Devoted To You by The Everly Brothers

Devoted To You

1958

The Everly Brothers

'Devoted To You...Bird Dog's 'B' side...didn't do too shabby a chart-climbing job itself. Also written by Boudleaux Bryant, it slowed things way down, from 'Sock-Hop' dancing to Slow Dancing music and climbed to #10 on the newly introduced Billboard Hot 100.

Devoted to you has been called 'One of the most romantic songs ever recorded' and while it has The Everly Brothers awesome harmony, it also has a bit different sound than most of their music, and is 180 degrees away fro the record's 'A' side.

The young girls of The Fifties fell head over heals with the song (And in fact, Don and Phil Everly) and I have a feeling that a few million teen girls either begging their parents for the money or saving Baby Sitting/After School Job money to buy to buy the 45 helped push it to that #10 spot.

Unlike much of their music, you almost never hear this one on oldies Stations. Once in a while if the Music of the Fifties, or The Everly brothers are featured you'll hear it, but it seems to have been out of general rotation for a awhile now. Kinda sad, really, because it's truly a beautiful song. One any young lady would love her beau to sing to her (Or, if his voice is anything like mine, he'd probably get told 'Just put the record on!)

So Enjoy! 'Devoted To You' by The Everly Brothers

In 1984 The Everly Brothers went on tour with a Reunion Concert. Here they are singing Devoted To You at Royal Albert Hall, in London, in 1984. Their harmony was just as rich and pure in '84 as it was 25 years earlier, when the single dropped.