I think you will love the Everly Brothers documentary

If you like music, and wonder how these two great singers with perfect harmony came about, this is for you. It will take an hour, no commercials, interviews with famous people and the ones that were helpful and were inspired by Don and Phil, like the Rolling Stones, Beatles and more.

Click here to watch The Everly Brothers Documentary

If you are around my age, even a little older or younger this will hit home for you. I feel very fortunate to have been at the age of 12, 13 or 14 to feel the birth of rock and roll and the new music with a sound that the young people now had to call their own.

Transistor radios came on the scene so we could hear stations from all over the country that played this new music that was like no other. Sure we liked Patti Page, Andrew Sisters, Julius LaRosa, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and so many more fine singers. But this music was ours, and kids were starting to think different and not wanting to do exactly what their parents had envisioned life or careers for them.

I happened to live for music. Elvis, Bo Didley, Chuck Berry. I even liked country singers like Kitty Wells, Hank Williams, Ernest Tub, Patsy Cline (my mother loved listening to the Saturday Night Grand Ole Opry) and I learned to like country music also because of her. My father like Mario Lanza and sang his songs around the house or in the woods. That made me like singing, too.

The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil)Image credit David Redfern

I knew in life that somehow I wanted to be around music. I worked at the bakery in Iron Mountain for a while, had a rock and roll band where I sang and played guitar.

As fate would have it the bakery in Iron Mountain closed and I was out of a job. The DJ at WMIQ suggested since I liked music so much to attend  broadcasting school in Milwaukee and get into radio and be a DJ. 

I enjoyed played those hits and past hits by excellent singers like the Everly Brothers. That is one reason I really liked this Everly Brothers documentary. You will, too.

Watch this show....and I bet a lot of you will think like I do.....So glad to be around in that optimistic time when we lived for music.

Enjoy!

Joe