36 Unreleased Recordings from the Late 50s and Early 60s

Artist	The Everly Brothers
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Varese Sarabande
Producer	Cary E. Mansfield, Andrew Sandoval
Release Date	2006 10 17
Song List	1: That's Too Good to Be True [#] (1:56) 2: I Wonder If I Care as Much [#] (2:13) 3: How Did We Stay Together [#] (1:12) 4: Maybe Tomorrow [#] (1:36) 5: I Didn't Mean to Go This Far [#] (1:20) 6: Should We Tell Him [#] (1:45) 7: It's Too Late to Say Goodbye [#] (1:32) 8: Since You Broke My Heart [#] (2:09) 9: All I Ask of Life [#] (1:38) 10: Give Me a Future [#] (1:59) 11: I'll Throw Myself at You [#] (1:21) 12: Made to Love [#] (1:51) 13: Life Ain't Worth Living [#] (1:16) 14: Kiss Me Once [#] (1:24) 15: Dancing on My Feet [#] (1:59) 16: Do You Love Me [#] (1:54) 17: When Will I Be Loved [#] (1:39) 18: It's All Over [#] (2:09) 19: Give Me a Future [#] (1:41) 20: Maybe Tomorrow [#] (1:58) 21: How Did We Stay Together [#] (1:16) 22: Since You Broke My Heart [#] (1:28) 23: You're the One [#] (2:03) 24: Will I Ever Have a Chance Again [#] (1:37) 25: Who's to Be the One [#] (2:05) 26: Don't Call Me, I'll Call You [#] (1:18) 27: Captain, Captain [#] (2:11) 28: You Can Fly [#] (1:55) 29: Her Love Was Meant for Me [#] (2:04) 30: Hello Amy [#] (2:57) 31: I'll Bide My Time [#] (1:24) 32: Oh What a Feeling [#] (1:42) 33: Turned Down [#] (1:19) 34: I'm Tired of Singing My Song in Las Vegas [#] (2:16) 35: I'm Gonna Make Real Sure [#] (1:41) 36: Only Me [#] (3:03)
Style.Categories	Close Harmony, Pop, Rock & Roll

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36 Unreleased Recordings from the Late 50s and Early 60s packages together two Everly Brothers albums Varèse Sarabande released separately a year earlier, Too Good to Be True and Give Me a Future. Seldom has an album title been as true as it is for Too Good to Be True. This brief but rich 18-track disc contains a wealth of songwriting demos the Everlys made for the publishing company Acuff-Rose in the late '50s, almost all unreleased (two songs, "Give Me a Future" and "Life Ain't Worth Living," were on Bear Family's exhaustive 1992 box set Classic Everly Brothers, which compiled all of the duo's known Cadence and pre-Cadence recordings). The big news is that there aren't just demo versions of such timeless Everly hits as "I Wonder If I Care as Much," "Maybe Tomorrow," and "Should We Tell Him," but six previously unknown, unheard Everly songs: "That's Too Good to Be True," "How Did We Stay Together," "I Didn't Mean to Go This Far," "All I Ask of Life," "I'll Throw Myself at You," and "It's Too Late to Say Goodbye." Like most of the recordings here, these tracks were recorded in 1957, after the duo had their first big hit for Cadence with the Felice & Boudleaux Bryant-written "Bye Bye Love" and were demoing their own original songs for future use at the label. These recordings, let alone these songs, weren't known to exist until Cary E. Mansfield and Andrew Sandoval began work on this project and were presented with the recordings by Acuff-Rose. As Sandoval says in his liner notes, these are the "missing part of the puzzle" between the fine but unremarkable close harmony cuts the duo made for Columbia in 1955 and the classic Cadence sound: it's possible to hear the Everlys grow into their classic sound on these demos. That would have been enough of a treat for devoted fans, but the fact that there are six new songs, all good, makes this absolutely essential. Since these are demos, the songs are short and some of the unheard tunes don't feel completely fleshed out, but the core of each tune is here, and it's rather wondrous to hear new Everly tunes so many years after the fact. There's no question that this is an historically important release, and because of its historical nature it may not be played as often as the duo's classic Cadence sides, but even so, it's hard to imagine any Everly fan not having this superb disc in his collection. Give Me a Future is Varèse's sequel to Too Good to Be True. Where the first disc had songs that sounded as if they could have been included on a regular Everlys album, along with a healthy selection of demos for songs that were hits, Give Me a Future reveals another side of the Everlys, since it consists of material that feels a little bit different from the songs that wound up on their albums. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule -- there's the bright, galloping "I'll Bide My Time," plus a demo of "Maybe Tomorrow," the only big hit featured here -- but for the most part, this 18-track collection is heavy on brokenhearted, introspective tunes, whether they come from the pen of Don or Phil. Many of these moody songs are about lost love, and there's a haunting quality to these spare, unadorned recordings of Phil's "You're the One" and Don's "Will I Ever Have a Chance Again," but this collection also finds each brother turning inward and tackling ambitious subjects, like Phil's "Captain, Captain" or Don's "I'm Tired of Singing My Song in Las Vegas" and "Only Me" (the latter two date from the '70s, the album title notwithstanding).