Too Good To Be True | ||||
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Released | June 14, 2005 | |||
Genre | Rock and roll | |||
Length | 30:51 | |||
Label | Varese Sarabande | |||
Producer | Andrew Sandoval, Cary E. Mansfield | |||
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Too Good To Be True is an album by The Everly Brothers, released in 2005.
Consisting entirely of self-written demonstration recordings recorded between their formative years of 1957 and 1960 (except for the last track, "It's All Over", a solo vocal performance from brother Don in 1976), Too Good To Be True is a bringing together of almost entirely completely unreleased recordings ("Give Me A Future" had already been released in its complete form on the 1992 collection Classic Everly Brothers), the album was the result of a collaboration between Cary Mansfield and Andrew Sandoval, with additional research from Peggy Lamb.
Having originally recorded four songs in November 1955 for Columbia, including a third-take, false-started version of the first song they recorded together, "The Sun Keeps Shining", a cowrite between Don Everly and Jerry Organ (the flip-side of a 45 released in February 1956 on the back of their second-ever recorded song, "Keep A'Lovin' Me"), all of the songs which appear on this album are original recordings. Amongst these songs are original, previously unheard recordings they made when the brothers signed for Acuff-Rose, and demo tracks of latterly released material such as "Should We Tell Him" and the original version of "I Wonder if I Care as Much".
As the decade came to a close and official albums such as Songs Our Daddy Taught Us employed tighter harmony singing and the necessity for better-quality playing, the later tracks display a greater sense of rhythm and timing in the original recordings, including The New Album's solo vocal "Dancing On My Feet", present as a previously recorded demo on this album.
All songs by Don Everly unless otherwise noted.
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