Everly Brothers - Oh So Many Years [HD]

The Everly Brothers sing 'Oh So Many Years' from their 1958 Cadence album 'Songs Our Daddy Taught Us', containing songs from the early years of country music. This song is a good example of their influencial close harmony singing. The lyrics are below with notes about the album and singers.

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Oh So Many Years (Singers: The Everly Brothers)

All these many years I've loved you
No one has ever known,
No one has ever known but you alone
I've kept it locked inside my heart
And smiled through all my tears
My darling I have loved you
Oh so many years

Each night within my lonely room
I cried dear over you
And prayed to God that things would turn out right
But when the dawn of day appears
I brush away my tears
My darling I have loved you
Oh so many years

I'll go on pretending that my life is all so gay
And happy dear without you by my side
When all the time my heart is longing
Just to have you near
My darling I have loved you
Oh so many years

Maybe fate will lead us down a path
Where we will meet again
And then we'll both be free to love anew
When one sweet kiss from your dear lips
Will banish all my fears
My darling I have loved you
Oh so many years

Songwriter: Frankie Bailes
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

Songs Our Daddy Taught Us is the second studio album by close harmony country/rock and roll duo The Everly Brothers, released in 1958. The album is a selection of songs that the brothers learned as boys from their father, Ike Everly. Originally released on Cadence Records, the album has been re-released on LP and CD many times, primarily by Rhino and EMI.

Music journalist Richie Unterberger notes that the album of traditional music, released at the peak of the duo's commercial success as a rock and roll act, was unexpected and "ahead of its time". Rolling Stone, which awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars, noted that not even Elvis Presley "had the nerve to do an album as rootsy" as this one.

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (born February 1, 1937) and Phillip Jason "Phil" Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo were raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to groom them for national attention.

They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit number 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single.

The group was highly influential on the music of the generation that followed them. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Simon & Garfunkel. They were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

The Everly Brothers' Best is the first compilation album by the rock and roll duo The Everly Brothers, released in 1959 by their first record company, Cadence Records. The album contains both sides of their first six singles for the label in chronological order. Allmusic states in their review: "this original Cadence compilation still holds up nicely after almost half-a-century."

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