The Everly Brothers: Artist Essentials

First released: 1957 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1957 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Bye Bye Love

The Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1958. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1958 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1958 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: All I Have to Do Is Dream

The Everly Brothers' Best - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers' Best program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1959. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: A Date with the Everly Brothers

A Date with the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed A Date with the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

The Everly Brothers - official family and career history
The official family history supports Don and Phil Everly, childhood family radio performances, their Cadence breakthrough in 1957, the 1958 Songs Our Daddy Taught Us project and the move to Warner in 1960. Promotional superlatives and anecdotal claims not needed for the profile are omitted. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1957 (year verified)

Rhino places the original single in 1957, before the 1958 debut album. The album-inherited track date is not adopted.

Recording: Original 1957 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Wake Up Little Susie

Wake Up Little Susie - label original-year history
Rhino explicitly places the original Wake Up Little Susie single in 1957, before the 1958 debut LP. Its accompanying live video is a separate performance. The 1958 album-inherited date in one licensed track record is not used. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

The Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1958. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1959 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1959 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Let It Be Me

The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1958 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1958 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Bird Dog

The Everly Brothers' Best - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers' Best program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1959. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1958 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1958 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Devoted to You

The Everly Brothers' Best - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers' Best program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1959. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1959 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1959 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: ('Til) I Kissed You

The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed The Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1961 (year verified)

The licensed original recording metadata and original Warner WB33 chart chronology agree on 1961; no exact first-release day is claimed.

Recording: Original 1961 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Walk Right Back

Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. 1960-1969 - licensed recording program
The licensed Walk Right Back: The Everly Brothers on Warner Bros. 1960-1969 program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1993. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

Walk Right Back / Ebony Eyes - original labeled single chronology
The primary UK chart archive identifies the original Warner Brothers WB33 single in February 1961. Paired with the licensed original recording metadata for Walk Right Back, this supports 1961 at year precision. The chart-entry day is not asserted as a worldwide release day; conflicting Ebony Eyes track metadata remains deferred. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 A Date with the Everly Brothers studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: A Date with the Everly Brothers

A Date with the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed A Date with the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

A Date with the Everly Brothers - label original album history
Rhino explicitly dates both It's Everly Time and A Date with the Everly Brothers to 1960 and identifies Love Hurts as the first recording of that song. The original 1960 album is selected, not the later rerecording on other anthologies. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: It's Everly Time

It's Everly Time - licensed recording program
The licensed It's Everly Time program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: A Date with the Everly Brothers

A Date with the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed A Date with the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1958 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1958 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Problems

The Everly Brothers' Best - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers' Best program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1959. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1958 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1958 Cadence recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Claudette

The Everly Brothers' Best - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers' Best program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1959. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1964 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1964 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: Gone Gone Gone

Gone Gone Gone - licensed recording program
The licensed Gone Gone Gone program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1964. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1967 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1967 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: The Everly Brothers Sing

The Everly Brothers Sing - licensed recording program
The licensed The Everly Brothers Sing program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1967. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: It's Everly Time

It's Everly Time - licensed recording program
The licensed It's Everly Time program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1962 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1962 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)

The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1962. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1961 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1961 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original single: Muskrat

The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1962. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1984 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1984 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: EB 84

EB 84 - licensed recording program
The licensed EB 84 program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1984. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

The Everly Brothers - label career biography
Rhino describes Don's melody and Phil's higher harmony, their country roots, the Cadence and Warner eras, the split and reunion, and the 1984 EB 84 album produced with Dave Edmunds including Paul McCartney's On the Wings of a Nightingale. Outdated current-touring language is not used. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: A Date with the Everly Brothers

A Date with the Everly Brothers - licensed recording program
The licensed A Date with the Everly Brothers program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1960 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1960 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: It's Everly Time

It's Everly Time - licensed recording program
The licensed It's Everly Time program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1960. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1968 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1968 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: Roots

Roots - licensed recording program
The licensed Roots program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1968. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

Roots - label original album history
Rhino dates Roots to 1968 and distinguishes its contemporary studio tracks from the embedded 1952 family broadcast excerpts. Only the original 1968 studio performances of Mama Tried, T for Texas and Sing Me Back Home are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1968 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1968 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: Roots

Roots - licensed recording program
The licensed Roots program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1968. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

Roots - label original album history
Rhino dates Roots to 1968 and distinguishes its contemporary studio tracks from the embedded 1952 family broadcast excerpts. Only the original 1968 studio performances of Mama Tried, T for Texas and Sing Me Back Home are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

First released: 1968 (year verified)

Year precision reflects the reviewed original release program. Reissues, remasters, later single campaigns and annual-list placement do not reset the original recording year.

Recording: Original 1968 duo studio recording
Credit: The Everly Brothers
Role in this collection: Primary artist

Original album: Roots

Roots - licensed recording program
The licensed Roots program identifies its original tracks and the album or anthology year 1968. Selected original recording years are reviewed individually; anthology, remaster, inherited album and conflicting track dates are not treated as interchangeable. Only the specified original performances are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19

Roots - label original album history
Rhino dates Roots to 1968 and distinguishes its contemporary studio tracks from the embedded 1952 family broadcast excerpts. Only the original 1968 studio performances of Mama Tried, T for Texas and Sing Me Back Home are selected. | Reviewed 2026-10-19