BOWLING GREENReleased in 1967Appears on The Everly Brothers SingSpotify | Amazon | YouTubeBowling Gr
BOWLING GREENReleased in 1967Appears on The Everly Brothers SingSpotify | Amazon | YouTubeBowling Green is officially credited to Terry Slater and Jackie Ertel, though it was really written by Phil. According to Phil, “Bowling Green comes from the guitar riff that I was showing Terry. Terry took it and wrote this melody. It was the first thing we knocked off together, you know. The song gets a lot of covers.” Phil – whose compositions were rarely recorded by the Everlys – had written a large number of songs around that time. He felt his songs were the answer to the brothers’ lack of success at the time, “I pushed Bowling Green on the recording date against a wall, like I had with Gone, Gone, Gone, and as they came out and were well received I still feel that we should’ve done that kind of material.”The Everlys had been struggling with their sound at the time, and Bowling Green was an attempt to return to their roots. Phil wrote other similar-styled songs around that time, but none of these were recorded by he and Don. His song, Lady Anne, was also written at this time and eventually saw life on his first solo album.The return to their roots was welcomed, and Bowling Green reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100. This gave the Everlys their first Top 40 hit in 5 years. The song was especially popular in Canada and reached #1. -- source link
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