Nick and Dave opened with the melancholy prison ballad "Take a Message to Mary," but they really got your toes tapping by the flip side. "Poor Jenny" has always been one of my all-time favorites. In 1959, Phil and Don burned through this thing like their lives depended on it. Did Nick and Dave find the energy to pull this one off? I think they did. "When Will I Be Loved?" is all about the harmonies, and the voices from both of these duos melt into each other beautifully.
It would be many years before I loved two voices together as much as Nick and Dave singing the Everly Brothers. I considered asking you to guess, but that's too cruel. When I discovered Mark Olson and Gary Louris singing together on the Jayhawks' album 'Hollywood Town Hall,' I knew I was listening to something special.
The Everly Brothers - "Take a Message to Mary"
The Everly Brothers - "Poor Jenny"
The Everly Brothers - "When Will I Be Loved?"
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds - "Take a Message to Mary"
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds - "Poor Jenny"
Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds - "When Will I Be Loved?"
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I'd never heard of Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds' covers of the Everly Brothers so thanks for that.
My favourite ever recording of "When Will I Be Loved" by a bunch of English folk-rockers with Sandy Denny and Linda Peters (aka Linda Thompson, former wife of Richard Thompson) on vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTVDvwduVnk
Great stuff Brian
Right back at you, FurryBootsCityBoy. That was a really nice take by the ladies.
Both Rockpile and the Jayhawks deserved to be bigger than they were
A fine doff of the cap from Nick and Dave.
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