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horn songs, orchestrated by Harold vocal blendings sound more power- Byrns and beautifully sung by bari- ful than ever, even with the tempos tone Berndt Weikl. David Hall slowed down. It is heartening too to NOW ON CD find that the boys haven't lost their MAHLER: Symphony No. 5,in C - Compact Discs of sharp Minor; Early Songs* (*on LP songwriting chops. The album's only). Berndt Weikl (baritone); Philhar- high point, in fact, is the title tune previously released LP's monia Orchestra, Giuseppi Sinopoli written by Don Everly, one of the cond. DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 0 415 moretear -inducingmarriage -on - 476-1 two discs $19.96, 0415 476-4 one the -rocks numbers in recent memo- POPULAR cassette $10.98, 0 415 476-2 one CD no ry. The instrumental backings are as ART BLAKEY: New York Scene. list price. CONCORD JAZZCCD-4256. "Impressive sensitive and supportive as could be live set" (March 1985). ROSEMARY CLOONEY: Sings the Musk of Irving Berlin.CONCORD JAZZCCD-4255. "Terrific" (March THE EVERLY 1985). BROTHERS JOHN COLTRANE: Soultrane. PRESTIGEFCD-626-7142. Do IT AGAIN "Exhilarating" (July 1983). EXILE: Kentucky Hearts. EPIC EK 39424. "Sparkling vocal and instrumental work" (December 1984). THE EverlyBrothers' new AMY GRANT: Straight Ahead. "Born Yesterday" is a thor- A&M CD -5058. "Heavenly" (July oughly lovely album that 1985). lays to rest any fears that JERMAINE JACKSON.ARISTA their splendid comeback effort of ARCD-8203. "A lively tribute to last year, "EB 84," was a fluke. Marvin Gaye" (September 1984). Again the producer was Dave Ed- BILLY JOEL: Turnstiles. COLUMBIACK 33848. "Intelligent and munds, who deserves something (October 1976). like a Nobel Prize for resurrecting The Everly Brothers: basic ELTON JOHN: Tumbleweed the classiest rock-and-roll duo of the Connection. MCA MCAD-37199. "A Fifties. (Albert Lee on guitar positively major talent" (June 1971). I will admit my prejudice up front burns at times), and Edmunds's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC where the Everlys are concerned: production gives the whole thing a (Stephen Sondheim). COLUMBIA CK the very first single I ever bought sonic gloss that sounds contempo- 32265. Original Broadway cast (1973). with my own lunch money was their rary without being overbearing. with Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Bye Bye Love, back in 1957 (I was In short, "Born Yesterday" is the Hermione Gingold. two at the time, of course), and to GRAHAM PARKER: Squeezing second installment in the most re- Out Sparks. ARISTA ARCD-8075. "A this day I still get something like a wardingrock-and-rollcomeback watershed work" (June 1979). physical rush from the sound of saga of the Eighties, and I am those soaring Appalachian harmo- already looking forward to the third. CLASSICAL nies. But nostalgia has little to do Consumers are advised to act now. with the Everlys' current appeal. THE ART OF THE PRIMA As an added inducement, the cas- DONNA. Sutherland. LONDON 414 Just about everybody doing two- sette and CD versions of the album 450-2. "A dazzling display" (March part singing in rock-and-roll today contain an extra track: a deeply felt 1961). owes theEverlys a debt. Their version of You Send Me, the Sam BERLIOZ: Requiem; Symphonic sound is part of rock's basic vocabu- Cooke classic that shared the charts funhbre et triomphale. C. Davis. lary, and you can hear it this minute with the Everlys' Wake Up Little PHILLIPS 415 283-2 (two CD's). in groups as up to date and fresh as "Magnificently performed" (Best of the Suzie back in the darkest days of the Month, February 1971). the country -punk Long Ryders or Eisenhower Era. Steve Simels Rank and File. BIZET: Carmen. Callas, Gedda; Pretre. ANGEL CDCC 47312 (three Compared with "EB 84," the new THE EVERLY BROTHERS: Born CD's). "The most exciting ever" (Best albumisslightly shaded to the Yesterday. Don and Phil Everly (vo- of the Month, February 1965). country side of the Everlys' musical cals); Albert Lee (guitar); Larrie Londin CHOPIN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 roots. Despite such notable rockers (drums); Phil Cranham (bass); other and 2. Ax, Ormandy. RCA RCDI-4097. as Always Drive a Cadillac, the em- musicians. Amanda Ruth; I Know Love; "Elegant pianism" (March 1982). phasis is mostly on tear -your -heart- Born Yesterday; These Shoes; Arms of MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro. out ballads and mood pieces such as Mary; That Uncertain Feeling; Thinkin' Prey, Mathis; Behm. DG 415 520-2 Why Worry, the song from Dire 'Bout You; Why Worry; Abandoned (three CD's). "A triumph" (January Straits' "Brothers in Arms" that Love; Don't Say Goodnight; Always 1969). Mark Knopfler says he wrote with Drive a Cadillac; You Send Me* (*on MOZART: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 cassette and CD only). MERCURY 826 and 5. Mutter, Karajan. DG 415 327-2. the Everlys in mind. Throughout 142-1 $8.98, © 826 142-4 $8.98, 0 826 "A sensational debut" (July 1979). the album, the Everlys' trademark 142-2 no list price.

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