EVERLYPEDIA (formerly The Everly Brothers Index – TEBI) Coordinated by Robin Dunn & Chrissie van Varik EVERLYPEDIA PART 2 E to J Contact us re any omissions, corrections, amendments and/or additional information at: [email protected] E______________________________________________ EARL MAY SEED COMPANY - see: MAY SEED COMPANY, EARL and also KMA EASTWOOD, CLINT – Born 31st May 1930. There is a huge quantity of information about Clint Eastwood his life and career on numerous websites, books etc. We focus mainly on his connection to The Everly Brothers and in particular to Phil Everly plus brief overview of his career. American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965). He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) during the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films (Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool) during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me (1971), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Pale Rider (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and Gran Torino (2008), have all received commercial success and critical acclaim. Eastwood’s only comedies have been Every Which Way but Loose (1978), its sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980) , and Bronco Billy (1980); despite being widely panned by critics, the “Any Which Way” films are the two highest- grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Phil Everly was involved in both films and made a cameo appearance alongside Sondra Locke (Eastwood’s then partner) singing the Phil Everly/Joey Paige composition ‘Don’t Say You Don’t Love Me No More’ – produced by Snuff Garrett. Phil Everly composed a song for the film and soundtrack, ‘One Too Many Women In Your Life’, with his friend John Durril. However, he did not sing this time but only made a cameo appearance in the film behind Sondra Locke who performed the song. Phil Everly enjoyed his time on the set, even if his appearance in the film is fleeting: “Don’t go out to get some popcorn or you’ll miss me! I enjoyed doing that. Clint and the whole cast and crew had a family atmosphere. I did a song for the sequel, Any Which Way You Can, and I’m in the background on some of the shots in the Palomino, but I didn’t sing that time.” (Quotes from Walk Right Back by Roger White.) Clint Eastwood and Phil Everly became good friends. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River (2003) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France’s highest honours: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the non-partisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. EB84 - Released as 822 431-1 M1 on the Mercury label in August 1984, it was the first studio album following the 1983 reunion. In the US it was released, as EB84 while in the UK the title simply was THE EVERLY BROTHERS. The album includes three Don originals but no Phil compositions, as Phil explained, “I’m not too keen on any of the songs I’ve written lately. I judge them fairly harshly so I don’t want to show them.” Dave Edmunds produced it; he had met Don in London in 1979 when Don performed during the Buddy Holly week and the two had become friends. Phil said: “I went to see Donald in New York in December and we met with Dave. We have a lot of respect for his work and we share a similar appreciation of basic rock ‘n’ roll.” Details in regard to each track are unknown but musicians on the EB 84 sessions include: Albert Lee (guitar); Phil Donnelly (guitar); Dave Edmunds (guitar); John Giblin (bass); Jeff Lynne (bass); Terry Williams (drums); Gerry Conway (drums); Pete Wingfield (keyboards); Richard Tandy (keyboards); Gerry Hogan (pedal steel guitar). Producer: Dave Edmunds. Paul McCartney and Dave Edmunds additional guitars on ‘On The Wings Of A Nightingale’. In an interview following the release of EB84, Dave Edmunds described the situation during recording: “Everybody was a bit nervous, me, the band, the engineers - but everybody was determined to give 150 per cent. I was slightly in awe of them, which isn’t a good thing because it colours your judgement and attitude. The backing tracks were completed and they moved onto the vocals. Don went out into the studio and started singing but Phil stayed in the control room. I was hoping they weren’t going to do the vocals separately, so I asked Phil to go out too, but he just refused and sat there. Don carried on for about twenty minutes, feeling his way around the song and when Phil was ready, and not before, he went out and started singing too. 1 They don’t talk to each other at all in the studio. They just look straight into each other’s eyes and sing. Then for twenty minutes you think this is not going to work or maybe this isn’t the right song, and then suddenly it clicks. It’s like they’re free-falling and suddenly their parachute opens, and when that happens, look out. You’ve never heard singing like it. They’re the best. They’re natural singers, the only natural singers I’ve come across. All the people I’ve worked with, and this includes myself, have learned the musical terms and how to do it but Don and Phil don’t work like that. It’s fascinating to see it. When they hit their stride it’s genius working. It’s two and two equals five and it’s wonderful when it happens.” In another interview he said, “Don and Phil are intuitive singers – they don’t actually understand singing. People like myself and others that I know in the business who sing…we learned how to do it; we learned how to hold a note, or to control a vibrato, or to count bars so you know when to come in. They never did - it’s all intuitive. Especially with Don - the solo bits he does. If you ask him to do them over and over again, they’ll be completely different each time.” (Second quote from Ike’s Boys by Phyllis Karpp.) The complete album was also included on 2005’s Hip-O Select’s excellent 2CD release ON THE WINGS OF A NIGHTINGALE: THE COMPLETE MERCURY STUDIO RECORDINGS. TRACKS: Side 1 (of vinyl LP): On The Wings Of A Nightingale / Danger, Danger / The Story Of Me / Taking My Time / The First In Line. Side 2 (of vinyl LP): Lay, Lady, Lay / Following The Sun / You Make It Seem So Easy / More Than I Can Handle / Asleep. Highest chart positions: US: 44 (#24 Country Chart); UK: 36; Canada: 90; Australia: ? EBONY EYES/FLIGHT 1203 (US title) (John D. Loudermilk) Recorded 1st November 1960 at RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and issued as WB 5199 on Friday 13th January 1961, backed with ‘Walk Right Back’; in the UK the record received double A-side status. It topped the British charts while it peaked at #8 in the US (#25 on the Country charts). The Anita Kerr Singers (vocal chorus); other details unknown. Arrangement by The Everly Brothers; producer: no credit; engineer: Bill Porter. Phil: “I remember that when we were doing it Felice (Bryant) got on the phone and called the airlines to find out about the flight numbers, because we didn’t want to use a real flight number. She’s the one that settled on that 1203, you know. The Bryants were always there to help even though it wasn’t their song.” Don: “That was the best tragedy song I’d ever heard. We were in acting school by then, so I used a little bit of my acting thing in the recitation. Also, I got to sing with the Anita Kerr singers, which I thought was a step up for us. The record was a big success. It’s the most requested song we don’t do.” (Quote from the liner notes to the twofer IT’S EVERLY TIME/A DATE WITH THE EVERLY BROTHERS.) Phil was also tried for the recitation in the middle of the song but when he heard himself on playback, Phil flatly refused: “When I heard myself saying ‘The plane is overdue’, I thought I sounded just like Minnie Mouse! I told them ‘Forget it! Let Don do it!” (Quote from Ike’s Boys by Phyllis Karpp.) The song as a whole with recitation indeed never made it to their stage act but it was part of a medley during the 1983 Reunion Concerts and in that form was oft-performed during their post-reunion shows and was included on 1983’s REUNION CONCERT.