('Till) I Kissed You

1959

The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers took this one to #4 in 1959, and here's an interesting little tidbit about it...while the song title is ('Till) I Kissed You, that exact line never appears in the actual song. They sing 'Till I kissed 'ya' throughout the song. Also, this was one of their first hits not to be written by Boudleaux Bryant. This one was penned by Don Everly, and was only the second song, and first Pop hit, written by either of The Everly's. While he was at it, the song also broke into the Top 10 on the Country chart, snagging #8 there.

This was another 'Sock Hop' staple during the late Fifties and early Sixties, and lent itself well to many of the dance moves of that era, and the kids loved this kind of music back then just as much as we 'Seventies Kids' would love our music a couple of decades later.

Till I Kissed Ya was also covered extensively by Reggae artists, interestingly enough, and was also taken to #10 on the Billboard Country charts by Connie Smith in 1976.

The original's still around today, on Oldies Stations everywhere, and like all of The Everly Brothers early hits, will probably be around when all of us are gone. As it should be!

So Enjoy! (Till) I Kissed You, by The Everly Brothers.

And as a Bonus...The Everly Brothers performing live on The Saturday Night Beechnut Show (Dick Clark's other music program...on January 23^rd, 1960. Like the acts on American Bandstand, the artists actually lip-synced to their songs, but it's still cool to see what music TV was like 20+ years pre-MTV. I remember this show, By by the way...and the original American Bandstand