The Everly Brothers' Best

The Best Of The Everly Brothers
Greatest hits album by The Everly Brothers
Released	March 1959
Recorded	March 1, 1957– October 13, 1958
Label	Cadence
Producer	Archie Bleyer
The Everly Brothers chronology
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1958) The Best Of The Everly Brothers (1959) It's Everly Time (1960)

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The Everly Brothers' Best is the first compilation album by American singing duo the Everly Brothers, released in 1959 by their first record company, Cadence Records. The album contains both sides of their first six singles for the label in chronological order. Allmusic states in their review: "this original Cadence compilation still holds up nicely after almost half-a-century."^[1]

Track listing[edit]

Side 1[edit]

1. "Bye Bye Love" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:26
2. "I Wonder If I Care as Much" (Don Everly) – 2:17
3. "Wake Up Little Susie" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:06
4. "Maybe Tomorrow" (Everly) – 2:09
5. "Should We Tell Him" (Everly) – 2:07
6. "This Little Girl of Mine" (Ray Charles) – 2:17

Side 2[edit]

1. "All I Have to Do is Dream" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:21
2. "Claudette" (Roy Orbison) – 2:13
3. "Bird Dog" (B. Bryant) – 2:17
4. "Devoted to You" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:25
5. "Problems" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 1:59
6. "Love of My Life" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:07

Produced by Archie Bleyer

Personnel[edit]

• Don Everly – guitar, vocals
• Phil Everly – guitar, vocals
• Chet Atkins – guitar
• Jerry Allison – guitar, drums
• Victor Battista – bass
• Luther Brandon – piano
• Floyd Cramer – piano
• Floyd Chance – double bass on “Bye Bye Love”, Wake Up Little Susie”, “All I Have To Do Is Dream”, and “Bird Dog”^[2][3]
• Jerry Byrd – steel guitar
• Howard Collins – guitar
• Ray Edenton – guitar
• Lloyd Trotman – bass
• Henry Rowland – piano
• Sonny Curtis – guitar
• Barry Galbraith – guitar
• Hank Garland – guitar
• Marvin Hughes – piano
• Buddy Harman – drums
• Mundell Lowe – guitar

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