The Everly Brothers Sing

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Everly Brothers Sing

| type = studio album

| artist = The Everly Brothers

| cover = Everlybrotherssing.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 1967

| recorded = November 12, 1965 – June 22, 1967

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| genre = {{Flatlist|

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| length =

| label = Warner Bros.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Everly+Brothers+Sing+1967&pg=RA1-PA2924|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=September 8, 2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440229169|via=Google Books}}

| producer = Dick Glasser

| prev_title = The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Roots

| next_year = 1968

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score ={{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id= r6936/review|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=The+Everly+Brothers+Sing+1967&pg=PA1022|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=May 27, 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|via=Google Books}}

}}

The Everly Brothers Sing is an album by the Everly Brothers, released by Warner Bros. in 1967.{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |date=1995 |publisher=Fireside |page=337}} It was re-released on CD by Collectors' Choice Music in 2005.

The album includes their last Top 40 hit, "Bowling Green."{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-everly-brothers/chart-history/hsi/|title=The Everly Brothers|website=Billboard}} It was also their last Top 100 hit until 1984.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/10/02/close-harmony/|title=Close Harmony|first=Sadie|last=Stein|date=October 2, 2015}}

Critical reception

Billboard praised the album, singling out "Bowling Green" and the duo's cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale."{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ykEAAAAMBAJ&q=The+Everly+Brothers+Sing+1967+bowling+green&pg=PA45|title=Album Reviews|work=Billboard|first=Nielsen Business Media|last=Inc|date=August 19, 1967|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}

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

References