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MUSIC: 'Love Is Strange' by the Everly Brothers

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-Hey, Don?

-What, Phil?

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How would you call your baby home?

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Well, if I needed her real bad, I guess I would call her like this.

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# Maybe, oh, sweet baby

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# My sweet baby

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# Please come home

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Yeah, that oughta bring her home, Don.

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# People don't understand

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# They think love is

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# Money in the hand

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# Your sweet lovin'

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# Is better than a kiss

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# When you love me

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# Sweet kisses I miss

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# Love is strange

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# Love is strange. #

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APPLAUSE

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Where you been?

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Thank you.

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I'm Don. I'm still the oldest one.

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LAUGHTER

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Phil's catching up, though.

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Won't be long!

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Won't be long before Phil's as old as I am,

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I guess, the way he keeps going.

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I hardly know what to say. I've thought and thought and thought

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what's the first words I should say.

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And I just couldn't come with anything other than...

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-It's good to be back.

-It's good to be back.

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APPLAUSE

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MUSIC: "Bye Bye Love" by the Everly Brothers

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# Bye-bye, love

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# Bye-bye, happiness

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# Hello, loneliness Well, I think I'm gonna cry

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# Bye-bye, love

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# Bye-bye, sweet caress

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# Hello, emptiness

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# Well, I feel like I could die

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# Bye-bye, my love, goodbye

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# There goes my baby

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# With someone new

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# She looks happy

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# I sure am blue

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# She was my baby

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# Till he stepped in

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# Goodbye to romance that might have been

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# Bye-bye, love

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# Bye-bye, happiness

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# Hello, loneliness

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# I think I'm gonna cry

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# Bye-bye, love

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# Bye-bye, sweet caress

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# Hello, emptiness

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# I feel like I could die

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# Bye-bye, my love, goodbye

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# Bye-bye, my love, goodbye

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# Bye-bye, my love, goodbye

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# Bye-bye, my love, goodbye. #

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APPLAUSE

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Well, a great big howdy-do to all of our good friends and neighbours.

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This is Dad Everly talking for the Everly family, and we're going to play

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and sing you some songs, neighbours, family style, also country style.

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And we've got the whole gang on deck - Mom, Don, baby boy Phil.

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And you know, Mom, we kind of ought to tell the folks just how old these youngsters are.

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Some of the folks probably don't know. And Don, our oldest boy, is 15 years old.

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Phil is 13 and of course me and Mom, we quit telling our age a long time ago!

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You know, I'd like to do one here that was recorded by a good

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old buddy of mine. He's a well-known fellow, too.

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I'm sure most of the folks know Merle Travis and here's one he

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recorded he calls Blue Smoke, just some old country guitar picking.

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MUSIC: "Blue Smoke" by Ike Everly

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Oh, this is very nostalgic.

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Terry and the Pirates came on at five o'clock.

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5.15, Dick Tracy.

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5.30, Jack Armstrong. Gee, that's wonderful stuff.

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Shadow came on at nine. All those shows, I used to listen to them.

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Then Lemon Ebner was on Tuesday night at 7pm.

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-What time were you on?

-We were on the mornings.

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And 5.30, or five o'clock.

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We were there for the farmers while they were milking or getting ready to milk.

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They would have radios in their barns

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and then it would be getting up!

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We would get up before the bakery was open. That's how early that was.

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And we would come back from the shows, stop at the bakery.

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We'd go in the back door and get hot cinnamon buns

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and take them home sometimes. In the dark of the night, it would still be dark in the winter

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up there when we've done our show and on our way home.

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Then we'd go back and get ready to go to school.

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Dad played all the time and we would go down the radio station

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and watch him perform and he taught you everything you knew but it

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wasn't like, at three o'clock, come in and learn to play the guitar, you know.

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It's the same way I taught my boys. You show them and they must go for it.

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You know, I kind of suggest that we get the Everly Brothers to team

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up on one here. Phil, what are you going to sing this time?

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Well, Dad, we'd like to do a number for the folks and it's called

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Don't Let Your Love Die.

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# Someone stole you, my darling from me

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# Someone stole your love and your heart

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# Is it really true you don't care for me?

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# Have you missed me since we've been apart?

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# What can I do to make you believe

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# That I love you, oh, won't you please try?

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# If there's room in your heart...

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MUSIC FADES INTO CONTEMPORARY VERSION OF SAME TRACK

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# ..Left for me... #

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I don't remember that line.

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# Darling, don't let our love die. #

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If there's any room in your heart left for me.

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GUITAR DROWNS OUT SPEECH

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-You started off as Little Donnie, though.

-Yeah.

-Tell us about that.

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When I was...you know, Little Donnie was that they had a 15-minute radio

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show on Saturdays, known as Little Donnie, and I used to get to

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read the commercials or something and do... The radio station had been...

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The fellow that was called the Earl May Seed Company, he had gone on

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-a trip around the world and he had fell in love with a mosque somewhere in India.

-Yeah!

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He built this radio station to look like a mosque.

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With minarets on each end!

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It was the movie theatre and the radio station but what a building!

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This year, if you have corns and calluses,

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send for Foster's 30-minute wonder corn and callus remover.

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One dollar will bring you a big one-ounce bottle

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and it's guaranteed to get rid of at least a dozen corns and calluses.

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So be sure and send all your orders to the Everly family,

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station KFNF, Shenandoah, Iowa and get that order in the mail today.

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You know, it's about time in our programme that we hear

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from the old man from the mountains, Dad Everly.

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-Watch your step, Mom!

-Get that guitar all tuned up there. Ike, what are you going to pick?

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You know, if you twist my arm a little, I'll do a little of that old country guitar picking.

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APPLAUSE

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'Phil and I don't remember anything else but show business.

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'We grew up in it.

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'The food in our mouth came from it, whether it was lean or fat,

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'you know, it came from what we did as music.

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'You know, we didn't earn it from anything else.'

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-Showing us up again.

-Yeah.

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It's been a long time, boys.

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It surely has and it's been a long time since the old radio days,

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hasn't it, Dad?

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You know, back in the radio days, boys,

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that's when you sang good, you know.

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This is what we used to do back when we got started.

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And I'd say, I'd say, Dad, I don't want to sing today.

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I want to make up a poem instead.

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-I want to have a poem contest with you.

-You do?

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Now, you know I can beat you, Phil.

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What do you want to have a contest for?

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I want to pick a hard subject this time. I want to pick...

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-Well, you usually picked that same one.

-Well, this one is difficult.

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-It's going to be about...

-How about me picking a subject?

-All right, you pick a subject.

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-Birds.

-That's awful easy.

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We'll make it about birds and grapefruit. Make it hard.

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-Birds and grapefruit? You mean both at once?

-Both at once.

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-You go first.

-OK. I'm going to beat you again. I'll go first.

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Birds and grapefruit.

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I wouldn't want to be a little bird that flies up so high.

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I'd rather be a grapefruit to squirt right in your eye.

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LAUGHTER

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-'Do you think your father got the recognition that he deserved?'

-'No, not at all.

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'Actually, on the radio,'

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I never felt he ever really got to be himself there, either.

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He had to have a comedy relief. He had an alter ego called Cousin Ike.

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He could tell tall tales

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and then sing the songs that the particular listeners wanted to hear.

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Basically, he liked blues. He loved the old blues and things.

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FINGERPICKING GUITAR 12-BAR BLUES

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Of course, I don't do it like he does.

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-Where did his style come from?

-Well, he learned from Arnold Shultz.

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And Arnold Shultz was a black man that evidently was

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a magnificent musician. My father said he followed him around.

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There's a famous piece called the drum piece which only our

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Aunt Hattie could do, which was an open tuning that our grandfather, Melfred Everly,

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had paid five dollars to get Arnold Shultz to teach her to play.

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-She could still play it last time I saw her.

-Yeah.

-How does it go?

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Well, you put it in a tuning and she doesn't play it. She plays like this.

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Yeah, it's called the drum piece. You have to...

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-It's...

-You know.

-Oh, it's great.

-It's very peculiar.

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-It's a very peculiar piece.

-Whereabouts were you...

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-Where is this happening?

-Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

-Yeah.

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-What kind of place was that?

-Well, it's a coal-mining area.

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And I don't know, it seems to me, coalminers sing. Somewhere... I don't know...

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And there's areas in the United States that a lot of music...

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West Texas, in particular.

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I don't know, they're not miners there but there's something... A little pocket of music.

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Could be in the water.

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'I don't know what it could be but a lot of music came out of there.'

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'How much did your style change from when you were kids, really,

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-'to when you were successful?'

-'I wouldn't say any.

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'I think it just comes from having sung all those years together,

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'the fact that we're brothers, the fact that we were being influenced

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'by too many things and we could pretty well sing almost anything.

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'And we had heard a lot of Bailes Brothers.'

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We dealt in a very close harmony and York Brothers

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and the Delmore Brothers and all these major kind of country acts

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but, er, we could pretty well sing anything.

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Dad had two brothers that he worked with and they worked in clubs

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together, three of them singing, and Uncle Leonard played guitar

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and banjo and then Chuck was a great rhythm guitar

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player in front of my father. And they're all three dead now.

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Dad was the only one that wound up really pursuing it as a livelihood.

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Now, I never heard them, but, the family, of course...

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All the tales of how wonderful they were together.

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# Kentucky

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# I miss your laurels

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# And your redbud trees

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# I know that

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# My mother, dad and sweetheart

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# Are waiting for me

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# Kentucky

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# I will be coming soon

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# When I die

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# I want to rest upon your graceful mountains so high

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# For that is where God will look for me

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# Kentucky. #

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Lord, why did you let 'em, why did you let 'em kill him?

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And then he said, looking up in the face of God

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"Just let me preach in this place."

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Walter, he was passed away, not long ago.

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He never had a calling from God for preaching.

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He had, he was a substitute preacher.

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Where are the nine?

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Here we are! Here we are!

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I know that I am a substitute preacher.

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I believe that God came down through the rows of the Everlys

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and I may be one of the choice ones first

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and had to wait round and get a call.

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But here we are.

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Here we are!

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Let me say, "Where are the nine?"

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Jesus said, "Where are the nine? Where are the nine?"

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And here we are. Let me say, "Here we are, we're waiting."

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We're waiting.

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The Bible says, "They that wait upon the Lord..."

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Let me read it to you from Isaiah, chapter number 40.

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They that wait upon the Lord

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"shall renew their strength.

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"They shall mount up with wings, as eagles,

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"they shall run and not be weary."

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"They shall walk and not fade!"

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# He's still working on me

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# To make me what I ought to be

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# It took him just a week

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# To make the moon and the stars

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# The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars

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# How loving and patient he must be

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# He's still working on me

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# He's still working on me

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# He's still working on me. #

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Thank you. We can do that. That's all right.

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You bear with us if we get a little bit clannish

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because we have a lot of Everlys,

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and we, I'm an Everly

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and I'm so proud of it

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and I thank God for being an Everly.

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This is Mr and Mrs Darrel Everly.

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If I ever had another brother, Darrel would be my brother.

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And you stand, and also, Darrel's family.

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We have some family that's here, OK.

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John's not here.

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And then around the corner there, that's Jewel Everly

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and Jewel, would you stand, please?

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And Mr and Mrs Jewel Everly, this is Marguerite.

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And then son, Kelly, and give them a hand, yeah.

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Thank you so much.

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APPLAUSE

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And then, of course, this is Uncle Roland and his wife.

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Uncle Roland, Aunt Margaret, to me, but they're here.

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I think he's very special.

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There was Jesse, Leonard, Charlie

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Ike, and Roland Everly

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of the Everly Brothers that were born to Milford and Mary Delilah

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And the last ones here...

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# ..I want you in my arms

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# When I want you

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# And all your charms

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# Whenever I want you

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# All I have to do... #

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Dad and Uncle Roland, his older brother, they held the mine record.

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They had loaded 18 tonnes of coal.

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But hand-loaded - you're talking shovelling.

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# When I feel blue... #

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He was working the mines when they had the picks

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and mules used and things.

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He was loading it for paying by the tonne.

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# To hold me tight

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# Whenever I want you

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# All I have to do

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# Is dream

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# I can make you mine

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# Taste your lips of wine

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# Any time, night or day

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# Only trouble is

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# Gee-whiz

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# I'm dreamin' my life away

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# I need you so

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# That I could die

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# I love you so

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# And that is why

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# Whenever I want you

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# All I have to do

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# Is dream, dream, dream, dream

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# Dream

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# Dream, dream, dream. #

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I said Uncle Roland, he's the only Everly that ever worked.

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The rest of us picked guitars!

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I don't have no guitar!

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LAUGHTER

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Well, I never bought one.

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I remember one time hearing a story about going to a contest.

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And Dad and Uncle Ike and Uncle Charlie won the contest

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by all three of them playing on one guitar.

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-How did they sound? Leonard and Chuck and Ike.

-Yeah.

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Tell us about how they sounded.

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-Well, you could hear Charlie playing anything.

-Oh, really?

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He'd play anything that made music.

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What about singing, when they sang together?

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Was it in any way similar to what Phil and I maybe sounded like?

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He is a good tenor singer.

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That's what they said.

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Charlie sounds like Phil, maybe.

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Or Phil sounds like Charlie!

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Phil does sing like Charlie!

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If they'd stuck together like y'all do...

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it, it, way up there.

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They didn't listen to Uncle Ike.

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I think Uncle Charlie and Dad never listened to Uncle Ike.

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They resented his...

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Your pa wanted to be boss, you see!

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That's right!

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-Ike wanted to be the boss, cos he was the eldest.

-Well, he should.

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Charlie wanted to be boss cos he could play the best!

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LAUGHTER

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And Dad wanted to be the boss cos he was the youngest!

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-Yes!

-LAUGHTER

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When we were young, things were kind of...

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Ha-ha! "When we were young"! Oh!

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Things were kind of tough, then.

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When Dad taught us to play the guitar,

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-all we could afford was one for the three of us.

-For the three of you?

0:22:100:22:13

-What do you do, take turns?

-No, the three of us played it at once.

0:22:130:22:17

The three of you at once?!

0:22:170:22:19

That's like three men milking the same cow.

0:22:190:22:21

Somebody's going to be pulling on somebody's fingers!

0:22:210:22:23

LAUGHTER

0:22:230:22:26

Yeah, how did you do it?

0:22:260:22:29

You be Papa and we'll show you how it's done.

0:22:290:22:31

I'll be Papa, I would have to be Papa. What did Papa do?

0:22:310:22:34

-He played on these two strings right here.

-And you played up there?

0:22:340:22:39

-And what do you do?

-I play whatever's left over.

-Uh-huh. Now...

0:22:390:22:43

-Papa played here, what did you play?

-We played kind of blues.

0:22:450:22:48

-Just kind of a blues beat, be fine.

-Let's see if I can find it.

0:22:480:22:52

-And Papa played on that there?

-Mm-hmm.

0:22:520:22:55

UPBEAT BLUES RHYTHM

0:22:550:22:58

Well, for goodness' sake!

0:22:590:23:01

APPLAUSE

0:23:010:23:04

Thank you!

0:23:040:23:06

Yeah!

0:23:110:23:13

Papa knows this!

0:23:130:23:16

# I'm a rattlesnake daddy

0:23:160:23:17

# And I rattle where I please

0:23:170:23:22

# Yes, I'm a rattlesnake daddy

0:23:220:23:24

# And I rattle where I please

0:23:240:23:29

# And when you hear me rattle

0:23:290:23:31

# Better get down on your knees

0:23:310:23:35

-IN HARMONY:

-# I rattled last night, the night before

0:23:370:23:41

# I woke up this morning, gonna rattle some more

0:23:410:23:44

# I'm a rattlesnake daddy, yeah!

0:23:440:23:48

# From Tennessee

0:23:480:23:52

# And when you hear me rattle

0:23:520:23:55

-# You better let me be

-# You better let me be. #

0:23:550:24:00

GENTLY-STRUMMED GUITAR

0:24:020:24:09

One of the first things I remember, whenever we'd go to Kentucky.

0:24:380:24:41

We'd always go to Kentucky. Wherever we would live,

0:24:410:24:43

every summer, we would be back in Kentucky.

0:24:430:24:46

All Kentuckians kept a little hut between Chicago and Kentucky.

0:24:460:24:49

I mean, they lived in Chicago, but they were Kentuckians,

0:24:490:24:51

they would go back.

0:24:510:24:54

There still is a tradition in the neighbourhoods of Chicago,

0:24:540:24:56

where people who are Kentuckians, or Tennesseeans,

0:24:560:24:59

or West Virginians, that have gone there for work, but he would

0:24:590:25:03

go back and he would go to the house and the guitar would be there.

0:25:030:25:07

And he passed the guitar to this fella, passed it over,

0:25:070:25:11

it was just constant.

0:25:110:25:12

# Oh, well, it rained five days

0:25:340:25:37

# And the sky turned dark as night

0:25:370:25:42

# Well, it rained five days

0:25:450:25:48

# And the sky turned dark as night

0:25:480:25:52

# Trouble taking place in the lowlands at night

0:25:560:26:02

# Well, it thundered and it lightnin'd

0:26:050:26:08

# And the wind began to blow... #

0:26:080:26:10

Gonna get you out of that bad tone.

0:26:100:26:12

# Well, it thundered and it lightnin'd

0:26:140:26:17

# And the wind began to blow

0:26:170:26:21

#, Well there's thousands of people

0:26:240:26:26

# Ain't got no place to go

0:26:260:26:29

# Mmmmm, I can't live no more... #

0:26:320:26:38

What a sad thing that is.

0:26:380:26:39

# Oh!

0:26:410:26:43

# I can't live no more

0:26:430:26:47

# Well, my house fell down and I can't live there no more. #

0:26:490:26:54

Well, that's great.

0:26:580:26:59

What's that called, Mose?

0:26:590:27:00

That's Lowland Blues.

0:27:000:27:02

That's nice. Really nice.

0:27:020:27:04

You're kidding me, right?

0:27:040:27:07

No, never!

0:27:070:27:09

We wouldn't kid you at all. That's wonderful. That really is.

0:27:090:27:12

Well, thank you very much.

0:27:120:27:13

I remember, back years ago, driving through Drakesboro

0:27:130:27:17

and you always had a guitar

0:27:170:27:19

and you and Dad wouldn't hardly say anything,

0:27:190:27:21

just grab the guitar and sort of pass it back and forth.

0:27:210:27:24

Yeah.

0:27:240:27:26

Who taught you to play the guitar?

0:27:260:27:28

Well, my sisters, I had about three or four sisters

0:27:280:27:32

who played, you know?

0:27:320:27:34

Played, and...

0:27:340:27:35

HE STRUMS A JAUNTY COUNTRY RHYTHM

0:27:350:27:39

They all played that,

0:27:390:27:42

and so I'd then get the guitar and I wouldn't let 'em have no peace.

0:27:420:27:46

I'm cryin', Momma's making me leave the guitar!

0:27:460:27:49

DON LAUGHS

0:27:490:27:50

And that tune'd keep me quiet now, right?

0:27:500:27:53

So when I got the ol' guitar, you know, and I'd jump on it like this,

0:27:530:27:57

and there was a little doorstep to go to, outside the cabin

0:27:570:28:00

I'd hold nothing back once I got on there!

0:28:000:28:04

LAUGHTER

0:28:040:28:05

HE STRUMS GUITAR

0:28:050:28:06

Oh, is that...?

0:28:060:28:08

Boy, I'd do that all day long.

0:28:100:28:15

And finally I learned to make 'em sing,

0:28:150:28:17

combining the C chord...

0:28:170:28:19

HE STRUMS CHORD

0:28:190:28:21

-The G.

-HE STRUMS CHORD

0:28:210:28:22

Like that, y'know?

0:28:220:28:25

They consider thumb-pick guitar to come from right here.

0:28:250:28:27

I guess Merle is the one that popularised that.

0:28:270:28:30

He was a good writer. Merle Travis was a very fine writer.

0:28:300:28:33

16 Tonnes, Dark As A Dungeon.

0:28:330:28:36

-Was that guitar style a particular thing in the mining areas?

-Yeah.

0:28:360:28:41

Merle came around to learn from Mose. My father,

0:28:410:28:44

Merle gives Dad a lot of credit for helping teach him, actually,

0:28:440:28:48

a few chords here and there, and whatever.

0:28:480:28:50

Can I start pickin' a tune, boys?

0:28:500:28:52

Yeah!

0:28:520:28:53

Did you and Ike work down the mines at the same time in the same mine?

0:29:300:29:34

We might have worked at the same mines

0:29:340:29:36

but we didn't work in the same room.

0:29:360:29:38

-Was it hard work?

-Hard work?

0:29:390:29:41

Man, when you had to go down that shaft, it'd almost kill you.

0:29:410:29:44

That's right.

0:29:440:29:47

Dad was sort of determined that Phil and I'd never work in the mines

0:29:480:29:51

-because it was so dangerous.

-Yes, it was.

0:29:510:29:55

Up in East Kentucky around Harlan and Perry County,

0:29:560:29:58

the coalminer sings a little song called The Nine Pound Hammer.

0:29:580:30:03

Now, just picture yourself driving four-inch spikes and hard,

0:30:030:30:06

black oak track ties about five miles back into the mountain.

0:30:060:30:10

Where the top's so low in the mines that you can't straighten up

0:30:100:30:13

to rest your back just for a minute.

0:30:130:30:16

And lots of times, the air gets so foul back there

0:30:160:30:19

that you just can't get a good, deep breath.

0:30:190:30:21

HE EXHALES

0:30:230:30:24

# This nine-pound hammer

0:30:240:30:26

# Is a little too heavy

0:30:260:30:29

# For my size

0:30:290:30:31

# Buddy, for my size

0:30:310:30:34

# I'm a-going over the mountains

0:30:340:30:36

# Gonna see my baby

0:30:360:30:38

# But I ain't coming back

0:30:380:30:40

# Oh, I ain't comin' back

0:30:400:30:43

# Oh, no, buddy, don't you go so slow

0:30:430:30:48

# How can I roll when the wheels won't go?

0:30:480:30:52

# Roll 'em, buddy

0:30:520:30:55

# Pull a load of coal

0:30:550:30:57

# How can I pull when the wheels won't roll? #

0:30:570:31:02

-Did you know Dad?

-Yeah, I knew him.

0:31:080:31:10

Ah.

0:31:100:31:12

What kind of, what would you call this?

0:31:120:31:15

This is an underground mine, it's a highwall mine.

0:31:150:31:18

You finish... You go straight back under.

0:31:180:31:22

-How far would that go down?

-Number nine coal seam.

0:31:220:31:24

Number nine? Number nine coal, that's like in the song, isn't it? Number nine coal!

0:31:240:31:28

# That number nine coal... #

0:31:280:31:31

Dad worked the Brownie mines.

0:31:310:31:33

That's where I was born, actually.

0:31:330:31:35

Been riding in the same coal train as him.

0:31:350:31:37

Oh, is that right?

0:31:370:31:38

Well, I'll be darned!

0:31:380:31:40

# Well, the wheel won't go. #

0:31:400:31:42

You know, Dad also talked about you and him loading coal.

0:31:430:31:47

That you and him held a record at one mine,

0:31:470:31:49

or something, for loading coal, in your day.

0:31:490:31:52

I don't know exactly how much

0:31:520:31:53

me and Ike loaded together but we loaded, I loaded...

0:31:530:31:57

43 tonnes, myself.

0:31:580:32:02

-Phew! In one day?

-In one day, yes.

-Oh, Lord!

0:32:020:32:06

We didn't have no union for nine years.

0:32:060:32:09

They took the union. Busted it.

0:32:090:32:12

-You helped get the union, didn't you?

-Huh?

0:32:120:32:16

I struck a year and a day for the union.

0:32:160:32:20

Uncle Roland, do you remember Dad used to talk about a time

0:32:200:32:24

when they fired on him with machine guns from the mines?

0:32:240:32:28

Down there in Hopkins County, there was a creek.

0:32:300:32:35

It was as wide as the road out there.

0:32:360:32:39

Went down from there, and they come out, firing a machine gun at him,

0:32:430:32:48

and boy, they would turn that creek bright red.

0:32:480:32:52

-Trying to get out.

-Getting away from there. Yeah.

0:32:520:32:55

One old man, one old man

0:32:550:32:58

stayed right out there.

0:32:580:32:59

He just stood there, he didn't run, huh?

0:32:590:33:02

No. He said, "Kill me, but you can't scare me!

0:33:020:33:06

LAUGHTER

0:33:060:33:10

# For 18 year

0:33:110:33:17

# It's a mighty long time

0:33:170:33:20

# To labour and toil

0:33:220:33:27

# Down in the coalmine

0:33:270:33:33

# My bones they do ache me

0:33:330:33:39

# Lord, my kneecaps got bad

0:33:390:33:44

# I went to that doctor

0:33:450:33:51

# And I heard him say

0:33:510:33:55

# Both lungs are broke down

0:33:550:34:00

# You spent your best days

0:34:000:34:04

# Go back to that coalmine

0:34:040:34:09

# They got you this way. #

0:34:090:34:14

True, they did.

0:34:140:34:16

When we get down to the bottom of the hill, we'll take a left

0:34:220:34:26

and probably, within 100 yards something, we're down on the front.

0:34:260:34:30

That's old Brownie, right back in there.

0:34:330:34:36

So there was a whole town just there?

0:34:360:34:38

Right there, in there. You're in Brownie.

0:34:380:34:41

Why did they choose to destroy it?

0:34:410:34:43

Well, it served its purpose.

0:34:430:34:48

That's Peabody's colours right there,

0:34:530:34:55

-green and yellow with the red stripe.

-Who are Peabody?

0:34:550:34:59

Peabody's the coal company.

0:34:590:35:00

Now, all the economy in Muhlenberg County is contingent on coal.

0:35:030:35:06

Um, everything, even the businesses.

0:35:090:35:11

And without the coal industry, there's no Muhlenberg County.

0:35:130:35:17

# When I was a child, my family would travel

0:35:190:35:22

# Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born

0:35:220:35:27

# There's a backward old town that I often remember

0:35:290:35:34

# So many times that my memories are worn

0:35:340:35:39

# And Daddy, would you take me back to Muhlenberg County

0:35:410:35:45

# Down by the Green River where paradise lay?

0:35:450:35:50

# Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking

0:35:500:35:54

# Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

0:35:540:35:58

# Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel

0:36:010:36:05

# And they tortured the timber and stripped all our land

0:36:050:36:10

# Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

0:36:130:36:17

# And they wrote it all down as the progress of man

0:36:170:36:22

# And Daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

0:36:240:36:28

# Down by the Green River where paradise lay?

0:36:280:36:33

# Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking

0:36:330:36:37

# Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away... #

0:36:370:36:42

# If you talk too much, you might get into trouble

0:37:050:37:09

# If you talk too much, your troubles will be doubled... #

0:37:090:37:13

We were sitting there having the biggest thrill

0:37:130:37:16

and up walked the waiter and he had the biggest bill.

0:37:160:37:18

And I said, "Who's this for?" And he said, "You!"

0:37:180:37:21

And I said, "14 for a hamburger and a glass of water?!"

0:37:210:37:25

I paid him, though.

0:37:250:37:27

# If you talk too much, you might get into trouble

0:37:270:37:31

# If you talk too much, your troubles will be doubled... #

0:37:310:37:36

And there's other verses but they're not clean!

0:37:360:37:38

It's such fun, yes, it was the best time

0:37:400:37:42

-back in Cleaton.

-And you'd sit on the porch and swing, and, er...

0:37:420:37:47

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

0:37:470:37:49

Up at Aunt Myrtle's and Uncle Roland's

0:37:490:37:54

and Nadine's and GW's

0:37:540:37:56

and we would, we'd be playing at night in Cleaton, Kentucky

0:37:560:38:01

and it'd be pitch-black, cos there weren't city lights

0:38:010:38:04

and you could start playing

0:38:040:38:07

and you'd see little lights start to appear because people could hear you

0:38:070:38:11

and they'd come down.

0:38:110:38:12

And they'd come down, about on the porch light,

0:38:120:38:14

just about the time they'd get about ten or 12 feet away,

0:38:140:38:17

right, you know, people would come up together.

0:38:170:38:20

We were talking about times we'd done it

0:38:200:38:22

because we got to singing loud enough,

0:38:220:38:24

and when we got older, we were singing a little louder

0:38:240:38:27

because sometimes that music attracts the young girls!

0:38:270:38:30

You had a chance to meet somebody that way.

0:38:300:38:33

But it was the best of times. It was the best of times.

0:38:330:38:36

What about that melancholy that you talked about?

0:38:360:38:38

Where do you think that comes from? Is it because of that history of where people come from in this area?

0:38:380:38:44

Well, I don't really call it melancholy.

0:38:440:38:46

I think it's just a basic truth.

0:38:460:38:48

Life is full of both happy and sad events.

0:38:480:38:52

Love and death, and losing and winning,

0:38:520:38:57

and this area and this music, people are very honest about it.

0:38:570:39:03

And when you're happy, you sing a happy song

0:39:030:39:05

and when you're sad, you sing it sad, and you allow yourself to feel.

0:39:050:39:09

# You cheated me

0:39:170:39:20

# And made me lonely

0:39:200:39:24

# I tried to be

0:39:240:39:28

# Your very own

0:39:280:39:32

# There'll be a day you want me only

0:39:320:39:40

# But when I leave

0:39:400:39:44

# I'll be a long time gone

0:39:440:39:47

# Be a long time gone

0:39:470:39:51

# Be a long time gone

0:39:510:39:55

# Yes, when I leave

0:39:550:39:59

# I'll be a long time gone

0:39:590:40:03

# You're gonna be sad

0:40:070:40:11

# You're gonna be weepin'

0:40:110:40:14

# You're gonna be blue

0:40:140:40:17

# And all alone

0:40:170:40:21

# You'll regret the day

0:40:210:40:25

# You seen me leavin'

0:40:250:40:29

# Cos when I leave

0:40:290:40:33

# I'll be a long time gone

0:40:330:40:36

# Be a long time gone

0:40:370:40:41

# Be a long time gone

0:40:410:40:45

# Yes, when I leave

0:40:450:40:49

# I'll be a long time gone

0:40:490:40:53

# You'll see my face

0:40:560:41:00

# Through tears and sorrow

0:41:000:41:03

# You'll miss the love

0:41:030:41:07

# You called your own

0:41:070:41:11

# Baby there'll be

0:41:110:41:15

# No tomorrow

0:41:150:41:18

# Cos when I leave

0:41:180:41:22

# I'll be a long time gone

0:41:220:41:25

# Be a long time gone

0:41:250:41:29

# Be a long time gone

0:41:290:41:33

# Yes, when I leave

0:41:330:41:36

# I'll be a long time gone. #

0:41:360:41:41

Nashville was pretty much the Mecca of country music.

0:41:410:41:44

And, of course, we were doing that strange brand of country

0:41:440:41:49

and some of the other things that we'd been listening to.

0:41:490:41:51

Phil and I wanted to get on the records.

0:41:510:41:53

That was the thing, your own records.

0:41:530:41:55

And any way we could do it was what we would do.

0:41:550:41:59

We liked all kinds of music at that point.

0:41:590:42:01

We were trying to make it in our field, as we saw it.

0:42:010:42:05

And the Grand Ole Opry was considered being the start of...

0:42:050:42:08

Hank Williams, to me, was the first real rock 'n' roll star,

0:42:080:42:11

in the way I would call a rock 'n' roll star.

0:42:110:42:14

To me, he wasn't real, pure country, down-home musician. He was out there.

0:42:140:42:19

He was chugging along, and he was dancing and stuff.

0:42:190:42:23

I think it was a combination of that and black R & B

0:42:230:42:27

that made rock 'n' roll.

0:42:270:42:29

There was something so glamorous about the cowboy suit with

0:42:290:42:34

the white piping and the Cadillac and the music and the whole thing.

0:42:340:42:38

# Hey-hey, good lookin'

0:42:390:42:42

# What ya got cookin'?

0:42:420:42:45

# How's about cookin' something up for me?

0:42:450:42:49

# Hey-hey, sweet baby

0:42:500:42:53

# Don't you think maybe

0:42:530:42:56

# We could find us a brand-new recipe?

0:42:560:43:01

# I got a hot-rod Ford and a two-dollar bill

0:43:010:43:04

# And I know a spot right over the hill

0:43:040:43:07

# There's soda pop and the dancin's free

0:43:070:43:10

# So if you wanna have fun, come along with me

0:43:100:43:13

# Hey, good lookin'

0:43:130:43:16

# What ya got cookin'?

0:43:160:43:18

# How's about cookin' something up with me...? #

0:43:180:43:24

We hadn't made it yet, but we were going to make it one day, you know?

0:43:240:43:28

We were plugging and going to make it.

0:43:280:43:32

Going to make it. They'd made it, you know? That was the lure of Nashville.

0:43:320:43:37

# In the Bible

0:43:430:43:46

# It says, "Thou shalt not steal"

0:43:460:43:50

# But I have found the love I want

0:43:500:43:53

# My heart knows that it's real

0:43:530:43:57

# I found her in my best friend's arms

0:43:590:44:03

# Stole her though I meant no harm

0:44:030:44:06

# Too late to heed the warning

0:44:060:44:09

# The love thou shalt not steal... #

0:44:090:44:13

We would hang around the alley here at the back of the Opry,

0:44:190:44:22

and whoever would be passing back and forth, going in and out,

0:44:220:44:25

we would have our guitars, and they'd say,

0:44:250:44:27

"They are the Everly Bros, they're songwriters and they're singers."

0:44:270:44:31

And they'd say, "We'd like to hear you," and we'd sing for 'em.

0:44:310:44:33

And show them a song.

0:44:330:44:35

-There were a lot of people hanging out here.

-We weren't the only ones!

0:44:350:44:38

No! It was kind of a line, you know, of musicians.

0:44:380:44:41

We wanted to be on a record, and on the Grand Ole Opry.

0:44:410:44:43

To us, that was the top.

0:44:430:44:45

And we were waiting for that break, that record,

0:44:450:44:48

whatever it took to accomplish that.

0:44:480:44:51

And I think it was due to Chet Atkins saying,

0:44:510:44:53

"These kids are pretty good" that made it acceptable.

0:44:530:44:56

And we were accepted.

0:44:560:44:58

Hello there, I'm Chet Atkins and you're about to enter a place

0:44:580:45:01

where country music history was made. For many years,

0:45:010:45:04

Studio B served as RCA's prime recording studio in Nashville.

0:45:040:45:08

It was a time in which the Nashville sound was born.

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And countless country hits were recorded.

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And a lot of it happened right here in this studio.

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# When you left me... #

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With hits by Elvis, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold and Don Gibson

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between me and the other producers

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we came up with a lot of hit records.

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# Here he comes, that's Cathy's clown... #

0:45:410:45:48

FINGERPICKED GUITAR

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You can do it! Yeah!

0:46:210:46:23

HE LAUGHS

0:46:230:46:25

-Whose guitar is this? Is this yours?

-This is mine.

-It's bad!

0:46:340:46:39

That's the best it's ever sounded!

0:46:390:46:42

There used to be stories that Ike and Mose used to go down to this...

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-Arnold Schultz, is that his name?

-Yeah.

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They'd go down to his house and crawl under the porch

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and listen to him pick at night, little kids.

0:46:510:46:54

Then they'd go home and try to imitate what he was doing.

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I don't know if it's true.

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Dad said he followed him around everywhere.

0:46:580:47:01

Said he followed him everywhere.

0:47:010:47:03

If I explain more...

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It's, I can't do it, but...

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It's probably the way Arnold was playing.

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Country folks...

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Blind Lemon Jefferson and Big Boy Crudup and all those people.

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They loved... The lyrics were about the same.

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About the same problems - love and infidelity and everything

0:47:300:47:34

and they... I would say the first tunes I learned to play

0:47:340:47:38

were like, the guy that had Match Box Blues, Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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And I used to win money off my stepdaddy

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who'd say, "You can't play this," and I would play it.

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I'd copy the record and play it.

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So it was, most white southerners in the South do that, or did that,

0:47:520:47:56

bought a lot of black blues.

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Dad was very aware of gospel

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and black gospel and everything

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and he used to listen to it on the radio in Chicago

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and was a child, I remember going down to Maxwell Street with him.

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Can you explain what that was?

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Well, Maxwell Street, then, this was a long time ago,

0:48:120:48:17

was just where they set up little flea markets,

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and people busking and passing the hat for money.

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People playing instruments.

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And Dad really took a liking to it.

0:48:280:48:30

We used to see him over there, and this guy would sing this song...

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# Going to New Orleans to get my cold ice cream

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# Oh, Daddy, don't you go

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# Going to New Orleans to get my cold ice cream... #

0:48:380:48:42

That was it, he'd sing it right over and over and over.

0:48:420:48:45

Daddy used to just love it.

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They were into Bo Diddley, and people like that, at that time.

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And I was, too. They introduced me to stuff like that.

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-And so we would talk about him and try to play his licks.

-Yeah?

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And that, I think, helped them get a contemporary sound,

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because the first thing they did, when they got in the studio,

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they started playing that Bo Diddley lick

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that we had listened to.

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Which is a derivative of Bo Diddley.

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He didn't play that many chords, I don't think.

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ENGINE RUMBLES

0:49:240:49:26

Uh-oh!

0:49:260:49:27

Hi there, once again, everybody, this is the swinging

0:49:320:49:34

sound of the Art Roberts Show, just cooking up a storm with you.

0:49:340:49:37

Let's continue with that man, Mr Bo Diddley!

0:49:370:49:40

GUNSHOTS

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GUNSHOTS IN TIME WITH RAPIDLY-STRUMMED GUITAR

0:49:450:49:48

# We're gonna be married

0:49:540:49:57

-# We're gonna be married... #

-Ha-ha-ha! You ready? Woo!

0:49:570:50:01

Yeah, all right!

0:50:010:50:03

Me too. Hee-hee-hoo!

0:50:030:50:05

-All right!

-Go, girls, swing!

0:50:050:50:08

# Gon' save my money now Gon' get married

0:50:080:50:11

# Woo! Yeah! Right!

0:50:110:50:12

# Daddy gonna gimme no horse and carriage

0:50:150:50:17

# Woo! Yeah, right!

0:50:170:50:18

# Tell all your friends! #

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Chet Atkins had told me about them,

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but there again, I just sort of let it slide

0:51:130:51:17

because Chet had made the remark that he knew two great singers,

0:51:170:51:21

a couple of brothers that were a great duet, and that,

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if you found the right material, he might record them.

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But that's sort of a hazy, too much of a hazy thing to go in

0:51:280:51:31

and try to go into full production on,

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as far as writing goes.

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How did they strike you when you first met them?

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When I first heard them I thought they were wonderful.

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They had a different, a different quality.

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They were of course a duet,

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and there had been many duets before,

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but they had that little extra something, and when the two

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voices came together there was an abstract third something happening

0:52:000:52:08

that made them just a little touch above most anybody I'd ever heard.

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They were like a fine Swiss watch.

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Boudleaux would know what would sound good

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and he would know how high Phil could sing and he would put him

0:52:200:52:23

up there, because Phil, to Boudleaux, sounded like a Stradivarius

0:52:230:52:29

when he hit those high notes.

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And Boudleaux just loved that.

0:52:310:52:33

# Who's gonna shoe # Your pretty little feet?

0:52:330:52:39

# Who's gonna glove your hand?

0:52:400:52:46

# Who's gonna kiss

0:52:480:52:52

# Your ruby-red lips?

0:52:520:52:55

# Mmm, mmm...

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# Mmm, mmm

0:53:040:53:10

# Mmm, mmm... #

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'A man from Nashville'

0:53:170:53:20

gave me a call one day

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and suggested I listen to a demo he'd made with two young boys.

0:53:220:53:27

And he saw it had great potential.

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They were the Everly Brothers.

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Well, listening to the record that was sent to me,

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I was really not that impressed with them.

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And of course, in the phone conversation with a music

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publisher from Nashville, whose name was Wesley Rose.

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Wesley suggested that he'd make a demo with them and that

0:53:470:53:51

I listen again, because he felt sure that these boys could be successful.

0:53:510:53:56

So he made a new demo and I listened to it and

0:53:570:54:01

this time I was very much impressed.

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And I signed them.

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# Bye-bye, love

0:54:100:54:13

# Bye-bye, happiness

0:54:130:54:16

# Hello, loneliness

0:54:160:54:19

# I think I'm a-gonna cry-y

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# Bye-bye, love... #

0:54:220:54:24

One month we were out there and the next month we were here,

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and that, in itself, was phenomenal as far as I was concerned.

0:54:290:54:34

I remember encoring here, one time, four times.

0:54:340:54:37

Coming back and the crowd not stopping. They just kept applauding.

0:54:370:54:41

We would come back and sing Bye-bye Love, maybe half of it,

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three or four times again.

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We just carried the banner of country all the way

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through as far as we were concerned.

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That was important.

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It felt like a sea of people, too.

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I remember, the crowd - it's different now when we've played

0:54:540:54:57

large audiences, but at that time, it looked like an ocean of people.

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-Something.

-The world was a little smaller, then.

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PHIL LAUGHS

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# I've been made blue

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# I've been lied to

0:55:200:55:25

# When will I be loved?

0:55:250:55:30

# I've been turned down

0:55:330:55:37

# I've been pushed round

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# When will I be loved...? #

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I guess the best place to start is at the beginning.

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The beginning for Phil

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and I was just a small dot on the map called Brownie, Kentucky.

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We're now living in Nashville, Tennessee.

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This is our town of Nashville.

0:55:590:56:00

# I've been cheated

0:56:020:56:05

# Been mistreated

0:56:050:56:09

# When will I be loved...?

0:56:090:56:14

As you can tell, when we all get together,

0:56:150:56:17

we usually wind up somewhere round the music room.

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Where we are now.

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And Don's playing with the guitar, there,

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and Sue and I are enjoying it very much.

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I'm kind of waiting for my turn, though.

0:56:260:56:29

# Mr Sandman... #

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# We're gonna rock, rock, rock till broad daylight

0:56:330:56:35

# We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight... #

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APPLAUSE

0:56:470:56:48

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

0:56:480:56:50

It's nice to have you at our Rock Around The Clock party.

0:56:510:56:53

I think we're going to have a lot of fun this evening.

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We've got a lot of wonderful dancing kids.

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And we also have some wonderful guests for you.

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And to start things off,

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two boys who have had a long succession of hits.

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The Everlys!

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# Problems, problems problems all day long

0:57:110:57:16

# Will my problems work out right or wrong?

0:57:180:57:23

# My baby don't like anything I do

0:57:260:57:32

# My teacher seems to feel the same way, too... #

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my daughter, Jackie, was a great influence on me.

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As a matter of fact, I've sort of learned to listen through her ears.

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And she was, of course, much impressed by the Everly Brothers.

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I would watch her reaction.

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Not to the point of asking, "Jackie, do you like this?"

0:57:530:57:56

But I'd wait for signs, for example,

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when I came home with Bye-Bye, Love, she immediately called all

0:57:590:58:03

her girlfriends to come over and listen to the record.

0:58:030:58:06

# Wake up, little Susie, wake up

0:58:090:58:12

# Wake up, little Susie, wake up

0:58:140:58:18

# We've both been sound asleep

0:58:190:58:22

# Wake up little Susie and weep

0:58:220:58:25

# The movie's over, it's four o'clock

0:58:250:58:27

# And we're in trouble deep

0:58:270:58:29

# Wake up, little Susie

0:58:290:58:31

# Wake up, little Susie

0:58:310:58:34

# Well, what are we gonna tell your Mama?

0:58:340:58:37

# What are we gonna tell your Pa?

0:58:370:58:39

# What are we gonna tell our friends when they say, "Ooh la la!"?

0:58:400:58:44

# Wake up little Susie

0:58:440:58:46

# Wake up little Susie

0:58:460:58:49

# Well, I told your Mama that you'd be in by ten

0:58:490:58:54

# Well, Susie baby, looks like we goofed again

0:58:540:58:59

# Wake up, little Susie

0:58:590:59:02

# Wake up, little Susie

0:59:020:59:04

# We gotta go home... #

0:59:040:59:06

As soon as we could afford it, we went and had a suit made.

0:59:070:59:11

And the first thing we did when we went to New York was try to find...

0:59:110:59:15

We quit dressing what they call '50s style now, immediately,

0:59:150:59:18

cos everybody was wearing it. Your father was wearing it, first of all.

0:59:180:59:22

The last thing you want to look like is your father!

0:59:220:59:25

We went Ivy League strictly.

0:59:250:59:26

Three buttons, button-down collars and little things

0:59:260:59:29

and everything had a belt in the back, including your shoes.

0:59:290:59:32

LAUGHTER

0:59:320:59:34

In those days, there was no youth market.

0:59:350:59:38

There was no shop for young people to go buy clothes,

0:59:380:59:41

because nobody had any money if you were young.

0:59:410:59:44

I remember when The Crickets showed up, and they said,

0:59:450:59:48

"Where'd you guys get those clothes?" You know?

0:59:480:59:50

And then I've seen pictures of Buddy,

0:59:500:59:53

and we'd taken them down to Phil's Men's Shop.

0:59:530:59:55

-There was a place called Phil's Men's Shop.

-Where was that?

0:59:550:59:59

In New York City. Before we really started getting tailor-made things.

0:59:591:00:03

It was way off the beaten track.

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It was like, somebody had to tell you about it, to find it.

1:00:071:00:11

But, they had, even before that, even in Knoxville, Tennessee, we had

1:00:111:00:15

gone down...more towards the black area, I remember those Mr B shirts.

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Yes, we wore Mr B shirts in the '50s. Mr B collars and stuff. Yeah.

1:00:201:00:24

That whole thing, and the new haircuts. You know?

1:00:241:00:27

-Where did you get your hair done?

-Dad and Mom.

1:00:271:00:31

Dad had gone to barber school and Mom had gone to a beautician's school,

1:00:311:00:35

so they cut it.

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-I tell you, the hassle over haircuts, it is just immense.

-Yeah, it's phenomenal.

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And all through the airports. I remember the first time I walked down Hong Kong,

1:00:401:00:44

walking through the streets of Hong Kong, early '60s, before us,

1:00:441:00:47

before the Beatles,

1:00:471:00:49

and my hair was just a little bit longer than it is now.

1:00:491:00:53

Stopped traffic. Literally stopped traffic.

1:00:531:00:57

People stopped and stared.

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APPLAUSE

1:01:011:01:03

# I want you to tell me Why you walked out on me

1:01:061:01:13

# I'm so lonesome every day

1:01:131:01:21

# I want you to know that since you walked out on me

1:01:211:01:28

# Nothin' seems to be the same old way

1:01:301:01:34

# Think about the love that burns within my heart for you

1:01:371:01:44

# The good times we had before you went away, oh me

1:01:441:01:53

# Walk right back to me this minute

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# Bring your love to me, don't send it

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# I'm so lonesome every day

1:02:011:02:07

# I'm so lonesome every day. #

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APPLAUSE

1:02:171:02:19

We tried to continually introduce new things.

1:02:221:02:26

I mean, we were the first in Nashville to have horns in the sessions

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and harpsichords and bringing all kinds of other things,

1:02:311:02:35

attempting other sounds other than the same thing every time.

1:02:351:02:39

After you have one hit with a group, it's very exciting

1:02:391:02:42

because you realise,

1:02:421:02:44

they got so big with their first hit that you know the next one's

1:02:441:02:47

going to be a hit, so it's very important

1:02:471:02:49

and interesting what you play,

1:02:491:02:51

because millions of people are going to hear it, so they loved that.

1:02:511:02:54

I remember when Chet came along with the volume control and changed it

1:02:561:03:00

to tonal control, which is the first, they called it the wah-wah pedal.

1:03:001:03:04

And then he'd also taken a tremolo,

1:03:041:03:06

which was unknown at that point.

1:03:061:03:09

You couldn't buy an amplifier with it in it.

1:03:091:03:11

And he graciously, here's for All I Have To Do Is Dream,

1:03:111:03:16

we were into that. We wanted to experiment.

1:03:161:03:19

# Dream, dream, dream, dream

1:03:211:03:26

# Dream, dream, dream, dream

1:03:261:03:31

# When I want you in my arms

1:03:311:03:35

# When I want you and all your charms

1:03:351:03:40

Whenever I want you, all I have to do is dream, dream, dream, dream

1:03:401:03:50

# When I feel blue in the night

1:03:501:03:54

# And I need you to hold me tight

1:03:541:03:58

# Whenever I want you

1:03:581:04:01

# All I have to do is dream

1:04:011:04:08

# I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine

1:04:081:04:13

# Any time night or day

1:04:131:04:17

# Only trouble is, gee whizz

1:04:171:04:22

# I'm dreamin' my life away

1:04:221:04:26

# I need you so that I could die

1:04:261:04:31

# I love you so and that is why

1:04:311:04:35

# Whenever I want you

1:04:351:04:38

# All I have to do is

1:04:381:04:40

# Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream

1:04:401:04:45

# Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream... #

1:04:451:04:50

HE CLAPS A BEAT

1:04:551:04:58

# Lollipop, lollipop, Oh, lolly-lolly-lolly

1:05:011:05:05

# Lollipop, lollipop, Oh, lolly-lolly-lolly

1:05:051:05:08

# Lollipop, lollipop, Oh, lolly-lolly-lolly

1:05:081:05:11

# Lollypop. #

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POP

1:05:121:05:14

# Well, since my baby left me

1:05:141:05:17

# I've found a new place to dwell

1:05:171:05:19

# It's down at the end of lonely street

1:05:191:05:22

# At Heartbreak Hotel. #

1:05:221:05:24

I believe Elvis Presley is still a kind of a king.

1:05:241:05:27

If he hadn't have kicked down all the doors,

1:05:271:05:29

none of us could have gotten through.

1:05:291:05:32

Music, then, was going through a real major change.

1:05:321:05:36

The orchestras and that era was ending.

1:05:361:05:40

Records were beginning to rock'n'roll and people hated rock.

1:05:401:05:44

You either hated it or you loved it.

1:05:441:05:46

Did you know what it was? Did anyone identify it as rock'n'roll?

1:05:461:05:49

Well, we called it rock'n'roll, that was only because of Alan Freed.

1:05:491:05:53

Alan Freed named it rock'n'roll.

1:05:531:05:55

It was the records that were happening...

1:05:551:05:58

The things we were listening to... I called Little Richard rock'n'roll.

1:05:581:06:03

But I guess I also called what Buddy Holly was doing was rock'n'roll.

1:06:031:06:09

The basic music that I grew up with

1:06:091:06:12

and lived all my life will always be with me.

1:06:121:06:15

I didn't think because I would settle down and get married

1:06:151:06:18

and have a house in the suburbs that I would quit liking that music.

1:06:181:06:22

# Lucille

1:06:381:06:41

# Won't you do your daddy's will?

1:06:411:06:45

# Lucille

1:06:451:06:48

# You don't do your daddy's will

1:06:481:06:51

# Well, it ain't nothin' to you

1:06:531:06:56

# But I love you still

1:06:561:06:59

# I woke up this morning

1:07:011:07:03

# Lucille was not in sight

1:07:031:07:05

# I asked her friends about her

1:07:051:07:07

# But all their lips were tight

1:07:071:07:09

# Lucille

1:07:091:07:12

# Please come back where you belong

1:07:121:07:15

# I been good to you, baby

1:07:161:07:18

# Please don't leave me alone

1:07:181:07:24

# Oh! #

1:07:241:07:27

At the end of the '50s, I mean, it was pretty tumultuous,

1:07:311:07:34

being on the road too.

1:07:341:07:36

The big package tours that we would get on...

1:07:361:07:38

You had 15 to 20 acts and you were playing to 100,000 people a night

1:07:381:07:43

in these big coliseum stadiums, doing three songs, and pandemonium.

1:07:431:07:47

You could hear nothing. Everyone screaming

1:07:471:07:50

and yelling from the time it started to the time it ended.

1:07:501:07:52

You were saying yesterday, you were friendly with Cochran

1:07:521:07:55

and Holly and that. Was there a sort of sense of camaraderie between...?

1:07:551:07:59

Oh, yes. It was like fraternity.

1:07:591:08:01

It was like being in a college fraternity. It was great.

1:08:011:08:04

-Us against them, always.

-Yeah.

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Very few of those rock'n'roll people from our life, in fact,

1:08:061:08:09

none that I can think of, anyone had any control over what they did.

1:08:091:08:13

It wound up that the publishing company had control over what

1:08:161:08:19

was being released. We disagreed with that entirely.

1:08:191:08:22

And anybody, to this day, if your publishing company controls

1:08:221:08:26

your releases, they're going to want their songs to be released.

1:08:261:08:30

And so, artistic freedom, came down to that, we had to have it

1:08:301:08:33

and we got it. By saying, but in the process,

1:08:331:08:37

all the people that we were dealing with had to go by the wayside,

1:08:371:08:40

in order for us to go ahead and pursue it, right or wrong,

1:08:401:08:45

what we wanted to do musically.

1:08:451:08:47

Cos rock'n'roll wasn't going to stay in that one spot.

1:08:471:08:50

Let's face it, it didn't.

1:08:501:08:51

# Don't want your love

1:08:571:09:02

# Any more

1:09:021:09:04

# Don't want your kisses

1:09:051:09:10

# That's for sure

1:09:101:09:12

# I die each time

1:09:131:09:16

# I hear this sound

1:09:171:09:21

# Here he comes

1:09:211:09:25

# That's Cathy's clown

1:09:251:09:29

# When you see me shed a tear

1:09:291:09:34

# And you know that it's sincere

1:09:341:09:37

# Don't you think it's kind of sad

1:09:371:09:39

# That you're treating me so bad?

1:09:391:09:41

# Or don't you even care?

1:09:411:09:45

# Don't want your love

1:09:451:09:49

# Any more

1:09:491:09:52

# Don't want your kisses

1:09:531:09:57

# That's for sure

1:09:571:10:00

# I die each time

1:10:001:10:05

# I hear this sound

1:10:051:10:09

# Here he comes

1:10:091:10:13

# That's Cathy's clown

1:10:131:10:16

# That's Cathy's clown. #

1:10:161:10:20

This is John Wayne, white cap and gloves,

1:10:201:10:23

blue tunic and white belt, light blue trousers with a red stripe.

1:10:231:10:28

This is the bold dress blue uniform of the United States Marine.

1:10:281:10:32

Whether he earns his dress blues as an honour man at boot camp or

1:10:321:10:35

acquires them later in his career, a Marine wears them with deep pride.

1:10:351:10:40

Being a Marine is like being a part of the nation's history.

1:10:401:10:43

I hadn't thought this through and I said...you know,

1:10:461:10:49

Marines sound like death to me, you know?

1:10:491:10:52

And Donald said, "Yeah," and he did say this, he said, "Yeah, but you know, they got those..."

1:10:521:10:57

He said shiny helmets too, which...

1:10:571:11:00

I never saw a shiny helmet in the time, you know?

1:11:001:11:03

So one thing led to another and we wound up in that.

1:11:031:11:07

But the Marines, there's an esprit de corps connected with it.

1:11:071:11:11

It was great training, it was something that actually,

1:11:111:11:14

I think, all in all, helped us in a period of time in our lives

1:11:141:11:19

that maybe could have been more difficult.

1:11:191:11:21

But I think it was good.

1:11:211:11:23

I'll tell you how tough it was, as far as discipline, we didn't

1:11:231:11:26

even speak for the first week, two weeks, that we were together.

1:11:261:11:29

We stood side by side for two weeks and we did not have time to speak.

1:11:291:11:33

Once you get through that, and everybody that gets

1:11:331:11:36

through it is proud to put that uniform on, from then on.

1:11:361:11:39

You meet somebody with that uniform on, you say, "There's a Marine."

1:11:391:11:43

-And if he knows you're a Marine...

-I've heard from so many people since then, if you're a Marine...

1:11:431:11:47

Instantly, they know what you've done.

1:11:471:11:50

Phil, you were scratching off each day.

1:11:501:11:52

-As each day went, you would be writing it off...

-I would.

1:11:521:11:56

And when he'd do that, I'd check it. I wanted to know how many, you know?

1:11:561:12:01

And now, ladies and gentlemen, bringing out on stage here,

1:12:011:12:04

two United States Marines.

1:12:041:12:07

The Everly Brothers have just finished their boot training out on the coast.

1:12:071:12:10

Let's have a wonderfully warm welcome for them. The Everly Brothers!

1:12:101:12:14

-Glad to have you back on our show.

-Thank you very much.

-Congratulations.

1:12:171:12:20

-I understand you put on 20 pounds.

-That's right.

-Wow! You look great.

1:12:201:12:23

-Thank you.

-Sing a number there for Colonel Glenn.

-Be glad to.

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# I'll never let you see

1:12:331:12:37

# The way my broken heart is hurting me

1:12:371:12:41

# I've got my pride and I know how to hide

1:12:411:12:46

# All my sorrow and pain

1:12:461:12:49

# I'll do my crying in the rain

1:12:501:12:52

# Raindrops falling from heaven

1:12:571:13:00

# Could never wash away my misery

1:13:011:13:05

# But since we're not together

1:13:051:13:08

# I pray for stormy weather

1:13:081:13:11

# To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

1:13:111:13:15

# Some day when my crying's done

1:13:171:13:20

# I'm going to wear a smile And walk in the sun

1:13:201:13:25

# I may be a fool, But till then, darling

1:13:251:13:29

# You'll never see me complain

1:13:291:13:33

# I'll do my crying in the rain

1:13:331:13:37

# I'll do my crying in the rain. #

1:13:371:13:43

APPLAUSE

1:13:431:13:47

We turned around twice and you had to be English. It was in to be English.

1:13:541:13:58

# Some other guy now

1:14:041:14:07

# Has taken my love away from me, Oh, no

1:14:071:14:10

# Some other guy now

1:14:101:14:12

# Has taken away my sweet desire, Oh, now

1:14:121:14:15

# Some other guy now

1:14:151:14:17

# I just don't wanna hold my hand

1:14:171:14:20

# I'm the lonely one, As lonely as I can feel all right. #

1:14:201:14:23

If you weren't from England, for a period of time,

1:14:261:14:29

especially The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, a lot of good

1:14:291:14:32

came over, but then it dominated the airwaves for quite a period.

1:14:321:14:36

Did you feel the pressure to change your way of performing?

1:14:361:14:39

Well, the only pressure I felt was people said, "The Beatles

1:14:391:14:42

"sound an awful lot like you," and I said, "Well, what can I do?"

1:14:421:14:46

# She loves you, yeah, yeah... #

1:14:461:14:48

From our side of the music business, it became very square

1:14:481:14:51

if you didn't get stoned and you didn't have really long hair

1:14:511:14:55

and that...element about your mystique, you know?

1:14:551:14:58

I was listening to the music. And to me it wasn't revolutionary.

1:15:021:15:06

I mean, it was louder and there were more tracks.

1:15:061:15:09

They didn't know what to think of us at all. Not at all.

1:15:111:15:15

I mean, even if we didn't wear tuxes.

1:15:151:15:17

They didn't know what to think of us. They knew we were from the '50s.

1:15:171:15:20

You know, and that was not the '60s.

1:15:201:15:22

You know, it was that attitude

1:15:221:15:24

and our songs didn't have anything about double meanings.

1:15:241:15:28

You know, so...

1:15:281:15:30

we had a hard road to hoe within that group

1:15:301:15:33

and we'd also worked in Vegas and that was really bad.

1:15:331:15:37

RASPING GUITAR MUSIC

1:15:371:15:40

Music quit being something you could earn an honest living by.

1:15:551:15:58

It had to be a social movement.

1:15:581:16:01

-PHIL:

-I always felt that the '60s were phoney.

1:16:011:16:04

Include the psychedelic period.

1:16:041:16:06

You still have to get records played

1:16:061:16:08

and when everybody has an attitude that they're going for,

1:16:081:16:13

like that sort of political reform in this, that and the other,

1:16:131:16:17

I think the '60s was a very bad period for music.

1:16:171:16:19

DON: In the '60s,

1:16:211:16:23

we were never able to break into that record thing at all.

1:16:231:16:26

No matter what music we pursued.

1:16:261:16:28

I got stoned, I did everything trying to record something.

1:16:281:16:31

I said, maybe there's something I'm missing in this whole thing.

1:16:311:16:35

Got to set record stoned... that didn't work!

1:16:361:16:40

-But we just were never accepted.

-Did it get you down?

1:16:401:16:44

It got me down a bit.

1:16:441:16:45

I wanted to be on records.

1:16:451:16:47

I mean, I found myself all of a sudden...

1:16:471:16:49

we were working, but our records weren't

1:16:491:16:53

and we made some really good records.

1:16:531:16:56

APPLAUSE

1:16:561:17:00

# Way down in Bowling Green

1:17:001:17:03

# Prettiest girls I've ever seen

1:17:031:17:06

# A man in Kentucky sure is lucky

1:17:061:17:10

# To love down in Bowling Green, yeah

1:17:101:17:13

# Bowling Green folks treat you kind

1:17:131:17:17

# They let you think your own mind

1:17:171:17:21

# A man in Kentucky sure is lucky

1:17:211:17:24

# In Bowling Green you walk your own line

1:17:241:17:26

# Kentucky sunshine makes the heart unfold

1:17:261:17:31

# It warms the body I know it touches the soul

1:17:311:17:36

# Bluegrass is fine, Kentucky owns my mind... #

1:17:361:17:43

'Don and I toured almost 16 years

1:17:431:17:46

'and we had been working for years and years before.

1:17:461:17:50

'So, I'd had a lot.'

1:17:501:17:53

'Phil and I for a while was working seven, eight months a year,

1:17:531:17:57

'nine months a year. So, that takes it up... the year.

1:17:571:18:01

'And if you do that for a period of 20 years, or something like that,

1:18:011:18:05

'you've got a big chunk of your life has been spent travelling.

1:18:051:18:09

'Being a duet and in the music business,

1:18:091:18:12

'especially the kind of duet Phil and I are.

1:18:121:18:14

'You know, close harmony, nose to nose,

1:18:141:18:17

'right up on stage there every night

1:18:171:18:19

'when we were working. That takes a lot of strain on a relationship.'

1:18:191:18:24

# Bluegrass is fine

1:18:241:18:26

# Kentucky owns my mind... #

1:18:261:18:31

# Wandering down the road of life

1:18:521:18:57

# Wandering over the hill

1:18:571:19:02

# Don't know what I'm searching for... #

1:19:021:19:07

The real pressure in that was the business. It's the business.

1:19:171:19:22

We had more to worry about than, you mean, like sibling rivalry?

1:19:221:19:27

Continuing the past adolescence all the way into adulthood?

1:19:271:19:31

No, it's more the pressures of the business.

1:19:311:19:35

That's a method I think a lot of people have tried to handle us

1:19:351:19:39

with that because it's, you know,

1:19:391:19:43

it's a simplistic kind of view

1:19:431:19:47

that that's what would be a problem

1:19:471:19:50

and that led to the ultimate end of the Everly Brothers,

1:19:501:19:54

-but it's untrue.

-Sure.

1:19:541:19:55

Obviously, it's something that I think everybody is interested in,

1:19:551:19:59

the fact that you were so close when you sing and then,

1:19:591:20:03

can you just tell me about the last time you performed together?

1:20:031:20:08

Well, I never really, basically discuss it.

1:20:081:20:11

I've basically approached my life this way.

1:20:111:20:14

Yesterday is yesterday and if you bring

1:20:141:20:17

and take all of your past mistakes and drag them

1:20:171:20:21

into your present, you're only going to confuse your present.

1:20:211:20:24

Tomorrow's more important than your yesterday.

1:20:241:20:27

I went through a period I didn't want to sing anything

1:20:291:20:32

that Phil and I had done. I just needed a rest.

1:20:321:20:35

I wasn't pursuing it, I wasn't... I spent a lot of time just

1:20:361:20:40

sort of living I think an ordinary life which I hadn't done before.

1:20:401:20:44

You know, I think that took up a lot of my... I was amazed to

1:20:441:20:49

be off the road in the first time that I could remember.

1:20:491:20:52

I did one album in California.

1:20:531:20:57

Really out of the... for the thing of feeling that

1:20:571:20:59

I should do an album and I did one.

1:20:591:21:02

And it was a band called Heads, Eyes and Feet.

1:21:021:21:05

Came into town, Albert Lee became a good friend of mine

1:21:051:21:09

and I wanted really started working with them

1:21:091:21:12

on a collaboration of an album called Sunset Towers.

1:21:121:21:15

-PHIL:

-Periodically, I will get an urge to go play

1:21:171:21:20

and I would go do it.

1:21:201:21:22

But I'll go two years without performing in front of somebody

1:21:221:21:28

and it wouldn't bother me too much.

1:21:281:21:30

Because I would make music at home and I was always satisfied.

1:21:301:21:34

Be sure and put your phone number down as Don told you to have a

1:21:471:21:50

fine programme Monday through Friday, two o'clock in the afternoon

1:21:501:21:54

called Tune Tips and neighbours, if they call you up, you're going to

1:21:541:21:57

be playing this. Donny, I feel another tune coming on.

1:21:571:22:00

Let's get in gear and play another old favourite called

1:22:001:22:02

Stealin' The Blues.

1:22:021:22:05

BLUEGRASS STYLE GUITAR MUSIC PLAYS

1:22:051:22:07

The Everly Brothers are the all-time greats.

1:22:111:22:14

They have the two most extraordinary voices in pop and put together.

1:22:141:22:17

What I think is incredible is that, you know, the early records

1:22:171:22:20

were 25 years ago and the voices were still just unbelievable.

1:22:201:22:24

There's really no better singers than the Everly Brothers, is there?

1:22:241:22:27

I don't think there's any better singers than them.

1:22:291:22:31

The voices, I mean they've managed to keep their voices

1:22:311:22:35

throughout 25 years of rock'n'roll and they still sound like,

1:22:351:22:38

you know, two birds with crystal clear voices. Amazing.

1:22:381:22:42

-How long have you been an Everly fan?

-Oh, I think all my life.

1:22:451:22:50

As long as I remember, anyway.

1:22:501:22:52

Yeah. When did you first hear their stuff?

1:22:521:22:54

I guess I started listening to them when I was about 16. I mean,

1:22:541:22:57

that's as far back as I can remember and I have always absolutely

1:22:571:23:01

loved them, so I was really happy to see them back together again.

1:23:011:23:05

BLUES GUITAR MUSIC PLAYS

1:23:171:23:20

How come it's ten years. Why this year?

1:23:391:23:42

That's a good question.

1:23:431:23:45

I think maybe it could be I'm tired of everyone saying,

1:23:451:23:48

"Why don't you do it, why don't you do it?" Every day of my life.

1:23:481:23:52

And when we finally decided to do it people quit asking me

1:23:521:23:55

that question and I don't know... the times change.

1:23:551:23:58

You change, you mellow. And you...

1:23:581:24:02

You see things. You get anxious again, maybe.

1:24:021:24:05

I had enough time, we had enough time alone,

1:24:051:24:09

enough time away from the road and everything.

1:24:091:24:11

But then, sooner or later time changes. And I don't know.

1:24:111:24:16

'It's an adventure.

1:24:161:24:18

'That's the major thing. Right now it's an adventure which is wonderful.

1:24:181:24:22

'If your father were alive, he'd love to see this.

1:24:221:24:25

-'He would be there with us.

-Yeah.

-That's the one regret.

1:24:251:24:28

'Actually, I also, too think that I kind of feel

1:24:281:24:31

'because of playing the Royal Albert that Dad is there

1:24:311:24:34

'and it's special, you know, because I know that he really,

1:24:341:24:37

'no matter what all of this other stuff,

1:24:371:24:39

'that Dad basically would like this. This is important.

1:24:391:24:43

'It's more important that we do do this,

1:24:431:24:46

'regardless of what we do afterwards and all that.

1:24:461:24:48

'It's important that we sing together at least once more and it's

1:24:481:24:52

'a magic moment in my life, you know, and Don's too,

1:24:521:24:54

'so it was just ideal.'

1:24:541:24:55

AUDIENCE CLAMOURS

1:25:031:25:07

APPLAUSE

1:25:081:25:11

AUDIENCE CHEERS

1:25:131:25:18

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUE

1:25:331:25:37

# I bless the day I found you

1:25:521:25:59

# I want to stay around you

1:26:001:26:06

# Now and forever

1:26:061:26:12

# Let it be me

1:26:141:26:20

# Don't take this heaven from one

1:26:211:26:28

# If you must cling to someone

1:26:291:26:35

# Now and forever

1:26:361:26:42

# Let it be me

1:26:441:26:49

# When I'm with you love

1:26:521:26:56

# I find complete love

1:26:581:27:04

# Without your sweet love

1:27:061:27:12

# What would life be

1:27:121:27:18

# So never leave me lonely

1:27:191:27:27

# Say that you love me only

1:27:271:27:34

# And that you'll always

1:27:351:27:42

# Let it be me

1:27:421:27:47

# Say that you'll always

1:27:491:27:57

# Let it be me. #

1:27:581:28:06

CHEERING

1:28:091:28:13

-ENTOURAGE:

-Isn't this wonderful? Come on, guys.

1:28:241:28:27

THEY CHAT

1:28:311:28:32

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1:28:321:28:36

-ENTOURAGE: Come on.

-Hold on.

1:28:361:28:38

FANS CLAMOUR

1:28:381:28:41

FANS' EXCITED CHATTER

1:28:411:28:44

-PREACHER:

-'Here we are, Lord, and we're singing.

1:28:511:28:54

'Really enjoyed these Everlys' singing today.

1:28:541:28:57

'Where are the nine? And we answer today, Lord, here we are

1:28:571:29:01

'and the first time ever

1:29:011:29:03

'you seen all the Everly men singing.

1:29:031:29:06

'We're singing.

1:29:061:29:08

'I believe there was singing at the foundation of the world.

1:29:081:29:12

'I believe there was singing at the creation of the world.

1:29:121:29:16

'I believe there was singing at the incarnation of the Lord Jesus.

1:29:161:29:19

'The angels, the heaven descended

1:29:191:29:21

'and they were singing a heavenly choir.'

1:29:211:29:23

I believe they were singing for every great occasion in your life.

1:29:231:29:27

They'll be singing at the marriage supper.

1:29:271:29:32

They'll singing and singing and singing but here we are, Lord,

1:29:321:29:34

we're singing.

1:29:341:29:36

GOSPEL HALL PIANO PLAYS

1:29:381:29:40

Stand right up here. You just lead us in.

1:29:421:29:45

Now you stand up there. We'll just stand around you.

1:29:521:29:55

See this, this is the last one right here.

1:29:551:29:57

And ain't he precious? 91.

1:29:571:29:59

OK. You lead out, Uncle Roland.

1:30:011:30:04

OK, let's try.

1:30:041:30:06

ALL: # Amazing Grace

1:30:061:30:10

# How sweet the sound

1:30:101:30:15

# That saved a wretch like me

1:30:151:30:23

# I once was lost

1:30:251:30:30

# But now am found

1:30:301:30:35

# Was blind but now I see... #

1:30:351:30:40

THEY SCREAM

1:30:401:30:43

'You can sing the blues at 20 and be blue.

1:30:471:30:49

'You can be sad at 20, but when you sing the blues at 40 you've got

1:30:491:30:53

'40 years of blues and 40 years of sad and it's sadder,

1:30:531:30:58

'but then at 60, it'll be some other way.'

1:30:581:31:02

'The family made music.

1:31:021:31:04

'Dad made music and he taught us the craft and actually,

1:31:041:31:09

'it's probably... I probably believe that it's a family business

1:31:091:31:12

'otherwise I wouldn't have taught my sons and passing that on,

1:31:121:31:16

'I would like to see, you know, my grandchildren learned to play

1:31:161:31:20

'just because it's what my dad taught me.

1:31:201:31:23

'His guitar got him out of the coal mines of Kentucky.

1:31:241:31:28

'And the guitar he gave us got us all the way to London and the guitar

1:31:281:31:34

'I've given my son, I think is doing very well with him with the girls.

1:31:341:31:39

So, you know, if he can do the same for his son I think it's a grand

1:31:391:31:43

'kind of thing, but we were...

1:31:431:31:45

'basically that's what the family did.'

1:31:451:31:47

DON: Ah, you spoil us, you spoil us!

1:31:501:31:52

# Kentucky

1:32:001:32:04

# You are the dearest land

1:32:121:32:17

# Outside of heaven to me

1:32:171:32:24

# Kentucky

1:32:331:32:39

# I miss your laurel

1:32:431:32:47

# And your redbud tree

1:32:471:32:52

# I know that

1:33:011:33:08

# My mother, dad and sweetheart

1:33:101:33:16

# Are waiting for me

1:33:161:33:23

# Kentucky

1:33:301:33:37

# I will be coming soon

1:33:431:33:48

# When I die

1:33:571:34:04

# I want to rest upon a graceful

1:34:061:34:13

# Mountain so high

1:34:131:34:18

# For that is

1:34:261:34:32

# Where God will look for me

1:34:351:34:43

# Kentucky... #

1:34:501:34:57

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1:35:051:35:09

-PHIL:

-Thank you!

1:35:121:35:14

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