Don Everly, Who Set the Standard for Pop Harmony as Half of the Everly Brothers, Dies at 84

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"Don Everly, who with his late younger sibling Phil established the template for close harmony vocalizing in the chart-topping duo the Everly Brothers, died Saturday at age 84 in Nashville."

 

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The Everly Brothers - "Bye Bye Love": 1957

 

 

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 “Excepting only the urban doo-woppers, you’d be hard-pressed to find a voice-blending rock act from 1957 on whose conceptual blueprint wasn’t first sketched by Don and Phil.”   ---Ken Barnes