EVERLY BROTHERS – "Walk Right Back"

Jimmy Savile said on his old record club it was his idea for this to be the A side.

Apparently Jerry Allison of the Crickets playedthem his half-finished tune and said he’d be back the next day with more. Too late! The boys loved it as was and cut it on the spot. Odd structure, then
, that goes:

First verse/chorus/repeat first verse/chorus/stop.

Alma Cogan’s Dreamboat does the same, but probably no other Popular entry.

Re 2: Ebony Eyes was certainly the A-side in the US so it could even be true. Andy ‘Wipeout’ Wickham, the Etonian surf nut who handled Andrew Loog Oldham’s press in the 60s, considered Ebony Eyes to be the ultimate pop single, and the subject matter the most beautiful girl in the world. But it’s always been a bit rich for me, one spoken verse too many.

Joe Meek appeared to copy a lot of things, I’ve never cared for death discs either.

the opening riff to this seems naggingly familiar – I realised that Neil Young uses something similar for ‘Harvest Moon’.
The success of this record for me is down to the arrangement. Incredible harmonies from the brothers Ev – particularly the high harmony from ‘don’t send it’ onwards and great drumming.