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Volume #0079 05/05/98
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Subject: Beatle Myth
Sent: 4/5/98 3:02 am
Received: 4/5/98 10:41 am
From: Doc Rock, docroXXX@XXXXXXom
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
Javed Jafri, javedjaXXX@XXXXXX.ca wrote:
>> From: Doc Rock, docroXXX@XXXXXXom
>> Well, that was the last straw. I was tired of revisionist rock
>> writers claiming that everything from Girl Groups to Surf to
>> the Everly Brothers to Doo Wop was killed off by the British
>> Invasion!
>
>So Doc are you saying that the Everly's chart reign was already
>over before the Brit. Invasion started? One thing you can't
>deny is that their biggest post-Beatles record "Gone, Gone,
>Gone" sounded like it was influenced by what was happening
>across the pond. BTW my favorite song by the Everlys is the
>post invasion "Bowling Green".
>
>Javed
Hi, Javed.
Man, do I love the Everly Brothers AND the Beatles.
Here is a year-by-year survey of the Everly Brothers'
chart positions on Billboard:
1957
2
1
1958
20
1
30
1
10
2
40
1959
16
22
4
1960
7
1
56
8
74
7
21
22
1961
8
7
27
41
96
20
82
1962
6
9
75
76
48
1963
no Billboard Hot 100 chartings
1964
72
31
1965-66
No Chartings
1967
40
1984
50
June of '62 was their last major hit. Way before "I Want To
Hold Your Hand." Every change in music, or artist whose hits
ended between 1962 and 1965, can't be attributed to the Beatles.
Most major acts in the first 2 decades of rock and roll had a
maximum five-year life span on the Top 40 charts. They might
have a career longer than that, a few sporadic hits, or even a
revival. Or big LPs.
But because of changing times, new musical trends, fans growing
up, group members leaving, dying, etc., most big groups had a
five-year run (in terms of big single hits), max. Beach Boys,
Beatles, Kingston Trio, Jan & Dean, Bobby Darin, Shirelles, etc.
Doc
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Subject: Re: Chris White
Sent: 2/5/98 4:31 am
Received: 2/5/98 9:00 am
From: BashPop, BashXXX@XXXXXXm
To: Spectropop List, spectroXXX@XXXXXXies.com
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