Everly Brothers, Walk Right Back.

Must have missed the point somewhere ,
so forigve my ignorance .
I agree that music these days is about money and not talent .
Getting back to the Everly brothers well talent passonified .

Well, then, I stand corrected. Now that you say it, it DOES sound reminiscent of Buddy Holly/Crickets type thing.

Sorry spoil things rickcee but walk right back wasn't written by Boudelesux Bryant who wrote so many great Everly songs, It was actualy written by Sonny Curtis from the Crickets.

rickcee..."Walk Right Back" was written by Sonny Curtis...check his Youtube sessions and you;ll hear him sing the 2nd verse that the Everly Bros never included.

Thanks Phoebus, you are quite right Walk Right Back was written by Sonny Curtis. The reason the Everlys left out the second verse is that they were under pressure to go into the studio, so Sonny gave them the song unfinished, by the time he came back to them with the other verse the recording was already in the can. ( have put a reply on rickee's thread)

Yep...I'm wrong on that one. He also wrote "I Fought the Law" I believe. I just assumed, based on so many other tunes of the EBs written by BB, that he also wrote "Walk Right Back," but nope.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the Black Eyed Peas. Also quite good at what they do.

I'm trying to be fair and diplomatic, and not "stuck" in earlier times. I really don't hear much on the radio that appeals to me, but I'm trying to have an open mind about music, since I've made my living as a musician for so many years. Every now and again I hear something that is good, or someone with talent. Unfortunately, most of what makes it to "hit" status sucks. Example: Amy Winehouse's stuff that made it big I hated. The other day I heard something obscure and it was quite good.

rickcee: I have a difficult time in being "fair and diplomatic" when it comes to any of the arts. I think there are just too many music execs with just business degrees, and not in music appreciation. I also believe excessive nepotism has blurred many a producer's good judgment.

Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. The music business has always been about money and not art. The difference is that in the burgeoning years many of the execs who made big impacts on the business happened to be record fans FIRST and execs next. I think that's changed an awful lot. Another thing--years ago it was the "record" period. They wanted to make a good record that would stand on its own. A production was a "thing," and object--something that stood like the Tower of Pisa. Now we download.