1530 AM or www.celticmusicradio.net, and later on the catch up.
He died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Everly was born Jan. 19, 1939, in Chicago, where his parents, Ike and Margaret, had gone to continue their career in radio as a family singing group. Phil and his brother, Don, who was two years older, joined group while they were still kids.
The Everly family moved to Nashville in 1955. That same year, Don and Phil signed to Columbia Records but were unable to make a breakthrough on that label. In 1957, the brothers resurfaced on Cadence Records in a deal brokered by Wesley Rose of the Acuff-Rose music publishing company, for which Don had achieved a few cuts as a songwriter.
Their first single for Cadence, "Bye Bye Love," written by Acuff-Rose's Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, entered the country charts in May 1957 and quickly rose to the top, where it stayed for seven weeks.
They followed up with hits on both the Country & pop charts with "Wake Up Little Susie," "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bird Dog", "Ebony Eyes", "Crying In The Rain" and many more.
The Everlys were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1957, and many years later, their recordings of "Bye Bye Love" and "All I Have to Do Is Dream" were added to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In 2001, the brothers were made members both of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Phil's death is the first Hillbilly Heaven inductee in 2014, following a bad 2013 for Country music, when we lost the likes of George Jones, Ray Price, Tom Paul Glaser, Rita MacNeil, Patti Page, Cal smith, Slim Whitman, Jack Greene, Mindy McCready and Claude King amongst others, Celtic Music Radio's Celtic Country will celebrate the music they left behind on Sunday's programme. (12 Noon- 2pm on 1530 AM or www.celticmusicradio.net, and later on the catch up.
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