THE EVERLY BROTHERS – Beat & Soul – (Warner Brothers) – 1965

Back in "what Frank is listening to # 65" I said the following about the Everly's album "Rock 'n Soul":

• Love Is Strange – (Baker, Robinson, Smith) – originally a rock 'n' calypso hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957. The Everlys do a great mournful version, and  it was a #11 hit for the Everlys in Britain in late 1965.
• Money – (Bradford, Gordy) – a magnificently muscular version of the track and to my ear better than the Beatles caterwauling version or the Stones version.
• What Am I Living For? – (Harris, Jay) – the Chuck Willis hit. A nice slow bluesy lament.
• Hi Heel Sneakers – (Higginbotham) – The well recorded Tommy Tucker song. Its been recorded by Carl Perkins, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr., Janis Joplin, Jose Feliciano,Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Tom Jones, John Lee Hooker, Cleo Laine, Pharoah Sanders, Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead, Ramsey Lewis, The Searchers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, The Mummies, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Faces, Sting and many more. Another respectable version – if there hadn't been so many other versions to compare this with you would think this a classic. Some great (I assume) Burton guitar on the this (It certainly sounds like him as opposed to Campbell).
• C.C. Rider – (Rainey) – done by everyone (Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead etc). Chuck Willis had the first hit with it in 1957 and later it became identified as the opening track to Elvis' show throughout the 70s. Here the Everly's do a respectable version with a lot of fuzz guitar .
• Lonely Avenue – (Pomus) – written by the great Doc Pomus and recorded by Ray Charles in 1956.
• Man With Money – (Everly, Everly) – a great track and the only original on this LP. The music is certainly cotemporary and the lyrics are well smart. The Everly Brothers wrote great songs but like many others of their generation seemed to be happy to also cover whatever "moved" them. "Man with Money" made a little splash in England  where it was covered by the obscure bands "The Eyes" and "The Wild Uncertainty". It was also cut by "The Who" in 1966, though that was unreleased until 1995.
• People Get Ready – (Mayfield) – Hardly an oldie. Here they cover the Curtis Mayfield and the Impression master track … and what a great version it is … it's done as a gentle country wail.
• My Babe (Dixon) – the Willie Dixon classic later done by everyone – Elvis Presley, Dale Hawkins, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Narvel Felts, Sonny Burgess, Cliff Richard, Mickey Gilley, Ricky Nelson, Peter & Gordon, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, Ramsey Lewis, Grant Green, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Ammons, The Animals, the Steve Miller Band, Lou Rawls, Ike & Tina Turner, and many others.
• Walking the Dog – (Thomas) – the Rufus Thomas hit from 1963 and covered by the Rolling Stones in 1964. Great guitar work.
• I Almost Lost My Mind – (Hunter) – The Ivory Joe Hunter track (an Elvis writer) who had a hit with it as did Pat Boone. A sad lullaby about loss.
• The Girl Can't Help It – (Troup) – The Little Richard hit written by Bobby Troup. The best of the rock songs on this LP. Captures some of the franticness of Little Richards definitive version … and again some great guitar work.