Let It Be Me
The Everly Brothers | Artist Essentials
First released: 1959 (year verified)
Original 1959 Cadence recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: Make room for a slower original Cadence performance among the early singles.
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Release evidence and recording details
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
In the yearly lists
These are listening-list appearances, separate from the first-release date.
The actual 1960 annual appearance belongs to the original Cadence release cycle. The licensed original Cadence program retains 1959 for this performance; later Warner and concert recordings remain separate.
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
About The Everly Brothers
Don and Phil Everly grew up singing with their family on radio before becoming a duo. Their recordings joined country roots with rock and roll, with Don usually carrying the melody and Phil singing the higher harmony. Early Cadence singles led to a move to Warner in 1960, where their repertoire expanded across pop, rock and country material. The 1968 album Roots revisited music from their upbringing. After a period apart, their reunion led to EB 84, including the Paul McCartney song On the Wings of a Nightingale.
Artist background sources
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. | Retrieved 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. | Retrieved 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. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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